Riding Journal

A-Basin 5/17/09

My last day at A-Basin has arrived and today was a great day to end out the season.  I stayed in Breckenridge last night and scoped up the halfpipe but it’s no longer rideable so that wasn’t an option for today.  This morning I met up with the crew (Lauren, Adrian and Xavier) for breakfast in Silverthorne and then headed to the mountain. 

Sporting the new Neff soft shell with spray paint splatter print
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We spent the day lapping park and having fun on the runs.  There really isn’t much in terms of great snow anymore so it was definitely a jump the rocks kind of day.  I spent most of the day ollie’ing whatever I could find and I followed Adrian to a good section of rocks to jump.  

Xavier threw down his wildcat backflip which I took sequence shots of, here’s the GIF that should make it more animated.
Yesterday I convinced Adrian to try my Signal Park Rocker and he’s still riding it.  Here’s him on the down-flat-down box.  I have a feeling I’m not getting it back.
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Stickering up A-Basin
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Xavier’s turn riding down the log
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As we were standing at the base, I spotted a board in the rack that stood out.  It was a Sims Switchblade with Sims bindings straight out of oldschool.  I pointed it out to Adrian and a couple minutes later this guy took to the mountain on his board and gear.  Impressive.

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We ended the day by hitting up one of the snowboard shops in Summit County to check out what gear was there.  I wanted to check out boots, see the deals and try them on.  I’m already in need of new boots so I’ll be picking some up soon so that makes me a consumer/customer.  Lauren, myself and another lady were in the snowboard section where we found no employee working for the entire time we were shopping.  I ended up grabbing a boot box from the back room because there was no employee around to do it.  

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I was a bit amazed by it all and I took this photo during the boot process.  This store was sitting on a good amount of outerwear, boots, boards and bindings and I wonder if it’s because there’s no employee to help make the sale? 

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  • k
    May 18, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    I still hate all of you.

    -Except Wild Cat.

  • Shayboarder
    May 18, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    haha K you should come back…we miss you a lot.