Stevens Pass UBER EPIC POWDER DAY 3/30/10

So sick. Sooooo sick. SO SO SO SICK! I mean seriously, yesterday was awesome. No other way to describe it. I got 5th chair up 7th Heaven and nearly began to cry I was so excited. I did not cross a track till the runout at the bottom of Rock Garden. So stoked.

Then I hit the backside for a bit, in which I slayed polaris bowl, corona bowl, andromeda face, and the orion chutes. All of these runs included a snow-infested perma smile of joy and jubilation. Then I dropped down into the Double-Diamond/wildkatz trees. Damn those are fun. Super technical, tight, and steep, but those are all good things because they mean fresh tracks for me :)

The rest of the day I rode primarily 7th Heaven and the Tye Bowl chute area's where I was destroying the left over fresh. I hit quite a few cliffs today cause I was feelin' it. There was powder out 'thar and I ate it all up. The video below is a compialation from all the video I took during the day. So much fun!

Video from Saturday at Stevens Pass

Hiked up Rooster Ridge before the sun microwaved everything. Was pretty good :)

Stevens Pass Early Morning Powder 3/27/10 from Tim Flugstad on Vimeo.

but not as good as Tuesday :D

Bike Ride! 3/23/10

65 degree weather + 5 bored friends + 5 bicycles = 18 mile bike ride from Sequim to Port Angeles. T'was good times...



I hope you can catch the rahtardation in this picture

Hurricane Ridge Redux 3/20/10

Today was the fun.

I am home for sprang brizeak and I decided to hit up hurricane ridge with some amigos aka brian and ben.

West facing snow generally sucked and was crusty till like noon, south and east facing slopes were the corny goodness, and north facing slopes had snow that resembled powder. What ze?

Anyways...it was an enjoyable day. Jumped off of a lot of stuff, dropped down the backside and had friends switch off shuttling the car back and forth from there, and rode the poma lift quite a bit. Even hit up the "race" course at the end of the day and did it bordercross stylez with my amigo and we destroyed eachother at the bottom...good times.

I really wanna ride hurricane ridge on a full on pow day, it would be soooo much fun.

Here are some "film screen grabs" and some random pikz from the day...

(im saving my video for later)

I like to fly


Apparently so does Brian...


Started to get cloudy at the end of the day


ze backside


ze backside again

I Slayed Some Pooh!

Stevens Pass 3/12/10 Powder Fiesta from Tim Flugstad on Vimeo.

It was a good day!

I forgot to completely attach my helmet cam to my helmet and I lost it for over an hour. Miraculously I found it. So happy. I like powder.

Tomorrow I will be slaying some slush at hurricane ridge.

Byah!

Early February-Early March in Summary aka Pooh/Ice/Corn/Mank

Hmmmmm. Where to start? Well the last month has been very interesting. I've basically encountered every type of snow condition possible. I've encountered slushtastical slushies, poohtacular pnw pooh, and death-status icyness mank snow of doom. The first two I approve of, the last one can get dead for all I care. Despite this winter for the most part being the suck, I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Due to the sheer suckiness, I've been able to do stuff that I wouldn't usually do. My park skills have gone up exponentionally, I've done alot more slackcountry and hiking for turns, and I've learned how to destroy slow signs and run from the "mountain safety" personas at Stevens Pass.

A couple weeks ago, on February 20th to be exact, me and some fellow scumbag homiez decided to hike up to the top of Mt Townsend. The avy conditions were as low as possible, and I wanted to do a crazy workout, so I reached out and grabbed this oppurtunity by the cajones. The crew was Dane, Elijah, Brian, Ben and your's truly. On the way up to the trailhead, we encountered some ice wish was thoroughly raped by my blizzaks, but mi amigo Brians wrx did not approve of the ice as much. He went straight into the ditch, but just kept on driving like no problemo, and all there was was a small scratch on his bumper...aka the crazy. We reached the trailhead at 8am sharp-(ish?) and proceeded to go straight up the mountain. We reached snow on the trail probably only .75 miles into the hike. It was gnar gnar ice due to it being in the trees and early in the morning and hellza cold. Once we got above most of the trees, we encountered poohtacular corn snow. We then just hiked straight up the mountain and made it up there by noon and we were 200% tired. I proceeded to eat my smashed subway sandwich in under 2 minutes. Once we somewhat recovered, there was much rejoicing throughout the land because we were now gonna ride our snowboards down 2.5k of may-style corn snow.

