Nov. 2021 - Vol. 16 | Issue 01

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IN THIS ISSUE

OPENING ACT

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SHOOT ING G A L L ERY

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SLEEP OUTSIDE: BEHIND AMANDA HANKISON'S COVER

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#ITS _TITS

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L AUR A HADAR

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R E C E S S S K AT E & S N O W

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PHOTO PROFIL E: MARY WAL SH

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ARTIST PROFILE: K AT Y V. M E E H A N

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SOUND CHECK

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F I N A L D E S T I N AT I O N

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ARKADE 16.1

Words by R. C. Llewelyn

OPENING ACT

Arkade has been our passion project from the beginning; our love affair with all things skate and snow—and the love is still strong after sixteen years. The talent and eye for capturing the moment astounds us with every issue, from the seasoned and experienced to the hopeful young bloods carving new lines, we are all part of the romance.

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As we continue to pass on the traditions of skate and snow we gotta give some gratitude and cred to everyone who has stoked us out by their many contributions. There is still something gratifying about the process of collecting your stories, photographs, and art; the process of graphic design and editing, then waiting with anticipation for the tangible satisfaction of f lipping through the pages of a brand new baby mag with the smell of fresh ink wafting to our eager senses. With all the trends coming and gone already, we are happy to continue Arkade in print. We all know it’s not easy, but our amazing collaboration together with you never ceases to inspire. Thanks for all the support—and the love!

P h o t o: Stephan Jende

S h o t o n: C a n o n 1D x M a r k I I

Rider: Barret t Christ y

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SHOOTING GALLERY PHOTO: RIDER:

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SHOOTING GALLERY PHOTO: RIDER:

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SHOOTING GALLERY PHOTO: RIDER:

Pe t e r L i m b e r g

Nora Beck

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P a c k , u n p a c k , r e p a c k , S P F, h i k e , c l i m b , shred, wrap blis ters, dr y out, eat, sleep.

Ev ic t a mous e a t 3:0 0 am for s tealing chocolate. Repeat.

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SLEEP OUTSIDE THE STORY BEHIND THE COVER SHOT

Words by Amanda Hankison

Photos by Danny Kern

Night after night spent under April’s aurora borealis in a remote Alaskan valley makes it hard to sleep inside. Nine days went by with only brief sounds of wind and avalanches, tents f lapping and stoves cracking, a daredevil pilot buzzing by in their vintage Super Cub. We made first ascents/descents, developed a taste for orange peel, and toasted serac margaritas in the moonlight. We f lew off the glacier and left Valdez with a serious case of the giggles, wondering if any of it was real.

I spent that night alone inside a hotel near the Anchorage airport. I lay awake feeling suffocated by the stale circulated air and the sneaking suspicion that I could actually feel the city’s WiFi radiating into my brain. An assortment of high pitched buzzing and humming ceased as I finally threw off the covers and crawled around in the dark unplugging the last of the electronics.

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Two weeks later I was double checking my packing list, loading up my truck. I was hell bent on sleeping outside again, for weeks this time. Since that night in Anchorage little else seemed to matter to me except getting back to the silence, away from the WiFi, somewhere that my anxiety could transform into happy routines of making water, soloing ice runnels, and making a thousand groovy turns on the way home. The sounds and silence of the mountains drown out the life you leave at home, for better or worse. I drove north hoping an impending heartache that would tumble alongside me throughout the summer might be held at bay by undeniable necessities that sleeping outside Mount Rainier National Park, in the rain, demanded.

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THE COVER

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Amanda lays a hand down in the Southwest C h u t e s o f K l i c k i t a t ( M t . A d a m s) w i t h L o o w i t ( S t . H e l e n s) i n t h e b a c k g r o u n d . L e s s t h a n 4 8 hours later we were standing on the summit w a v i n g b a c k a t K l i c k i t a t . //

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A d o w n c l i m b a d a y k e e p s t h e d o c t o r a w a y.

I t hink t ha t ’s how i t go e s .

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Jaime s topping by Danny ’s A pre s, a tent side establishment bringing gourmet tapas and craf t beverages to a volcano near you.

K L I C K I TAT ( M T. A D A M S )

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Volcanoes are powerful places. A fertile jungle ecosystem extends tentacles of hearty alpine shrubs up sandy volcanic ribs carved by ancient glaciers wasting away below chossy ridgelines. My love of snowboarding led me to working on Wy’east (Mt. Hood) for seven summers. That cosmic volcano introduced me to trail running, mountaineering, snowboarding off summits, and eventually even some version of self confidence. I discovered that just like humans, every volcano has its own unique energy. I wanted to feel them all. Maria Debari and Kaitlyn Farrington’s 2015 Almost Famous Volcano Tour set a stout bar of 24 peaks in 6 weeks…still not sure how they pulled that one off. In awe of Maria and Kaitlyn’s trip, I started dreaming up my own adventure. Tagging the 15 active volcanoes in a month felt ambitious, but possible. I’d climb and ride peaks south to north, looking for quality over quantity considering climate change’s deathgrip on early summer conditions.

