all photos by MITCH ALLEN

Bode and Nico start off the day with a little hike up the hill

BODE MERRILL fresh out of the UTAH heat after a few months of rehabbing his knee from surgery decided to go the extra mile and hike up the hill. 

BODE taking 5 after the long hike up the hill. 

It’s nice to know that HCSC has a TOW ROPE now and you don’t need to hike the park all day. Now you can spin laps until the horn blows and not be completely wasted from hiking.

Easing back into the first day of camp AUSTEN GRANGER decided to make another mini shred feature and turned the side of the butter pad into a mini QP. 

Austen testing out his handi work.

Bode warming up after a few months of down time and rehab with a mini air to fakie.

After playing around on the qp the dudes decided to start transferring into the tranny from the take off of the butter pad. AUSTEN GRANGER in mid b270.

Mini shredding is way better than Utah 100 degree weather and down time from knee injuries. Looks like Bode wont be mini shredding for long. By the end of the day he was starting to hit some of the jumps and sounded pretty stoked to step it up tomorrow.

TED BORLAND suggests that it’s time to go send one of AUSTEN’S other creations….gap over the mini pipe.

Earlier in the morning Austen built a hit that would send you over the mini ditch and it looks like it was working out well for TED who slayed a few good hits off of it.

Austen laced a clean front 1 and moved onto a steezy front 3 over his creation. Not a bad way to end the day. All in All it was a sick session back on the hill and watch out because Austen got a new SIGNAL yesterday and rumor has it he sends it harder on fresh decks.