The run was awesome, I even accidentally dropped a mini-cliff due to my stoke level. Once we stopped, we were in hi-5 mode aka "broh brah dude totally sick, so rad." At the end of our run, there was a slushy pillow over a stump that we sessioned for a while. I tried to get all artsy with a tweaked melon backside 1 and I repeatedly crashed and almost impaled my anus on a branch. Time to stop...I guess. I now went searching for the sobe citrus that I stashed in the snow, but I never found it. I was so bummed, sad day in the neighborhood for me. We all then dropped down into the trees and tried to ride the icy traverse back down...that was hell. We finally stopped and proceeded to look like those mexican tourists from wenatchee who go to stevens pass and ride down the rope tow area on their ass with a snowboard underneath them. Once we got back, I destroyed some nutra-grain bars and went home and slept like a "gooh gooh gah gah" baby. I took some video but im saving the vids for my season "edit."

Here are some random pictures from the day:

That day was the fun.

February 26th poohtators: It was only 6 days since the uber hike of doom, and I was riding lift service pow. Life is good. I'm pretty sure that people are blind at stevens pass, because I was literally the only person riding the chutes on seventh and it was non-stop white room all day. So much fun. It was super foggy all day and I couldn't see about 76% of the time, but I did not care. I did not take any pics cause I was riding alone but I took some sweet video action which is broadcasted below:

(I'm still trying to figure out how to edit and still ouput the video in 720p, well actually I know how I'm just too lazy to do it right now)

That day was fun as well.

Other random days: So besides the two days above this, I have been basically riding park the last month, and it's been a lot of fun surprisingly. The waterfall jump right now is pristine, and it is just oh so fun to float through the air. Here are some pics of me and my san diegoian homie brad pwning the air with our boards of banana land:

the brad

and yours truly:

It's been a fun winter, but I sure hope that this friday will lead to powder-bliss.

El fin para meow...

Mid-Season Recap (as of 2/2/10)

So to put it lightly, I have been hellza lazy with this whole blog thing. Not sure why, just have been. As I'm typing this write now I am ridiculously tired, but whatevs. But I have pics and vids farther down in this post, so don't be discouraged!

So far the season has been...well...interesting. It started off amazing but recently it's been a mixture of mediocre, above average, and the suck. I've only logged in 18 days so far this season which kind of sucks but money is tight and all my shredding buddies are lazy or injured or M.I.A. My season so far has looked like this:

14 days at Stevens Ass
1 day at Baker
1 day at crystal
1 day at hurricane ridge (before the road fell apart)
1 day in the Olympic National Forest backcountry

My goal was originally for 50-75 days, but that goal is the dead meow. My goal for this season now is 40 days which is very much doable. Hopefully I'll get some spring days in at whistler and once the road is fixed at hurricane ridge I will hopefully get some more booter sessions there when I go home to "visit" my family.

Below are random pictures from this season so far:

Hiking at Hurricane Ridge for some slushtasticity


My buddy Ryan getting ambushed by birds


The Lovely Robyn and I


Hog-z-bacque poohtaters


Tree Tap at Stevens


Olympic National Forest Backcountry


(I have a lot more photos that I'll post eventually, I lost the cord that connects my cell phone to my computer)

NOW FOR SOMETHING SOMEWHAT INTERESTING:

So I got a ContourHD helmet cam for christmas and I've basically been taking video nonstop since. At the end of the season I will create a full on movie from this season's footage, but for now here are some videos that are completely unedited so far from the season.

Here is a vid from the park at stevens from just earlier today.


Here is a vid from some easy access (like 8 minute hike) slackcountry.


Here is a vid from a surprise pow day at Stevens


and here is a vid that is unedited so ignore the first like 5 minutes, but the rest is fun mini-shred pow with my girlfriend.


I have a whole bunch of videos that I have not posted yet, but as the season goes on and when the season is over I will post them for sure.

So for all the 3.47 people that read my blog, sorry boutz my laziness, I'll get back into bloggang again.