BRIGHTON BUNCH 2009 RECAP
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The Brighton Bunch has some deep depth in its meaning now, at least for me it does. Now that I have had the experience of sleeping at the base of the resort, waking up 10 feet from the Milly lift and watching the pow stack up again. I finally feel like I am a part of the Brighton Bunch.
What is the Brighton Bunch? It’s more than a submission or an editorial highlight of a resort. It’s a crew of riders that get together on pow days and ride some of the best terrain available in Utah. Brighton has such a deep history in snowboarding and it’s amazing to just experience it myself and be a part of it.
This Brighton Bunch comes to you from the lenses of Andrew Miller and Mark Dangler. The two driving forces behind the concept of continually writing about and shooting Brighton. This was our second time around to Brighton on the All Roads Lead To Tour and the second time that Brighton received epic snow since our first stop. One thing I can vouch for in snowboarding is that when you experience powder days, you tend to not forget them for a while. So when your tour bus is front and center on the two most epic powder days in a few weeks time some riders believe that you bring the storms. This concept is a mentality we deliver through the Pow Down religion but the secrets out, we just chase the snow.
This time around we slept in the parking lot as the snow piled up, woke up as the crew started rolling up. This time around it was Elliott Levitt, Kyle Loppiccollo, Ben Farrell, Noah Hausknecht, Josh Poehlein, Jp Tomich, Kurt Wastell, Megan Centi, Mark Dangler, Joe Carter, with appearances from Jameson; whom I must add covered the guitar of Pink Floyds Money the other night. We all had one thing in mind, and that was to get some, and enjoy the shit out of it.
The powder was deep, around 10-20 inches worth of great mid weight, stable snow on epic terrain. What more can you ask for? We started off the day riding fresh lines in bounds sending the cliffs we know, finding new ones, and just all around feeling out the resort. We were rolling fairly deep with heads but none of us cared about anything but enjoying this moment and appreciating the day. It wasn’t about getting the first line, the fresh shot, the money angle, or any of that shit. It was about pure snowboarding and expressing our love for it. No greed, everyone giving each other the first go, for the sole purpose of letting your home boys get the goods, and know that there will be plenty for you down the same chute.
The Brighton Bunch represents what snowboarding should be about; great friends, epic snow, epic terrain and knowing there is plenty of it to go around. Enjoy the photos from Andrew and get out here yourself. Its good out here.
- I found this little pillow puff off the Millicent lift.
- Steve Pierce dropping a nugg
- Kyle Loppicolo popping a cherry.
- Kyle clearly loving life.
- I got deep in this backside turn with the frozen lake in the background, John Centi
- Sean Quinn emerging from the white room
- Powder caked
- I love the way that the snow spray aftermath exists in a backside turn.
- Epic patterns in life.
- Elliot dumping a sail.
- Snowrev Filmer Mark Dangler loves his job, at least it looks like he does here.
- Powdahh dood! Josh Poehlein lays into a backside turn.
- This was a quick front side pop I had.
- Ahhh, home is where the pow is.
- A quick hike up off of Crest Lift and you can find some good snow even days after a storm.
- The views up here are amazing, all time for sure.
- I was scoping the potential line that lie ahead. There were multiple cornices but was a safety zone.
- Kyle and I ventured down to our lines.
- The view of our canvas from the bottom.
- Joe Carter dipped in quickly.
- Kyle came out super quick, and launched into a flatter segment.
- and he was pissed.
- I found this spot in between two cornices that I was able to cut away some snow and find a clear shot to my line. Dropped in and made my way around this first tree.
- I cam around the second turn and pointed it to a natural hip.
- Final image on the canvas.
- I was definitely stoked on my one run of the day. We would have stayed around longer but committed to meet with Bjorn Leines at the Celtek headquarters.
- A view from crest lift of three chute sitting in the middle of Mt Tuscarora. About a 2 hr hike off Milly.
- Jamieson Stuart taking it all in on the top of Milicent Mtn. Great view of wolverine cirque, and down into LCC with Mt Superior looming in the distance.
- Little closer view of fantasy ridge and Mt Superior.
- Jamo about to strap in and ride down to the saddle of Wolverine with Tuscorara on the left.
- Finishing the last leg of the hike up and over Tuscorora.
- Birds eye view of what Brighton has to offer. You can barley make out the parking lot in the middle left.
- Started the hike around 3pm getting to the summit around 4:30 the shadows had come into full effect. Not making the most idea conditions for shooting non the less Jamieson finished er off from the shadows.
- Hiking out of an epic adventure. Two hour hike for a 20 second run. Was it worth it? Hell yea. Get out of the park once and awhile explore your surroundings... You won't be disapointed.