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…In a Salt Lake Month

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It is said that a New York minute is only an instant.
Well, here in Utah I like to measure time on a different scale. The Salt Lake Month. Because everything moves so slow here (especially the drivers). It’s like the Shire, but without sweet birthday parties and all the hobbits are prejudiced.

And that broad, outwardly rude insult is how I just explained going a month without pouring my excess sputum into the bottomless vacuum of the internet.

Sorry about the dark intro. I have to stop falling asleep to bad VHS copies of Requiem for a Dream.

Here’s some climbing, skiing & guns to cheer you up.

Climbing
Nik does some adventure abseiling in LCC

Sweet belay stations

…2 pictures. That’s it. NEXT.

Guns (*Guns supplemented with a Jeep for liability and future alibis sake)
Nik on a over-saturated barefoot ice cream dumpster disposal mission.

A target range fit for a (dirtbag) king!

Kris demonstrates shirtless gun reloading while his brother and Marcus enjoy some…male bonding?

Marcus & I begin digging his car out with an avalanche shovel for 8-year-olds and a camping chair.

A Doctor & Math Teacher’s mandatory 12-seconds of labor before goofing off in the salt flats.

Marcus, en motion.

Misty 5. Said goofing off.

Scenery

Skiing
K(harles) Wehmanen. Throwing some big 3s and 5s.

IDNK what I was trying to do in this picture.

Kyle with some open jacket steezery.

I gts’d the s out of the b, ya’ll.

Stay tuned for my state street river float pictures when this popstand finally floods.
Jake

Space Oddity

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I just like the part where the snow hits me in the face. And ya. I did title the post that without using the David Bowie song. It’s my website and I’ll do what I want.

I call this variation on a fun tower 3 air, the Unofficial JakeCast Air. You can see a previous Unofficial JakeCast bombhole that I managed to land in due to my helmet camera deciding the world was not ready for the radness that was my first send of this thing.

Jawaz.

Hanging Bowl, the Tram Show way.

Death Chute, the Nik Axe-Attack way.

DON’T SHIFTY THE TREE. tree wins everytime.

Repeats before sweeps.

The secret to removing skiing sweat smell is Dove…blood*
Jake

*Thanks Tina Fey for writing this for my site. That was cool of you.

Self-Promoted Podcast Proclamations

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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