Last week the earth was shaken to its core by a massive magnitude mishap that was followed shortly thereafter by a tsunami of sadness…

…I am of course talking about the departure of Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller from Engadget team and the disbanding of one of the greatest podcasts known to man. A show that has gotten me through many programming binges and bouts of lab-induced insanity.

In their honor, I followed in proper jcdc fashion with this pre-airtime proclamation on top of a odd variation of Snowbird’s Death Chute that I am dubbing, the EGP Air.

…and some other stuff

Nik goes upside down and cuckoo on his, ‘gad two, double as a single’

Escaping my filming post.

Kyle with a very standard 3 off Silver Fox’s standard air.

Funzoville Air. Awesome as long as you avoid the bushes and rocks.

Also. Sorry to anyone that may have been offended by my blunt intro. Feel free to donate to the relief effort in my name. Japan is rad. Kenjiro lives there and they make a lot of cool tech stuff, despite the fact Subaru Factory in Gunma is refusing to send me a wiring diagram in English of their kookie climate controls.

Now I gotta learn to solder in Japanese…
Jake

First. A JCDC fan (or maybe anti-fan? I’m not totally sure) made this totally awesome remix of a day on the Powder Mountain Snowcat I had a little over a year ago.

Thanks MightyRaccoonFace, you fucking rock and are 100% responsible for my new ringtone.

Second. While I disagree with what 90% of Powder publishes (I feel they should just direct traffic here), this comic made me smile. I’m not big into urban (probably because I suck at it), but damn if I don’t sit around all day dreaming like this…

Imagine what could be accomplished if I spent that time on something worthwhile…

Until next time, I’ll have MY HANDS UP WHEN THEY’RE PLAYING MY SONG AND THE BUTTERFLIES FLY AWAYYYY-
Jake

Download Link: http://www.jakecast.com/helmetclips/05-01-10-maybird.m4v

Jake

After being nominated as one of Frankie’s favorites in the athlete meeting after today’s event (the announcer’s views on what the best lines were), Nik found himself sitting in 22nd position. This is after sending the biggest air in the gnarliest section of the venue and then straightlining the last half of the zone through huge icy moguls right into the finish. Don’t believe me yet? Just check out the World Freeskiing Tour Homepage picture from today, featuring the Aksamit sending it HUDGE into the pocket.

World Freeskiing Tour Homepage featuring Nik Aksamit

Close-up of Nik going huge!

Tough break buddy, we all thought you were top ten for sure. At least we can take solace in knowing that we are so gnarly that even if we don’t make the cut, we still get featured in the headline photo.

Video of Frankie’s Favorites from the athlete meeting this evening (I’m in the purple shirt and Nik has a haircut like a child molester).
Scroll to 1m 20s for the JCDC spotlight moment.

The good news is tomorrow temperatures are supposed to drop and the clouds are going to movie in, which means it won’t be variable conditions throughout the day. It’ll just be coral reef and ice all day long. I am so fucking stoked.

See you tomorrow, #16.
Jake

Psh. It doesn’t matter. I’ll be like Eminem in 8 Mile and just start rapping at the top of the venue. Uhh…I’m gonna get grips of style points.
…Now if only I can convince Mekhi Phifer to fly to Utah

The tree roots and bushes will just act like pillows on my landing.

I got a sickbird nomination for filling out paperwork today. Jim Jack said he’d never seen pen strokes quite like mine.

Cool videos from Friday when it actually looked like winter in Utah.

Jake