Off Mountain Shred.

With the increasingly warm weather and the end of snow getting closer and closer, I thought I'd share with you some of the awesome off mountain shredding that was had over the course of the season.

The first spot some friends and I started jibbing was the Steamboat skatepark. With nicely set up drop-ins and moveable boxes (until they got frozen to the ground), we were able to set up some features to butter on and practice a little for riding the terrain park at the mountain.

These two pictures are of Pat and Corey hitting one of the set-ups we had at the skatepark. Also I have to say thank you to Chelsy for taking the pictures featured in this blog.

Alright so after some fun times in the skatepark, and once there was enough snow for it, we headed to the rail yard for some after mountain shredding. The rail is located right on campus, just below Monson Hall. It features a flat box, down-flat-down rail, two rounded handrails, and a battleship box. If features were set up in the right spot, they would stay fairly well lit from the lights outside of Monson, which was nice because they you wouldn't have to try to use car lights.

These next few pictures are shots of Corey and myself enjoying what the rail yard has to offer. As a side note, I have to thank Corey for representing Rill Snowboard Co. in these pictures.

This last spot I unfortunately do not have any pictures of, but it was argueably the most fun off mountain spot. We refered to it as "The Stache" (yes like a moustache) and it was basically a crazy, random set-up of different features not found elsewhere in town. There was two quarter pipes, a down rail, a couple sizeable jumps and random bonks and stalls placed on the smaller of the quarter pipes. The Stache could be found by going up the hill to the right of the dorms. It was hand built a little by myself, but mostly by Steve, Jaryn, Jeff, Josh, Boston, Colin, and Alex. The Stache is unfortunately gone now with all the crazy melting that has been going on, but rest assured I will do my best to rebuild it next near when all those guys are off to the Breckenridege campus of Colorado Mountain College.

So there you go, hopefully this blog gave you a glimpse of the winter fun to be had off the mountain while still shredding. Peace.