Archive for April 2010

We are happy to present True Color Films first video “a trip to Italy”. The guys went to Italy hunting powder for a week, the first three days they had no powder but a lot of fun. Riding funny transitions and a wu-tang kicker. The crew shredded every little corner of the mountain. Check it out!

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Peace out.

It's been three days since Tero and I made it to Haines and finally we've loaded the plane to take off at sunset tomorrow morning and join the deeper crew for some new adventures! Two weeks of camping with Jeremy Jones, Josh Dirksen, Lucas Debari, Ryland Bell, Tom Burt, Chris Edmands, Tero Repo…It's apparently pretty sick up there, the terrain and snow conditions seem to be amazing. Can't wait to find out what it's gonna be like! Xavier

The weather was due to be bad for a while so Tyler and I decided to try to do something in a nice bumpy tree area by Thompson pass we spotted the week before. The snow had got pretty heavy but Tyler and I were determined to start the week off well. We found a nice looking step down so we got it setup and waited for a little more light. I went first and landed in a whole and compressed my knee... Nooo! Tyler tried a little more but after a few more tries it was evident the snow was just too heavy and there wasnt enough new snow to land anything. So we called it a day. A few miles down the road Pasha and Carlos broke down having forgotten to refill the tank... Nooo! Ok, we drove back to Valdez to get fuel for them, after some faffing around at the gas station we finally got back to Pasha who had been waiting alone up on the pass. We put gas in... still woudnt start, now the batterie was dead. Ok, lets find some jump cables... still nothing! Right, shiet... so we called someone to come pick it up and we'd sort it later. During the following days the weather stayed real shitty up on the pass, my knee hadn't improved and cabin fever was setting in. Nooo! The truck had been in the truck/RV repair for a few days and the mechanic just couldnt start it so Sergey decided to get someone to come pick it up and toe it back to Anchorage. A few hours later Sergey called us and told us he fiddled with the fuzes a little and played around under the hood for a few minutes and started it up first go! We couldn't believe it... Nooo! So there you go, 3 weeks in AK done. We have learnt alot here, I gotta say our sled skilz are just epic now, we only flipped them like 20 times probably and only have a couple of thousand dollars in repairs on them each ;) And we learnt that up here, Nature is the boss. Big thanks again to Sergey for being the dude and to Mountain Sky Valdez. Peace Marco

“4 days of good weather in a row. Insane snow! A good foot of fresh snow made me feel like I finally got to ride the real AK deal. Huge sloughs, some surface cracks here and there that kept our eyes opened but no big deal. We got on some kick ass terrain; some 1800 feet spine faces ... I'm stocked! It's been really cool to share that with Sammy Luebke, he really rocked with his smile and charging style. We definitely had some good fun... Time to head to Haines and join Jeremy's crew for some AK camping. I can't wait to live that experience, and hopefully get on some more nice terrain...!” Xavier

After our week in and around Anchorage it was time to head out to Valdez! The drive is a good 5 to 6 hours so we thought we'd break up the journey and go see a glacier on the way. A man called Bill took up on the back of his sled along with his riffle incase any bears would be hanging around... The sight as you can see was pretty amazing...

“Just got to AK 4 days ago. Two standard films crews are on site, on one side Kevin Jones and Mark Carter getting shot by Chris Ondercin and Curley for stills. On our side Sammy Luebke joined the euros composed by Guido Perrini on the filming duty, Tero Repo taking pics and myself. We've been so far pretty lucky with already two good days and more to come. Sammy is ripping and got straight away into our program... Most of all, snow is great, stable... we have some good lines in the head, not much more to say than that we are pretty stocked to be up here! The end of the week seems sunny so just have a look at the pictures... no need to say that it might be pretty sick....fingers crossed!” Xavier

After trying to deal with the lack of snow in Europe Tyler, Arthur, Carlos and I made the 26 hour journey to Anchorage AK, to hook up with Pasha for a 3 week sled trip to find winter snow again.