zak hale : california hustlin’.

Zak Hale is a sponge, he soaks up all the words of wisdom, advice and information while traveling on the road with the crew…he’s going to rule the world by the time he’s 25″ – Dean Blotto Gray

Talked with all around young radical dude Zak Hale for this week’s yobeat hump day feature. Happy hump day. Happy Leap day. Enjoy the interview with Zak.

slash & destroy: with curtis woodman.

It’s been pretty grim and low tide out there everywhere (minus the northwest) this season. Curtis Woodman has been making it happen this season. This video will a test to that. Good on ya, Curtis. Snowboarding to Operation Ivy will get you mightily stoked too. Curtis shot this video in Chile, Montana and Washington state. Ride the white wave. Ride the white wave like Curtis.

Last week at Squaw. Still low tide. Pray, pray, pray.

snowboarding in fresno county?

Woke up in Fresno County the other day. We were there to snowboard. Snowboard in Fresno County? Yup. China Peak Ski Resort is the spot to be exact.

Top of Chair 1.

We were there with next year’s 2012/2013 Santa Cruz Snowboards. Looking sick. Simpsons Snowboards, too.

Everybody gets hucky in the rail jam with a little help from their friends.

Style for miles. Definitely best jacket of the day. Best Ricky Henderson stance.

This dude was stylee.

Young ripper. Get out and shred friends. Shred some new places this season. Watch out for bears and security. Point it and go big. Leave the details to the pencil pushers. Over and out from Fresno County.

santa cruz snowboards 2012/2013.

Santa Cruz Snowboards 2012/2013 line-up. Going to be a doozy. Bart pro model with Springfield style Santa Cruz font? Check. Homer board? Yes, please. Salba graphics, a powerlyte model with bamboo stringers, surf rocker reverse camber and a board that has a joint it. These boards will shred.  

thanksgiving.

First chair of the season. Red Dog. Squaw Valley.

This is what it looked like on Day 2.

Still low tide up in Tahoe. Lots of green and granite all over.

eightfourseven brought the rock to reno saturday night. studio on 4th.

2 toilets. hold hands and poop.

squaw yesterday. hope everybody got some on thanskgiving.

brice rips.

superhuman brice niebuhr is an all-terrain killing machine on skateboards and wintersticks, alike. known more for skateboard talents, than his on snow tastefulness, look above to see his domination visually evidenced at mt baker last week. classic method, brice. top and bottom photos by brice. he’s also an industry powerhouse, repping nhs and arbor in the northwest along with a slew of other stuff. he’s a renaissance man. buy this dude a beer the next time you see him.

If we were in canada, we could make it a kokanee. mmm, kokanee. What do we have to do to get this stuff in california? I mean, c’mon.