Snowboarding on Saturday

This Saturday Griselda, Pauline and myself went snowboarding at Stevens Pass whilst CJ was left to “Democratize” by himself in Kirkland. As you can see from the pictures we had a blast.

Stevens pass today

I love epic blue-bird powder days. Especialy when we get to discover a new bowl.

Chris & Shelly you guys left a week early ;-)

Snowboarding with Chris & Shelly

Whilst we were riding on Saturday I managed to break one of my snowboard bindings. This was pretty scary to say the least as I was going down a fairly steep hill at the time. Needless to say I slid a fair way face first. Luckily for me Stevens Pass has people on snow mobiles patrolling and I managed to hitch a lift back to the lodge. If I had to walk this it would have taken me a long time as the snow was deep. Needless to say the experience would not have been pleasant.

On the way home I called Burton rider services and fortunately my binding has a lifetime warranty on the base plate. Unfortunately Burton is in the process of an audit and won’t be able to ship anything until after the 11th of February. Fortunately Snowboard Connection (the local Burton agents) where able to give me a loaner (albeit crappy) set of bindings in the meantime. Hopefully Burton get the replacements out soon!


Broken binding disc

Broken binding base plate split down the middle

15 inches of fresh at Stevens

Lovely fresh powder!

Snowboarding at Stevens today

Superstar!

Backside at Stevens


And another view


Orion


Heading on over to Polaris bowl


Andromeda face


In front of Andromeda face


Orion chutes


Going up the Southern cross chair


Gris at the top of Double Diamond


Benjamin in the trees.

Snow day at Stevens