In the Life of Matthew Poppoff

Silver Peak June 5th 2011

2011-06-05T08:59:00.000-07:00

So stoked to get back out to Silver Peak, Brendon, Drake and I were able to get out there in Redonk sun and good snow, kicked up the BBQ and had a fab time. Took up the camera and the go pro fortress to capture the siqness. Not bad for June 6th EH

Check the vid I spent way too much time on:

The spot

Me Skiing and sledding at the same time booyah!

Driz

Lookout from the top

Drake dropping in

Brendon making a run

Epic BBQ Time

Poor Brendon :(

Notice my sick sled rolls on the right side

Snoqualmie BC 3.6.11

2011-03-10T14:43:00.000-08:00

Drake and I head up to the soft spot again for some freshies, Way better than resort ski garbage. Dug a snow pit, got some decent stability so partied on.

Drakeshred

Drake Doing an AK Block

Our lines for the day.

Drake doing the normal thing he does

Looking east from Swan

Towards Margeret

And finally, Me

White Pass Winter Carnival 3.5.11

2011-03-10T14:20:00.000-08:00

Went to WP with Drake and Mark, Met Dan up there and had some nice untracked runs in the back expansion area, felt it was about time I start taking pictures again so I brought the camera along, of course my fail friends wear dark clothing :(.

Winter Carnival Princess (me in 2 years)

Mark Freshies

ND Tree Slashing

z Carnival!

ND Northwest Signature

Epic Tailgate Fortress

Dan

Video Updates

2011-03-10T14:19:00.000-08:00

Okay Okay Okay, I've been a failboat and really have not been taking that many pictures because I'm having too much fun with my gopro and editing videos, Its something new and fun, amirite?

Got the day off 3.1.11 to go to Stevens Pass with the boys for some redonk powder, it had snowed almost 4 feet in a couple of days and threw together a quick edit.

Finally put together a video off all the sled-ski trips we had been making on Snoqualmie pass, and also around Cle Elum, started using a real editing program also. This is from Jan-Feb.

White Pass 2.13.11, Finally starts snowing again after a month or so drought. Had sunny skies and some new pow.

Snoqualmie pass backcountry Sled Skiing round 2! 12.31.10

2010-12-31T10:11:00.000-08:00

So it was going to be a bluebird day and Nick Drake, Matt Ahl, and Karter Riach had the time to Sled-Ski until about 2pm and we had 2 amazing runs about 1200 vert a piece. The photos and vid's don't lie. This vid is a combination of Karters contourHD, Nick Drake's Canon HX-10, and my GOPROhd.

Make sure you watch in HD!

Photos:
Setting up in the morning

The scenery was good

MWA Hitting up the first line

Karter pillow huggin

Nick Drake droppin cliffs ya hurd

I'm not sure there is anything to explain here

ND bashin treez

Karter, doing the usual

Pow?

Where else would you want to be?

Upper

Karter hittin the hay

MWA

Pillow to Pillow

Snoqualmie pass backcountry 12.26.10

2010-12-26T10:08:00.000-08:00

So Nick Drake and I got a decent day in Sled-Skiing outside of Snoqualmie Pass. Found some new zones and other sick places to go check out, now all we need is some sun and a bit more snow.

Check it out in HD

White Pass expansion tour 12.18 and 12.19

2010-12-19T14:35:00.000-08:00

So Amber got me a GoPro HD for my birthday and this was the first weekend to test it out. Its kinda weird not doing pictures but I spent about 6 hours on this video, its long but I wanted to get as much of the mtn in there as possible, the next ones will be shorter trust me!

Make sure to watch in HD

Paradise Basin grand opening 2010

2010-12-07T07:08:00.000-08:00

This past weekend White Pass opened "Paradise Basin" which they have been trying to get in order for over 33 years. Now opened makes white pass the 3rd largest ski area in the state, behind Snoqualmie and Crystal. It was an honor to be a part of this opening and great to see the ~30 people that donated money to places like the Childrens Miracle Network to ride the grand opening Friday. The weather could have not been better!

Full Album: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/White%20Pass/Paradise%20Basin%20grand%20opening/

The infamous first chair:

Serious Pow

First tracks down below the Couloir Express

Justin underneath the Couloir Express with famous Mt. Rainier

Andy Mahre underneath the Couloir Express

Hiking back towards the end of traverse on Hogback.

Checking out the new Mid-Mountain Lodge

Looking up towards the top of Hogback from the Basin Quad

Stupid fog had to get right in the way when the group picture happened :(

Looking down from the Couloir Express

Fresh tracks down "Run 9"

The first chair group

I think it should be renamed "Epic Basin"

Hi Andy

Awesome Lunchez

Looking out to paradise basin from the main quad

Skiing down towards the Couloir Express

The top of Couloir

Andy finding features

The Ticket

Hogback Mountain

Ross Reid getting some pow

Paradise Basin from the top of Pigtail Peak

Andy finding more pow

October 2010 Camp Muir Mt Rainier.

2010-10-22T18:41:00.000-07:00

So Nick and I made the trek back up to Mt. Rainier to complete the 12 months in a row of skiing in the NW. And well, even though it was not pretty, We still did it. A year in a row skiing in Washington state. Would I do it again you ask? prob not, was is it worth it? Definitely! I learned more about the snow and mountains here and saw more than I've ever seen before doing the things I did. Just being able to tell the people that have no clue "How did you ski in every month this year?" and pointing to my legs, was worth it alone.

This little guy wanted some food in the morning.

Looking up from the parking lot, this was right before the first storm of the season.

Nick @ about 6000ft, started to snow here.

At about 7000ft snowin like donkeys

Me at about 7000ft

Nick at about 8000ft

Pulled a little clearing

Gettin pretty nasty around 8500'

The turning point @ 8600' it was way too nasty to continue.

AYG Get them turns

Jongs on a snow patch that built a jump. Rly?

Almost back at the bottom

Camp Muir - Mt Rainier, September 2010

2010-10-04T14:59:00.000-07:00

So this is 11 Months in a row, Best Skiing I've had since May, Thats for sure. There was about 6" of new snow at the top of Muir and the Hike was redonkulously gorgeous. I brought my new Point and Shoot Canon, which weighs like 25lbs less than all my Nikon gear and takes pictures at about 90% the quality so I was happy.

Full Gallery Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/camp%20muir%20sept%202010/

4am, Time for coffeez

Sunrise hits Rainier on the drive up.

On the hike up saw a bear from about 400 yards away, that was close enough

Got the first view of Mt St Helens at about 6000ft

Looking up the trail towards Muir

It was so quiet all you could hear is the waterfalls and the Ice Cracking and falling, it was pretty nice.

Check

Bottom of the Snowfield, 7000 Feet

At about 7200 feet can see Adams, Rainier, Hood all quite well.

Mountineers sliding down the snowfield

Nick looking at Mt. Adams at about 8000'

Nick and I @ about 9500'

View from Camp Muir

Mountineers Heading up

Nick Heading down from muir

Dirty snow at the bottom

Ran into Manny the Marmot

Best reward ever

Looking back at the muir snowfield from the parking lot 4 1/2 miles away.

Mt Baker Squak Glacier ski/hike August 2010

2010-08-04T17:45:00.000-07:00

As the post below precedes Nick, Matt and I decided to hike up to Mt Baker where the snow was surprisingly low, (4100 feet) and hiked all the way up til the fog out @ 6000 feet. The pictures were not the best but it was a fun trip. The temperature was actually the best for hiking, never really got above 55 degrees. Cant really ask for more to ski in August, right?

Our route:http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=100287771571425251675.00048d08fa9ab5f3060a9&ll=48.720471,-121.802931&spn=0.040147,0.111494&t=h&z=14

Full Album: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Mt%20Baker%208.1.10/

Couple of pics:
Campsite 20 ft from the river

The 50lbs bag arsenal

From the top looking down

Dirty azz skiz

Start of the snow @ 4100

Hike in was tricky in spots

Fungai

Mt Rainier Sunrise Ski/Hike

2010-07-28T10:24:00.000-07:00

So my buddy Nick Drake and I have made a pact this year to Ski in all 12 months. Well this is our progress. We scheduled a day up at Sunrise this month because its pretty much one of the only months you can get up there. So we made it up to the parking lot at 7am and threw on our 50+lbs packs and moseyed out into the unknown to find something to ski on. Well we did, and had awesome sights along the way.

Route: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100003758277358813748.00048c4f0c9e74f19cc86&t=h&z=15

Full Album: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Sunrise%20Hike%20N%20Ski%202010/

Fav's:

Sunrise up over top of 410

Lake Tipsoo

Goatz Not Amuzed

Sup Headwall

Our Playground

My Tracks

Looking back at our tracks with the headwall

Couple of pics from Drakes phone:

ALMS Laguna Seca 2010

2010-05-21T18:54:00.001-07:00

Back from the best ALMS race I've seen yet, The 6 hours were astonishing @ LS, I cannot wait to go next year, and Most of us are talking about making a trip to Road Atlanta for Petit LeMans.

Day 1 Full Gallery
http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/ALMS/ALMS%20Laguna%20Seca%202010/Day%201/

Day 2 Full Gallery
http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/ALMS/ALMS%20Laguna%20Seca%202010/Day%202/

Favorites

David Brabam

The Toilet from the road

Looking through the back of the F430 GT2 Car

We are parked right above the blue Mazda Banner

Everyone needs a Corvette Weather Station!

Turn 6

Presenting the Overall winner of your race:

Turn 5

Who doesent love the Michelin Man?

