Out running the sluff at brighton.
Airing it out in dry fork
Teeing off with the Driver in Dry Fork hole 1 Par 5
Teeing off in the Dark, Lights camera action!
Dry Fork is sick!
Shredding, Wasatch style All Photos Drew Stoecklein 2009
So since getting back to Wasatch, I had the opportunity to go out and shoot with local big mountain shredder and up and coming photographer Drew Stoecklein.
Meeting up at the seven eleven in the early morning at the mouth of big cottonwood before heading up Brighton Mountain resort in search of some of the big cliffs around the resort to send. Brighton is sweet, it's the hot spot for Salt lake city snowboarders because of it terrain park and rails, so the rest of the resorts cliffs, and pillow lines don't get slashed up and bomb holed out like the cliffs at resorts in little cottonwood would during and after a storm. After a little searching we found our zone, nothing like a little 40 footer as a warm up. Good think I brought my helmet.
I also found this super cool granite shoulder which was near vertical but held snow at the top, but the bottom was all exposed granite with big rocks at the bottom, so plan was to jump off of the shoulder where the snow ended and air into the small pocket of snow between the rocks.
As I dropped in on the shoulder the entire face gave way, white rooming my vision, panicing I straightlined out of the sluffing snow down the face, I quickly popped over the exposed granite face landing in the small pocket. The force of the landed pushed my knees into my chest knocked the wind out of me, blow my goggles off my face and my ipod earphone out of my ear. But we got the shot.
After shooting all day we took a two hour break before heading out for the night shoot. I was able to go home change into some dry gear, eat a quick snack, and stretch before it was time to go back out there. Night shooting is always very interested from setting up the flashes in the dark, to setting up the exposure of the camera to capture all of the light and get right angle, oh and hitting a 25 foot cliff in the dark with a bright flash going off right as you take off from the lip of the cliff. Good think night shooting also entails beer with buddies. Because otherwise there is no way a sane person would hit a cliff in the dark. But once you hit a cliff in the dark in the day time it's no problem. Day 1 in the books, all and all it was a super good day.
Day2 Alta backcountry, Dry fork zone: The following morning we headed out to the dry fork zone on the backside of Alta. After setting a quick bootpack where we wallowed up to our chest we topped out. We quickly set up for two quick powder shot while we had the light, after the powder shot were in the bag, it was time to start teeing off of some big cliffs in the basin. Griffen went first and sent it Hugh, making me think twice what i was doing on top of this 4o plus cliff. Right before I dropped in I saw a group of Ravens (my power animal long story ) cruising around the gulch, after seeing the birds I knew it was all good, a big deep breathe, "camera ready" "skier ready" "dropping in 10, 5, 3, 2,1".
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