Immediately, staggering low tide condies in northern California foiled my idea, hence me hanging out in Tahoma’s rainforest 600 miles north of Kohm Yah-mahnee (Lassen).

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OUR CONNECTION

WITH THE NATUR AL WORLD IS UNDENIABLE BUT SOMEHOW MORE ELUSI V E THAN E V ER ."

Enter Jaime Vincent, my knight in shining armor. After a week in the rain and an all night foray on Kulshan (Baker) I drove south to find Jaime, a cozy loft, and hot ginger tea. Danny Kern greeted me as I was trying to take my rain jacket off in the cabin’s entryway without getting water everywhere. He was on his own volcano tour and needed to crash at Jaime’s house while his partners took the week off. A high pressure window was coming in so we rallied down to SeekSeekqua ( Jefferson) and met up with wildfire mavens Sadie Ford and Marissa Krawczak. We all made the rogue decision to hike in during the downpour and set up a high camp to make the most of the sunny day tomorrow. That approach set the tone for the trip and led us to a sloppy mudslide bivy crossing fingers that the forecast would be right for more than one reason.

Crampons are your best friends during a sunrise at the snowline. A bootpack proved more efficient than skins and we ascended an obvious, dreamy sunlit face. Topping out on our line we understood that our noses led us up the best slope to ride, not to the summit. We laughed at how we didn’t care about this “mistake” and a windy blue bird transition later I took a photo of Wy’east. It was a mirror image of my view of SeekSeekqua from Wy’east’s Palmer Snowfield for the last decade. My mind was blown. With a high pressure blessing we followed fellow volcano connoisseur Zak Mills’s beta and were hiking into the southwest chutes of Klickitat (Adams) two days after a 2000’ corn harvest on SeekSeekqua.

A slow burn morning brought to you by a 70 0 0 ’ d e s c en t an d an A ero pre s s .

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P a c i f i c N o r t h w e s t o r a d i s t a n t j u n g l e?

A ma zing wha t ’s lur k ing in your bac k yard.

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Klickitat stands at 12,276’ and boasts a heavy Memorial Day weekend squad. Danny’s climbing partner Nick Cahill returned to the “tour” and joined us along with 200 of our new best friends in the slow shuff le to the top. Standing on the summit was breathtaking, literally. To the north Tahoma (Rainier), to the west Loowit (St. Helens), to the south Wy’east. Navigating into the top of the southwest chutes off the summit was straight forward but the true scale of the 4000’ run isn’t apparent until you’re in the gut of it. We played leapfrog all the way down, stopping to marvel at our current reality. Ear splitting grins dawned our faces while Loowit watched us dance, and without a breath of wind we rode back into our camp. After our SeekSeekqua overnight Jaime and I made a pact to leave the tent behind for quick overnights and breaking down camp is a lot easier when all you pack is a bedroll. Danny’s patented trail sushi made an après appearance and we revelled in the fading light and hilarity of our new favorite pastime.

We knew the program now, and spent that night at trailhead. The next day we slept in, freshened up in a lake, grabbed more snacks, and boogied west to Loowit. In true Groundhog’s Day style the alarm went off in the dark morning hours and soon after Jaime handed me coffee in bed. On the warmest day yet we scaled the long ridge to the summit crater. Inside the colors of rock made my heart swoon and eyes open wide. A curious wind slab problem kept us on a low angle mission, seeking out an isothermic embrace.

Another descent down and our search continued to the obvious crown jewel, the Emmons Glacier route on Tahoma. With skills practiced, lungs acclimatized, and a well developed group dynamic we launched from White River Campground on the remote northeast side of the mountain. That night at 9000’ Jaime and I watched the sun set in the late spring evening from our open bivy, gazing at the Emmons above us cast in a golden glow. We woke up to midnight wind and were mesmerized by stars, lulled back to sleep by the thought that it all must be a dream. A view too unreal for the restless. Charged with energy from the stars we roped up the next morning and were granted safe passage to the summit and back. We f lowed through the mountains together, eyes on one another, grateful for the time shared in such deeply powerful landscapes.

Our connection with the natural world is undeniable but more elusive than ever. Sleep outside.

Immerse yourself in the environment and know whose ancestors cared for the land. Sleep outside. Get used to dirt in your coffee and dried oatmeal in your dinner. Get off line, get uncomfortable, allow your eyes to adjust and see a doe with her fawn moving through pine tree silhouettes on a moonlit night. Sleep outside! Get lost, find yourself, trust the process.

You don’t have to climb a mountain, you don’t have to leave your own backyard. Just do me a favor and savor the nights you spend under the stars. Lessons learned below the night’s sky will change your life.

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Amanda, Sadie [Ford] , and Jaime make the most of the last ribbon of snow before hik ing dow n to t he v alley b elow.

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Below the ‘schrund and above the clouds.

A f t e r a s u c c e s s f u l s u m m i t o f Ta h o m a ( M t .