Draggin Sparks through the Corkscrew

Downtown Seattle in the graphic on the side of the Ferrari Patron Trailer

Patron Highcroft Acura ARX-01A

Everyone needs headlights at 2 different angles!

Skeet Rolled the Corvette Racing Team

Our camping spot, with the Flying Lizard banner flying high.

JHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG

This thing Seriously shakes the ground when it is started and running next to you

A view of pit gridlock

The winner on the final lap

Getting ready for the race on the pit grid.

I think the ZR1's tires need to be bigger

Turn 9

Yes, Very Much

Mark Nealey can fit inside Laguna Seca

Finish Line Fireworks

Poor Vette's got 3rd

Another vicious battle for GT2

Seriously

Safety Car holds through Turn 4

GT2 Jaguar RSR

Battle to the Death:

Cars are starting to get dirty 3/4 through the race

Turn 10

No pun intended

Beautiful Scenery for the GT3 Challenge Race

1 Light on makes a Happy Flying Lizard

None here either

??????

A Blowout of the ZR1 Corvette

One of my favorite places on earth

IMSA Safety Team Truck

"Into the Darkness"

LAGUNASECAVISION!

Some guy mad about his banner gettin Skeetrolled

The Infamous turn 11

A view from Pit Lane

Turn 2 from the hillside

Ferrari Through the Corkscrew

GT40 @ 1/40th

Lights Out

And Lastly, The best group ever

Sled Skiing 2010

2010-05-06T07:18:00.000-07:00

I've collaborated some sled skiing pictures throughout this year and threw them up in a gallery. Just to show how much fun it is :)

http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Sled-Ski%202010/

The Tow Boats

Karter and Cole on a retrieval mission

The tow setup

The camp setup (BBQ, Ski's, Cooler, Tow rigs)

Silver Peak hike/ski 4.25.10

2010-04-27T17:49:00.000-07:00

Epic day up at Silver Peak, The sun was out pretty much all day besides an hour, got baked red, Tim, Karter, Cole, Drake and Pete tore it up. There was about 4-5" of new on top of super spring slush. It was melting fast. Hopefully snow continues to stay this good! Videos to come from The Snow Troopers.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Silver%20Peak%204.25.10/

Tim Droppin in first tracks:

Some sweet Telemarkin

Top of Silver Peak

Karter Riach

Cole Barett

Karter and Cole hitting the steep chute "Cole's Culo"

Pete

Drake Droppin in off Silver

Silver Peak looking North, Check I-90

Drake dropping in a steeper line, Too bad it was in the darkness :(

Top of Silver Looking down

Cole

Looking towards North Bend

Can you find Karter?

Cole Standing on the peak

RIP Rally Photography

2010-04-10T20:45:00.000-07:00

After 4-5 years, thousands of photos, countless hours, and lots of $$$ spent, I'm going to retire from rally photography. Rallies are always something that were fun for me, but that was it, I made some great relationships and met alot of cool people, but unfortunately my rally budget is broke. I can't tell you how much $$$ I've spent on hotels, traveling, gas, and any other expenses. But most of all the time spent planning/scouting and after the fact of pictures (editing, returning emails, individual galleries, etc). I've just never gotten a real return from it, and unfortunately that's what I've been looking for the whole time, and I think I'm getting to a point that I only feel like I'm furthering my portfolio. There are many great rally photographers, and people that enjoy it way more than I do. It'd be alot different for me if I was an actual driver/team member, but I'm not.

As always, I'm still available for contact (and of course about past photos), and will still make it to the Races, But not professionally.

Take care,

Andy Mahre White Pass shoot 4.3.10

2010-04-07T21:53:00.000-07:00

So this last week was pretty much epic up in the mountains, Definitely have not had this much pow this year, Well needed. Since the Fam trip was canceled I got a day to shoot for White Pass and another day to Sled-Ski. Got to shoot for Andy Mahre and also fellow co-worker Tyler Forman. And here's the results.

Full Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/White%20Pass/Andy%20Mahre%204.3.10/

I've never actually taken pictures on a day where it was "TOO DEEP" for pictures, This is a very close exception, alot of the pictures came out like this because honestly, it was just, really, really deep.

Tyler hitting some pillows, If thats what you want to call it.

My Babes Amber gettin down some sick turns!

Andy trying to slow down from a drop next to 911

Blower? Yeah

Snoqualmie BC Sled-Ski

2010-04-05T18:08:00.000-07:00

So it was Drake's first time sled skiing, We got to take Karters sled up for Drake to learn on and worked out quite well, After the epic dump of snow we received this week, the pow was still rad. Needless to say after Skiing Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday, My legs are like WTF?

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Snoqualmie BC Sled Ski 4.4.10/

Me gettin the fresh Trax!

Drake

Drake decided to find a tree

Looking down from our last couple of runs

Our first zone

Looking up from our last zone

Drake dropping into the zone above

I love this, can you tell?

Looking down from the last zone 2

Winter aint' over yet, Mt Hood

2010-03-30T17:51:00.000-07:00

Luckily I have the coolest boss on the planet, we got a job done early so I was able to take the day off today in this epic NW storm. So Bob Dole, Khalid, Jeff, and Brian were sick enough to come meet me at Mt Hood. And It did not disappoint at all. 33" in two days. Best pow of the season for sure.

Full Album: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Winter%20Aint%20over%203.30.10/

Brian

Khalid gettin his first whiteroom

Jeff in the deepest he's been

Brian Dropping in

Drake Dropping in

And some driving Scenery

First time Sled-Ski Gold Creek

2010-03-28T11:18:00.000-07:00

So just picked up the new sled, super stoked to try it out, and sled-ski with it. Karter, Shaun and I went up east of Snoqualmie Pass (Gold Creek). You can see in some of the pictures Lake Ketcheluss and even Mt Rainier. It was a fantastic day for riding sleds and ski's. Snow was great up top, Even though we had to go through about a mile of gravel to get to it :(

Thanks to Karter of The Snow Troopers and Shaun Maurer for helping with the pictures.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Gold%20Creek%20Sled%20Ski%203.27.10/

Stevens Pass pow/bluebird/overcast/whatever

2010-03-14T22:40:00.000-07:00

So Stevens got a decent amount over the past couple of days, and me just post injury thought I'd take it easy and snap some pics of the guys. Turned out pretty swell I'd say.

Full Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/stevens pass 3.13.10/

Fav's:

White Pass Aerial Shoot

2010-02-22T17:09:00.000-08:00

So I came up with this Idea over a year ago, I wanted to get aerial pictures of White Pass Ski area and the expansion area. So then I had to find someone with a plane or helicopter. Luckily my best friend Matthew Ahl got married to a wonderful woman Heather Hummel, which her dad Mark Hummel, just happens to have a hobby of flying his small 2 person airplane. CHECK! I consult with Matt earlier this year on the project and tell him if he can get me the images, I'll edit and publish them, and luckily the clouds cleared completely, schedules allowed, and this is the result.

A special thanks to Matt Ahl for shooting these and Mark Hummel for the use of his Aircraft, White Pass and I thank you very much!

Full Gallery Link: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/White%20Pass/White%20Pass%20Aerial/

Hogback Mountain (White Pass Expansion) Hike

2010-02-21T10:35:00.000-08:00

So Nick and I finally have all the gear we need to go Hiking, Needless to say, It was all well worth the money and time spent in class etc, etc. Special thanks to The Snow Troopers and Kathleen of White Pass for helping with this TR!

Full Gallery Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/White%20Pass/Hogback%20Hike%202.20.10/

Image GPS Locations Here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/albumMap?uname=Airpoppoff&aid=5440748081519110817#map

YooToob TR here:

Fav Pix:

What We'll be hiking to:

Rainier over a new lift tower

We dropped in skiers right of this cornice

The "Old" White Pass

Snow Donkeys

Looking back North from Hogback, Stupid clouds around rainier :(

Where we dropped in

A look south

Our Trax

Hawaii 2010

2010-01-31T12:07:00.000-08:00

Well off to Hawaii for another year, This was the day after the Bachelor trip, so it was weird to go from snow to sand in 24 hours. But the weather was fantastic! Bambs and I had a great time cause its so sunny. Golfed and kicked it, Got messed up, nothing new there. Can't wait to go back again next year.

Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Hawaii/Maui%202010/

Favs:

We went on a sailing trip to see some whales, it was rad!

Black Sand Beach

Road around Hana....

Check out this big ass boulder stuck in the rock fence above the road.

Our Picnic spot, My fav place in the world! +20° 38' 30.65", -156° 5' 38.78"

The sunset at the Sheraton

Turtle on da beach!

Mt Bachelor 2010

2010-01-31T11:42:00.000-08:00

Whoa, Long time since a blog update huh? Well, lets put it this way, the winter has not been very favorable to us with snow or sunshine, so I have not been skiing as much, and any day it was somewhat good, I was probably working. BUT, I did go to Mt Bachelor with 12 friends and had an awesome time. We all threw around the camera to eachother so I actually have some pictures in here! I got a new camera backpack for skiing that stays on my chest so it was alot easier to haul around.

Anyways, Here is the whole Gallery: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Mt Bachelor 2010/

Fav's:

Brady is the seriousness

Mn Tearing it up for the first time

Do Want Ski Dog

All of us at the Summit Day 2, 9600 Feet.

