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Tuckerman’s Ravine

Jeff Leone — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:38:25 +0000

Recently, Will Harris and I (Jeff Leone) made the trip from Connecticut up to Mount Washington to get some turns in on Tuckerman’s Ravine. After a lengthy car ride, and a stop at the wonderful NH State Liquor Store, we made our way up to our cozy motel room. Arising up nice and early, we headed out to the Pinkham Notch visitor’s center. The day couldn’t have been any better. 70 degrees at the base, 55 degrees at the summit, clear blue skies all around, and NO WIND! We had planned this trip almost 2 months ago and we couldn’t have had a better day.

Hillmans Highway from Hojos

On the trek up to the floor of the ravine we ran into a couple of friends from high school and college. Random how these things work out. Will and I summitted Mount Washington by noon, had our toast at the top, and then headed back down the northeast snowfields to start. The snow was perfect spring conditions; slightly sinky, but still great for what it was.

At the Summit

Our first descent into the bowl took us down the right gully, right down into the drunken/high mess of a crowd. The sleds had come out, the hot doggers were everywhere, and the oohs, ahhs, and boos from the crowd managed to fill the bowl. Right next to our base area (mainly where we threw our gear into the bushes) a few people built a jump. People started throwing backflips (or at least attempting to) much to the amusement of the onlookers.

Will dropping into Right Gully

Jeff ripping Right Gully

Will and I then started up for a quick lap down the Chute. As we were hiking up we passed a woman who proceeded to tell us that she was, “glad she took a $70 lesson.” She was hiking up a 40 degree+ pitch. I could sense a disaster coming… We quickly passed by her and managed to click into our skis on the steep slope, which just so happened to be about 10 feet or less from a crevasse, which we didn’t realize until after we started clicking into our skis.

The Chute, Nice and Steep

Jeff in The Chute

The snow in the Chute had tons of snow slide “gullies” down the middle of the trail, which made for some interesting hop turns (and/or straight-line runs) through them.

Will hiking up Left Gully on our way to Hillmans Highway

Our last run of the day began close to 3:30pm. The sun was beginning to set behind Tuck’s, so we needed to hike pretty fast to not lose the daylight. This time, on our way up, we spotted a ripper coming down the skier’s left of the Lip, right next to the boot-pack. He was weaving in and around the hikers (within a few feet of them!). Will knew that karma would get to him. Of course, as soon as he was on the run-out, he clipped the one rock in his way, double ejected, and sent his skis flying into the Ski Patrol rocks… Sweet, sweet karma.

Will killing the bumps on the Sherburne Trail

After skiing Hillman’s Highway, we had a nice, long, bump run down the Sherburne Trail. Perfect medium-sized bump lines soon gave way to mud and rock sections, which our skis didn’t take too kindly too… All in all, it was a great day at Tuck’s. We will definitely have to return next year, and we’ll be hoping for the perfect day then too.

Mount Snow with 860media

Eric Leone — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:11:53 +0000

We joined up with 860media last week at Mount Snow for a collab edit.

Mount Snow with Sevenpair and 860media from Seven Pair Productions on Vimeo.

Christian Franchino Season Edit

Eric Leone — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:06:40 +0000

Self edit by Christian. Kid kills it. Enjoy.

Pico and Stowe with Will and Eric

Eric Leone — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:02:29 +0000

Here’s a fun edit filmed over a couple different days this season with Will and Eric.

Athlete Videos

Eric Leone — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:41:05 +0000

Here’s a couple self edits done by Sam Putnam and Colby Vavolotis earlier this season.

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com

Down Day at the Down Rail

Eric Leone — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:30:44 +0000

The only feature really worth hiking at the Killington the week before Rails 2 Riches was the down rail so we spent most of our day there. Some more park edits and teaser shots from this year’s movie will be showing up on the site soon.

Merry Christmas!

Eric Leone — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:30:21 +0000

Hopefully everyone is having a white christmas. We’ll be heading to VT for the next two weeks to film urban, build jumps and spend some quality time with the fam. Check back soon for some pics on what we’ve been up to.

Uconn Urban

Eric Leone — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:38:49 +0000

After spending three hours at night building and shaping lips so that the snow would freeze, the uconn crew got together a few days before final exams to enjoy the first snowfall on campus. We spent a few hours getting a bunch of shots on a fun electrical box jib that Abo destroyed with his board. Then we took it into the night with a nice 16ft single barrrel with a small gap to another 16ft. Everyone made the best of it despite several weeds on the inrun that occasionally tripped us up. It was good to get the first few shots of the Uconn urban segment in the bag cause CT has a pretty limited winter to hit rails. For more photos click HERE.

Anthony hand drag

Brian holding it down

Abo shifty 1 out

Anthony flat gap flat rail

The Uconn Crew

Colorado Ski Shop Rail Jam

Eric Leone — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:21:27 +0000

Winter is in full swing, but before it hit we had to truck in snow from ice rinks. On December 5th Colorado Ski Shop teamed up with Ski Sundown and West Springfield’s Parks and Rec to put together one of the biggest early season rail jams. Several reps were on hand with tons of product giveaways and displays while the locals gathered to watch over 60 skiers and riders compete on an extensive arrangement of rails. Line riders Will Wesson and Ian Compton were on hand to help judge the finals. Big thanks to Hussein and Brian for putting together an awesome and successful event.

Seven Pair/Meathead Films Movie Premiere

Jeff Leone — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:01:58 +0000

Last Friday we held a dual movie premiere with Meathead films. We showed our film, “To and From,” and the Meatheads showed “Wild Stallions.” With over 200 people coming to view the films, it was a huge success. Thanks to Tom Zelek and Eric Brandolini at GHS and Rogge at Meatheads. Check out the pictures from the night below.

Watching “To and From.”

Colorado Ski Shop schwag.

More schwag. Love that word.

There were tons of free toss outs to the crowd.

The Eric’s and Will introducing the movie.

Settling in for the premiere.

Groupies?!

Will you’re so sketchy…

Rockin’ the Colorado Ski Shop shirts. Snow all around.