TALES FROM THE TRIPS | Bear Mtn Day: 1
Words, Photos: Andrew Miller
The Bear Mountain Wide Open goes down around the same time in Feb/March every year. During this time Bear makes the extra effort to prime up their parks for the week long open shooting and filming, contests and non stop shredding. Myself, Mac Spedale and Nick Russell had a hard time taking our selves away from all the snow thats was falling in Utah to make the 9hr drive to So Cal. First and foremost for me was to cover the first ever etnies snow Goofy vs. Regular and hang out for a extra couple of days to shred and shoot. After about every type of weather went through bear during weekend of GvR thankfully Monday cleared up and it was our first day of shredding on the all mountain park at Bear. After such a heavy list at GvR tons of heads from all over where just taking laps through the main park messing around and having fun all day. As for our crew we make sure everybody was safe... ly riding through the park taking some hot laps bonking, sliding, tweaking, spining, fliping and slashing all day. I have never really taken my elf out to shoot action before but today I was stoked to ride with out my usual huge heavy pack and just cruise around snapping photos when I pleased while still getting a chance to hit everything. Short and sweet of day of was fun, sun, friends and tweaks. Check out the photo story of the day below.
To see Tales from the Trips: Bear Mtn Day: 2 HERE
- Can you feel the heat coming off this picture? Thats how hot it was at Bear times 100
- (insert standard Japan caption here) Mac Spedale tweaking a back seven Japan in Bear Mtn
- A bunch of cool. dudes.. Mac, Kirk Kaufmann and Cody Rosenthal.. thumbs up for a fun day at Bear.
- I love it when follow elf camera pictures turn out good. Cody is a tweaker.
- Yet another tweaker...Kyle Lopiccolo with some tranny finder tweakage 
- Kirk Kaufmann needs to invent a new trick and call it the Kaufmister. To bad he hasnt yet... Front three tranny finder.
- Nick Russell just hanging out at bear.
- Joe Carter and Kyle showing the love
- Cryptkeeper getting Kinky
- Harrison Gordon aka boardin Gordon aka Hard way Harrison aka Ginger Man aka Harry even took a lap with us... Yes he will answer to any of those.
- Mac Spedale often will answer to Mo Scrilla cause he thinks a thung and loves to front.. especially at Bear Mtn.
- Screw hitting the jump straight on. Side ways is way better. Nick Russell reaching for the taipan
- After riding a foot of fresh in Utah a few days prior it felt like an an inferno and last they of the year conditions at Bear.
- Kyle loves Rainbows
- The tweakage factor from everybody this day was: from 1 to 10 around 12.5
- At least the smog from the Valley hasn't reached Bear yet.. Typical sunny Socal weather in Bear Mtn.
- Hey yet another tranny finder picture. This thing was fun. More tweakage courtesy of Mac Spedale
- Even with a sore back Cody Rosenthal always makes a extra effort to tweak. This photo could possible be the next cover of Tweak it Mag!
- Kirk Kaufamnn " It feels so good in the Air... until I land" Extra tall backie for ya...son.
- After a hot long day of riding a tailgate fresh beverage just feels right.
- Whenever in Bear go to Get the Burger....It's like a super sloppy In and Out..Tastes especially good after snowboarding all day with out eating. We were all first timers.. Thanks to Kirk to pointing us in right direction.
- Ocean of shit. Take a long deep breath of clear mountain air before heading back into the valley smog... Shredding Bear is fun but I'm glad I moved out of Socal.
Check out Tales from the Trips: Bear Mtn Day: 2 HERE