PHOTO BY ANDREW MILLER

“Flagstaff was sick as fuck!!  Quick little trip with the homies. We found some pretty unique shit, and got some cool shots……hit it and quit it!”

MATTY MO

“Flagstaff az is an amazing place, people are down for snowboarding and just like to watch instead of kicking you out. It’s a one of a kind place.”

AUSTEN GRANGER

“Arizona was all time!!! Even through that state broke two of my boards and a pair of bindings but I got a pretty wild neck tat out of it”

PARKER DUKE

Utah has been lagging on the snow front this season so the crew has had to go explore some new zones you don’t typically hear about…like FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA. With hearing that they had feet of snow and a mellow “NO BUST” scene it didn’t take long to motivate everyone to hit the road. Austen Granger,Parker Duke and Matty Mo were down for AZ session with Mark Dangler and Mitch Allen along to document the trip…IT WAS ON!!! 

If you see our rig rolling through your spot…make sure to hit us up for some stickers!!. We just got our whip all tatted up with some of SHANNA DUNCAN’S art work. Flying sharks,skeleton mermaids,spine mountains and a whole lot of other trippy shit seamed like a good look for 2010!

Flagstaff is only 5-6 hours from SALT LAKE so it didn’t take much to roll down there late on Sunday and go to work on Monday. PARKER DUKE Frtboarding his way to a new state.

AUSTEN GRANGER has been on the road all winter with SIGNAL SNOWBOARDS and filming for THINK THANK so it was good to have him roll with the crew for a few days and method off this roof.

Both AUSTEN and PARKER had a rough trip as far as equipment goes…No matter how solid your gear is some times stair cases and metal will get the last word. Parker actually won the broken board contest with two focused decks in one day.

Matty and Parker building up this stall wall.

PARKER DUKE puttin the build to the test.

MATT MO waxing with LP WAX for maximum slide and glide

With a hike and some speed the Chimney was working out just fine!

AUSTEN enjoying his time in flavor country

MATTY pushing some snow…You just don’t think of snow when you think of AZ….Check out SNOWBOWL if you ever hear of storms splitting and going south. You never now they might have more snow than your local resort!

Matty has had a productive season and you can expect more to come because he is currently in New York STACKING and eating DUNKIN DONUTS

Too bad there isn’t a Cobra Dog cart in AZ to go eat at after Matty got this 5050-indy to crazy transition.

PARKER DUKE is always sending it from urban shit to park jumps to backcountry gnar. You can expect to see a lot more of this kid.

By the time you read this AUSTEN should be crossing the border into Canada and on his way to pow in Revelstoke…things must be getting confusing as to where he’s waking up now days.  Step up roof to frt 3

HUH?

Parker’s 75 cent neck tat.

Matty mo keep always repping the LP BASE SLAYER

“Flagstaff was legit. More features and more snow than we knew what to do with in three days! Everyone there was really interested in what we were doing. Not too many snitches pulling the concerned citizen lets call the cops card.”

MARK DANGLER

“Flagstaff was sick. Tons of snow and all the locals were stoked to see us do our thing. I think the theme of the trip would have to be broken equipment. Parker broke his binding, and took a nice chunk out of his base. Matty broke his binding. And Austin broke his board in half. “

MITCH ALLEN

THATS A RAP!!!!

The fact that we are not doing the full retail thing and with the snow being so good in Utah we decided to just do a quick trip to Denver and meet up with Bode and the crew at the Fillmore for the TWS RIDERS POLL AWARDS.

Matty Mo,Austen Granger and B doubling up for the awards….It’s not VEGAS but we tried to make it feel like it was!

Bode was nominated for two awards…one for his mind blowing part in Absinthe’s Neverland and the the other was for RIDER OF THE YEAR. With a solid crew there to support him the night was picking up speed really fast. Bode,Austen,Stevens,Ted,Timmy and B were getting primed!!!

Unfortunately Bode didn’t win but we sent it like he did anyway. Just being nominated with such a heavy crew like GIGI, JOHN J, PAT MOORE was reason enough to give it our all and celebrate for his nomination.

AUSTEN GRANGER is newly single and this was another reason  to celebrate and the reason for his friends welcoming him back to the real world.

MATTY MO letting the bus driver know its ok to sticker the window!! We got on a bus with GIGI who took us to the PIRATES movie premier but the bar was…..

REALLY SHITTY!!!!!

We drank a few free beers and got the hell out of there…sorry Gigi but that place was sketchy to say the least.

This was one of about 5 cab trains we were involved with through out the night and we apologize for any cab drive that had to deal with us because we just got shittier and shittier as the night went on. AUSTEN letting the world know that he was FREE and back from the DEAD!!!

Next stop was a club that the RZA was playing at and this round got us going. After half the crew rushed the door and the other half snuck in through the kitchen we were ready to get it going. This round was the one that lit it up!!! PATRON!!!

RZA!!!! from the VIP room. WU TANG AND FREE BOOZE!!!!

WYATT CALDWELL joined the crew just in time for us to start getting REAL LOOSE!!!

Thanks to MATTY MO for providing BODE’s alternate trophy for the night. BOBA FET is a great substitute for a piece of glass.

No acceptance speech but he seemed pretty stoked about it!!!!

Tim had just hit his head really hard after he and Austen started rumbling outside. This was the first of many head blows for Tim over the next few hours.

DCP and WYATT ready for another round. We took a 5-6 cab train to the next party. Think it was was SPACECRAFT  party at a warehouse.

For some reason AUSTEN was carried around every where we went. If you notice he has lost his a shoe at this point but judging by the look on his face he doesn’t seem to mind!!

B was ready for a good time. Cutting up a rug and claimin it!!!

Sometime around 4 am? Things are getting blurry. Timmy,Nico,Bode,Austen and B closing it down!!!

Drunk with stickers!!

CHRIS BERESFORD knocks AUSTEN one in the jaw and that was the last pic of the night!! All in all it was one hell of a night and it we made every minute count while we were there. Big shout again to BODE for being nominated for two of the biggest awards in snowboarding!!!! To be along side some of the top pros in the world for such a big award is a huge honor….Way to go HOMIE!!!

The next morning we hit up the show to meet up with a few companies and friends. It was awesome to see companies like YES and CAPITA busy as hell while other brands were just snoozing to the crickets in their booths. After a few hours at the show we  headed back to SLC later that afternoon.

Oh yeah if you are ever driving the 80 from Denver back SLC and you are thinking of stopping in ELK MOUNTAIN for gas….DON’T there is no gas stating there. The billboard is not very current and there has been nothing there for quite sometime. Big thanks for the guys that towed us to the next gas  station. We are now sponsoring a crew of oil workers in Wyoming!!!!

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