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Kirkwood - Surprise! Fresh Powder on the Last Day of the Season

   
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This past Saturday when we went to Kirkwood for the final time this season, I was completely prepared for Spring conditions and expecting to cruise around on freshly groomed corduroy. Surprise! There was six inches of new snow from the night before and no lift lines on a bluebird day. I couldn't stop smiling.

I paid for it when I forgot to put on sunblock. My face is still peeling, well, half of it is.

         
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Going down a chute. Jon was learning how to use the camera and cut off video right as I get in the chute.

In some of the pictures, there's still snow on the lens from when I took a tumble in the snow, taking a boring video. The rest of the files wouldn't fit in a single email, so they're in a separate post.

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Last Day at Kirkwood (part 2)

Here are the rest of the videos, continued from part 1. I mistakenly thought I could copy and paste the posterous-content markup and paste it in another post. It just shows up as text even though the HTML editing view shows the same markup. *shrug*

I'm also looking for a way to combine two of the automatically generated galleries in to one. Because of the order the files were attached in the email, with a video in the middle of the list, posterous created two galleries in a single post.

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Jon going down the chute. Taking these videos is a learning experience. One, with the wide-ish angle lens, I need to get closer. Two, most of these videos are pretty boring, even to me. I think it would help if I chased him down the chute.

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Jon. FS boardslide. Another learning opportunity. Sidney was figuring out how to take videos on my camera and accidentally ended it prematurely. The Ricoh GRD has great physical UI controls... but only for still pictures. The video capabilities are definitely a second class citizen on the list of features.

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This is lame because I knew I was leaning too far back first thing, but couldn't correct it. Why couldn't Sidney have cut off the end of this one instead of Jon's? heh. After this video, I was so frustrated that I straight-lined the next two jumps in a row and finally got enough speed for a decent shifty+stalefish. You'll have to trust me :p There no evidence, naturally.

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That sky looks beautiful.
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This is a totally boring video of snowboarding, until I eat it for no real reason. The sky looks so pretty in the shot.

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Jon and the box.

I was planning to edit these two together with this one in to a video, but who am I kidding? I'm never going to get around to that.

Just imagine them cut together with some cool music.

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Closing day at Sierra - April 19, 2009

I originally posted this to see what posterous would do if I included multiple photos and videos in an email.

These are all from closing day at Sierra this season, where it was 70 degrees on the mountain and people dressed up in costumes, boardshorts and bikinis.

Video one is an overexposed shot of Jon doing a tweaked stalefish.

Video two is Sidney tearing it up switch. j/k. She's tearing it up regular.

     
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Northstar with Jon and Sidney - Photos
                               
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The season's winding down, so Sidney, Jon, and I hit up Northstar and stayed at the Lockheed cabin this weekend. Most of the mornings, we spent cruising down groomed runs, and the afternoons lapping Pinball and the progression park. The Stash was closed.  I forgot how nice and long the runs are here at Northstar, even if they are a bit flat.

This was also the first time I've bothered to bring a camera snowboarding this year-- my trusty Vivitar Ultra Slim & Wide. Even though it looks like we're 50 feet away in the pictures, we're actually probably only ten to fifteen feet away, the angle is just that wide. I wish I could have seen a few pictures of myself boarding earlier in the season. It's painfully obvious that I'm leaning back *hard* a lot of the times when I shouldn't be. That explains my 180s problem. 

As usual, there were a handful of pictures that I thought were going to be awesome in my minds eye, but either didn't look so awesome, or didn't come out at all. Such is life with film on a $2 plastic camera-- not so trusty after all. One missing picture in particular is of Jon bonking a log, 180 out. Actually, frozen in a single frame of film, there are no guarantees it would have looked cool anyway.

Three more days of boarding planned for this season. I'll work on not leaning back so hard.

PS. I borrowed Jon's old Rome 390 bindings to test out, and Sidney is smooth on her 5050s now.
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