Mammoth Sick Days
The fine folks over at Snowboarder Magazine picked up our Mammoth hip session for Standing Sideways as a five-page article for their Sick Days Column. My favorite part is the opening spread of Charles going massive with a backside rodeo...incase you didn't know, that move is psycho on hip jump. Cheers, Blotto...PS: I included the text from the article below:
After a long grueling season of dealing with weather in the backcountry, negotiating with ‘super citizens’ in the streets and building park features in the spring, our final photo shoot for Standing Sideways was schedule for mid-May in Mammoth Lakes, California. Tyson Kaylor and his posse of snowcat operators, park crew and sled drivers teamed up with Burton to create a massive tabletop and a giant hip, along with a BMX rhythm section and gap feature turned wall ride.
We had a ten-day window to session and film all four builds, with a non-negotiable departure date of May 21st. Mother Nature decided to stay with the season-long theme of too much snow aka bad weather, so we worked under sunny skies on day one and day ten. This meant the wall ride for starters, rhythm section in between and an eight-hour long tabletop session on day ten.
What about the hip feature that took an insane amount of snow to create and even longer hours by the snowcat operators to shape? It was decided we’d revisit Mammoth on the 8th of June with a four-day window to get our film clips. This session was more like summer than winter, with beautiful skies atop wonderful snowboarding. The 2010/2011 winter season was officially over on June 12th at 15:00, six and half months after the first ‘dropping’ was heard. Blotto
All photos and words © Blotto 2011