My new Camera bag

ALMS Laguna Seca 2009

2009-10-18T12:57:00.000-07:00

So me and my friends made the annual trek back down to Laguna Seca in Monterey this year. It gets better every year it seems like, even though their were no Audi's or Pugeot's It was actually some of the best racing we've seen too.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/ALMS/ALMS Laguna Seca 2009

Mmm Bloody Mary's on the Corkscrew @ 8am

Rally Colorado Day 3

2009-09-20T22:14:00.000-07:00

So Today was pretty weird. Started off very cold and then Dumping Rain, Closing 3 of the stages which another 2 they already ran were alternates. So a verity of pictures was not apparent. Then the sun came out, and actually warmed things up quite a bit for the last couple of stages. Creating some fast Clay like roads.

Full Gallery Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Rally%20Colorado/2009/Day%203/

Fav's:

ACP and Jeremy Wimpey in the morning, Flying at over 110mph towards his first Rally win this year.

Pat Moro and Ole Holter on the way to their SP win

Mitchell Williams & Alix Hakala Moving through quickly

The morning was very dark and dreary, The fall colors still very vivid.

Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino pushing the car Much harder than it ever had before.

ACP and Wimpey take an Acute Right hander on the 2nd to last stage.

Soon to be rookie of the year Mark Fox and Jake Blattner Tied for 3rd place!

Ken and Alex can't believe their eyes that the car didint finish the race

Dillon Van Way and Ben Slocum were not expecting this to happen but after a rollover he was able to continue.

Don Conley & Christopher Herlache at speed through Sage Creek.

Mark and Jake show you how to cut a corner properly.

Andi Mancin & Maciej Wislawski speeding by at over 100mph

You could watch cars for Miles and Miles at most spectator points giving fans a full view of all the aspects of a rally stage.

Ken Block thought it would be nice to Distract his wife, Lucy Block on the last stage

Mark Fox and Jake Blattner bottoming the suspension on sage creek

Arkadiusz Gruszka & Lukasz Wronski pushin for poland!

Pat Moro decided to go weeding for a bit

Scott Crouch so exited to be driving his own car for the first time.

Lucy Block and Chrissy Beavis always with a smile

Never an effect on rally drivers

A rainbow comes up after the finish of Rally Colorado 2009

SRT checks out the damage Ken did....

Steve Bis and Brian Moody back on the prowl after a blown turbo on day two.

Mark and Jake head up the last hill on SS#18

Andrew Comrie-Picard & Jeremy Wimpey Your 2009 Rally Colorado overall winners!

Rally Colorado 2009 Day 2

2009-09-19T22:44:00.000-07:00

This is the first Race Day, around 40 miles of stages, They were very hot, dusty and low wind, so alot of visibility problems and a ton of dirty camera equipment.

Full Gallery Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Rally%20Colorado/2009/Day%202/

Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom liftoff.

ACP and Worm pushing around the bend

Mark Fox and Jake Blattner Pushing hard on SS8

A Fan brought out a RC Helicopter for fan entertainment between stages

Cheers from the fans for #199

Mancin up and away

Jake and Mark load the wheels full of dirt on a Hairpin right

A bugs perspective

Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino show us how its done in the air.

Jimmy and Melissa Pushing harder towards their 2nd place standing

Ken Trying to get the most out of Dave's SP Car

Lucy Block getting Caught!

Colorado is filled with roads with Cattle Guard's, This one looked as if it would stop cars more than cattle.

Nathan Conely Happy to be back on the move in his Shiny new STI

Mark decides to take some dirt home with him after a hard landing.

Travis around the bend by the pond down by the river

Pat Moro and Ole Holter catch some air

The fans had a great perspective here, as long as the wind went the other way!

#199 Moves some dirt around

Dillon Catches some air before he looses his spoiler

Mr Conely cooking up a storm of dust on Stokes Gulch

Fans once again flooded downtown Parc' Expose'

Art Pinned

Another Conely on the loose!

Shoulder to Shoulder on the fenceline

T Pain pushing even though he didint need to

Jimmy and Melissa Keeney Get up there

Team Poland very consistent

This is what it looks like when you follow Ken Block at speed

100's of fans made their way out into the high country to watch

Jake and Mark take #54 for another ride

ACP Just Making sure ACP doesn't overrun the turn :)

Rally Colorado 2009 Day 1

2009-09-18T22:52:00.000-07:00

This is the Shakedown and practice day. Sunny skys all day, dusty, felt very hot.

Full Gallery Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Rally%20Colorado/2009/Day%201/

Fav's:

Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom on approach.

Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino through the woods

Andrew Comrie-Picard and Jeremey Wimpey on approach

Jimmy and Melissa Keeney flat out

Scott Crouch gives a spectator a nice ride for the first time in his own car!

Travis Pushing for the Fan in the passenger seat

Pat Moro flying by with a screaming specator in the passenger seat

Mark Fox ridiculously exited to be running his new car

Frank from Worldrallysport gets a ride with Mark Fox

Libby Crouch (Scotts wife) Estatic to be in the car for a ride with Ken Block

ACP Gets a ride with ACP!

I thought I'd seen it all in Steamboat.....

The National Guard Crew working late on #54

Highway 410 Mt Rainier Picnic!

2009-09-12T18:47:00.000-07:00

So me and Bambs decided to take Highway 410 over to Will's birthday party. Well it was well worth the view, Lake Tipson at the top is amazing! I highly suggest using it as a detour route.

Full Gallery: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Highway%20410%20Picnic/

Houseboat Roosevelt and More Chelaniganz

2009-09-08T21:51:00.000-07:00

I have not made alot of posts lately, I've been busy every weekend doing something so I've been slacking on the photos. I did about $300 in damage to the camera after dropping it twice in chelan SO, I apologize for the fail.

Chelan Labor Daybor weekend: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Lake%20Chelan/Labor%20Day%202009/

Lake Roosevelt Houseboat fest 2009: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Parties/Lake%20Roosevelt%202009/

Mark Nealey's Birthday Chelan: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Lake%20Chelan/Marks%20birthday%202009/

Fav's from those:

Chelan Labor Daybor:

Lake Roosevelt

Chelan Mn Birthday

See you in Colorado!

So this one time, There was a lightning storm in my backyard!

2009-07-30T22:40:00.001-07:00

Just a couple wicked 98901 Sunsets taken from my Backyard...

2009-07-28T21:56:00.000-07:00

Tonight

Last week

4th of July on Lake Chelanz!

2009-07-07T21:48:00.000-07:00

Had an amazing time in Chelan last weekend, high 90's, tons of friends great food and beer of course. I didint really shoot as much as I wanted to, I managed to break 2 polarizers and one broke through my 12-24, so that got me pretty sad :(, I got to drive da' Boat tho!

Full Gallery Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Lake%20Chelan/4th%20of%20July%202009/

Fav's

Spot Faronz!

BACON Wrapped Corn!

Ambers 25th Birthday party / Our Housewarming!

2009-06-29T21:02:00.000-07:00

So after countless amounts of hours and $ we finally were ready for Ambers birthday party, It was defintely one of the funnest parties I've ever been to, Besides Amber whacking her ankle, everything was great.

Thank you so much to Mark Nealey who took all these great photos for us!

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Parties/Ambers%2025th%20birthday/

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Oregon Trail Rally 2009

2009-05-18T21:19:00.000-07:00

4th year of the Oregon Trail Rally and it's been the best one yet. Sanctioned around Mt hood area and Portland for the first time, I can't wait for next years.

GPS Photo Locations here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/albumMap?uname=Airpoppoff&aid=5337382049238291345#map

Full Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Oregon%20Trail%20Rally%202009/

Jason Grahn gets ready for his new ride.

Blockwood Credit

Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino launch down the pit lane of Portland International Raceway

Rally Fans got to enjoy a 270 degree view of the cars on the fir mountain stage.

The Hintz brothers head up the hill on Gilhouley while Mt. Adams lurks in the background.

Carl Jardevall and Jason Grahn sideways up Gilhouley on Saturday.

The sun goes down, but the Rally keeps on going.

Zero wind on Fir Mountain on Saturday made for some lingering dust.

Andrew Comrie Picard and Robbie Durant reaching almost 100mph on a downhill through Ketchum Stage

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Jeff Price and Paul Eklund decide to get me wet on Fir Mountain Saturday.

Oak Trees surround most of the Katchum stage

Matt Johnson and Pat Moro are nice enough to give the spectators some rally information after they DNF'd

Arkadiusz Gruszka and Lukasz Wronski give the Spectators a show on Fir Mountain.

Mark Mager and Miller Dumaoal set off for the PIR spectators Friday.

Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom speed past spectators on the motocross track Friday.

The Hintz brothers driving cleanly once again.

Ken and Alex flying down Ketchum stage on Sunday.

Carl Jardevall and Jason Grahn pushing 100+ through Ketchum Sunday.

An HDR image of Mt Adams atop the Fir Mountain spectator point.

The top 3 of the Super Production Class

ACP and Robbie Durant pushing hard through Fir Mountain Sunday.

Team Poland wrapping up service Friday night at PIR

George Georgakopoulos & Faruq Mays mobbing through Fir Mountain Spectator Saturday.

T-Pain and Mr. Edstrom light up the brakes heading through the PIR chicane

Carl Jardevall and Jason Grahn cross the finish line on SS1 Friday.

A look inside Andy Mancin's Evolution 9

AC ^ CD stands for Adam Craig and Carl Decker

ACP and Robbie get wet on stage 10

Tanner Faust and Chrissie Beavis in Service Friday afternoon.

#199 Flying up the hill to Fir Mountain Spectator.

Arkadiusz Gruszka and Lukasz Wronski line up for Saturday nights PIR festivities.

Dave Mirra and Derek Ringer on SS15 Sunday.

KB going over some things with an SRT crew member before heading out Sunday Morning.

Scenic Mt. Hood was everywhere as dust trails from Rally Cars lead up to it.

