11 Search Results for "sierras"

• Sierra Steeps In June — Keepin Sierra Steeps In June — Keepin’ Winter Alive Part 2

  • From: sethlightcap
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    Summer backcountry shred missions in the Sierra are all about finding unique adventures that make up for the lack of snow. It’s also a time when ephemeral access windows open up that allow unusual means of getting to your destination. The quest to catch good snow conditions on classic lines using summer time only transportation becomes the game. When you pull it off and score an amazing outside-of-the-box summer shred day it’s a potent memory that motivates you to make it happen every season. Next thing you know, your winter always lasts until at least July, which is bitchin`.
    
    This June I rolled the dice on a couple go-to backcountry tours that both involve such summer oddities. I dare say we won big both days as the tours were thrilling start to finish and the steeps we got to slash were in surprisingly good condition despite the meager Sierra winter. Check out a few pics of the two adventures below and you’ll see why I don’t put my boards away in May.

    Words and Photos by Seth Lightcap

    
    Brennan Lagasse and I hopped on the mountain bikes for this early June mission into the Tahoe backcountry. We pedalled up a still gated but mostly melted out road. Spinning up the mountain weaving in and out of snow patches under a cool canopy of trees made for a very pleasant approach.
    
    A twenty five minute hike from the end of the road brought us to the top of this old school Tahoe chuting gallery. Nothing too crazy, but steep enough to slash some fun turns and feel the pull of the fall line.
    
    The chutes were fairly smooth, very few suncups anyway, and the snow was super rippable, deep corn.
    
    Looking ahead to a long summer I’ll take as much of this view as I can get.
    
    Brennan, my wife Allison and I hopped on a boat taxi with a bunch of fishermen to start our latest snow adventure in the Sierra. We got a few odd looks from the Cabela’s crowd but we were united under a shared vision - no one wanted to walk the horrendously long two miles to the end of the lake.

    Exiting the pontoon boat we hiked up slabs past slowly reawakening high elevation lakes. Allison had forgotten her shoes so she flip-flopped most of the approach. When she finally took off the flops, she put on her crampons. Quite the summer changeover.
    
    Here’s a shot from May 2012 of the couloirs we were going to ride. Couple hours from the boat we were looking down them.
    
    Brennan dropped in the skier’s right couloir and deftly negotiated a little choke to get through the business section. The snow could have been softer, but it was edgeable enough for a clean descent.
    
    Not too much snow left in the Sierra but it’s holding in a few places where it counts.
    
    Allison and I rode the skier’s left couloir which thankfully held softer snow. This left line is a little wider but it’s just as steep and has a spicy double fall line to keep things interesting.
    
    The snow turned to rock a couple hundred feet below the apron of the couloirs. Busting a few downclimbing moves on the gorgeous granite as the spray of a waterfall tickled our faces felt rather super however. It was yet another summer shred moment that made such a mission all worth it.

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• Downclimbing in the Sierras Downclimbing in the Sierras

  • From: TetonGravityResearch
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    Downclimbing in the Sierras
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• Flipflops to crampons Flipflops to crampons

  • From: sethlightcap
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    Flipflops to crampons
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• Dropping in to a chute in the Dropping in to a chute in the sierras

  • From: sethlightcap
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    Dropping in to a chute in the sierras
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• Mountain Biking to skiing Mountain Biking to skiing

  • From: sethlightcap
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    Mountain Biking to skiing
  • 11 months ago
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• View of the sierras from the t View of the sierras from the top

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• Jones Snowboards Launches New Jones Snowboards Launches New Website

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    Squaw Valley, CA (March 22, 2010) – JonesSnowboards.com offers snowboarders a first look at the much anticipated, debut snowboard line created by snowboarding icon, Jeremy Jones. With the website’s launch, Jones Snowboards is adding another dimension to the brand’s open dialogue with retailers and consumers as the snowboard line goes into full production for Winter 2010 release.

    “We’re having a very exciting year between the launch of Jones Snowboards, the building of the team and filming for Deeper,” says Jones. “Jonessnowboards.com will  keep riders involved in all the action while we await the first shipment of boards this fall.”

    Packed with descriptions, technical diagrams, and Jeremy's own design notes, product information takes center stage at Jonessnowboards.com allowing riders a unique opportunity to learn about the performance technologies and design philosophies that shaped each of the four boards in the 10/11 Jones line-up. Features such as Mellow Magne-traction, Directional Rocker and Cam-Rock are all explained in Jeremy's words along with his commentary on why certain board models benefit from the chosen design features. 

