It’s getting to that special time of year here in the Pacific Northwest when days get shorter, storms get longer and the number of days between seeing the sun turn into weeks and sometimes even months. That time of year when getting out and making something of a bluebird day, especially one in November with snow on the ground, becomes crucial. You just don’t know when the next break in the weather will come, if at all. Yesterday, we had one of those days.

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I was wondering if this was fake seeing it in real person, too

After a crazy scenic drive to skibowl, Nick Allen and I met up with Jon Montana and Kevin Schuette and pulled out some corrugated pipe for some filming and an entertaining (read: painful) game of s.n.o.w. Footage should be up in the next few days… definitely some banger crashes in there!!

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When we were over the corrugated we spotted a nice little up ramp to chairlift stall on the way back to the cars, which turned out to be a perfect photo setup to close down the session.

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Real stoked those water droplets on the lens were in the right places
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Grooming the in run and setting the chair
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Tyyyaaap
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Jon Mon gettin' poppy
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Kevin gettin some double bonus land
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Setting up the speed