cody barnhill

Long Hot Summer

cody — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:43:29 +0000

Salt Lake City. It’s a desert out here. You might not think so as we get more snow than anywhere near here by a long shot, but I can assure you, it is in fact a desert out here. It’s hot and dry and it works it’s way into your skin anyway it can, even if it has to burn your skin off to do so. Out here in the barren Promised Land there, like anywhere if you look, is plenty to do to distract you from the fact that you are constantly just a little bit uncomfortable, and all you want to do is go to the mountains and cool off. Like, for example, go to the mountains and cool off. Personally though I have been passing my time cutting fiberglass, grinding edges, cutting bases, running errands, making orders, emails, and phone calls, lugging drums of epoxy… all for the dream that one day, off in the difficult-to-see-through-the-city-smog-and-desert-inversion future that winter will once again come, that the beautiful, almost untouchable, off in the distance mountains will be given that little extra bit of magic, that ethereal glow that only comes with the proper application of the fresh snow of a new season, over top of the orange death rattle final breath of the previous one. And that this will all lead invariably to piles upon piles upon piles of that same indicative white magic, covering all the typically iconic mountain tops and faces with the temporary mask of winter, finally motioning to us, all of us, that it is ok again. That the harshness of this desert summer has passed and we may once again be free to be and do what we would like.
Until then my friends, I hope you all find great things to do to pass your time, things that make you forget the heat, things even that you can love like we all love skiing. And in the mean time you can also be assured that the skis you need are being made, and I’m here to make sure of it, and if you want to make sure for yourself come down to 4Frnt on 2900sw temple in SLC and see. I’ll be here.

A whole lot of edges

Alaska.

admin-codybarnhill — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:23:02 +0000

So I have been wandering about a bit. I have been from Salt Lake City to Portland to Anchorage, now I’m back in Portland trying to find my way back home. I went to Alaska and had a great wonderful and awesome time, which I’ll write more about later, but in the mean time I’d like to put up a photo that I took there and promise that before weeks end I’ll be writing a nice bit about the travels.

Woah.. A little break, sorry about that.

cody — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:55:15 +0000

I have been working on the YLE a new 4Frnt Signature series ski which will be Wiley Miller’s pro-model ski. It is turning out really well and I have been having a whole lot of fun skiing on them the last few days. Check out this little video that I made of the construction of one of the prototypes:

In other news, check out this music festival thing that I just came across, it is 100% bike powered, and granted it’s tiny, but it is a good idea..

Cutter Bones is a Bike!!

cody — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:11:54 +0000

Hey! Check out this video I made, It’s pretty cool I think!

Wh-Y Couloir?

cody — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:44:21 +0000

The other day after a few other days of 6 o’clock wake ups Matt Sterbenz, Keith Carlsen, and Myself decided to climb up Y couloir in Little cottonwood canyon, which for those of you who don’t know where that is, it is about half way to Snowbird on the way up the canyon, and it is about 3000 feet of no less than 40 degree slopes, in a couloir that is never wider than about 100 feet, so in short it’s not to be taken lightly. We decided that in the interest of making it to the top before the warm snow got too dangerous we would try to be hiking by 7:30, and out of there not too long after noon, which worked out pretty well except that it took longer than we had expected it to since we were shooting photos. Keith was carrying the camera pack, which kept him in the back of the pack where he got hit by some heavy hot sluff like a rolling bag-o-bricks, but came out alright.
Here are some of the photos that I took on my camera. The photos that Keith took will be seen in next years magazines as our 4Frnt MSP ad. Enjoy!

Cody

What a weekend!

cody — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:09:51 +0000

I had a great weekend with a good foot of fresh in Utah followed by two sunny days. On saturday I went out with two filmers, Photographer Stan Evans, fellow 4Frnt Athlete Wiley Miller, and 4F Mob Boss Matt Sterbenz with the goal of getting photos for my, Matt’s, and Wiley’s 4Frnt magazine ads for next season. We took a long walk starting at Alta and ending after sunset at Brighton exhausted and happy, having gotten a bag full ‘o shots and a bunch of fun jumps in. The next morning was a little slower with no need to try to get out to any freshies first, but Matt and I did manage to crank out a 4Frnt tech talk real quick before partaking in the inagural Alta game of snowshoes (horseshoes in snow.) I’ll have some video up in the next couple of days. Until then, thanks for reading.

Cody

Short vid.

cody — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:55:41 +0000

I made a short video of some old segments from tgr and warren miller. Check it out.

-cody

Winter comes and goes.

cody — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:37:13 +0000

Does anyone else think this winter is just kinda weird? It’s been like spring time for the last week, then all of a sudden she flips the switch and winter falls in fluffy white abundance once again. Not that I’m complaining really, I love spring skiing and pow skiing almost equally, but it’s been going on like this all damn season. I don’t really feel like the winter has even kicked off and here we are tuning up the bikes, digging up the shorts, buying new flip flops, and planning the first surf trips. I just hope the summer is less indecisive than the winter. I suppose it might be the nature of things though; sometimes you flush, sometimes you bust. Just when you think you see a pattern forming the whole thing flips over on it’s back.
Looking out the window just north of my desk I can watch the snowflakes flash and disappear in the glow of the street corner light on their finite journey to the ground, a flat reminder that it ain’t over yet. That tomorrow when I wake up to a foot of new snow and battle the driving masses, each just a little more entitled than the next, landing finally at the base of Alta and rush my way to the lift line excited and anticipatory, feet sore in my new ski boots, sleep still lodged in the corners of my eyes, and coffee fresh on my breath, it will once again be winter. And even though it might well turn right back to spring again on Monday and bake the snow to an unpredictable mashed-potatoey consistency, I plan to ring out the last lonesome juices of this little winter that could, and enjoy it for all she’s worth.
I hope I see you in the lift line..

-Cody

A week on the road, and a deal too.

cody — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:34:03 +0000

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.

Salt City! (for a day)

cody — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:05:16 +0000

Boom Boom! Winter park (rugged) and done. Asked everyone that I could think of for a ride home and it finally paid off! I got a ride home with a rep that peddles discrete and got to see my lady for a day before she high tailed to Telluride for the big mountain comp there. Salt City has been a busy bit of business however, because in a day I am leaving for Shasta to go stare at crystals, search for alien gods and ski pow while shooting for a Powder Mag story… Here’s a couple of photos of the Discrete booth and the Ghostland Observatory show in Aspen because I’m not in the mood to write a thousand words.