TETON SNO*BOTS The Journey and The Story

Alright, if you want a kickstart to your mornings then the redbull smoothie is the perfect thing...  Easy to make, all you need is some frozen fruit, vanilla icecream, a banana and a 12 oz. Can of redbull... Give it a try, it's the breakfast of the SNO*BOTS!!!

-- Sent from my Palm Prē

So, about a week ago my brother calls me up and says "Dude, you wanna ride PCMR for free?" and I said "HELL YEAH!!!".

Sometimes you get up to the hill and the hill just isn't the place to be...  Thats what happened to us, got up the Grand Targhee, super foggy conditions, very low visibility and no chance of filming...
We decided to forfeit our day up there and head home early...  Luckily we past our good friend Jedd on our way down and he told us of this Corrugated Pipe he had laying by his house.  We decided that maybe this day wasn't a complete waste and drove down to victor to take a look at it...  Turns out it was one of the funnest days I've had this year!

Well, I wish I didn't have to put this one out right after EPIC*SODE ONE but Rome Snowboards had a competition for the best college backyard jib called Ima Betta Jibba Contest...  If you are wondering if we won I can tell you that we didn't.  Some people in a alleyway with some barrels won.  Oh well, at least we have a sick vid, haha!
Check it out, leave us some feedback and comments!


TETON SNO*BOTS EPIC*SODE TWO from Jade Magnum Thomason on Vimeo.

Yeah it's finally here, EPIC*SODE ONE of the TETON SNO*BOTS!!!

Ok, this jump is probably one of the funnest jumps we've made in a while...  Its as fun as the name itself.  The Gap of Gnarnia is about a 40-60 foot gap/step up jump, low consequence and doesn't get bombed out fast...  You can find this jump right below Mary's Nipple on the frontside of Targhee.  Takes about 2 days to build with just 4 people...


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Everyone checking it out before hitting it up.

Perspective...

The hike is horrible but worth it...  You need all the speed you can get when hitting this jump...  When you come out of that wardrobe come out charging!

Jade Magnum with a nice clean backside 5

The Crew just chillin, watching

After getting the jump and runway groomed and set for day 2 on the Gap of Gnarnia

I had the pleasure of spending the day with Rob Kingwell, a professional snowboarder that kills it.  Make sure to check out the Avalon 7 channel on youtube...

Being locals to Targhee we know of many different places to build some pretty decent sized kickers.

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If you look at the map you'll be able to tell where you drop in to the backcountry at and where to find the jump location.
Hopefully this map is helpful.


Our runway.


The Approach.


Messing around, if you notice that cliff behind me is the one that Jamie Pierre jumped off of for the world record cliff drop.


Nice method.


Cramer hiking up after hitting the TKO.


The TKO Jump.


Cramer throwing a nasty backside 3.


Jade with a front rodeo 5.


Conrad with a nasty frontside cork 5.


Jedd throwing down a backside rodeo.


Backside 3 by Cramer.

We made a trip down to Brighton, it was still a really fun day even though only half the mountain was open.

This year has been different in many ways...  1. No snow... 2. New members to the crew... 3. Freezing cold temperature, -15 F for pretty much all of december...  4. College classes... 5. NO TERRAIN PARK AT GRAND TARGHEE!!!
Grand Targhee decided that the terrain park wasn't important enough to keep.  Many people were a bit mad about the decision they made.  Some would say "whats the problem, Kelly Canyon has a park", well many of us don't want to buy 2 season passes and so we just end up getting a pass to Grand Targhee and try to put the park out of our minds... Well we weren't going to let that happen, we wanted a park we can ride anytime.  We got our resources together and made our own park, and so was established The Jib Country Club...

Thanks to Sled Shed we were able to borrow their rails and use them to make this project work!!!
Thanks to Ricks Farms for letting us use their land to make this possible!!!

Beginning of December, just enough snow to get a session going.

Conrad with his expertise on nose presses.

Cruiz getting a little grab in on the press.

Jade with a nice tail press.

Thanks to Noodle for bringing the stadium lighting to make this night session possible.

About 8 truck loads to put in this new feature, a 20' down rail.  We have those smaller boxes up to hold the snow in place for the lip.

Twisted Noodle.

Sick

Joe testing out the rail during the day.


Jade, pressing his nose on the rail.

Well, we had a bit of a dryspell, at least our runway stayed a bit longer.

New Feature, a 1950s potato truck...

Conrad in the back working on packing down the transition.

Success

Let the session begin!

Joe with his new board the Signal Park Rocker...

Conrad tearing it up!

Everybody just chillin, watching the show...

We want everyone to enjoy the fruits of our labors and we don't want to charge anyone but we do have certain expenses that need to be taken care of.  The plastic on all the boxes are our main concern, they have started cracking up pretty bad and we estimate that its going to cost us around 500 bucks to replace.  We only charge 5 buck to ride at the JCC and hopefully with everyones help we can pay off these necessary costs.  To find out where this place is just ask at Sled Shed!


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