Fans PACKED the parc' expose' @ PIR Friday.

Ken and Alex having a fun run Sunday.

Mark Fox and Jake Blattner start off on Ketchum Sunday.

Congratulations to Jimmy and Melissa Keeney for their 2nd place finish in SP!

Dave and Derek lighting up all 4 around the tires @ PIR Friday.

TP and Christian lift a tire in the Friday Sunset @ PIR

Literally 100's of fans lined the road to watch on Saturday's fir mountain stage

Mike Goodwin and Tina Warner make their way through the switchback up Fir Mountain

George Georgakopoulos and Faruq Mays lock um up at the end of the 1/4 mile at PIR.

Team Jardevall Oregon Trail 2009

Don Conley and Christopher Herlache pass spectator point II on Fir Mountain.

#43 takes a shortcut through the infield on Friday @ PIR

Subaru's Daily dig's

Spectators lined the motocross track to watch the special stages Friday.

Mark Tabor and John Elkin drive away from Mt Hood on Fir Mountain Sunday.

Mark and Jake flying up Gilhouley Saturday

The Hintz Brothers ready for a dip.

Jimmy and Melissa Keeney securing the 2nd place spot.

Mt Adams in Washington watches over the cars heading up the hill Saturday.

Ken and Alex ready for some fun Friday night @ PIR

Green Means Go

The Scenery was Endless.

Service for 40 and 43 Friday Night

TP manages to swing wide and honky his horn for the fans at the same time

Ken and Alex through Fir Mountain one last time

Jeff and Paul get ready to head through the Special Stage @ PIR Friday night.

Travis and Christian just blew off the Fiestagating like it was no big deal :(

It was not a bad view to wait for the start of Ketchum on Sunday.

Burak Tuglu and Carrie Wilburn on Ketchum

#43 Launches on Gilhouley, Saturday.

Jimmy and Melissa chasing down Mirra.

Matt Johnson and Jeremy Wimpey light up all 4 @ PIR Friday.

Mt Hood, just several miles Southwest of where the rally took place.

Wide open fields on Ketchum made for a fast part of the stage.

An HDR Image of the Columbia River across from Rally HQ

The Hansen's head up Gilhouley Saturday.

Dave and Derek set off for the first stage @ PIR Friday.

Carl and Jason fly through Spectator II Sunday.

Tanner Faust and Chrissie Beavis secured a 2nd place spot.

A look at the Carbon Skidplate on #20

#199 on Cruise Control

The Hintz brothers Friday night @ PIR

Thanks for looking!

Olympus Rally 2009

2009-04-20T21:24:00.000-07:00

Well, another successful year for the Olympus Rally, I kinda like the fact that it changes places every year, makes everything different and interesting.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Olympus%20Rally%202009/

GPS Photo Locations here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/albumMap?uname=Airpoppoff&aid=5326992671170386545#map

Fresh cut trees make for fresh rally roads.

The Pacific Ocean made for perfect spectating backgrounds.

Yeah, That's a Monster Energy floorjack

Bob Olson & Conrad Ketelsen go a bit wide and go for the tumble

The camera took this when I set it down to help them get out.

Dave Mirra and Derek Ringer set off up SS1 Wreck Creek

The Tabors doing the well known Brooklyn Stage in reverse Sunday Afternoon

Mark Fox & Jake Blattner flat out on the Tahola stage Saturday

Brooklyn was an excellent stage for the 100's of spectators that showed up

Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom half way to breaking the record of the Brooklyn Stage by almost 5 seconds.

Downtown Aberdeen, WA hosts the Parc' Expose'

Arkadiusz Gruszka & Lukasz Wronski make their way through spectator @ Wreck Creek

Piotr Kadlubowski & Krystian Ostrowski make their way up the hill on SS1

#40 tries to move the damaged 2008 STI down the course as Travis Hanson & Terry Hanson get ready to pass

#199 makes their way (sideways) through an acute uphill on Palix Stage

Dillon Van Way & Joshua Knott make their way up from the ocean

Just another day in the office for TP

Why use a jack when you can have Rally Fan's help you?

Dave Mirra and Derek Ringer full throttle through 9400 Road.

Olympus Rally group let spectators get where-ever they like as long at it was in a safe place for great viewing.

#199 furthers their lead...

The top teams line up before Palix in South Bend, WA

DM % DR sideways up Palix

Jimmy & Melissa Keeney spiral dust into the spectators on Brooklyn

#199 up the hill on Wreck Creek

Spectators duck as Piotr Wiktorczyk & Grzegorz Dorman fly by on Tahola W

#43 Up and away from the Pacific Coast

Paul Eklund and Jeff Price head up Wreck Creek

Byron Garth & Ryan McPhee Get a little too wide on Brooklyn

Steve Greer % Tracy Manspeaker fly through 9400 Road

Dave & Richard Hintz head up Tahola E

DM & DR make their way through the tough logging roads on SS1

The wide open peninsula made for excellent rally roads.

TP & CE make their way through the spectator crowds on Brooklyn

Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino literally at light speed through Tahola

#199 coming through Tahola

Mark Mager & Miller Dumaoal pushing through Palix W

DM through the clearcut on Brooklyn raising the dust.

Bought a House!

2009-03-27T20:40:00.001-07:00

5503 Sycamore Dr
Yakima, Wa 98901

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...=17&iwloc=addr

It's not on Google Maps, It was built in 2006, sooo google doesent think the road exists. Anyways, Me and Bambs & Rokko are super exited, Rokko's got a big fawkin back yard to play in, 3 car garage, 4br, 3 bath, 2400 sqft, plus some weird storage thing in the backyard, Whatever, It's got a bosch dishwasher, and a natural gas hookup for the bbq, no running out of gas again FTW.

I can't fuckin wait to get into this place. These are the pictures we took when we looked at it 3 weeks ago, We made an offer on another house and didint get it, But it was also 30 grand more so this will fit us alot better. Stay tuned for house party.

Recessed Living room

Half granite half linoleum wtf

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Gonna pave the whole backyard in concurt fo sho

Weird Shed thing

Natty gas hookup FTW

Mastur Baf

I think i'm going to put a wet bar and a Kegerator, plus a pool table here, Usually people fill these rooms with dumb fuckin furniture that noone uses, The cool wall will go in this room fo sho.

TREX DEX FTW

Oh, and no HOA FTW, So exited i just cant hide it

White Pass Freshies!

2009-03-10T18:35:00.000-07:00

Finally some new snow that I could ski, after spending a week in the sand, I was ready to get back to the snow. This past weekend was just what I neeeded!

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/White%20Pass/Freshies%203.8.09/

Mark gets fresh trax on run one, Sun decides to say hay.

Sun says hayyyyy

Kyle jumpin out to the cattrack

A picture of me? Noooooooooooooooo

Rock Slide

Jared ripping through the trees under 911

World of Concrete 2009 - Las Vegas

2009-02-08T12:00:00.000-08:00

So this one will look kinda weird, since half my pictures were taken with my phone, because the WOC does not allow cameras inside now, which is lame. Anyways, still had alot of fun.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Vegas/WOC%202009/

omg crappy quality

70 meter pump, biggest ever made for non concrete peeps

At least they had some NON-race gas on tap

And their were chicks in the dudes bathrooms?

Had some excelente' Dinner at Benehanias cooked right in front of us

Barry Manilow Energy Drinks?

Me and the lovely lady heading out to dinner at Le Cirque

Then we went to Cesarz

Then we went to the palazzoz

Had some nice sunrizes

Then we went to Freemont street, which was pretty cool, there was this guy spraypainting these things that looked really good, he'd do each in like 20 minutes, It was nuts.

MALL COPS ON SEGWAYS

I actually won some money

This tv stretched like 6 blocks and played things every 15 minutes, its pretty crazy.

Spraypaint Artist guy

OOPS!

Bambz First day! - White Pass

2009-01-18T14:16:00.000-08:00

So Khalid, Jeff, Art, Steve and Mike came over from Seattle, Jeff and Krt's 2nd day. And they totally progressed even more. Jeff has got it down, just needs to get used to everything, Krt needs a bit more work on everything, but they are tearing it up. It was Ambers first day also, she skied for like a year when she was a kid, but nothing since then, Needless to say she picked it up very quickly, by the end of the day the only reason she was falling was just cause she was tired. I was stoked.

Anyways, the groomers were good, it was bluebird, so you really cannot complain, stupid fedex has my new ski's randsom so I couldnt ride anything but my big floppy ski's, which took the fun out of it, But beer took care of that.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/White%20Pass/White%20Pass%201.17.09/

Mark laying down fatty carvz

Bambz cuttin up some pizza!

Mike out of his natural Habitat

Khalid took a spill lol

Me and Babmz!

Amy and Mork

JeffR Boxxin!

Jeff Jacked himself in the face with hiz skee pole :(

Mt Rainier and Mark on the bottom of Holiday

Mai New Pants!

Hogsback Mtn

Rainier and the Double

Mt Bachelor 2009

2009-01-13T20:42:00.000-08:00

So, Since all these landslides and rain and avy's blocked all the roads in WA, Mt Bachelor got the same kind of storm, Just in the form of Ice instead. Half of the MTN was closed on friday due to the storm accumulating 10" of ice on the chairs and towers, breaking one of the towers completely. Somehow they got it open for Saturday. Bluebird conditions and Teaching Khalid and Jeff to ski were worth it. I can't wait to go back next year.

Todd's Pictures are the first ones with the D50, and mine are after that. Thanks for getting some pictures of me finally Todd!

Full Album here:http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Mt%20Bachelor%202009/

Bootpacking up cinder cone for some freshies

The Ice was thick

Captain Larry

ME!

