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Hakuba BlueBird Riding+Shooting+Filming | 白馬撮影

February 22nd, 2012 by

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Tomoki Fuse and Nikon Lense

Shooting in Hakuba backcountry JPN.

we late woke up.

couple of skier and snowboarder rode a slope when we hiking.we wants ride that…

so we have to go far way and get this slope.

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looks very good for snow and ski surfer.

My camera is Nikon D700 with 70-200mm f2.8. the body is smaller and lighter than D3s.

D700 don’t have many buffer, so middle section couldn’t shoot a lot.  I’ll get D800.

anyway this lens give to me “glad” everytime.

 

前々日に降った雪でのライディングは白馬バックカントリー。ライダーはカラースポーツでガイドをされている布施智基氏。

朝に弱いスキーヤー3名、スノーボーダー3名は八方よりハイク開始。

コンディションは風うっすらリセット。狙っていた面はハイク中にズタズタにされ、さらに奥へ。

じゃんけんで勝った布施さんの滑り、撮影風景をご覧下さい。

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Snowbird Conditions Report | Jan. 12th, 2012 | Mineral to Open!

January 13th, 2012 by

Today was another Groundhogs Day today at Snowbird as rocks continue to outnumber powder stashed 201,230 to um…zero. There is one huge improvement to the mountain. The wonderful ski patrol … Read More

The Hoop Gap Goes Down!

June 3rd, 2011 by

June 3rd, 2011 was one sweet spring day. Even though Summer is only 17 days away the skiing at Snowbird in still EPIC! I got to ski Pipeline today for the first time ever. The video sucked so I didn’t put it in the edit. The best part of the day was skiing Mineral with Charlie, Crazy Ray, ERic Fabbri and Becky Hall. We sacked up and hit the Hoop Gap today which we have been looking at for weeks. It is a crazy little air through a steel triangle created by a lift tower and a support beam. Tim Normand deserves the credit for discovering the Hoop Gap earlier this year. Good Times!!!

More May Powder at Alta

May 31st, 2011 by

Getting up early usually sucks, but today it was not all that bad. Not being hungover helped a lot. I met my old buddy Jason France up at Alta at 6:55am and we got to hiking. The snow where we dropped in, Nipple to Hidden Chute, was fresh and strange. It was a super fun ride down, but it was a balancing act to not break through the weird layer that was under the top couple inches of cream pow. I got a ski under it in the last few feet of the runout to the rope tow and it did not work out well. Enjoy…

Patsy Getting All Wet in Your Face

May 18th, 2011 by

Patsy Marley was an easy woman to get with back in the day all you needed was some dough. To ski Patsy today a little moretakes more work. It was a long hard slog up Grizzly today to get to the goods. I had to break about 50% of the skin through a foot or so of the most Tahoe style damp pow we have seen in a while. The skiing down was prime. Again I focused on skiing fast and trending to the right to avoid getting balled up in a wet slide. It worked out well. Enjoy…

End of Season Edit: Gavin Smith

May 12th, 2011 by
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The beginning of Gavin’s edit shows how his runins with Femur Rock went this winter. I think there was a record for the most people to ever hit Femur in a year this year. Even snowboarders were sending it after Robert Hurley showed what was possible during the North Face Masters event. Gavin is a good kid and he skis with a lot more power than any other 18 year old I know. He still has a lot to learn, but with his strength and stoke I think he will be a player in the Snowbird scene for a long time to come. Enjoy…

May 10th on Patsy Marley

May 10th, 2011 by

The history I have heard is that Patsy Marley, that beautiful West facing zone at the top of LCC ,was named after an old time prostitute from Alta back in the gold mining days. Whether that is true or not is hard to prove. I was able to prove to myself at least that the snow up there is pretty damn nice. Way better than the mogul field still lurking under the new pow on High Rustler.


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Dear Patrol: Thanks for Pipeline

May 10th, 2011 by

Last Monday Pipeline went down for the first time all season at Snowbird. A combination of bad timing and general spring laziness has kept me from ever getting to ski the Pipeline. It is usually open only a few days in the late spring and often the gate is only open for the first few trams in the morning. Last week however there were a couple days where patrol let the lucky folks that were up those days rip it up all day long. I would like to personally, and on behalf of all the riders of Snowbird, thank Mr. Jimmy Collinson and the rest of the patrol.
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Shop Talk: Unofficial Local Review

May 10th, 2011 by

Theguys from Panda Poles know how to have a good time and they also know a lot about the extremely technical world of ski tuning. They have blended these two passions to create Shop Talk. Shop Talk is a multi episode how-to guide for anyone who is interest in the behind the scene life of a ski shop worker at Superior Ski and Boot. Tanner, O-WA and Mr. Kent Hyden help to inform you on the finer points of the great art of tuning. Enjoy and feel free to laugh out loud in your cubical. Watch all the episodes by clicking read more below…


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Alta Photos from Today: Jay Dash

May 9th, 2011 by

My new favorite guy from Jersey, Jay Dash, sent me these images from today at Alta. I got up later in the day and it was not quite as fluffy. … Read More