Rainier) t he c rew made a cont inuous des cent o f t h e E m m o n s / W i n t h r o p r o u t e a n d a d r e a m y, c r e a m y I n t e r G l a c i e r. //

E v e r y g o o d t u r n d e s e r v e s a n o t h e r.

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These photos and experiences are a result of time spent on the stolen lands of the Puyallup, Cowlitz, Yakima, Klickitat, Molalla, Coast Salish, Nooksack, and so many other Tribes, Nations, Bands, and Confederacies.

Thank you Jaime Vincent, Danny Kern, Nick Cahill, Sadie Ford, Marissa Krawczak, Angela Vanwiemeersch, Jay Hergert, Sarah Burrington, Isabelle Zaik, Parker Duke, Bryant Davis, Tailor Spinney, Ethan Judd, Desiree Melancon, Kait and Jake Kenobi, Katie Kennedy, Jill Perkins, The North Face, Nitro Snowboards, Coal Headwear, and everyone else along the way. Special appreciation goes out to Stratton Matteson, Zak Mills, and Alex Kollar. May Alex’s light keep us company when all else is lost.

Groundhogs Day isn’t as bad as Bill Murray made it out to be. Another sunrise, another summit, too many turns to count.

L O O W I T ( M T. S T. H E L E N S )

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Badass Boobery TA L K I N G # I T S _ T I T S

Words by Marsha Hovey

Photos by Stephan Jende

Shot on C a n o n 1D x M a r k I I

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When it comes to snowboard events, if your time off snow is just as powerful and smileinducing as your time on snow, you know you’ve been blessed with a truly special experience. Simply put, It’s Tits is that special experience. Thanks to Jess Kimura, Krush Kulesza, and Barrett Christy, It’s Tits and Snowboy Productions have been bringing women together for this snowboarding celebration / fundraiser to benefit B4BC for three great years, and I was lucky to be a part of the 3rd installment.

Marissa Krawc zak & Madison Blackley

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After a challenging year+ (to say the least) the timing of It’s Tits could not have been more perfect. It was like a family reunion of epic proportions, on top of a mountain, littered with joy, but none of your questionable cousins were there. The masterful crew of Snowboy Productions teamed up with the wizards of Timberline to create a boob filled landscape, initially open only to the invited female riders for some exclusive days of spring shredding, followed up by a donation based entry benefiting Boarding For Breast Cancer. I could attempt to rattle off all of the names of the talented women that were charging, but everyone was charging in their own right. There were women catching air time, women shooting photos, women trying first ever tricks, women providing hoots and hollers, and every one of them was important to the overall feeling of togetherness. Whether you were hiking your face off, or taking full chair laps with long lost babe friends, your contribution was felt.

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It’s Tits is a snowboard event, yes, but as was Krush Kelsza’s intention, it has become so much more than that. After Day 2 on snow, our collective crew made the trek down the mountain to the High Cascade Campus for the first ever Pitch Sessions, the brain child of Mary Walsh and Barrett Christy. What was supposed to be a 90 minute chat, could have continued for weeks. Panelists and the audience engaged in an open discussion about the state of women’s snowboarding, what it truly takes to become pro in an ever changing digital climate, honest experiences with imposter syndrome and the personal battles that we face, and so much more. If we weren’t all hangry and exhausted from boarding, we could have sat there all night, unraveling the thoughts that have been bottled up and never addressed in such a momentous way. After smaller conversations continued in our cars and vacation rentals that evening, one thing became clear, we need exponentially more discussion amongst our industry to create a landscape where the voices of many are better represented.

To fill a space that tends to be heavily male dominated with women, is a palpable shift that’s hard to put into words. To bring women together to snowboard, without competition being the goal, is wildly uplifting. Mashing all of that together gives you It’s Tits, and it’s a beautiful thing. My hope is that we continue to f lood mountains, terrain parks, magazine pages, digital screens, and industry desks with women, because...the badass boobery must continue! Big ups to Jess Kimura, Krush Kulesza, Barrett Christy, Snowboy Productions, B4BC, Gnu, Monster Energy, Capita, Airblaster, Diecutstickers.com, Timberline Freestyle, and of course, every single lady who made the event so special. I had a blast.

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SNOWBOARDS FOR EVERYBODY

ZERO JUDGMENTS

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I feel as humans we are lost in our singular moments. We assume and feel some bond with them. Like all that’s happening or happened til now is definitive. As if it’s the most weight we can bare. Yet we continue forward from these moments. We aren’t locked into the place or person. We make choices and those choices have an impact on us then and now. Just as in life it can mirror in our passions that fuel us. We can evolve, change, based on life, our choices, others that involve us. It’s not a singular moment it’s a cosmos of those which drive us forward. Growth I think we like to describe it. When we grow or allow our own growth, we discover more about ourselves and others. Lives are like addition but if you stop the problem, it adds struggle but if you keep adding it opens up so much more. Here is Laura’s great story of success, stagnation, and rediscovery.

Intro/Inter view by I Pe n t rtoe /r I n Htaerrvvi ieeuwx b y Pe t e r H a r v i e u x

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Laura approaches Redcloud and Windom on a c r i s p mor ning a f ter s ome s now.