Beautiful Saturday morning!

KRT Tearing it up!

JeffR Lovin it

Drake Hucks a 7

Larry Shakin Ass

Me in the air?

I hucked a 7 right here

And Landed way down here

Sisters lookin sexy

Bluebird Sex

This was the Pine Martin Chair on Friday, Miraculously they were able to open it Saturday.

The group at the top of Cinder Cone

Dog Tearing it up

Drake in the sun

Brian in the shadows

Larry rides through the sun

Mork

Sunset and the Moonlight stuck out Saturday night

Epic Lift Lines - White Pass 1.3.09

2009-01-04T23:29:00.000-08:00

Probably the most beautiful day I've ever seen up @ WP. Due to the power out, and the quad running Diesel, Along with 36" of new snow and bluebird conditions, everyone and their dog, plus their Aunt Nancy's pet unicorn decided to show up. Still managed to get some great landscapes and runs in.

Full Album: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/White%20Pass/Epic%20Lift%20Lines%201.3.09/

8am

8:45am 1st chair up

Drake gets some mad tight steeps

Brummels Deep

This is what the bottom of Drakes board looks like

Mark V.Jongslaughter

Look how beautiful it is! Nothing else!

Told you it was Georgoussesz!

The Ant's are flocking!

So we made a cooler instead.

And Drake did wall rides

Seriously people?

Andy Mahre and White Pass photoshoot

2008-12-28T09:24:00.000-08:00

Beautiful day up at white again, Fresh tracks all morning. It was great meeting Andy and working with him was even better, very photogenic and makes everything fun and interesting.

Full Gallery: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/White%20Pass/Andy%20Mahre%20White%20Pass%20Photoshoot%2012.26.08/

A beautiful cliff drop west of upper roller to start things off.

We found a small hip underneath Mach V

He held my poles for a run, Looks awkward.

Dropping off the top of North Peak

Poop-Chute cliff to the west of Execution was just another day in the office for Andy.

360 underneath North Peak

Snow was perfect.

Always a Smile

TR: Mt Hood Epic Opening weekend.

2008-12-21T09:18:00.000-08:00

Well, for the first full day of the Ski Season this year, I don't think we really could have gone wrong. It's snowed almost 5 feet since last Wed up at hood, And we found all of it. It was by far the deepest fluffiest snow I've been in yet. If you fell over, good luck getting back up, it was damn near impossible...

Full album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Hood%20Opening%20Weekend%2012.20.08/

Mark Claim's

Drake find's some air.

Brian finds the deep

Drake drop's a small cliff

And then try's a rodeo....

I don't know if he landed it...

Mark and Brian stuck in the snow.

Mark and I find the deepest via a homemade traverse

Polish dog's, Winterhoox and Ski movie for lunch FTW.

California Road Trip 2008!

2008-10-24T08:47:00.000-07:00

So the first part of this trip was to go to the ALMS Sports car championships in Monterey, The other half was to go drop off the guys Monday morning at San Jose Airport to get them home, and I was going to go up to San Fransisco to pick up Amber so we could check out San Fransisco, Monterey, and drive up Highway 1 the coast of California.

So here was the 8 Day Route: Google Maps Link

The Garmin logged about 62 hours in the car, And with all the misc trips to the track and such it was just over 2800 miles when I returned to Seattle. Needless to say the next time I do Highway One, it's going to be in a nice sports car. It was the longest windiest but, most georgous 500 miles of my life.

Full Image Gallery here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/California%20Road%20Trip%202008/

GPS Image Locations here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Airpoppoff/CaliforniaRoadTrip2008/photo#map

As I waited for Amber to get to SFO, I traveled around the bay, Looking for things to do. Got some lunch and went across the San Mateo-Hayward bridge. It's like 8 miles long. Defintely the biggest bridge I've driven on.

And stopped by Treasure Island, An old abandoned Navy base.

I picked bambs up, then went and checked in at the resort, then we went down to the golden gate park.

A look at Alcatraz from it.

The next day we took a ferry to Alcatraz, probably one of the most interesting places I've been to. Definitely suggest it to anyone going there.

A view inside the Cell Block

Grenade scars on the concrete from "The Battle of Alcatraz"

Solitary Confinement Cells, 24 hour lockdown, not much natural light.

Allen West's Cell that he escaped from, along making a fake head. You can see the hole in the back of the wall they made.

The Lighthouse and view to San Fransisco

Me and Bambs and both Bridges into San Fransisco

After San Fran, we went back down to Monterey to see the sunset.

The next day, we headed north on Highway one from Monterey. This is a tad north of Santa Cruz.

Across the Golden Gate

At some lookout point over where highway one hits the coast, It was absolutely gorgeous, You could see for MILES.

We stopped to have lunch in Stinson Beach and went North of Bodega Bay stopped at a beach for bambs to do some cartwheels.

North of a small town called Jenner, We stopped along some cliffs to take more pics.

We saw probably the most longest lasting sunset I've ever seen in my life. This I took just North of Stewarts Point. Then we kept driving.

We saw a sign for a lighthouse almost 30 minutes later, and the sun was still setting, So we drove out to it to take some more pics.

We stayed the night in a podunk town of Fort Bragg, CA and set out the next morning to head to the redwood forest.

Then we found some tree you can drive through. I had to back the 4runner in though, it wont fit with the Thule on top :)

Then Bambs found a real Tree, House.

Then we saw the biggest tree. (22 foot wide)

Until next time... Needless to say by the end of the trip I was sick of trees and sharp turns.

ALMS Laguna Seca 2008

2008-10-20T17:26:00.000-07:00

So this one time, I quit my job at Wyndham to move back to Yakima to work @ my dad's business. So I took off the last 2 weeks of October to do this trip and a roadtrip through California. Turned out to be the funnest road trip I've ever done.

I was originally going to fly down there with the boys, But after wanting to do the road trip and also factoring in the rental car monies, this was going to be a much better option driving the 4runner down there.

I left work on Wed the 15th and Drove down to San Jose Airport with Art, I drove all the way and we got there in perfect timing to meet the guys the next day @ 1pm to pick them up. Thule box and luggage in laps full, the SuperRunner had everyone packed in it to go to the resort.

Anyways, Laguna Seca was ridiculous as usual and proved to us that we will definitely be coming there for years to come.

Full Album of pictures here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/ALMS/ALMS%20Laguna%20Seca%202008/

Favorites:

Top Five Happiest places on earth for me:

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My Dream car, only if it was Green.

The Crew

Rally Colorado Day 3

2008-09-14T21:33:00.000-07:00

Weather: Sunny, very sunny, ranged from 36 in the morning to almost 80.... Again.

Travis takes the win and the 3rd Rally America championship in a row, beautiful scenery and all stages ran unlike last year. 20 year old rookie Kyle Sarasin comes in a close 2nd, despite a 20 second stage problem, still finished 4.5 seconds behind Travis. Block encountered problems on the first day causing him a 10 minute penalty forcing him to 8th. 6 minutes separated Sarasin and O' Sullivan for 3rd place.

Flash Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Rally Colorado/2008/Day 3

GPS Coordinate Map Here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Airpoppoff/RallyColoradoDay3/photo#map

Travis Pastrana and Derek Ringer in Transit to the first stage of the final day.

TP Showing off for the fans, like usual

Jardevall and Beavis safely in 4th place in the Mitsubishi Evo

Rally cars race into the sun on a bluebird Colorado day

Travis and Derek, putting on a show in the backcountry of Hayden, Colorado once again.

Over 200+ fan's lined the hills of stage 12 and 13 to watch the cars grace the hills

#199 Catches some air blasting up the hill of stage 15

Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino line the hills of Hayden Colorado

The beautiful Rocky Mountains are a main part of all the stages of Rally Colorado

Jeff Regester and Duncan Smith get a shot from above

Even the the country locals were welcoming the rally, painting Travis's number in the lawn

3 Time Rally America Champion

20 Year old Kyle Sarasin and Mikael Johansson closing in on Travis after he has a flat

Ken and Alex navigate around a sign on stage 18

Regester & Smith push through the acute right of 18

Larry and Erik Schmidt Lock up pushing hard through a corner

Beautiful Routt County, Colorado

Crime scene? Construction Zone? Now this?

Champagne celebration for the top 3

Travis being interviewed on his 3rd championship victory

A look at the advanced safety equipment for #43

Inside the winning 2008 Subaru Rally Team USA STI

Rally Colorado Day 2

2008-09-13T23:07:00.000-07:00

Weather: Sunny, very sunny, ranged from 36 in the morning to almost 80.

First day of racing in the books at Rally Colorado, 24 people started, and 18 finished. Beautiful scenery, puddles and jumps, today had it all. First 10 stages are done, and 8 more to go tomorrow. Travis in first place, If he finishes tomorrow he will win the championship for the 3rd year in a row.

Flash Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Rally Colorado/2008/Day 2

GPS Coordinate Map Here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Airpoppoff/RallyColoradoDay2/photo#map

A Hot air balloon catches a better view Saturday morning over Steamboat Springs

Sheep clear stage's 3 and 5

#43 Setting the height of the day

Travis Pastrana and Derek Ringer catch a fresh breath on stage 5

George G and Faruq Mays navigate the jump perfectly

Brown and Branton-Housley transport at light speed

Ken and Alex on the attack of Travis once again

Andrew Pinker and Robbie Durant encountered more problems with the Rockstar Sti and could not finish the stage.

