Winter is awesome

Gettin towed around the parkin lot pressin tail (photo: K. Schmidt)


About to hit the ledge (photo: K. Schmidt)

My girlfriend

Ok, so i wanted to make one of these blogs to like post a few pics and update whoever cares (mostly myself) with whats goin on with me and the rest of the IWC.

Well its winter now so im friggin super happy. Except all I do is sleep, eat, dream, drink and live snowboarding, except im stuck in the fucking FLAT midwest.

It snowed a decent amount on thursday night, so we went out an checked out the urban possibilities. I had seen this ledge (above) at first a few weeks ago and knew it was possible to hit. So I was just waiting for snow. FINALLY SNOW. we get out there at like 1130 at night and we tried pushing and pulling each other into it (central illinois isnt exactly hilly). That didnt work, so we had to get my wakeboard rope, tied it to the back of the truck and were towing into this hit. We would tow all around the unplowed parking lot and hit this ledge. It is right outside a dorm hall so we actually had a decent audience. A few hecklers, a few people taking pics and giving props, a few ass-hats etc.

So we hit this jib a few times, i got some good shots on camera for our upcoming video. Then we got kicked out so moved onto the next location. A place really south campus that I had seen a few weeks ago. I originally wanted to wallride it, but we couldnt get the speed. So instead, I did this pretty gnarly drop to flat, about 9 feet or so i guess. One of my buddies piled snow on the landing so i saved my knees, and i got speed by pulling on a shovel my roomate was holding. Again, we got a few good shots off this drop. The most I could do was fs 180 it, but i wanted to bs 1 SOO bad, but I didnt get to hit it again (maybe tomorrow). So that was thursday night.

Friday we left for our weekly friday night trek to the closest "mountain" (4 hours away), to get some decent, cheap, park riding in. Waxed my sexy ass board (as you can see in the pic above) and we headed off. It was crowded (o well) but still managed to get a few hits in. I wasnt riding too great, but managed to get a few decent tricks, none on camera tho, o well.

Tonight its off to party probably, then probably some urban riding tomorrow morning, then the superbowl!! (go pats!! mike vrabel is my homeboy!)

thats it for now,

enjoy your saturday evening.. i will too!!!

-e