It has been a hectic couple of months getting Jones Snowboards off the ground.  Snowboarding has remained my main priority and I have been getting plenty of time on snow but it is the five AM phone calls with the factory in Switzerland before riding to total chaos when I return home after riding that has turned me into a crazy man with a cell phone strapped to his head.   With my last trade show behind me, my voice mail on my phone full and my vacation response in place, “I am off the map and off line for the better part of the next few months filming for my new movie Deeper,” I wasted no time in dropping out.  The trade show bags got stuffed in the corner and out came the camping gear.  The more hectic my world gets the more precious my time in the mountains becomes.  Throwing my split board on my feet with a backpack full of provisions and stepping into the mountains is like walking through a portal into my happy place.  The stress falls off me with every step and soon all my thoughts are on the mountains and my surroundings.

The High Sierra continue to overwhelm me.  Pick any drainage and be prepared to have your hit list grow ten fold.  This valley is one of the better natural half pipes I have ever seen.

This line has been on our hit list for over a year.  With 10 inches of fresh and now wind we decided the time was right to tick it off.  It is a 34oo ft sustained chute (Snowbird is 3000ft), and I wanted to split up as far as I could.

Forrest Shearer at the half way point.

Seth Lightcap an hour later.  This thing just kept going.

We were dealing with 10 inches of fresh snow on bed surface.  We came around the corner for the summit push and it got to be knee to waist deep.  This not only slowed us down quite a bit but for the first time of the hike I became concerned with a pocket pulling out.  A quick pit and snow test confirmed the pack was deep but bonded very well.  Non the less we put it into over drive and got off the face quickly.

It was so fun blitzing this thing.  It took five hours to climb up, two minutes to ride down.  Our legs were feeling it but Forrest still had enough left to get his slash on.

The best things in life are free…once you have the gear. Fired up to get my first ever factory made split board the Solution in some big terrain.

The wind came up on our second night.  It made for a rough night of camping and blew the snow to the Nevada Desert.

Sierra eye candy.

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