Rose and Creek blast through the cattle guard

Yesterday: Crime Scene, Today: Construction Area

Travis and Derek spash down on stage 7, furthering their lead

Kyle Sarasin gets ready for the dip

Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Scott Crouch send up some muddy water

Jardevall and Beavis get a little out of line

Rally car's blur by the fans screaming "Don't slow down!"

More hardships on the course

Just another day in the office of 70+ MPH corners for Travis and Derek

O'Sullivan and Crouch prefer cattle guard's sideways

Stay on line....

Last sweep of the day quickly clears stage #10

I don't know either?

Beautiful downtown Steamboat Springs

Ken Navigates to the Parc' Expose' through the Ferrari of Colorado club

Travis's car recognizes the great one we lost almost a year ago

Parc' Expose' in downtown Steamboat Springs

Ken's 2 biggest fans hang out while the fans flock

Fan's get a closer look at the new 2008 STI Rally Car

Rally Colorado Day 1

2008-09-12T21:14:00.000-07:00

Weather: Sun 85 Degrees, Rain, Wind, Hail, and a trip through a snowstorm over the great divide to get here. Alot of mud.

Today was the Shakedown/Practice/Press stage. Posted up just outside of Steamboat. Then went to a Parc' Expose' to end the day. Tomorrow is calling for nice blue skies and hopefully some drying up. The Subaru boys were doing all the work today, and dwarf the rest of dwarf the only 24 competitor field.

Flash Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Rally Colorado/2008/Day 1

GPS Coordinate Map Here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Airpoppoff/RallyColoradoDay1/photo#map

Pastrana and Ringer set off first.

Block and Gelsomino make a trail through the dense forest.

A Certain Shade of Green

#43 Catches some small air over the diverted culvert

This is Serious Business

Mitchell Williams catches a nice view of the press stage

Triple Caution

The storm rolls in over Steamboat Springs

Ken Block gets done signing the headliner of a fan's car

The sun comes out over the Parc' Expose'

Ken signs the DC Shoes Advertisement my picture was featured in

The Raindrops Shine off the top of the new 2008 STI Rally Car

Travis Pastrana signing autographs his Gold Edition World Championship shoes.

Almost the full moon rises over the ski hill

Chelan Labor Day Weekend 2008

2008-09-01T21:54:00.000-07:00

Awesome weekend again, Filled with horrible times like Wakeboarding, Tubing, Food, Breakfast, Jet-Skiing, and Other Epic Failures like seeing all the stars, paddle boating with my love, and no clouds in the sky!

Jeff's Amazing Pictures are Here: http://www.riseden.net/images/Chelan%20Labor%20Day%202008/

Full Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Lake%20Chelan/Chelan%20Labor%20Day%202008/

Liz and Will

Me and Bambz

JeffR, KRT, and Willis

Matt and Heathers Wedding!

2008-08-24T23:44:00.000-07:00

Matt has been an amazing best friend to me, and seeing him this happy was just great, best wedding I've been to by far. Congrats Heather and Matt!

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Weddings/HummAhl%20Wedding/

Me and Bambs

Coeur D' Alene TB GB

2008-08-18T00:30:00.000-07:00

Wicked weekend out in the Eastern Wa, Temps were only 95+ both days, and water was a lousy 75 degrees, Pretty lame! I just hate life!

Full Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Coeur%20D%27%20Alene%20/TB%20GB%202008/

View from the deck

Willis hates the Seadooz

Me Too:

Horrible Day

Even the Air Force came to hang out

Horrible way to spend a Sunday Afternoon

Dad and I roadtrip to California/Nevada

2008-08-12T23:54:00.000-07:00

So me and Dad took a roadtrip down to Green Valley, CA to pick up this gynormus land Yacht at this even more redonkulous dealership. Awesome time to spend with dad and an amazing trip. Mapped most of the pictures with GPS also.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/RV%20Road%20Trip%20with%20Dad%202008/

GPS Map Locations here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Airpoppoff/RVRoadTripToCaliforniaNevadaOregonWithDad/photo#map

Google Earth file here: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/Airpoppoff/albumid/5236147880067776577?kind=photo&alt=kml&hl=en_US

Wind Farm outside the Dalles, OR

Mt Jefferson

Twin Sisters

Klamath Lake, Klamath Falls, OR

Mt Shasta, CA

Old Coach

Shasta Lake, CA

New Coach, and The Dealership

Next to Donner Summit by Lake Tahoe, CA

Soap Lake, Nevada

Middle of Nowhere, Nevada

Lake Abert, and the Abert Brim, Oregon

More Middle of Nowhere, Oregon

Home in Yakima, WA

Mikeys Bachelor party, Lincoln City, Oregon.

2008-08-04T00:43:00.000-07:00

We reserved a huge house down in Lincoln City, OR for one of my Best Friends Bachelor Parties. Mikey has been one of my best friends for the past year and it was a beautiful place to celebrate with him.

Full Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Parties/Mikey%20Bachelor%20Party%20Oregon%20Coast/

Horrid, and Horrible food.

Toast to Mikey

Rogue Brewery, Newport, Oregon

Football on the Beach was sweet

We Buried Zac for fun

A wicked Sunset leaves us

Lake Chelan Adrox Birthday 2008

2008-07-21T00:49:00.000-07:00

Another horrible lame weekend in Lake Chelan where all we did is sit around and drink beer and hate life. Celebrating Adrox's 27th b-day this last weekend. Me and Bambie made the mistake of staying Sunday night and thinking we'd drive home at 8am the next morning to get to work on time. Needless to say it was the first time calling in sick ever at Wyndham. Oh wells.

Full Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Lake%20Chelan/Adrox%20Bday%2008/

The Moonrise was lame:

The next day obviously looked horrible too:

Willis wanted to try out his new sandals with flasks built in.

I can haz Anchorz

Babies trys cartwheels on water again.

Me and Bambs love our coorz

Acrobatix!

Bambie Models for Dunlopz

Life Sux

Willis trys to land on dux.

HBD ADROX

4th of July in Lake Chelan!

2008-07-08T23:59:00.000-07:00

First weekend out in Chelan with the new lady, It was the best yet. Aint nothing wrong with a weekend full of drinkin coorz, boating, jet skiing, epic Momma Lawson bacon, and cream cheese hotdogs.

Full Gallery Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Lake Chelan/Chelan 4th of July 2008

Horrible View.

Bambie Loves it

We got "Bored" and decided to launch some water balloons.

We went out to Manson to watch the fireworx on the 4th.

Bambie Learned how to do Cartwheel's on water.

Finally a Sunny Day in Seattle!

2008-06-28T23:51:00.000-07:00

Seriously, this was getting very depressing.

Across the street from the redhook brewery.

Experience Prom 2008

2008-06-21T00:12:00.000-07:00

So everyone at work thought it was a grand Idea to have a prom party. Mr Zac Burback hooked it up with the house. Some of the ladies with the decorations, and of course I was on Photo Patrol. The turn out was great, and the fun was endless.

Thats right, It's a real 70's leisure suit, custom tailored to me.

And the whole crew.

Oregon Trail Rally 2008

2008-05-19T20:28:00.000-07:00

All, Pictures are up for the Oregon Trail Rally 2008, I've tried something new this year. The D200 had GPS Attached to it (Thank you Matt Ahl) and all D200 pictures have Altitude reference and coordinates built into the Exif Data.

Full Album of pictures: HERE

Google Maps of GPS picture references (Switch to Satellite view to zoom in directly to where pictures were taken): HERE

Loadable Google Earth file: HERE

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Day 1 Friday, May 16th 2008

Ken Block signs an Autograph in his new Oakley Frogskins

62 Cars packed the Parc' Expose' at Portland International Raceway

Mt Hood sticks out on a bluebird day for Victor in his Ur' Quattro prepped
Audi.

Cowboy Kenny Bartram trying to beat the sun in his eyes on the back straight of PIR.

Matt Johnson and Jeremy Wimpey: Drift Kings

ACP & Goldfarb beat the Sunset over PIR

A flock of Geese stop by turn 7 at PIR for a gaze at Travis Pastrana and Derek Ringer in the 199 car.

Tanner Foust and Chrissy Beavis take a shortcut through the Infield.

Hankook tires team prep's the #46's Tires for the Tarmac Stage.

SRT USA Technician unwrapping a brand new passenger Mirror after Travis hit a dumpster with it at speed.

Cowboy Kenny is exited about his new umbrella women

Cars lined up for Stage 3 as the sun sets over Portland.

Ken Block and Matt Johnson pick up some hints of how to negotiate the 1/4 mile hairpin corner.

Travis Pastrana and Derek Ringer extending their lead across the finish line of the 1/4 mile at PIR.

Andrew Pinker and Robbie Durant wait until their turn on the final Motocross Course stage.

Day 2 Saturday, May 17th 2008

Jeremy Wimpey points Matt Johnson in the right direction across the Splashdown stage of Hillsboro Fairgrounds.

Andrew Pinker and Robbie Durant get sideways for the spectators on Stage 6.

Piotr Wiktorczyk and Benjamin Slocum giving Stephan Verdier a run for their money.

200+ Fans look on as Cowboy Kenny executes the spectator stage perfectly.

Travis Pastrana and Derek Ringer dealing with bright sun quite nicely.

Travis and Terry Hansen prep for a left 90 of Stage 7.

Kyle Sarasin and Mikael Johansson blaze a trial through clearcut. Stage 8.

The Hintz brothers making more progress on stage 8.

Andrew Havas and Pete Pollard furthering their lead in 2WD and group 5.

George Georgakopoulos and Faruq Mays staying consistent.

Nathan and Brandye Connely pass leftover logs on stage 8.

Eric Burmeister and Bill Westrick in the Mazda 3.