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Arkade: Excited to connect. It ’s been a bit, I understand you’re back at home in Aspen, how long have you been back, and what led you back there?

Laura Hadar: I’ve been back in the Roaring Fork Valley for six years now. I moved back home for a couple of reasons. I was in SLC for about 12 years and I was ready to try living in a small town again. I never in my craziest dreams thought that small town would end up being my home town, but in this wild roundabout way it happened. But first I made my way from SLC, up to Portland OR to try and get a “adult” job in the industry. I had a few interviews and, in the meantime, took a job fishing in AK for the summer. When I was up on the boat sleeping in the gally with my head next to the engine of the boat, the sun never quite setting, I realized, “shit, I can do whatever I want. I don’t have to get a “adult” job”. I went back home after fishing to visit my mom and go on a raft trip with her and my niece. While in town I noticed the snowboard team I use to be on as a kid was hiring for coaches. I called up the Director Miah Wheeler and we went had a beer. He offered me a job for the season that day and I thought, fuck it, it’s a small town, and I’d basically still being getting paid to snowboard. I said yes, went back to Portland packed up all my shit and moved back home to Colorado.

Did you make a conscious choice to start riding mountains over filming parts or was that a product of environment and opportunity?

In order to film video parts, you need budget. Either from a company or from your own credit cards. After ten years in the industry and a deliberate choice to start riding bigger terrain in the mountains, all my sponsors had dropped me. I was at a crossroads. Do it on my own with my own money or bow out, and try to move on and start to make more of an actual living, with like health insurance and 401k. I decided to bow out. I didn’t want to be the pro who wasn’t actually a paid pro. (granted this was right before or at the beginning of when budgets started to get really slim, and was before the whole Instagram “create your own PRO” idea of being an athlete or whatever) I think if I had actually stuck in it for that whole, create your own channel, maybe…. :) What was the catalyst for aspiring to ride all the 14s in Colorado?

I had moved back to Colorado and was coaching 5 14–16-year-olds in Aspen. Aspen Snowmass, has four different mountains all in one little area right. I’m riding all season with the team and maybe a few days off with some old friends or fellow coaches. I’m depressed. I’ve transitioned back to my home town off a killer professional career. After owning a super fun and lively art gallery/ clothing store. Now I’m back in my hometown living in my mom’s basement and riding these f lat ass Colorado resorts. Back in the snowboard park, which hurts my knees and my ego. Overall, It's a horrible season for me. I’m pretty depressed. At one point I have my first anxiety attack. I go to see a therapist and she tells me she thinks I’m having an existential crisis. Its April and most the mountains have closed. Then it dumps 2 ft of snow and is still coming. Then they reopen Highlands and fire the lifts back up because there is so much snow. I’m up there riding and its fun, but I’m kind of depressed still. I remember being on the lift by myself and crying because it was so sad, that I was riding this dope ass powder but yet, it didn’t make me happy. That in itself was so fucking sad that it made me cry. So I shed a few tears and got off the lift and I see one of my new/ old friends Aaron Hooper. He and his friends are going out of bounds and ask if I would like to join. I had brought up my pack with gear, so I said hell yes, please!

That’s kind of when everything changed. We rode Maroon Bowl which is just off the other side of the Highlands Bowl. It was over 2k of untracked blissful stable Colorado spring pow! The perfect pow in the most perfect setting. It was amazing, I had gone from 0 to 100 with friends and some backcountry pow. I felt happiness. We did two more runs down Maroon Bowl that day. That same day another thing kind of ended up changing everything. I met Nicky Anastas and he invited me on a hut trip where we could go try and ride Castle Peak.

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Oh nice, new friends are always awesome, did you end up going on the trip?

Yes, a couple of weeks later, I joined Nicky and his friends for this hut trip. I don’t know how but the guy made me laugh for the entire six-hour skin in. The next day we got up early and hiked up Castle Peak which has a nice 60-degree pitch for about 25’ in the choke of a couloir. It was the first time I had summited a peak in Colorado in the winter. The view was absolutely mind blowing.

Colorado wasn’t f lat at all. All the terrain was just 15 miles out in the backcountry, most of it laying in wilderness areas. My mind was blown, I didn’t just feel happy, I was genuinely happy for the first time in a very long time. It’s funny how looking back, I think that I was mildly or more than mildly depressed for a very long time. Sometimes it got worse and I always seemed to manage.

Like it never was disabling, but it’s crazy kind of, to look back with clear eyes, and be like man, I was kind of fucked up back then. That first season in Colorado was rough but then like it just started shifting a bit. It was still hard, but after getting on top of Castle Peak everything was just a little bit better and that’s when I got the bug.

That sounds heav y yet uplif ting, awesome to hear you came through a dark time. Where did you guys head next?

