Mitch Allan's 09 Setup

After heading away with a couple of boards, Mitch is down to shredding the following setup pretty much all the time.

Custom 156, P1.1 Bindings in Black and Black Ion Speedzone boots.

Mitch in Jackson Hole

Mitch just dropped in a line from Jackson Hole where it is dumping. He is on the road with Australian NZ Snowboarding magazine and lead by the fearless Chris McAlpine. Check this shot of Mitch at the top. Apparently they have had a few days of constant snow and just recently been able to get out.

A Korean Experience

I have just returned to Colorado from Korea where I spent a week at Sungwoo Resort for the World Championships.

After a long flight and bus ride we arrived at Sungwoo at 2am to discover people still out snowboarding. The hill is open till 4am on the weekends and they play 90's pop music loud enough to penetrate your dreams (that is if you manage to get to sleep at all).

Something is happening 24hrs a day at the resort, its a huge hotel with a supermarket, restaurants, bars, ten pin bowling, karaoke, ping pong, pool and an arcade.

I shared a room with Holly Crawford and we were lucky enough to score one that looked straight out to the halfpipe and big air site. It was the only plus that came with a smelly, dirty hotel room with no bed frames, just mattresses on the floor.

The competition wasn't such a success for me as I took it easy having just returned from injury, but my Aussie team mate Holly Crawford had some very impressive runs and finished in 2nd place behind Chinese rider Jiayu Liu.

After such a great result everyone was in the mood for some celebrating so a group of us watched the big air finals from our room then headed down for some bowling.

After much enjoyment the bowling began to get a little rowdy as people instead of balls were sliding down the alleys...we decided it was time to move on to karaoke where we crowded into little booths to sing our hearts out to old favorites till the wee hours of the night!

All in all we had a great time in Korea despite questionable food, unpleasant smells and an interesting take on accommodations.

Colorado

I've spent the last couple of weeks in Colorado, riding Copper Mountain and Breckenridge with Holly Crawford, Nate Johnstone and Kiwi Paula Mitchell. Despite the freezing temperatures we've had heaps of fun riding the park and pipe and finding powder patches amongst the trees.

This evening we have the pleasure of enjoying the boredom of an airport hotel before we depart for Korea in the morning. We will spend the next week competing in the world champs at Sungwoo resort.

Burton European Open Vid

Here is a vid from the European open that is going on at the moment. This includes the final runs.

Danny Davis beat off Peetu and Shaun to take the win. epic conditions and the course looks so good

New Burton Stash Park, Flachauwinkl

Burton just launched it's newest Stash Park in Flachauwinkl, Austria. If you want an pronunciation on that one you might just have to visit.

The Burton Euro team were there to shred on the opening day. for more check out their blog "from Europe with love"




Dmitry Fesenko



Marko Grilc


Chris Sörman


Inside the Hut


Marko Grilc and Sani Alibabic

On the move, Poland, Tahoe and Colorado

Just heard back fro the team and people are on the move.

Hannah scored herself an upgrade on the flight to the USA and flew business all the way into Copper mountain where she is hitting up what she calls a perfect Copper pipe.

Jye arrived in Tahoe about 10 days ago and Tom Pelley left Japan and is now in Poland. Poland what the fuck! He is traveling with Liam Kaska and the two of them have set up a blog for their trip which started in japan and will go around the world before landing them back in Tahoe. There are a few shots from the Blog Below. Thanks Liam Kaska and "Liam and Toms Adventures"

Check it







Tom at the world's busiest streets, the famed Shibuya Crossing

liam and tom's travel blog

www.liamandtom.blogspot.com

Hannah Trigger at Mt Hood

Trigger Brothers just sent this through to me. Hannah Trigger with a huge backside 540 last spring at Mt Hood. 

Happy New Year To Everyone

Where ever you are and whatever your doing !
Hope you are having good times..
Here is a little Shot of Brighton Utah from New Years eve.

After a few days in japan shredding i have finally gotten around to using my computer. Liam kaska and myself have been in japan for a bit over a week hanging out in tokyo and hitting up hakuba and niseko resorts. The snow has been pretty lousy up until yesterday where it dumped and dumped so liam and myself have been working on our face shot collection. We also decided to start our own blog as well with video footage and photos of our travels this year.

Jet lagged out the front of the burton flagship store in tokyo 

riding a what is meant to be hakuba 47 half pipe (the other wall was all grass)

walking to hakuba resort (buses weren't running yet)

couple of days couple of feet and first chairs

It has been dumping in Utah. 25 inches in the past 24 hours and they are predicting another 20-30 on Christmas day. At a time of year when I'm normally sweltering in the middle of summer, it looks like we'll be shredding knee deep "new England clam powder"

Check out the past few days Riding Brighton Utah.


Monday ridding some lines in the trees of Crest lift. dumping

Colby (somethinginthewoods) and I back at car after only 3 hours of ridding. The snow kept up like this all night.

The board I brought over is the new "Hero". It has V Rocker which makes it so good to ride in powder. This board won the transworld good wood award and I can see why. so so good.



New tie die tee thanks to Tom Pelly - Thanks EEL


This was the Tuesday riding at Brighton. The famed Millicent chair hadn't opened yet this season due to lack of snow. It was roumered to open on Tuesday so we got there early and stood in line for an hour and a half to get first chair. It opened.... and as you can see from this skier who lost a ski it was pretty deep. Sorry there are no more shots but we had our hands full keeping them noses up..



beef and chicken taco from Lone Star - the best way to end a day at Brighton

World Go Snowboarding Day

Today was World Go Snowboarding Day. Sunday the 21st Decemmber. I've never really been into this (just because of living in Australia) but it makes way more sense when your in the northern Hemisphere. We Shred Brighton, UTAH. Sooooo Good


Sliding Brighton's new features



Shane and I at the top of Crest Chair, Brighton

Grounded in Utah

Down day in Utah today so we head to the UTAH Burton Office. It is Dumping here right now. Check out the shots below.


Downtown SLC. They are tipping 2 feeeeeeet up the hill by tomorrow morning



Jeremy's Harley that he rode on the Steezy riders trip is in the salt lake city Burton Office.
This is our buddy TJ starting it up - so good.

Utah saints

After way too much travel I finally turned up in Utah, and to a pretty damn good welcome. Colorado and Utah have been coping alot of snow recently and I was pretty pumpoed to turn up to 6inches of fresh and blue skies. Thanks for the shot below carter. Blower powder before Christmas is never a bad thing.

The Burton OZ team are all gearing up to head overseas. A few members have been held back by by last minute injuries as you can see below by Decampo's photo. Heavy! Jye has also had his tonsils ripped out a week ago and Hannah has had some last minute surgery to make sure her shoulder is titanium terminator strength. Nice. Who said snowboarding was easy... Tom Pelley has got out surgery free and is shredding his head off in Japan and Mitch Allan is looking to head to Mammoth in early Jan. The snow is comming late in the US so a late start might be a good idea, however we have at least a foot due here byt the weekend and temperatures in downtown SLC of 15f. I don't know what tempt that up the hill but shit i'll be wearing a neck sock of some sort.

WOrld go snowboarding day is this Sunday - get on it!

chris