So, randomly one day I received an email from Columbia marketing asking if I would ever so kindly test one of their new Omni Heat Technology jackets.(the frosty forest parka is the one I tested). They said that being a graphic designer and videographer of the outdoors, I was in their target market. They were right, of course, I anxiously replied YES! Shortly after, I got a jacket in the mail and began testing. The jacket was not the fit I expected, but it was very warm, even in harsh Minnesota and Wisconsin conditions. Bodie helped me test the jacket hiking and cross country skiing. The inside shell was great removable feature to have when doing physical activities outside. Anyway, thanks Columbia for including me in the test! Thanks for shooting photos Tyler.

On Holiday Break we went skiing with the family. It wasn’t the mountains, but we had great weather and it was a great time. Brought back some great memories.

I am home for the holidays. It is great! It hasn’t been too cold, and there is a ton of snow. Bodie and I are enjoying it.

Finally got a timberline pass. Finally went snowboarding. It was powder…on my first day back on snow. Good times.

Mom, Dad, Bodie, the Lumi… a fall cruise on the st. croix river. I really do miss being home. I love visiting, but it never seems long enough.

I am glad to be back in oregon. 27 road! I love it. Robbie, Mike, Tyler and I headed up to watch the beautiful sunset.

Pat, Ben and I rolled to Eclipse snow park. I had never been there before…its was pretty cool. We went off to the side of the resort and found an old mining area that was fun to play on. Good times.

sherman plantin

mike jumpin’

We headed over to Breck to shoot with Sherman and Mike. I had never been to Breck before….It’s crazy. Their park is insane. Wow. Anyway, filming went pretty well, Sherman landed some awesome jump tricks…while Mike amazed us on the rails.

some beanos food

sleigh ride up

Rich and Doug were nice enough to take tyler and I up to Beanos for dinner on friday night. Ride the Beav crew dinner. It was truly amazing. We were wined and dined. It was a 5 course meal and we had the pleasure of having the wine flight accompany our 5 courses. I had never had a dinner quite like this one! Awesome! Thanks again guys.

Tyler and I met with the BigMan, Tim Windell a few times over the week of nationals at Copper to talk aboutu summer plans.  Looks like we will be out in Oregon again this summer! It was great to see a lot of old faces from camp! Pat hung out for awhile signing autographs for the competitors…they were pretty pumped!

I got to go to vail and participate in the snowboard test for outside mag. Reed, Pat, Zach, and Celia were all testing too. It was pretty fun to ride all of next years stuff.

This past weekend I ventured to Winter Park to help Jeff and Jory out. We filmed the Junior Olympics on Saturday,and got to go the the banquet afterwards…good food. On Sunday, we filmed the Freeskier open. It was a good time.

I got to spend St Paddys day in Avon. It was a blast! We went out and did some shooting during the day, and it was great. Couldn’t ask for better weather. It was sunny and beautiful. Later that night, I met up with Rich and some of his friends over at Loaded Joes. We had some beers and I met some nice people.

justine, rich, the lep, and I

We wrapped my snowboard the other night! It’s awesome! I am excited! We wrapped my bindings after….but no pics yet. Reed and Zach are headed up to Vail to do some vehicle wrapping, so I am headed up to the area for a few days. Hopefully get some snowboarding in. It should be fun.

We cruised down to Denver on Friday evening  to check out the art show  going on at TS Boardshop. Pat Milbery, Terry Ratslaff and Alli Botto all had some cool work. It was fun to see some old friends and meet some new people. Good times.

 pat’s so gnar art/terry’s prints/terry, reed and I

Zach assisted me with printing some Ride the Beav stickers (and some of my own) the other night. They turned out AWESOME!

Hidden hats have finally arrived! And trust me, they are WAY cool. Order them here before they are gone! [CLICK HERE]

So, I went to Loveland today! Great time. Dave from snowboard-mag hooked up tickets! So Reed, Zach, Dave and I rallied over to the mountains. We took one run, went back up to the top and started hiking across/up the ridge to get some fresh tracks. What we thought would be a 15 minute hike, turned into 2 hours! When we reached the out of bounds area and prepared to decent, a ski patrol came along and asked us if we wanted to join him and go up to the top area. Of course, we jumped at the opportunity. The run down was pretty fun!

dave balencing ice/AWESOME tickets

dave, reed, me

dave, reed, zach scoping lines

ghetto rig. zach strapping our boards to the bars