Granite Expedition

Went for a cahj walk up Granite Mountain with JZ, Marsh, Raine, Cook, Dayna, and Chris the other day.  We commenced our trek up pretty late - around 5 for various reasons but that made for an unreal sunset to welcome us at the top of the mountain.  Since my leg is still pretty weak and I knew that I wouldn't be able to walk down in the morning, I dragged my mountain bike alll the way up to make the descent much easier on the knee.

Crazy to think I was skiing down this 5 months ago.

Pretty cahj

This year we were fortunate enough to have a supply truck (Buck, Tuna, Dom, Sarah) drive us some supplies up so we didn't have to carry in a ridiculous amount of water (there aren't any creeks or bodies of water at the top of mountains).  Since they could bring us this water and denser supplies, we were able to cook real food on our stoves instead of living off of hotdogs and trail mix like usual.

Rookie primer.

Sidekick soup?

 Perfect wiener - burnt on the outside, raw on the inside.

Sidekick party.

Raine left his mark on the helipad.

 

Dayna cookin some pancakes.

I'd say this is one of the better places I've eaten pancakes.

JZ didn't have the best sleep on the helipad because he tied a rope around his waist to ensure he would roll/sleepwalk off the side of the mountain.

See ya when the snow flies granite!

Arrow with the boys

 Went out to Arrow lake the other week with Neil, Buck, JO, and Momo to jump off some rocks and ride the water slide.  Luckily, we had a CD of bangin Grammy Nominations from 2000 to entertain us!  It even inspired a decades themed party the next week.

Buck peeing out the bottom of his shorts...

 

An O'hara sighting.

Melon Keller jumping

JO landing on Buck.

Momo and Neil just being cahj after jumping.

cahj wildlife.

Waterslides

pretty scary for momo

 

  

not cold for JO.

 

Neil catchin some air.

I even rode this rig too, pretty much the first fun thing I've done since knee surgery.  stoked.

Floating the Slocan

There are lots of things you just have to do if you're in the west Kootenays in the summer.  Floating the Slocan River is one of them.  I've been fortunate enough to take part in a bunch of these floats with a whole spectrum of different people in the past couple of weeks and they're always a blast.

The Zah, Hoods, JZ, and Moosh.  Cahj crew.

Neil just broin' out.

 

Party island hit the Slocan in full force.

As did all these cahj floaters.

Buck powering party island.  (believe it or not there were actually girls on it)

Buck's always down to work hard to catch up to the cooler.

Complete gong show.

 

Tuna just loving it.

Karmaloop Rep

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- Nate

Bedphones

Check em out.  If you like listening to music in bed or just casually lying somewhere, these seem like they would be the ticket to a comfortable time.

 

http://www.bedphones.com/ 

Montage UnReleased

This is a ridiculously sick edit from the montage crew down in Mammoth.  Normally I could care less about watching people ski park but this is just off the chain.  Immaculate styles and flow coming from Cali, makes me want to shred park more often.

Montage is one of best things going on in park skiing right now, enjoy!

Nakusp Music Fest

 On Friday I headed up to Nakusp for their annual music festival with no plans and nowhere to stay, but my hammock and a bunch of bros.  Our convoy rolled into Nakusp and headed straight to Hookarm's house where a bunch of the boys camped last year.  Upon our arrival, we quickly realized that Hookarm doesn't live in his house any more... 

 

Hookarm's house.

Sure enough, within 15 minutes of being in Nakusp, the cops were onto us.  Apparently you're not allowed to camp on the side of the road at Hookarm's house and you aren't allowed to drink beer in public in Nakusp.          

we saw these cops a lot.

Since the cops weren't too keen on us setting up camp at Hookarm's house, we moved home base all the way across the road to tent city where we had to pay $90 for 3 nights per campsite.

Tent City.

Magic

 Tuna dumped relish and mustard all over his Pachos with the extra special sauce.

Then he licked it off..

My sleeping set up for night 1.

Deaner and Buck laced into the fireball at around 8am on Saturday.

and here's Dean FUBARed a few hours later.  (party island in the background may have contributed)

reppin

Tuna hitting up the pulled pork this time.  Nakusp music fest has the best food.

Kevin Costner sucks.

View of our party people from my hammock at about 7am, right before I fell asleep on night 2 (actually day 3).  

Hammock had to be on the outside of the fence for night 2 because our whole Kootenay crew got evicted with no refund from tent city for various reasons.  They didn't want to let the kids play, so we played even harder on the side of the road beside tent city.

Don't tempt Buck with a good time.

 

just a Tuna.

yeah, that's poo smeared on Buck's windshield...

He got it off with paper towel though.

And burned it, it's chill.

Deaner and Buck passed out again, yeeeehaw!

KBS mobile was with us in full force.  Tuna and the Chief win everything from them.

Tuna, just workin the grill in the rain.

I came back to tent city at about 3am on Monday morning to find Buck passed out in his truck with it idling, the music bumping, and the heat on full blast.

Other notable events include 

- driving a random Nakusp native's car all over Nakusp to pick up a homemade wooden speaker, powered by two car batteries.

- killing it on Buck's party island (a big floating rig with waterproof speakers and a little electric motor and obviously rigged with a floating cooler)

- skinny dipping.

- being the designated driver all weekend and the drive home.

- roaming band.

- Doobie Brothers

- The Hut

- Honeymoon Suite

- Reggae guy

- Momo peeing on all fours.

- Momo peeing his pants.

- scrogs

- Bubba's scrog and the Doz.

- Dean and Buck dipping into some midday SoCo.

- Casual Sunday.

- "I punched myself in the face tying a knot." - Buck

- "You kids want some coke?  I have about 3 grams here I don't want." - Deaner's random buddy

- Chiefs plate.

See ya next year Nakusp!