Nicky had mentioned wanting to ride Maroon Peak and maybe even North Maroon too while we were at the hut. It didn’t take me but a second to say “let’s do it”, so that next week we packed up all our camping gear and walked the 7-mile closed road up to the “The Bells”. At the parking lot we put our skins on and skinned up to Crater Lake and made camp in the dark. We woke up to a May snow storm. Thick fat f lakes of snow landing on our tent. We spent the day in our sleeping bags smoking joints, drinking coffee, and telling each other our life stories. We filled our water bottles in the creek and kissed for the first time. Honestly, it would be pretty hard to find a more romantic first date.

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The next day we woke to clear skies. We made our way up towards the Garbage chute on Maroon Peak. It had snowed a good foot or more. But it was May and the sun was roasting the mountain.

We got about half way up the bell chord and had to call it. It was too hot; the snow was starting to move and there was so goddamn much of it we were making horrible time up the peak. My first turn around. When we went back and got to the top of that iconic peak (Bells are most photographed mountains in USA, next to Mt. Shuksan, of course) it was just like a whole new adrenaline rush. This sense of accomplishment, sense of being, I just felt like a fucking human that mattered again. Saying that now seems weird and stupid, but I think being on top of mountains and seeing the world from above really gives you some sort of inner strength, inner juju that is hard to find in other places. I think that’s why people love it so much.

That decent off Maroon Peak, was scary as shit. And getting safely off the mountain and sitting below it while it shed off its spring snow with the heat of the day, was just awe inspiring. I was hooked. We looked over at Maroon Peaks sister North Maroon and starting spinning the idea around that maybe we should do North Maroon.

North Maroon is considered one of the 4 or 5 hardest 14’ers out of the 50+ of them. It’s pretty exposed the entire way and there is a series of no fall zones and depending on the snow pack the crux can either be all rock or partially buried rock in a NFZ. Hiking and riding this mountain was at the time the wildest thing I had ever done on my snowboard. I was absolutely gripped on top of that peak and after only hanging out with Nicky for literally a few times, we said I Love you on top of that peak, because honestly, I think we were both that scared that we were like, fuck it, why wait to say this shit if we might die today. Hahaha, it was pretty real up there for us!

After we rode North Maroon, I was basically like, you think any girls have splitboarded all the 14ers? Nicky was like nope and I was like you want to do it with me? He was like yup and we kind of just feel in love with each other and this idea of the mountains together.

Four years later, and about 45+ 14’ers later, I rode North Maroon again. A late April pow storm dropped a nice 10” of stable snow onto the face and some friends invited me up to camp and ride.

It was so crazy to see how much I had progressed in those years and with all those peaks behind me. Climbing up North Maroon now felt secure and fun. I still had that itch for a safe decent, but I didn’t have that fear for my life anymore. I was so so so stoked to see how far I had come as splitboard mountaineer, it was so cool.

As we neared the summit of the Cestone Needle some mys tical clouds formed below us. Here Laura goes into the mys tic.

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Our por trait on top of Nor th Maroon.

L aur a poses wi th a nice background af ter the climb star ted on Snowmass peak.

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What challenges have you faced in the process of achieving all 14s?

OMG! snow conditions, work schedules, pandemics, snooze buttons.

It seems like this project has been a labor of love. Have you lost any love for following thru on it?

Hahaha, yeah, we are pretty burnt out knowing we only have two peaks left. We were really trying to avoid Capitol being our last peak, which technically it won’t be but, man. It just worked out like that.

It’s a very finicky peak. The most technical of them all. The scariest, one of the more remote ones too. So bad snow packs, lack of snow packs, it all just has added up to it just kind of staring us down.

It’s funny to cause its right in our backyard so we see it all the time it just kind of taunts us. Lil bitch, we’re coming for you!!! But really, we respect you and don’t want to dominate any mountain. It’s our intention to only try and be one with its energy and place in this world.

As you’ve worked to achieve this goal, has any thing inspired you along the way?

A lot of people have actually reached out at some point to say how inspiring it is to see what we are doing and that’s always inspiring. Also, I’ve seen so many people get into splitboarding and the backcountry since we’ve started this project. It’s really cool to see. I just really want people to know that girls can be badass splitboard mountaineers too! It’s very skier male dominate around here and so it’s really fun to be the only girl and be on a splitboard. Like, it feels new, which is hard to find in snowboarding these days.

With 2 more peaks to finish, are you planning on getting them this coming season?

No, we figure just wait a few more seasons :) Haha, yeah, we fuckin goddamn hope so! But, hey maybe if we don’t get them, we can just be like milking this 14er story forever, haha.

You had mentioned you’ve been saving the final one as it ’s more of an easier peak to get and with that comes a more celebratory mission. Do you know who’s rolling or is it going to be who’s in the mix?

Ha! You make it sound like it’s going to be some celebrating sighting! Shit, gotta make a splash!

We’re planning on inviting our friends who we would usually invite to go do stupid mountain shit with. The last one we are going to do is Conundrum which is right next to Castle so it will bring it kind of full circle. We were hoping to rent the hut again and just have a big party. The Conundrum Couloir sometimes holds snow till July and so you can get a lot of people in their safely if it’s all froze thawed up. So yeah, hopefully a big party up there.

Do you have a final project that will be wrapped up with the finishing of all the peaks?

