4FRNT Blog

12/20/12



Yew!!!! I'd say its been the best pre-season ever for me. Last spring I got rid my old Polaris wide track POS of a snowmobile, and recently traded up to Long Track Skidoo. I took it in to a guy who has worked on my dirt bike before to give it a good once over. I've heard horror stories of people saying that he takes a really long time to get work done, and its hard to get in touch with him. I just drove down to Bishop, CA (about 45 min. south of mammoth) with a case of Bud heavy and dropped them both off. Always tip your Mechanics. I got a call and Picked up the snowmobile 3 days later, went for a quick ride, and couldn't be more stoked. Check her out.



Mammoth unbound has been mixing it up a lot in Main Park over the last month with the US team being around training for contest season. They have built a stack of new smaller diameter lift towers that are probably the smoothest features I've slid since the original lift towers. 



With all the snow that has been dropping on Mammoth over last month, everyone and their iphone was traveling here to get a piece of the action. Henrik, Phil, and B-Paul were in town for more than a month setting stuff up in the woods, riding the park, doing top laps and its always a pleasure to have them around. Whether we're playing Mario Kart in the living room or watching them ski, its never a bad time. Parker also came back to slumm-it with us for a few weeks and get his ski legs back...not that they ever really left. T-Rains also decided to make the trip west and has been here for a few weeks, cruising the park, shredding pow. 



In between the last few storm days it has been VERY windy. With all the crew in town, we decided to go down to bishop and have a Bowling day. We all caravan'd down there and met some friends of ours who are Fire Fighters on unemployment who are always ready to get loose. Pitchers of beer, Janky Lanes, and a couple strikes always makes for a good time. 



Mammoth is completely covered and we had our first few serious pow days off the top. Its not even Christmas, and Mammoth is known for a lot of sun shine. Hopefully the weather patterns stay cloudy and wet, and the snow keeps falling. We're scheduled to get 2-5 feet this weekend, and I will definitely be enjoying some pow laps. The bummer is, while doing some remodeling stuff to help get a new venue I will be working at open, I cut my hand on a piece of glass. Nothing major, just a quick trip to the ER and some stitches. However its pretty tender and riding the snowmobile will have to wait a week or so. 





Pray for snow, 



Miles

12/29/12

Hey guys,

Opening weekend here at mammoth is in the books!! Employees weren't allowed to ride until Sunday, so I had to wait a little longer than most, but no complaints. After one of the worst (least amount of snow) opening days since I've been living in mammoth, I had probably the best opening weekend ever. The snowmaking crew was using bucket loaders to truck snow to the top of chair 1 to allow for opening day to happen on Thursday, followed by the opening day party at a Sushi Place in The Village. I was supposed to work the event, but things changed last minute and I was just another party goer. Friday and Saturday stayed cold and the Snowmaking crew kept pumping snow onto the trails adding to the natural stuff mother nature was dropping. While opening day festivities were going on, and while mother nature was starting to drop the white stuff, I was helping to set up a concert venue for Friday night.
Storming

 
The concert ended up going without a hitch, LA RIOTS and BLONDFIRE killed it and from what it looked like everyone involved was having quite the time. Saturday I woke up thinking, "I get to ski tomorrow!!!", but not before a big day. Snow still falling, the events team and I set up the Canyon Lodge for the big event of the weekend, Sex Panther and RZA LIVE. After way too much manual labor the doors opened at 9pm and the building absolutely exploded. RZA went on second and delivered a classic Wu-Tang show, where at one point everyone in the audience was throwing up "W's". With shout-outs to ODB, Mammoth, and countless other homies he delivered an energetic show that was worthy of an opening weekend climax. After the crowds subsided and the venue was cleaned relatively cleaned up, I went home to catch few hours of shut eye before MY opening day.

With the fresh snow that had fallen and work the unbound staff put in to the park, I definitely had my best "First day" ever. With all kinds of features set up in the park, and a jump that was built saturday night I could not have been any happier. A few top-to-bottom laps to ski some tracked out pow into the park made for a good day of leg burning. The next few days were filled with top-to-bottom Gondola POW laps, skiing newly opened terrain up top. Because of low snow year last year and long summer, there are tons of exposed boulders and cliffs to jump off of.

After taking yesterday off and doing some clean up work, its snowing again and this weekend looks to be just as good or better than the last. Here are a few edits of the opening weekend festivities as well as the first PURPLE CITY PROJECT episode of the year. This year's web-series is called "Purple Reign". ENJOY

PURPLE REIGN EP.1
http://vimeo.com/53647213?fwcc=1&fwcl=1&fwl

Mammoth MTN Opening weekend edit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYSCUbaghCI&feature=player_embedded

VISIT MAMMOTH Travel Agency Opening Edit
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=496681963697759
The whole mountain is open and things are getting ramped up for #thebestwinterever!!!!!!!!!!
 

Stoked to bring episode one of season two.

Foosteps: Life Unbound EP1 [S2] from The Life Unbound on Vimeo.

Two early season storms brought significant snowfall, and after last year, I'm not wasting any opportunity to shred even if there are some rocks. -Weston

Hello. I just put together an edit based on my very latest stunts on skis. As we say in Finland: "the shit has it's maker." Enjoy.
https://vimeo.com/53696503