photo by Christoph Schöch Photography

Music- Jon Wayne and the Pain “Relax Myself Inside”

There was so much powder coming down, I would have to shake a few centimeters off my camera bag every couple minutes. Its quite a challenge, but if you have a porta-brace cover it will protect your video camera quite well.

Seth Hill came out to visit. We were hanging out at Stevens Pass hitting some sick jumps, like this cattrack gap.

Andy Bergin-Sperry is an up and comer with a great attitude and hammertime style. He executes unique tricks and has a fun time doing it. In this photo he’s miller flipping from behind the pillow.

Madison Ellsworth is full of style. He has been on the scene for a while and whenever he’s riding his board he makes it look easy. Here he is enjoying one of the many powder days we had during March 2012 at Mt Baker.

Colin Spencer is on a tear, he has been getting photos and stomped tricks since the moment I met him. He came out to the Northwest with fellow YES Snowboards rider Madison Ellsworth on a mission to ride as much pow as possible. This photo was so full of stoke, that Mt Baker Ski Area featured it on their homepage for a week.

The Mad Ones is a a web-based video project by Liam Gallagher. Inspired by the Beat Generation and specifically the writings of Jack Kerouac, The Mad Ones will follow the freaks, all winter long. Web flicks will be released every Monday through May. Some will be action edits, others about odd balls or oddities seen, weird experiences or whatever else happens to happen. Then, next September it’ll all be mashed into a free-for-download movie.

Featuring: Forest Bailey, Forrest Burki, Patrick McCarthy, Shaun McKay, Wyatt Stasinos, Nick Russell, Scotty Wittlake, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Keegan Valaika, Mark Landvik, Blair Habenicht, Nick Ennen, Lucas Debari, Matt Edgers, Skylar Thornton, Alex Yoder, Kael Martin, Matt Belzile and many more.

Photo by Jordan Ingmire

Choice footage provided by WildCard filmers…. Nick Ennen and Scott Studach

1 week down and nothing but epic POW and good times in Beautiful Mt. Baker Washington! As with any trip or fairly new experience anticipations are high as well as the nerves. But as the Snow dumped around me standing in the Baker parking lot, the nerves dissipated and I realized I could have never anticipate how sick this trip was going to be!

From the second this adventure started things were headed in the right direction. I guess I expected some pow riding, but could have never guessed what the dudes at Wild Card had in store for me. In one week alone we’ve hit more jumps, more jibs, and for sure more pow than I’ve touched all winter. But it hasn’t just been hitting these things; its meant stacking photos with multiple photographers, hitting one feature with 8 cameras around me. Its meant spending an entire day riding the resort than ending it off with the legendary “Road Gap”. It’s meant having a blast hitting every pillow or tree in sight and getting a photo on the Mt. Baker website. Its meant deciding to buy a Snowmobile just for the sake of fitting in Ok more to go get to some hidden spots). It’s meant watching one of the craziest dudes alive chuck insane double corks off a jump. And lastly its meant having a freaking awesome time, sun up to sun down every day.

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A Night-time Snowboarding Short Lights Up the Last of the Winter Snow
Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton swaps the studio for the slopes of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France, with a luminous after hours short starring Artec pro snowboarder William Hughes. The electrifying film sees Hughes light up the snow-covered French hills in a bespoke L.E.D.-enveloped suit courtesy of designer and electronics whizz John Spatcher. “I was really drawn to the idea of a lone character made of light surfing through darkness,” says Sutton of his costume choice. “I’ve always been excited by unusual ways of lighting things, so it seemed like an exciting idea to make the subject of the film the only light source.” Sutton, who has created work for the likes of Hermès, Burberry and The New York Times, spent three nights on a skidoo with his trusty Red Epic camera at temperatures of -25C to snap Hughes carving effortlessly through the deep snow, even enlisting his own father to help maintain the temperamental suit throughout the demanding shoot. “Filming in the suit was the most surreal thing I’ve done in 20 years of snowboarding,” says Hughes of the charged salopettes. “Luckily there was plenty of vin rouge to keep me warm, and Jacob’s enthusiasm kept everyone going through the cold nights.”