The plan the entire time was to make a movie about the whole thing. My story, our story, 14ers story, but we got married to each other and now we have to make a movie together? OMG please help us all!

Haha, just kidding! If we can get the 14ers done maybe someday we’ll get the movie done too. I also think about writing a book sometimes, but does anyone even read?

Not sure they do but this is in print so hopefully. With this coming to an end soon, have you considered where or how you might challenge yourself next?

Honestly, I would love to do all the 14’ers in a season or calendar year. It's taken us so long to get this done and that's ok, because it’s a big ass project to take on. I’d really would love to do it in one year, just so the female and male times are a little closer.

Thanks for sharing and hyped to see you finish your goal and looking forward to what ’s next.

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Yeah, we make pizza but it’s only a piece of the bigger metaphorical pie we’re trying to cook.

It’s gas in the tank.

It’s means to an end.

It’s give and take.

It’s work and play.

It’s a creative outlet.

It’s all of the above on both sides of the counter.

It’s full circle, piece by piece.

It’s for the underdog.

It’s a hangover cure.

It’s a knock at the door.

It’s a hell yeah we did it, or a hell yeah let’s try it.

It’s post powder-day fare.

It’s a counter-culture sacrament that you can dip in ranch.

It’s a melting pot of taste, style, and substance.

But depending on who you ask, they may simply say “It’s the Slice” Visit us in Ogden, Logan, & Clearfield / theluckyslice.com

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My husband JP and I opened Recess in 2009. Well, not my husband at the time, we put that on hold when we decided to put everything we had into opening the doors. Somehow, he convinced me it would be a good idea to rent this building, live upstairs, work downstairs and “see what happens.” Ha-ha. We both have a love for snowboarding and since JP had been in skate and snow retail for a while, I was all for it!

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Since we opened, we have taken pride in being the local community-based shop.

We have a skate and snow team, we host video premieres, skate and snowboarding contests and have wanted to support the skate and snow scene in every way possible! I love seeing new skateboarders and snowboarders in our community and growing with them. We have that family vibe in the shop which is what we are thru and thru. We feel honored and lucky to have an amazing crew and customers. We enjoy knowing half the customers that come in on a day-to-day basis by name and the relationships that are built in the shop are what makes retail worth doing.

The brands we carry in the shop are also important for us. We closely choose brands that have the same outlook on skateboarding and snowboarding as we do. Smaller brands to bigger brands but ones we build relationships with that are there for us as well as skateboarding and snowboarding. We choose to support the brands that support our shop and the future of skateboarding and snowboarding.

With the shop being based in North Carolina a lot of people outside of the area think “You own a snowboard shop in NC?” Secret is we have an awesome scene here, while not massive it’s good! We are thankful to have some rippers on the team like Reilly Tardiff, Jack Reid, Luke Winkelmann, Zeb Powell, and some up-and-coming ladies Brantley Mullins and Charlotte Flowers. Definitely keep an eye out for them!

The past 12 years have been a journey to say the least but we are fortunate to be doing what we are doing in a crazy time for small business retail. Again, we can’t thank our crew and customers enough; we wouldn’t be here without them!

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Mary Walsh is otherworldly when it comes to her lasting mark on snowboarding. Operating behind the wizard of oz curtain, Mary has pulled the levers and created the voice of our industry for more years than the Dustbox has been alive. She’s literally done it all and never stops adding to her already unthinkable list of skills. From the days of chauffeuring teenage Forest Bailey around to various Red Bull happenings in Vermont, to wrangling Niko Cioffi and Lucas Magoon to show up on time for a game of knockout at Windells, to spending 22 hours a day crafting digital snowboard content and planning international events from Southern California, Mary has been an integral piece of this strange puzzle, and without her, we would all be incomplete.

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We know Mary as a lifelong snowboarder, an impeccable writer, an absurdly organized event planner, a charismatic announcer, and now we also recognize her as the talented photographer she has proven to be. With some of the industry’s most iconic photographers by her side during the days of Snowboarder Magazine, she was well versed in what made the difference between a great photo, and a cover photo. I remember specifically when she bought a camera and told me that Yosh was going to give her a tutorial so that she could start shooting on trips for fun, but I knew that Mary didn’t do anything half-assed. I knew that she had already decided to master photography like she does everything else. Running to writing to connections, she puts her entire being into something when she commits, and over the years, her work behind the lens has shown that.

As a female photographer in a male-dominated industry, Mary has leveled up and taken her role to heart, going out of her way to point her camera at other women that might not have received the spotlight they deserve. She’ll apologize a million times for making someone hike up a feature again, but she wouldn’t do it unless she knew it was worth it. With Mary as your photographer/mentor/ friend, it’s always worth it.

Mary’s images are special not only because of the people in them, but for the woman behind them, and for that reason, we say thank you Mary. Thank you for deciding to pick up a camera.

