Oh and while at Mt. Baker, I spotted a couple Arbor snowboards I designed last year! Arbor had some reps and riders up there as well... I chopped it up with some of the guys for a while and they let me snap some flix.  Apparently, this "Round Table" graphic was one of their most popular this season!

This year celebrated the 25th anniversary of the legendary Mt. Baker Banked Slalom.  I have followed this event since a wee lad strapping into my first Burton Air 157 in the frigid NH air of my youth.  Well it's taken 15 years, but now that I'm here in the Pacific Northwest, I finally made it to the event!  I traveled with my brother Blake and my good homie Renae from Portland and met up with Danny (from Homeschool Snowboarding), a low level sponsor of the event.  He had a rider at the event, Janus Kober who made it through two qualifiers, ranking about 18 out of 200, when on the final day he crashed on a sketchy turn and didn't place.  But the event was great to finally behold, the riding at Mt. Baker was amazing and every night was an adventure!

Plus, we were all sporting wear samples of all the Homeschool apparel which I did design work for. Not yet on any shelves, we got to test all this rad new outerwear all weekend.. and it passed the test! Fit rad, functioned rad, and looked good.  Check the last 5 or so photos of the bearded wizard in the red jacket.  I did the shell print design for this jacket.. came out sick!

Thanks Banked Slalom!  You're the best..

My man Danny rolled into the studio the other day with a bunch of boxes full of tees that I designed for him.. Fun!