Big Dreams

Fresno retailer Herb Bauer hosted it’s Summer Shoot Out this past Saturday. As expected the event drew hundreds of skaters and spectators from around central valley. The format was unique. Along with an open jam, they also did a separate team comp. Skaters paired up to take on other pairs in a true shoot out format. The Herb Bauer crew always puts together some of the best comps in Nor Cal. Habitat Footwear and AG flow skater Matt Beaton won the 14 and under group. Check out DNA and AG’s prime time event spot. Thanks for all the support! Grass roots sells!

Nor Cal regional rep rider Austin Butler is stepping up his game. Austin has spent a nice chunk of his summer down in Argentina where he has been slaying shit. Check out his pics and the link below. It’s the SASS podcast and he got the end-er!!!! SASS Podcast

Mountain High Season Pass Party – Recap

Saturday, August 28th Mountain High held their annual Season Pass Party at Podium Distribution’s HQ in Torrance. Here attendees were invited to purchase their season pass to Mountain High for the 2011 season and then could enjoy a day of play on snow on the rail set up or take it indoors to DVS’s private skate park which was open to the public for the first time. Hungry kids were treated to all the Wahoo’s they could eat and those hungry for swag had plenty of vendors to hit up. In attendance throwing out the goods was Burton, Anon, Red, Forum, Special Blend, Electric, Chill, Neff, DVS, Monster, Skullcandy, 686, and MB2 gokart raceway. Adding to the festivities, Mountain High team riders, MFM and Cory Cronk were on hand signing autographs. All in all, it was a great day of skating, snowboarding, and selling season passes.

Look at that Little Nugget..so cute.. When JG from Burton sent me the prototype Nug 46 last winter I thought I would be stoked on it for riding up at Big Bear and jibbing around. He Told me it wasn’t a jib board,,, and I made the mistake of not taking his word on it,, and ended up eating my words again. I spent most of the Spring season riding the Nug 46 in a bunch of conditions at ski resorts, Groomers, Pipe runs, jumps,,and some sick Powder up in the NW. I fell in love with the control you have with this board. I still don’t understand how a 146 cm board can feel so stable at speeds,, and also float in powder. You’ll have to ask JG about that……………… My surfboards are getting shorter,, now my snowboards are getting shorter and I’m having the most fun ever Dave Downing. Click on the Link for the full story and Video’s http://www.buoloco.com/web6/content/john-gerndt-talks-about-nug-burton-snowboard

August 28th Mt High will be having there annual season pass party. Come purchase a discounted season pass and get to be one of the first people in Southern California to ride snow. Mt High will have close to 30 tons of snow and rails and boxes setup to ride. Tons of vendors and free food to the first 300 people there. Event starts at 3:00 Pm. Be There!

The Beach Surf Shop in Monterey, Ca. Took the day off to shred for Kevin Pierce. Get Well Soon Buddy!

We are have the sale of all sales. This weekend from 9-3 come get all the goods you need for the upcoming season. Come early and ready to pick up your gear for a great price. There will be goods from all brands ( Burton, Forum, Special Blend, Foursquare, Analog, Idiom, Anon, Gravis) Don’t miss this super sale!! Bring friends, family, stangers, anyone that is pumped on the upcoming snow season!.

Snowfest went to Santa Clara this past weekend and the RV was representing….
It was the inaugrial event for them in the South Bay and went head to head with Ski Dazzle…..from the looks of the crowds – Snowfest won. Lombardi Sports, Destinatin 1440and Porters were there in force slinging ’09 closeouts. At times the line to pay at Destination 1440 was over 1 hour long! Kirkwood was flying the banner (literally) signing up folks for passes and pimping the Progression programs….

Stopped over at “The Rock” and Golden Gate Bridge on the way to Sports Basement’s Snowfest at their Presidio location. The crew at Sports Basement was pumped on the rig. The focus of the sale was definetly inside, but customers got a good gander at it as they went in – we had all the lights running and The B Movie blaring on the flat screen….. The sale was a bit slow for Hardgoods but plenty of peeps shopping and having a good time. Squaw valley is really brining people out of the woodwork with thier super inexpensive passes they sold this summer.. lots of people getting new gear because of it.

From Sports Basement we rolled the beast to Downtown SF! Not the easiest of feats but SFO was having their “Pray for Snow” party at 111 Minna and we wanted to represent. We couldn’t secure a parking permit so we lapped the venue about a million times.. so mamy people gawking! Drivin this thing in SF is like taking a test… Video to Follow..

Had an evening clinic down in Monterey with On The Beach Surf Shop and an early afternoon clinic at the REI in Marina – they don’t get snow down there on the coast so I brought the RV! After the clinic I had the entire REI action-sports staff come in and check it out, they were pumped.Needed to burn off some fuel as this weekends event won’t allow me in with over 1/8th of a tank of gas (this thing either has the hugest gas tank ever or actually gets good mileage – used only just over a 1/4 of a tank going from SF to Monterey Peninsula and back!).

Kelly and the crew at OTB were super excited to see the rig…there were customers in the store when I pulled up that were blown away as they had passed me on the freeway a few hours earlier! Kelly took some pics and had the rig in front of his store on Facebook w/in minutes and people were hitting him up asking if Shaun White was in it…