Kyle Sarasin and Mikel Johansson approach a 180 degree hairpin.

One of the many casualties of the weekend.

Day 3 Sunday, May 18th 2008

Tanner Foust and Chrissy Beavis was the only Rockstar car left at this point after Andrew Pinker and Robbie Durant's Engine fire.

The rotors glow orange and the dirt flies as Carl Yardevall and Amity Trowbridge negotiate a right 90 of stage 12.

Dave Mirra errrrrr I meant Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino get used to the N/A Subaru that Dave Mirra was driving the day before.

Jeff Moyle and Scott Putnam cut a corner and punt a haybale on stage 12.

CAUTION: Kenny Bartram and Dennis Hotson have arrived.

Dave Mirra and Alexander Kihurani getting used to the new car (Ken Block's old car)

The Dahl's experience more problems on stage 12

Andrew and Robin Lockhart full lock on stage 12.

Streets Closed pizza boy, find another way home.

Cody Crane and Jason Grahn speed by the casualties on stage 14

The City of Vernonia, OR hosts Service for both days at OTR.

Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino for one last ride in a 2007 car.

ACP and Goldfarb get ready for a dip.

Dave Mirra and Alex Kihurani loving the new ride.

Fans Cheer on as Victor Bartosek and Norma Woods get ready to enter the water.

And catch some Air.

Police block the roads and have the firehose running full to keep the fans entertained.

The fish's perspective.

A Celebration for the winners of open class.

Dave and Baby Mirra enjoyed it.

PGT Winners

Finally, the Top Five of Max Attack!

Cinco De Mayo 2008! eerrrrrrrrrrrrr and New Car!

2008-05-06T22:37:00.000-07:00

Some recent News, Picked up a 4runner last weekend, 3rd row seating, Leather, DVD/Nav, Everything I could ever need, I love it so much. I picked up the biggest Thule box I could find to haul All the crap, More pictures to come, But their is one below!

Drunk by 10:30am, Blueburd and Wookies. What moar can you ask for?

Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Cinco%20de%20mayo%202008/

Gettin It kicked off keepin it real.

Brady found a way to consume with bear suit on.

Bloody mary's FTW

The new Pho Runnah's got this

This guy smelled so disgusting

Who says animals cant ride switch?

Wookie Love Bear

3 Hairy mothers

"Partly cloudy"

It was so hot.

It's so hard to see with this mask on its not even funny

Chorizo/Beer Lunch

Back up for another run

Why's everyone looking at us?

Wheres Wookie?

Air Wookie

Wookie wuv da forest

Don't mind the temperature

Drake Air wookie method

POS Ski day 2008 @ Alpental.

2008-04-28T22:54:00.000-07:00

V.Me and Mark. Super fun day, gorgeous views and well worth the $20 in gas spent to get up there. Practically got a fatty tan it was sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Album: (reminder picture 7805 is NWS)
http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/...%20day%202008/

Favs:

Yeah see this guy:

See that bombhole where he landed? He busted a 3 off that. Rode it out full speed to the bottom. It was Batshit.

Hi Mt Baker.

Hi Mt Rainier.

Olympus Rally 2008

2008-04-21T23:19:00.000-07:00

Well, Needless to say this has been the best rally yet. Awesome turnout, amazing scene's and roads, very high speed, and to top it off a ride in a rally car.

Full Album Here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Olympus%20Rally%202008/
Favorites:

Parc Expose'

John taking a nap before the race.

The 200+ fans love it.

BMX Legend Dave Mirra graces the hillside

TP's Car at service

TP Douses the fans with dust.

ACP

DSM Power

Sun Set's over Stage 10

Ken does not need a front right tire to win a rally Appearantly.

Inside the acute right of Spectator stage 10

Car's rally through fields of wheat and alphalpha surrounded by silo's and farm equipment.

Xgames Legend Dave Mirra blasts through the acute right spectator stage 13

TP with a spray of rocks on the freshly graveled Pomeroy road.

Matt Johnson exiting the fans and children.

Jardevall Accelerates through the small field of green.

Former Group 2 2WD Champion Chris Duplessis powers the AWD R32 Golf out of the corner.

John Lane in the 500+ HP Volvo powering through the corner.

AArons STI flies by Specator stage 16

Ken Block powering down the hill of SS 16 at over 120+ MPH

Travis Pastrana throws a donut for the crowd.

17 Year old Kyle Sarasin full throttle to pick up a strong 7th place finish.

Andrew Pinker and Robbie Durant had a rough couple of stages causing a 8th place finish

Jardevall cleanly pulls away with a 9th place finish.

John Lane and Jason Grahn fly through the hillside

Celebration for Ken Block, and Alex Gelsomino.

Travis dumps Champagne on Dave Mirra for finishing his first rally.

Congratulations to Group 5 and Regional champions John Lane and Jason Grahn.

Ken Block Subaru Rally Team USA promotional poster

2008-04-20T21:53:00.000-07:00

Just got back from the Olympus Rally in Pomeroy, WA this weekend. My first Rally-America event of the year. Ken Block told me he used my picture in his promotional poster for this year. I was very exited to see it. I got a 30x40 of the same picture printed personally for myself and had Ken and Alex sign it this weekend.

It's the most rewarding thing in the world having someone compliment my pictures and/or use them for something that probably over 500+++ fans picked up this weekend. And all of them have my name on them. It makes me extremely happy and feel very successful.

Also to make the weekend even better, Ken gave me the best time in a car in my life on a practice stage on Friday. Doing 100+ on dirt never felt so god damn good.

Here's the posters in front of Ken's Service Truck.

Here are the promotional posters and my poster I had Ken Sign that I will frame.

I want to express great thanks to the person that got me into Rally and pushes me more and more to do better and introduce me to new people. Jason you are a best friend and a mentor, Thank you so much for all that you've helped me out with!

Jason Grahn, Co-Driving for the 600hp John Lane Volvo, this weekend.

Xtal with MWA and Kenef 4.12.08

2008-04-13T14:06:00.000-07:00

Snow was Mashed potato's and corn baby, So nice to ski in almost 70 degree weather, Light clouds in the mornings and burned off in the afternoon. We took some nice breaks inbetween for some and just stared into the distance. It was very nice. I've neverbeen able to see so many mountains from one place in my life. Ridiculous.

Full Album: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Xtal%20with%20Ken%20and%20MWA%204.12.08/

Favs:

Rainier and the King

The King, Mt Adams, and Mt Hood.

The Olympics behind rainier.

Hood, Adams and the King again. (this is what me and Todd hiked last week)

Mt Baker

Mt Stewart

Looking North.

Tripod/skipole/selftimer pic

Bye bye clouds

Here is a horrid lazy stich of a handheld 360 Degree panoramic. At least the mountains are stitched fine.

http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Xtal%20with%20Ken%20and%20MWA%204.12.08/bin/images/medium/__Crystal_Bluebird_Pano.jpg

Or if you would like the mountains pointed out to you

http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Xtal%20with%20Ken%20and%20MWA%204.12.08/bin/images/medium/__Crystal_Bluebird_Pano_Mountains.jpg

Hiking Xtal with Todd

2008-03-31T23:05:00.000-07:00

We made a total of 3 runs, and managed to clock right around 9200 feet. Hike was roughly around 1000 foot vertical, and took about an hour. Killed a sixer of Jubilale along the way and decided to get a wild hair up our ass to Hike BC like mothertruckers. Since Todd actually has Avy gear unlike any other retards I ski with, every thing was a go

Mom if you read this, I'm sorry for going into the Backcountry, It was just too epic of a day to miss out on, and we got all the right gear.

Album:
http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/...odd%203.31.08/

Routes: Purple is the hike, and where it turns black around Silver king thats the traverse hike around the back, then you have to come up the northwestern side of it, where we were first boot tracks.

Looking at the same route Via top of High Campbell.

From the top of The Throne, the route again, Black is behind the mountain, and the Purple dot is where I took the slope incline rating on my beacon (pic below)

Northway for the first run

Looking at Northway Peak from the hike out to Northern Northway.

High Campbell

Looking out from High Campbell at our hike

Mt Rainier on the right, didint want to come out to play

Come on Rainier, come out to play

Hike to the throne

Looking out from the throne, north, you can barley see campbell basin Lodge

Rainier

Looking south towards the King from the Throne

Spotting our line

Hiking behind the king

From around the back of the King, heading up the northwestern side of it to the top, first tracking it.

View out from the King,The clouds came in

Throne on the right.

RAINIER COME ON, and some dude that followed us up.

I stopped in the middle of our line to see how much the slope was, this is the purple dot on the picture that I posted of the line. Don't mind the temp, It's right next to my chest.

Looking up at Todd at the top of the Chute

SIQQQ Snow

We were the last people down all the run's. Super satisfied, one of the best days all year.

Wheeling, and some other stuff.

2008-03-19T23:45:00.000-07:00

SO! I picked up a gig with umm, ugh, if you've never heard of it..... Grassroots Motorsports! Shooting the rest of the Rally-America series, and feedin them some pictures. I'm pretty stoked about that.

I FINALLY created a Motorsports Portfolio. You can check that out here:

http://airpoppoff.com/Motorsports/

Last weekend did a bit of shooting, went up wheeling with Josh and Will, it was quite delightful, but short. You can see all the pictures here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Wheeling/Reiter%20pit%203.08

Fav's from that day:

Still going through the Hawaii stuff, and adding more and more galleries back onto the website that were deleted :(

Doo Wops Rally 2008

2008-03-04T00:47:00.000-08:00

So I went to the Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Tahoula, Porter, Etc, For this rally basically to follow Jason around, It was great fun, and got some great pictures out of it.

