Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The Step-up - Boardwalk Empire!

After numerous trips to the infamous Santa Cruz step-up, Graham, Ja'mie, Ben and I have kept our eyes pealed for zones to build a trick step-up in our backyard.

After some serious hours of landscaping and carpentry, this is the end product...

The lip

Dobie manicuring the lip

The take off and back-side of landing

The one problem with our zone was that the run in tended to flood in the wet season. We installed a 40 ft boardwalk to lead us into the lip.

The landing

The landing

Oh Baby!

Right as we finished building the lip, winter came. We got one solid session in and decided that it needed a few modifications and time to let the lip set. We are going to wait till the spring to fix up the run in and then she should be prime.

Do you recognize this from a recent Pinkbike video? Check out Jordie Lunn and his hombre's have a go at it in non-ideal conditions.



Cheers,

Dobie

-Photo Cred: K. Price

Friday, December 3, 2010

From the Archives (2007)

Well,

After hours and hours of digging, Ben, Cam and I just finished this rad jump in the Endownment lands. Today was the first session that we had on it.

Benny threw down some rad one-foot x-ups, Cam was working on tables and Dobie was "attempting" no-handers.

Check out the video that we made.




Just kidding, this is from February, 2007 HAHAHAHA!!!!

-Dobie