Hey Jude

                                

This video is from Saturday night as well. Peter Benchetler suddenly broke into song on the gondola to the party and everyone followed suit.

The Gathering

This is hanging at The Stove in Mammoth. I've always though it was pretty cool. Wyatt Erp, Teddy Roosevelt, Doc Holiday, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid are all in this photo.

Three Good Photos of Peter Benchetler

Peter fired up over getting ready for dinner.

Peter fired up over holding Mac Spedale's large check. He wanted to see what it was like to hold one of those.

Peter fired up over the snowboarder/surfer mix up.

Saturday Night in Mammoth Lakes

Here are some photos from the party after the WCI rail jam.

Combos.

"Everyone flip off the camera!"

The elevator actually beeped, I think we were over the weight limit.

JP Walker, Evan LeFebvre, Joe's friend from Minnesota, and Joe Sexton.

Chris Benchetler, Kimmy Fasani, Jared Johnson, and Desiree Melancon.

Transworld's Anthony Manfredi all caged up.

Kimmy and Desiree freaking out.

Sexton and LeFebvre.

Evan's hair was drunk.

Elliot and SnowRev's Andrew Miller opening their mouths.

Cody Rosenthal opening his mouth as well and pointing it at Dana Starr.

Desiree and June Bonghjan attacking Ben Rice.

I walked by as Jared was getting kicked out. Amazing timing on my part. Although I'll clear his name, he didn't do anything. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This is Ben dodging Desiree who was trying to kick him or something while he was peeing. Luckily he finished and zipped in time to not make a mess.

Future's Brad Farmer and James Sullivan.

Brothers Factory "what" teaser

go to http://brothersfactory.com/ to check it out. Ben Bilocq and LNP are up in it representing Ashbury

And Cab Spins Win

Ok ok. You win. Everyone wants to call that one trick a cab five. I understand it's culturally acceptable in snowboarding to call it a cab five or cab spin, but I've personally never liked the idea. So you may have won, but now you have to listen to my explanation.

Here are a few video grabs of Harrison doing a cab five or switch frontside five.

Here is where I say Harrison rolls up switch and you say he rolls up fakie.

You can see Harrison getting ready for the pop by putting a little weight on his back foot, which is weird for a fakie ollie.

Now Harrison is initiating the pop off of his tail. Which is also weird for a fakie ollie. (If you're confused at this point, "cab" is boarder lingo for a fakie 360)

He is now officially airborne. And as you can see he popped off his tail, which means he did a switch ollie. And it is 100% impossible to switch ollie into any fakie or cab trick.

Now he's spinning. I hope I changed your mind.

Gus Engle

LANCE AND MIKE AS YOUNG BOYS

                    

This is a video of Lance and Mike when they were young. Someone went and did a Mario Bros. re-edit on it, which makes it much better than the original...Guess which one is the fat one?

Poncho

Desiree's been at home recovering from her collarbone being broken, so she made herself a poncho that looks kind of like a cloak. She's making me a poncho as well. Looks like she should have either a quiver of arrows or a short sword on her though.

Amateur

Check out this video on the Chocolate Skateboards website. This is how they welcomed new am Vincent Alvarez to the team. Snowboarding should take their am teams this seriously.

Welcome Vincent Alvarez Video