Don't mind all my retarded friends in this gallery, Normally it's not like this :)

http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Doo%20Wop%20Rally%202008/

EPIC Snow @ White Pass

2008-02-05T01:07:00.000-08:00

Again, Speechless, some of the best snow ever encountered AGAIN.

Mark in Blue Jacket
Brian in Black Jacket with Red Ski's
Drake on the board.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/...Pass%202.1.08/

Too Many Fav's

It's deep

Getting deeper...

Mark gets deepest of the day shots fo shoz

ATTN: Drake suffocated for this picture

The Deepest:

Finally a pic of me

Deepest day of my life Mt hood Meadows 1.30.08

2008-01-31T10:48:00.000-08:00

I don't even know what to say, Yesterday was indescribable, Deepest snow I've ever been in, Most fun skiing, and just plain retarded fun.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/...mel%201.30.08/

This is Brian

And Me

Whitefish Montana, and a bunch of crap

2008-01-23T01:22:00.000-08:00

Your probably wondering why my pictures or website isint working. Well, very very very long story short, my hosting company lost basically 90% of my data and cant find it, so I'm gathering things up to move to a new host, Sorry about this guys/gals. That and I got kicked out of Canada until 2011. Sweet.

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So, Went to Whitefish with MWA because I couldn't go to Whistler, so yeah Leave sat morning, 12 hours later and one batshit snowstorm later we are there. We stayed at an RCI resort called Meadow Lake, Wyndham owns them too, but Heathers friend got the rooms for us. Anyways, If you don't know where Whitefish is, it's basically a skip to the canadian border. And basically the coldest temp's i've ever stood in.

Day 1: We get the snow report, -8 at the summit, 1 at the village, 8" of fresh. We get up there, they have 2 lifts open, because the wind up at the top was around 30+ and temps dipping into -20 or lower. Trees are blowing shit everywhere ice chunks the size of bowling balls in the middle of runs, Did I mention it was about 2 degrees outside? Anyways. They open up one of the main chairs ski about 4-5 runs, go inside and watch football and drink alc fo sho.

Day 2: Snow report: -6 at the summit, 0 in the village, Winds non existant, visibility of over 50+ miles Absolutely the most beautiful snow i've ever been in, So many variable conditions, Some runs pure ICE groomers, the next one over softest groomed run ever, in the bowl basically knee deep blower pow, at the end of that wind blown death crust. It was very weird. The mountain range you see in the back of the pictures is the Rockies in Glacier Nat Park, The great Divide.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Whitefish%20Montana%201.08/

Favorites

Day 1:

Overcast, Not very cool.

Day 2: First run of the day.

Basically these trees were encapsulated in like 2000+lbs of snow, it was crazy at the higher elevations, And if you touched them, alot of the snow would fall off, they call them "snow ghosts" but I call them Snow Donkeys.

If you can't read the temp on my watch, it says 4.3 degrees.

Lake Tahoe!

2007-12-13T02:44:00.000-08:00

Crazy fun, Hit up 6 Different Ski Area's Skiing a total of 22,072 Vertical feet, Some life changing BBQ food downtown, and some of the most beautiful sights and scenes I've ever witnessed. Can't wait to go back when there is 20 feet of snow. Stayed at the Worldmark resort in South Shore.

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/...Tahoe%2012.07/

Resort Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Wyndham/South%20Shore%20Lake%20Tahoe%2012.07/

Fav's:

From the top of Heavenly

Sunset over the resort

Mark:

High Camp at the top of the 110 person cable car. Squaw Valley USA

No more crazy trips planned for the rest of December, my birthday is next weekend, but I don't really care about it for some reason. Cheers everyone.

Whistler = Heaven!

2007-11-28T03:05:00.000-08:00

First time to Whistler, first run of the season, best run I've ever had. Whistler's atmosphere is absolutely amazing, Best views I've ever had from a ski resort, No biggy, you're only a mile off the ground from the village. It seems like it was light years away. Whistler has the nicest people I've ever met, most helpful staff ever, they treat you like royalty while you are there. I can't wait to go back in January for probobly the best Ski Trip of my life.

Full Album here with both Worldmark Sundace, and Worldmark Cascade Lodge: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Skiing/Whistler%2011.24.07/

Couple of Favorites:

80's Party, Going to Whistler, A Wicked December to come

2007-11-23T16:11:00.000-08:00

Schedule for December:

This weekend, Whistler BC 3 days with Kevin, Staying at both Worldmark properties
Weekend of the 1st Friday-Tuesday: Staying at Worldmark Birch Bay to go to Mt. Baker with Kevin
Weekend of the 7th: Going to Lake Tahoe, Staying at Worldmark South Shore, Skiing Heavenly and Squaw with Mark
Weekend of the 16th: Who knows? It's my birthday
Weekend of Christmas: Keeping it real with the parents
Weekend of the 3-4th: Staying at Worldmark Eagle Crest in Bend and Skiing @ Bachelor with the POS Homies.

So Tomorrow, Me and Kevin are leaving for Whistler for 2 days, coming back Monday, and staying at both Worldmark properties up there, Unfortunately their is no snow in Washington or Oregon, so we have to go to Whistler, Which I don't really have a problem with, I bought my Season pass there and will have pics to follow!

So Zac had an 80's party last weekend, The return of Maverick for sure

Full Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Parties/Burback's%2080's%20Party/

Me and Wattage as McNroe

Monterrey, Laguna Seca, Halloween, Refinement, Wheelin and Beyond

2007-11-11T22:25:00.000-08:00

I've been retarded busy, and neglecting everything about this, And not posting anything, so I'm sorry about that. But I need to do it so I can actually remember the things I do, thats a good thing. I'll post from most recent to earliest.
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So today Me and Willis hooked up to go take some pictures of his M3 Motored E30, Went and hit up I-90 bridge and Georgetown. I'm pretty happy with the pictures and I know Willis is too.

Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Car%20Shoots/Wills%20E30/

Couple of pics:

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So I organized this thing at work for us to Go to TraXX Indoor Raceway up in Mulkelteo and we had a company party up there for an hour on the track, It was siqqq, I pretty much destroyed the competition like usual and got a gift certificate to come back and do it again for free. Had a sweet little afterparty at Jess's

Pic of me:

I got stuffed under the wall in the final race by Jessie

And the Podium, 2 of my best friends, Mikey, Kevin and me.

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Ken Block hooked me up, he's a professional rally driver for the Rally America series that I follow and when I was in Colorado I took some good pictures of him that his Co-Driver linked to him, and He wanted to put this on his site to use, so he said he'd trade me some shoes, I was like Heck yes!

Go Here: http://ken-block.com/
Click on "Photos"
Go to "Racing 2007"

Check the first picture, You might recognize it :)

And I got this in the mail the next week :cool:

Signed shoes and a shirt

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My friend Matt asked me to take some pictures of his bike before he put it away for the winter, so I did a quick shoot in Kirkland overlooking Redmond plateau for him. :hsugh:

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The day After Drake's Halloween party, I went wheeling with Brummel, Scawt, Josh, and Willis, I hadnt been in a while, it was tons of fun and got some great pics of Josh's new runner, Will's FJ and Brummel's ride.

Album here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Wheeling/Evans%20Creek%2011.07/

Fav's:

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Weekend After Halloween Drake had the usual Party, So Once again, I got to dress up as Chewbacca.

All the pictures here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Parties/Drake%27s%20Halloween%20Party%202007/

Wookies love MxNjx!

And Ken Loves dressing as me

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So Kevin had a Siqqqq Halloween party had a keg of Redhoox Blonde, and I managed to come across a siqqq Chewbacca Suit, It was really fun, couldnt get drunk because I was sweating so much, But had a great time with Mikey, Kyle and Kevin. Not to mention I wore the same suit to work on Halloween and didint even win anything. It was Dumb.

Here's my setup:

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So the Laguna Seca race was pretty much one of the coolest things I've experienced in my life. It was awesome track, the layout and access is amazing, Defintely will be going back next year, I've already got our resort waitlisted :ugh: it was well worth the 12 hour drive.

Heres all the pics from the race: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/ALMS/ALMS%20Laguna%20Seca%202007/

And Some pictures, Starting off with my Favorite

I'm in love with the R10

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So I went to Monterrey Bay, Drove down 12 hours with Brummel, Scawt, Jeff-R, Ken, and Art. And Had the most life changing trip this year, It was probobly cooler than Colorado. But I dunno yet. You tell me.

Here's some pics of th Worldmark Monterrey Bay, Super fun resort, stayed in 2br unit, around 8 miles from Laguna, and a bad ass Restaurant on the site called "AJ Spurs" that had enormously life changing food.

Pics of the resort can be found here: http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Wyndham/Marina%20Dunes%2010.07

The resort on the right, Beach to the left.

Discovery Bay, Monterrey Bay

2007-10-17T22:01:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow I'm headed to Monterrey Bay, California, to see the last round of the Laguna Seca American LeMans race. I'm really exited about this and me and 5 other friends are driving down tomorrow night, Staying at our Marina Dune's resort in Monterrey. about 15 minutes from the track. I'm sure I'll take about 9 million pictures down there. More to come later at the end of this weekend. I can't wait to see the Audi R10 again.

Here are the rest of the pictures from Discovery Bay that I took, and the Hike up to Hurricane Ridge.

http://airpoppoff.com/Extravaganzas/Wyndham/Discovery%20Bay%2010.07/

A couple fav's

Resort Sunday Morning

Top of my 4 mile hike on Hurricane Ridge (about 6700')

Olympics