A week on the road, and a deal too.
Well, first off I have been asked to inform everyone that backcountry is having a sale and that if you click on this little link here than you will get early access to the sale (as in, today, instead of next Monday) so click on it and check it out, and if you buy anything than the BC guys will think I’m doing my job… Thanks..
Ok, on to travel time. A coupe of weeks ago I ran into Grant Gunderson out in Denver and he asked me if I wanted to come out to Shasta (CA) for a Powder feature that he was shooting out there in the near future, but he wasn’t sure exactly when. Well, the near future turned out to be right after I got back from Colorado, so I took one day in SLC to get my life together a little bit and then jumped behind the wheel of the Corolla for a long drive west. Er, a kind of long drive. The first leg was Salt Lake to Tahoe for some shooting in a zone that Grant’d had success in before. History became tradition, and we killed it about as hard as you could possibly ask to for two days in any zone. After two days though the cosmic vibes of Shasta were calling out our names and we had to hit it for a few more hours north. Decent snow + bad weather + good photographer = Great photos. Another two hard days of working what we could, and we came out with surprisingly good photos for a Powder feature about Shasta. Shasta is a mellow little town, away from most things, with a surprisingly backwoods feel for the fact that I-5 runs right through the middle of it. Upon arriving into town I showed up a little bit before the other half of the crew, so I wandered around for a bit, and within just a few minutes met the Uncle of a good friend from back in SLC, who owns a really rooty little ski shop right in Shasta called Shasta Base Camp. If you find yourself in town there is no better place to get your gear fixed up, and you might just get invited to climb on their shop bouldering wall and if you’re really lucky the local brewmeister will bring by some of his latest fare.
After two days in Shasta with no improvement in weather ahead we figured we could either stick around and try hard to get more of the same shots we already had, or we could call it and if we really need more we’ll come back in the spring to hit the summit. Easy answer there and we’re back to Salt City..
Here are a select few snapshots from along the road.
