This is where you’ll see the behind-the-scenes product stories, random rants, stories from the road, and different opinions from the employees, riders and reps who form the inner circle of the Rome SDS.
Today was a good day. Bluebird sky, 8” of fresh overnight, over 25” in the last 5 or 6 days.
I haven’t been to the SIA tradeshow in 4 or 5 years and I don’t miss it one bit; I’ve had some really good riding days in VT while tradeshows have been going on in other parts of the country (Vegas, Denver, etc.).
Below is the view looking down into the line “Ginger.” (I take a lot of these shots and always laugh at the lack of perspective of the pitch.)
One thing that especially made my day today was my helmet. I was first in on a line that most people know and it wasn’t quite as good as the above picture; all the fresh snow was there but it was on top of some classic Ice Coast conditions.
About a third of the way in, Coming out of a toeside turn I caught my heel edge on a “punji stick” (in woods riding they are the 1-2” diameter stump of a sapling). Well, this resulted in me sliding on my back head first down a fairly steep line.
I have a good sore neck and my helmet to thank as, inevitably, my head plowed right into a tree.
So it’s safe to say I’m in a mood to recommend helmets today. My neck may still hurt but I was able to shake it off and complete some great runs later in the morning including “Ginger” above and “Mary Anne” the run after (quite possibly my two favorite names for misty trails).
Thanks to my helmet: my day, and more importantly, my life, wasn’t ruined.
So I was a little slow out of bed today. Normally I like to get to the mountain first thing; I’ll totally forsake runs with friends for fresh groomers and no lift lines. With being a little late I knew I had to come up with an alternate plan to avoid the lines.
It was beautiful today and when it’s beautiful, faithful readers of my posts know that I like to get on top of the mountain.
Here’s the first thing I saw when I got to the summit…
Can't figure out if the dog or I was more confused....
No animals were harmed in the creation of this blog.
Another week went by, some more shots got logged in, life is good. Here’s another edit.
You’ll probably notice that the lence is dirty…well, this thing gets dirty so fast…anyways…
We set up a rail next to a building that the alarm when off for some reason…cops came but never saw us, we had a good session.
I went on a trip with the Standard crew. Here’s a video of stuff we saw on the road. Lots a squirels and cops. We took today “thursday” off and we’ll keep filming on friday. Good stuff went down, can’t show to much, sorry…Somewhere not in Quebec
Tuesday is the best day of the week because it’s a day for Rock and Roll! Had to share this gem with you because I don’t think many people have seen it before. It’s a live AC/CD television performance from 1976. (I still think Rome supporter Tim Benasich can sing this almost as well as Bon Scott!)
Here is one of my favorites performed in the early 90s and it talks about my favorite thing in life besides snowboarding; HIGH VOLTAGE ROCK AND ROLL!!!! You have to check out some of the other videos from this concert during the daylight (Thunderstruck in particular), the crowd is insane
In later years, Ali Goulet was one of the first riders to drop stuff switch in the backcountry in Whitey’s movies. In this clip from the height of the New School movement, it shows his innovation in the early 90s with a bunch of switch stuff–cab 3s, switch bs 3s, switch rail tricks. 16 years later, it still looks fun as hell.
We didn’t know where to party for new year. We always been doing it in Stoneham “15mins outside of Quebec”. We didn’t have anywhere to do it this year. Last minute, my friends Charles Gagnon and Marco Faucher decided to build an igloo so we can party in.They did it in Stoneham in my backyard a little bit in the forest. Turned out pretty sick, check out the photos.
There was seat all around the fire.
The crew inside the igloo.
The guy who saved new year! Charles
The set up.
Photos are from Oli Croteau…which unfortunatly got sick on Greg’s legs at the end of the night….HA