    Riders hungry for more info are only a couple clicks from an answer at Jonessnowboards.com as the forum allows the curious freerider to ask Jeremy direct questions. Trip reports from the team riders will also offer a firsthand perspective of how conditions and terrain affect the team's quiver choice. Exclusive photos and videos will bring the boards to life as Jeremy and the team shred on the 'Flagship' freeride gun one day and backcountry jib on the 'Mountain Twin' freestyle deck the next. 

    There will be no shortage of exciting news to share at Jones Snowboards, as the team has been freeriding around the world this winter. Jeremy, Forrest Shearer and Jonaven Moore have been out splitboard testing on the Jones' 'Solution' while filming for the September release of Deeper. After a productive month in the Sierras and Tetons, the crew heads north to Canada and Alaska to lay tracks in the big mountains this spring. 

    Having taken third at the Freeride World Tour stop in Squaw Valley, Ryland Bell will take on some of the world's best freeriders at the Nissan Xtreme by Swatch in Verbier, Switzerland in late March. Ralph Backstrom just finished his contest season winning second place overall in the North Face Masters series. Both Ralph and Ryland are riding the Jones 'Flagship' in contests this season. Follow the team blog, to keep up with the team's latest adventures in the mountains.

    Expect worldwide distribution starting this September for winter 2010/11. Learn more about Jones Snowboards at JonesSnowboards.com.

     

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• Jeremy Jones: High Sierra Spli Jeremy Jones: High Sierra Splitboard Mission

  • From: JeremyJones
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    It has been a hectic couple of months getting Jones Snowboards off the ground.  Snowboarding has remained my main priority and I have been getting plenty of time on snow but it is the five AM phone calls with the factory in Switzerland before riding to total chaos when I return home after riding that has turned me into a crazy man with a cell phone strapped to his head.   With my last trade show behind me, my voice mail on my phone full and my vacation response in place, "I am off the map and off line for the better part of the next few months filming for my new movie Deeper," I wasted no time in dropping out. The trade show bags got stuffed in the corner and out came the camping gear.  The more hectic my world gets the more precious my time in the mountains becomes.  Throwing my split board on my feet with a backpack full of provisions and stepping into the mountains is like walking through a portal into my happy place.  The stress falls off me with every step and soon all my thoughts are on the mountains and my surroundings.

    The High Sierra continue to overwhelm me.  Pick any drainage and be prepared to have your hit list grow ten fold.  This valley is one of the better natural half pipes I have ever seen.

    Check out www.deeperfurtherhigher.com for more info on Deeper.

    

    **This line has been on our hit list for over a year.  With 10 inches of fresh and now wind we decided the time was right to tick it off.  It is a 34oo ft sustained chute (Snowbird is 3000ft), and I wanted to split up as far as I could.**

    

    **Forrest Shearer at the half way point.**

     

    **Seth Lightcap an hour later.  This thing just kept going.**

    

    **We were dealing with 10 inches of fresh snow on bed surface.  We came around the corner for the summit push and it got to be knee to waist deep.  This not only slowed us down quite a bit but for the first time of the hike I became concerned with a pocket pulling out.  A quick pit and snow test confirmed the pack was deep but bonded very well. Non the less we put it into over drive and got off the face quickly.**

    

    **It was so fun blitzing this thing.  It took five hours to climb up, two minutes to ride down.  Our legs were feeling it but Forrest still had enough left to get his slash on.**

    

    **The best things in life are free...once you have the gear. Fired up to get my first ever factory made split board the Solution in some big terrain.**

    

    **The wind came up on our second night.  It made for a rough night of camping and blew the snow to the Nevada Desert.**

     

    **Sierra Eye Candy**

    

     

    
    
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• Seth Lightcap in the sierras Seth Lightcap in the sierras

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• Deeper Unplugged - Jeremy Jone Deeper Unplugged - Jeremy Jones Psycho Pinner Coulior - Episode 2

  • From: TetonGravityResearch
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    In the 2nd installment of Deeper unplugged, Jeremy and the crew head out on a night mission in the southern Sierras to hit 1500 foot, beautiful, straight shot couloirs.  Of course, that isn't enough for Jeremy when he decides to shred what everyone dubs the "Psycho Pinner".

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• Seth"walking guide book"Lightc Seth"walking guide book"Lightcap leading through the sierras

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