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KATY V. MEEHAN Words by Daniel Cochrane

Designer, Illustrator, and Brand Developer Katy V. Meehan drags her ink-filled steel nib across toothy, cold press paper with deft precision. The swift strokes can be heard scratching against the rough paper as she outlines single blades of grass within a work in progress. In the video on her personal Instagram, she queries, "Does this elicit ASMR for anyone else?" Welcome to Katy Meehan's Mid-Western home office, the site of both her commercial branding work and forays into personal projects and the perpetual conf lict between the two.

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Stimulated by a powerful combination of encouragement and easy access to art supplies, Katy's art experience began at a young age. Chronicling stories through images was an endeavor she found comforting as early as five years of age. Ever since, her path has seen her continuously push her boundaries, sometimes through intuition and others times through conscious effort.

These actions have molded her into a self-described "true generalist" and created an array of work that has admittedly made it tough to stay in a particular niche. Although Katy holds a BFA in Scenic Design for Theater and Film as well as an Associate in Fine Wood Working/18th Century Furniture Making, she has no formal training in Graphic Design and Brand Development. Her skills have grown over the past decade through various DIY methods; online courses, conferences, ingesting blog content, and trial and error.

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What caught my eye with Katy's works on her personal Instagram was the stark contrast to her work in her professional portfolio. In fact, many of our readers across the west may be surprised to discover they already are familiar with Katy's work via brands such as Sundae Ice Cream in Colorado (including a storefront design within the Snowmass Base Village), both Zoka Coffee and Pike's Place Market in Seattle, as well as the Wilbur Curtis Coffee Company in Southern California. Here, with a discussion between what it means to create art as a passion and art as a service, is where our story begins in earnest. It is a story that mirrors a similar and eternal debate within our own world of snowboarding.

Katy states, for her, the label of "artist" is "a self-identifier to indicate how seriously one takes their desire to express themselves uniquely." She quickly differentiates between her contracted work, where she views herself more as a liaison between client and final product than as an artist expressing their uniqueness. Saddled somewhere between the criteria of content and transactional Capitalism, the true essence of the "art" is sullied. Shift gears to our own little world of snowboarding. Imagine this in the context of major corporate sponsorships, The Olympics, et al., and one can quickly see how this same conversation has perennially played out within our own community.

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For Katy, this inner back and forth is resolved via her personal projects. Endeavors that are unrestrained from outside inf luence and thus provide a liberating creative process with which she has complete control. Her detailed ink pieces are, at their most extreme, an analog reaction against the digitized world in which she is beholden via her commercial works, and at their most simplistic, an attempt at balance. Her most recent subject matter, what she refers to as "pop studies of urban archeology," is borne from a love of back alleys, thrift stores, and weekend drives through the North Carolina countryside. They are intricately detailed images of decaying neon signage, storefronts, and advertisements in the crumbling small towns of back road Americana. These are examples that still exist despite decades of abandonment simply because no other economically viable infrastructure arose to replace it. It’s an homage to the craftsmanship of Apex American Capitalism viewed through the lens of deteriorating Late Stage Capitalism.

Katy explains: "The work in this series is not about romanticizing a bygone age or wishing it never would have changed. If anything, these are slice-of-life snapshots of ideas in decline. Like Robert Frost (and, of course, Ponyboy from the Outsiders) said, 'Nothing gold can stay.' In some ways, this new ink series is a winking response directly to some folks' preciousness for specific brands, products, and ordeals.

It claps back at the false notion that still exists in marketing and advertising, of a perfect timeless solution. The mid-century design aesthetic of most commercial items was made to feel approachable and confident in a way that's easy to fall in love with. It's this will fix everything!' boast still haunts modern advertising quite effectively. We just keep thirsting for its ghosts and tropes and throwing money at it anyway. Its aesthetic was dangerously banal, and it excites my senses to see and document how these old facades crumble. It's the most bitter and the most sweet."

These works are a nod to the consumerist, product-driven commodification of labor as well as the inevitable decline that must accompany it. They are Katy’s physical manifestation of both product and passion, which seeks, in some small way, to rectify the struggle between the two worlds. You can view Katy's personal work on Instagram as @katyvmeehan, as well as examples of her commercial portfolio at KatyVMeehan.design.

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by Daniel Cochrane

M e n I Tr u s t

Cold Beat

Steady Holiday

Ta k e t h e C o r n e r s G e n t l y

Hannah Jadagu What Is Going On?

2021 Self-Released

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2021 Sub Pop

Untourable Album is the latest effort from Canadian trio Men I Trust.

Formed in 2014 by schoolmates Jessy Caron and Dragos Chiriac, the band's early efforts featured a revolving cast of collaborative vocalists and styles from smooth, mellow jazz to danceinfused drumbeats. The addition of Emmanuelle Proulx (Emma) in 2016 as a full-time vocalist/guitarist enabled Men I Trust to solidify its sound and give a more consistent focus resulting in the band's modern iteration. From 2016-2019 the band released a dozen singles, which were compiled to form 2019's expansive 24 track 70 minute Oncle Jazz LP. Untourable Album, literally half the album of Oncle Jazz at 13 tracks and 35 minutes, is a much more concise and focused effort. The album's three openers Organon, Oh Dove, and Sugar, are easily the best opening trio of 2021, gradually pulling listeners into the album and setting the mood. Untourable finds Men I Trust placing a heavier focus toward their mellow downtempo songs, resulting in a slow burn album that is best enjoyed set to play and left alone.

