Snowboard Colorado V 3 Issue #2.

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I landed a photo of Danimals on page 34. Worth a look! 

thanks guys! 

-nh

Mo' Post Season at Wild.

Wild Mountain. Melting in 80 degree weather. 

Strange year... 

Two parks and a limitless amount of fun. 

Though it may not look like much, with a little shovel work and a few creative minds this place is a gold mine. There's enough speed to make big gaps or perfect transfer rails while getting at least your three hits per run in. Add in the tow rope and thats easily a few hundred tries at whatever it is you could be trying, all in one afternoon. After this season I'm now positive that we have not even came close to unlocking the potential behind this little park. Most fun place ever. 

Austin Young, Krister Ralles and myself have been pushing shovels at Wild for at least a decade now. It's our stomping grounds for progressive snowboarding. Funny that even after fifteen years of riding here none of us are sick of it. We haven't even had the chance to really make it what it could be yet, but this spring is showing us that Wild can be more than great park.  

Hits all the way down the side wall. 

So EPIC!! 

Cole Linzmeyer's idea for the day was to put this rail on the middle jump, Sam Duncan putting in some shovel time. Enough lify's, action shots for days. 

Austin Young. 

Danimals. 

Brandon Larson. 

Cole Linzmeyer. 

Krister Ralles. 

Jake Olson-Elm: *Sniche* tripods. 

Sam Duncan. 

Kritter can't help but get upside down. 

Back to the little park. Let the fun begin. 

Sam Fenton and crew. 

Alek Binder. 

Chris Murphy! 

Riley Erickson also made sure to put in some carves and lip slides in-between shooting. 

Keepin it close.. the midwest way. 

Back Lip! 

Had to go B&W. Check out these clouds! 

like summer out here... 

O E sending it deep. 

Jist of the day. 

It was so hard to not shred the whole time. Who wants to shoot when it's this nice out? 

Had to get a blog edit I guess... A million more and much better tricks went down than I have photos of.. but, I was snowboarding. There'll be an edit from Sam and Riley someday, I'll try to post that also. 

Thanks to Wild and everyone who came out. 

Awesome day. 

Thanks for checkin in. 

-nathaniel

Midwest Experience.

nough said, Midwest fo life!!! 

Best Day Ever! this winter...

Duluth got a bunch of snow.. and apart from driving up there to get it, it was the best day so far this winter. Above is Danimals, Steven, and Jake droppin in down the road to go get some drinks from the near by store. I was amazed at the amount of skiers, sledders, and shredders ripping down main roads yesterday, so epic! 

These guys trying out cross country skiing. 

Jeff tried out wheel chairing. 

Jake Durham did a stall on a covered up truck hood. 

Found this snowy couch to chill on for a bit. 

And then.. Waves! With a storm like we had yesterday on a lake this size comes some swell. 

Surf Lake Superior. 

I wish we could have surfed.. but watching it was pretty neat thing to see. 

Makable rides. Nice left rolled through a few times. It would have needed to clean up a lot to get someone out there I think. Intense short period pounding if you were to paddle out. 

Nice view of the city. Waves were pounding the shores and everyone trying to see this once a year occurrence. 

Go find a peak and play. 

And we finished yesterday off with a rail spot till almost 3am. Long day, but well worth it. 

Here Krister Ralles looks at the spot he just shut down for the night.. it was absolutely HAMMER time. 

More today! Thanks for checkin in. 

-nathaniel. 

You'd never guess it, but...

The season Began last night! 

Bald-E-Gal back at work!

..and already checking shots! 

Last night I got to go out and shoot some photos with Riders: Cody Beiersdorf, Austin Young, Krister Ralles, and Danimals; Filmers Riley Erickson and Sam Fenton. 

The spot. 

Checking some more shots with Riley, Danimals, and Kritter brick. 

There is practically no snow. Riley's remark last night was that we were farming snow, almost true. We had to shovel half the block just to build a jump. So don't get to excited yet, winter still needs to get here. 

until then, 

-nathaniel. 

S.B.N. Issue #4.

Open publication - Free publishing - More austin young

Here it is! S.B.N. Issue #4.
Pete Harvieux lands the cover this year. Poppin smooth Ollie's durring Viktor Simco's 'Ollie's for Alzheimer's'.

This took me a while to complete.. so it feels good finally putting last season all down in one spot for people to see. There were a lot of good times and neat places to show, it was hard to cram it all in one issue.

Thanks for reading! If you could please pass this on to every midwest snowboarder you know! Lets get a few photographers together again and re-start STUCK mag! Well, it's a thought anyways.

nathaniel.

Memories.

Sam Fenton's crew at one of his many secret locations. 

I miss these days. I guess they aren't to far away now, but it's been too long since I had a good shoot. Can't wait for winter to come. 

till then, 

-nathaniel. 

few things.

A few days ago I had the privilege of chilling on this beautiful sailboat. Chris Wyman, the same guy that recently took me to Mexico, is the owner of this beauty. I look forward to setting sail on it in the near future.

I don't go to harbors very often.. It just causes me to lust after these boats! Sailing around the world would be the greatest experience ever I think! No roads, no limits, just freedom! Dock anywhere around the world and explore. I hope that someday I can work myself into a position of being able to travel in this manner.

Snow van filled with surf boards??? haha. Good style, it's about time.

On Sunday my good buddy Brandon Phillips came and picked up the Soul Surfing crew here in Laguna. We all loaded into Sol Tech's 32 van and booked it down to San Clemente to surf State Park. We found a very uncrowded line up and super fun peaky waves. After a few hours of sick lefts and rights along with many many mistakes that lead to shore poundings, we were all super stoked on a perfect day of surfing!

Last night some MN kids rolled into town. Sam Fenton, Cody Beiersdorf, Jonas Michilot, and Danimals all cruised over to watch a pretty epic sunset here in Laguna. After getting their feet wet the temptation of getting into the surf couldn't stop the lack of trucks and wet suits. We all stripped down to boxers and body surfed well past dark. I'm sure all the tourists at Surf and Sand were amped to look out there window and see a bunch of MN kids in their underwear!

This was Sam's first time getting into the Pacific Ocean, he had a smile larger than life! Cold water could not stop all of us from having an awesome body whomping time.

Cody^ Representing Gnarly Tree in its home town of Laguna Beach. Gnarly's MN team was sporting more goods than I've seen here from the locals, gotta give them props!

Sam's first West Coast sunset. I'm sure you'll see this on FB real soon!

Come back and surf with me Sam! You're more than welcome anytime.

We finished out the night with some Ping Pong games in the backyard. Danimals held down the table for a solid 2 hours. We all watched him and Sam play variations of the funniest ping pong games I've ever seen. At one point there were at least 7 balls in play, but for the most part it was 2 balls. Most mesmerizing thing ever.

I'm glad I was able to see you guys! They had a pretty rough trip getting here... So many crazy things happened. Car accidents, brake downs, Cody's broken rib.. I'm hoping that things turn around for them as they head up to Lake Tahoe today. Good luck guys and have a safe trip! Stoked you made it here, thanks for visiting and come back soon!

-nh