Photogenic.

I have a few leftovers from this last trip. I drove up to Munich to grab my good buddy Drew Fuller and took some cool photos on the wayThis is the Chiemsee. Its a missive lake in Bavaria and Im sure its a pretty popular tourist spot in the summer. The views are so good.I took some side roads and drove through a couple villages.Once again, I wish photos had smell. Actually, in this photos case I dont.Once i grabbed Drew we tried to see how fast we could get our rental car going on the Autobahn. 122mph is our max. I know. Lame. There were mini vans passing us.The next day we froliced around town.We stopped and grabed some pizza along the river. Sani rode up on his bike.Innsbruck has some cool buildings.


We then all went out to dinner. I got Schnitzel for the 3rd time. It was delicious. Grilo ended up paying for the bill because everyone kept calling him a cheapskate. He also bought everyone that finished their schnitzel a drink. He saved the reciept to make sure he doesnt have to buy dinner for another couple years.Thanks buddy.We met alot of new friends on this trip. Cyril is one of em. We all left the restaurant and went to the smokiest disco ever.

Jawohl! Innsbruck

We headed to Innsbruck to regroup and figure out our next move. This was my first time in Innsbruck. This city is amazing. Pretty old, but very well kept and has a bunch of modern flare. We skated around for a couple days and checked out the scenery.

I wish blogs had temperature. This day was soooooo nice out. Perfect day for skating around Europe. Luke and I shot some photos doing various moves in the middle of the street. Shifty ollie.


We then went to a cafe' and people watched for hours.
After heading to the skatepark Mu stoof in front of a yellow door and I took a photo of him.Luke was blown away by some of the Euro styles he was seeing walking through old town. He wanted to start his own Euro style.In the middle of the city there is an arch.Arlberg is not far away. I love it there.

After a night of the disco Jaakko walked back to the hotel and ended up losing something.Yes, this spot exists. And. After 7 you can skate here. I got 2 nights at this spot. So so perfect.

True story,We actually went to a restaurant across the street and they were so mad we were skating they wouldnt let us eat. Sani new the owners daughter, he called her and the owner fired the guy. HAHA.

Austrian Spring part 1

Last week a crew of us were in Austria. We got a chance to ride and skate the Stash Resort Flauchauwinkl.Driving down the road in Germany often leads to amazing photos.
I took this photo through the front window of the Caddy Maxi (our car). I had to photoshop out the splatted bugs.Every town must have a cool old church.Or a cool old woodpile.Stefan Maurer and Adam Moran wanted a serious shot, Luke didnt.Marko Grilc has a seriously colorful kit.SaniOn the way to dinner one night we found this spot. Adam wanted to skate it but didn't have his board.The next day we went up to the best ramp ever on top of the mountain. Yes, this place really exists. I have an edit i want to show you.We then headed to Innsbruck....

Check out the edit I did from the house we stayed at.

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Grilo and Mu's new hair

After a few days riding we come to Innsbruck where Marko Grilc and Stefan Maurer decided they needed to freshen up their hair steeze just in time for summer. I dont really know what they were thinking but, haircuts like these cant be cheap. At one point someone told Marko that he looked like he was in a boy band. He sure does!

DC skateboarding

I moved to the DC area in 1992, right before 9th grade. I was already pretty into skateboarding before this but when i moved there it was like a kid in a candy store. After only a few days of living there i had met a good crew who are still my best friends to this day. (Two Niners) DC was a skate mecca at this point. Chris Hall, Pepe Martinez, and Andy Stone were killing it. It wasent like it was today though. Skating downtown was pretty rough. Kids would get boards stolen often and we'd see our fair share of fights and other crazy stuff. Luckily i met a couple of the older guys early on and never really had many problems. Kids now days dont care. They will talk shit to anyone. Its crazy how things changed. Anyway...I saw these old ads on someone elses blog so i barrowed em. Nicotine and Capital were such rad companies. DC in the 90's was all time.Ive gotten to know Chris over the years. Last time i talked with him was at the "And Now" premier in LA. He was working at Sole Tech designing shoes.
Unfortunatly Pepe passed away a couple years back and im not too sure what Andy is up to. I think he still lives in the DC area.

Yumm

Tims new tattoo

Tim Manning has been getting super into tatts lately. He just got this new one. He loves filming.

Quick Trip To Whistler

Jussi and I went up to Whistler for a few days last week. Unfortunately we only got one really good day. Since its Whistler we did plenty of things that day. and made the trip worth it. We teamed up with some of the Transworld guys: Eero Neimela, Sam Luebke, Benji Richie, photog Jeff Curley and filmer silent Greg. It was a good crewOn the way up i saw this pretty cool old building on a pier..Im sure every wanna be photog like myself shoots a photo of this thing. Anyway, its pretty cool
Whistler backcountry is amazing. Endless
I decided this landing is steeper than any slope in all the lower 48.
This zone was amazing. Seagrams. Lines on the left. Then 4 pat downs across from left to right. Why film anywhere else? Only thing i can complain about is how far away the angles are.
I kept stopping and noticing how dense the forests are in BC. Its amazing how lush and mossy everything is.On the way home I got to see a pretty cool sunset looking west towards some islands (i cant remember the name) in Seattle.

Euros love booze.....

Old days

I was looking through some old photos and i came across this road gap shot from at least 6 years years ago. Snowboarding used to be soo fun. I ended up getting a few moves over this thing. Now im old

A couple Gwar photos

I never posted these but we went to see Gwar a while back, the show kind of sucked. They played for wayyyy to long. I was bored after 10 min. Anyway, the best part was the people standing outside the club after the show. Imagine your local crackhead walking by and seeing all these people covered in fake blood. The show was on Colfax in Denver so you can get an idea of the type of people that walk by.

Brighton has been good

Pierre sent me this photo the other day from one of many pow slashes we had at Brighton that day.