Other personal favorites are Sorbitol, instrumental Before Dawn, 5am Waltz, Ante Meridiem, and Lifelong Song.

However, most tracks on the album float to the top of mind at some point, which leads to enjoyable, repetitive listens. Although Men I Trust has evolved their sound in the band's brief seven-year existence, the homage to late 90's early 2000's Trip-Hop and beats music is still found on Untourable Album, albeit in a subtle, and mature form. Untourable sees the band coming into their own as a trio and sets the stage for an even brighter future.

Cold Beat is the project of Bay Areabased artist/musician/songwriter Hannah Lew. Supported by a constant cast of close friends and collaborators, the project has produced five original full-length efforts and an EP of Eurythmics covers since 2014. Each release has touched on various genres, including post-punk, indie guitar pop, and dream pop. However, with each successive album, Cold Beat has progressively veered deeper and deeper into synthwave territory. 2020's Mother was synth-heavy but ultimately overall still anchored in the project's earlier guitar focus. With 2021's War Garden, however, Lew finally goes all-in on a synth-driven album. The result is a sprawling love letter to the genre with melodic compositions that tip the hat to everyone from Kraftwerk and Erasure to Lamb, The Knife, and even cheesy Jr. High slow dance 80's pop anthems. The album opener and second pre-release single, Mandelbrot Fall, sets the tone with a synth experience is filled with fast in your face beats. Devotees of the genre will have fun picking out the various musical references throughout the LP and will be rewarded with expanded insight following each subsequent listen. War Garden is high on the list of my favorite albums of 2021, with every track having its moment to shine. Lew has been able to create a solid varied soundscape by pulling references and inspirations from synthwave's near four-decade run. Therefore the vibrant album deftly changes tone throughout, avoiding a perennial genre pitfall of sounding too collectively similar.

The initial single, "See You Again," provides a great example. I found it underwhelming as a single upon release; however, when experienced as part of the whole album, it shines in its cheesy 80's pop ballad decadence.

War Garden from Cold Beat is highly recommended for anyone looking to bask in the aura of 40 years worth of varied synth glory.

L.A.-based Dre Babinski, AKA Steady Holiday, is always up to something.

Sometimes, it is mailing postcards to fans with details of her travels or simple anecdotes about daily life. Sometimes it is scouring thrift stores for second-hand shirts to screen print her own designs to sell as merch. Other times she has envisioned and implemented several off-kilter marketing schemes, including some kind of raffle of defective mouth guards turned into key chains (whut?), Onigiri instructional start kits, and a collab Steady Holiday coffee and Flexi disc combo. Oh, and I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the raffling of her streaming royalty checks, .54 .068, and .47, respectively. Often it's hard to keep up, but I mean that in the best way possible. Most of these endeavors are, of course, in some way tied to promoting her musical projects. The Onigiri set, for example, came upon the heels of the re-release for her single Sunny In The Making, this time sung in Japanese.

The royalty check raffle was a reward for pre-saving an upcoming single release. The postcards usually contain a QR Code for free downloads. Her latest album, Take The Corners Gently, is short, only 8 songs and 25 minutes, but packs a considerable emotional punch. Dre has a knack for writing and singing about ordinary everyday life moments with endearing profoundness.

Her vulnerability and honesty allow her to connect with her listeners deeply and emotionally, cultivating a small but fervently devoted following. If you want some fantastic contemplative writings about love, loss, or life in general (with an occasional WTF giveaway attached), I strongly recommend Steady Holiday.

So new to the musical world that there's very little to say other than "she's one to watch," 18-year-old Texasborn Hannah Jadagu is a rising indie music star. She has recently landed a deal with Sub Pop and was tapped as support for the Fall 2021 Beach Fossils/Wild Nothing tour. It should be noted that both accomplishments came before ever playing a headlining show (an event which will finally happen in late October sometime between my writing and your reading).

Her music is a menagerie of dreamy, lo-fi infused indie pop. However, her musical pop sensibilities belie deeper emotional lyrical content questioning and pontificating upon subjects such as womanhood, race, love, and acceptance of one's self within our modern society.

Mind-blowingly recorded primarily with her phone and a few apps, it is an impressive introduction of one's musical self to the world. Now located in New York to attend NYU, Hannah's career is definitely one to keep tabs on.

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With all the changes we are seeing at the resorts the last few years, the long lines, the obnoxious indy passes giving us jam packed hills and endless red snakes up our canyons, there is something to say about that long walk back to your car and the feel of having a full day on the mountain. A true powder day never gets old.

It will always be worth the new hassles, always worth the sacrifice. A big topic on for discussion is what to do with the traffic? Gondolas running up the side? A commuter lane? Hope the Wasangeles snake goes home? Well, while the powers that be decide what to do, I will still somehow be on the chairlift first thing doing what I have always done. Thanks for reading, see y'all on the hill!

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