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.
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
From the days of frontside rodeos, the short-lived Atlantis project and punk-rock soundtracks to Mack Dawg movies, Daniel Franck killed it in the mid-90s.
Things got a little rowdy last night when the rest of the band stopped by to drop off their gear for tonight’s party.
Have a happy and safe New Year’s everybody. Living room donuts are not recommended.
Christmas was great! Couple days to hang with the family, eat lots of home cooked food and take naps, lots of naps. This year was pretty mellow, got to spend a good amount of time with my whole family. I always love going to my dads house in NH because its a shine to my childhood. He doesn’t spend much time there and I haven’t lived there since middle school so my room is exactly like I left it almost 15 years ago. I took a few snapshots.
The other great thing about Christmas is getting cool stuff from the people you love. Ali hooked it up with this amazing decorative type poster from Jessica Hische.
And, in the spirit of giving, I present to you, the annual gift of song 2009.
The bathroom is really warm. Like oven status sometimes. If you ride all morning and come in late, a good trick is to sit in the bathroom for like 30 minutes. Not only do you come out all warmed up after a morning of shred, but people are way less likely to question you being late if you’ve been in the bathroom for a half hour.
(FYI, I don’t even know what this image is, but if you google image “hot toilet”, you’ll understand why I had to just pick something and get out…)
There are no forks. Seriously. Like 3 dozen spoons, couple dozen butter knifes, even obscure stuff like grilling utensils, egg beaters, at least 3 defunct coffee machines, and possibly an industrial mixer, but if you’re having some spaghetti left overs, or a nice healthy salad, get ready to spoon that shit right up.
Maybe I’ll think of more things that may be of no interest to anyone, and if I do, I’ll be posting the crap out of it here on the blog…
I went to Denver hit some rails with the Videograss crew. It was Nima, Alex, Louif and me. We had trouble with some girl…but we pretty much landed all our shits before she came. bouyyaaa.
So you’ve seen the pictures of the PureFlex Lacing System, and it seem pretty simple, pretty straight forward to you. You got 4 zones in the boot, each zone is separated by locking guides and thus there’s a load of customizability. The mathematicians amongst you probably figured out that equals to 16 different combinations of tightnesses achievable. What you can’t tell from the pictures though, is how easy and fast it is to lace up a PureFlex boot. Check this vid out:
So Saturday was beautiful here in Vermont. At least in terms of the sky it was beautiful; like often happens when it’s clear it was very cold (no insulation for the earth). Kind of a contrast of what was happening down south.
View from the top of the Gondola
So the top of the mountain was calling out to me…so in the spirit of Capt. Al I decided I need to head up to the top. It was really driven more from the hiker/backpacker in me; I really wasn’t headed up thinking I would find that great of snowboarding up there.
The view was pretty much only hampered by the curvature of the earth. I only had the camera on my phone, so hopefully the pictures work for you.
Looking West, Adirondacks in the distance...
Looking Southeast past the resort...
The hike up was super wind-packed so I was ready for more of that when it was time to drop in....
...but the turns were much better than I expected
So I need to end by reminding the reader: when exiting the resort make smart decisions well within your comfort/ability level. I backed away from another line on Saturday that I’ve done numerous times as I wasn’t comfortable with the ramifications of a mistake. Stay safe…
