I'm Back

It has been a really long time since I posted anything on here. But in all fairness I hit a tree last year and I wasn't doing anything worth blogging about. With winter finally showing up in Jackson I have been out shooting a ton and getting a few good lines in as too.

Here's a link to Snowboard Magazine I have a few photos and word up on their blog
http://www.snowboard-mag.com/?q=node/37989

More photos coming soon

Goodbye Pins

Yesterday I got my pins pulled out! When I say "pulled out" I mean she just just grabbed and pulled. No drugs, no shot to numb my wrist she just grabbed and pulled hard. Surprisingly it didn't really hurt. They just came right out.
Unfortunately the doctor said I shouldn't ride the rest of the year so that sucks. I guess I'll mostly be shooting nature for a while.

Still Healing

It been over a month since that tree came out of nowhere and shattered my wrist and cracked my rib. I'm getting ancy, I'll look out my window, see it's snowing and the daydreaming will begin. First it's fluffy pillows of POW and frozen boogers then an idea pops in my head about a photo I want to take or a photo that I should have taken but wasn't willing to put in the extra work. I miss the stoke of knowing I got a good photo just as much as riding POW. I can't wait till I can start shooting again!

I'm healing great though! I go to physical therapy 3 times a week which helps a ton, so thanks to everyone at Teton Hand Therapy. My pin are really clean, my doctor and physical therapist say my fingers are moving great and my pins get taken out on Monday. I'll be back soon...I hope. At least I'll be more mobile. I'll be able to get out of this tinny apartment and start shooting something other then my crazy looking wrist, don't worry I'll keep posting photo's of my wrist but maybe a few nature shots will come too.

Stitches

I got my stitches out last week. Sorry if you have a light stomach, I don't have much else to post. I got a smaller cast yesterday too, now I can move my elbow! I'm feeling much better but my rib is a pain when I try and get out of the house. I hope next week I'll be able to get out of my house more and more. Then maybe I'll have more photos from around Jackson instead of my crazy looking wrist.

The Healing Process

The surgery went great! The people over at Teton Orthopaedics have been amazing. They got me into surgery late in the afternoon of Christmas Eve and I know they could have pushed me back till after Christmas. That gave me at least two more days I'll get to ride and shoot this winter So thank you to everyone over there.

Here's my hand after they took my first cast off.

It's been a long week of sitting on my couch and trying to stay still. Of course as soon as I got hurt it started to dump. It was hard to sit at home and look out my window and see 3 feet of new. All the cars in my parking lot were covered it looked like a field of big marshmallows. On any other day I would have had the music on the TV cranked with my favorite snowboard flick and scrambling to find all my gear.

I got a new cast on Wednesday. It's a lot smaller and lighter then the one I was in after surgery. I'm a bit more mobile now but I seem to hit it on everything and that hurts like hell.

I'm going to shoot all my recovery I'm not sure how exciting it'll be and it'll be a challenge to shoot with just one hand and a cracked rib but I have to shoot something.

The good and the bad

How about the good first, I got a few pictures online for Snowboard Magazine from this weekend. It was just a few pics and words but I'm stoked on it! Here's a link so you can check it out http://www.snowboard-mag.com/node/33795 

Now the bad, I shattered my wrist and cracked a rib this weekend. I wasn't doing anything too crazy. I was just cruising along in some POW and hit a rock that was just under the snow, the rock shot me into a tree and the tree kicked my ass. I'm doing ok, better today then the last two days but tomorrow I have to have surgery on my wrist. It's in seven pieces so the surgery is a must. I'll be out for about 6-8 weeks just long enough to miss most of the winter.   

Never Never Land

We finally got a small storm to bring us a decent amount snow last weekend. There's still a few rocks and stumps to look out for but I did get the best POW turns I've had at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort! Ya it's my first year in Jackson and it was nothing like some of the turns that I had last year in the Pacific Northwest. But it's early and it was still a lot of fun to get to a taste of what the resort has to offer. The gondy also opened so Julie and I got to see a ton more of the mountain. We still need more snow to get the whole resort open but we are incing are way there

By noon it was getting tracked out and we were a bit beat but before calling it a day I hit up my friend Knox who was planning on hiking up at Teton Pass. The enthusiasm from his fist lap was spilling out of my headset. It took him 10 seconds to get us to beeline it to Wilson. We met up with Knox and his crew and hitch to the top of the pass and hiked Chiver's Chiver's isn't much of a hike unless your still drunk from the night before but it was Harms birthday so......

Happy Birthday Harms
Here's Knox in some nice deep POW

Togwotee

I road up at Togwotee Pass today. Togwotee is about an hour northeast of Jackson. We didn't get there till late in the afternoon and the light was shit so I just snapped a few shots of Darrel and Paul playing on there sleds. Then hiked a little peak a few times, there was tons of snow and I got a few nice POW turns!

Darell getting some air under his sled

I think I like this one the best

YRB ADD #2

Here's the second Fabel add that is running in this months issue of YRB. I shot and designed it. Thanks to Jay and Mookie for the help.

                                         

Back in the Backcounrty

I got to ride in the backcountry for the first time this year and for the fist time since I moved to Jackson Hole. We started at the top of Teton Pass at about 8,000 feet and ended at the top of Mt. Glory at around 10,ooo. It was a tough hike but it felt good to be back up in the mountains with some snow!!! It wasn't the best snow but we did have a few nice pow turns. Any day riding is a good day right? Julie and I also got to see see what Jackson Hole has to offer and all I can say is SICK The mountains are just screaming with bowls, shoots,trees and cliffs.... the best part, you can ride all of it

The top of Mt. Glory 10,086 feet

The ride down is always worth the hike. Here's Julie eatin it up