Made it to Chile

Me and Jen finally made it to Santiago, Chile!! After 2 days of flights and a lot of coca-colas later we were ready to go. We quickly learned that everyone here spoke spanish and no one can speak any english. We got lost multiple times and was hard for us to get our bearings straight when we got to downtown Santiago. Chile is a lot more run down then I thought it would be there fore a huge culture shock. Honestly the part of Santiago we are in reminds of Hastings street cause there is garbage every where and everyone looks sketchy, i feel like someone is always following me. Despite everything, we dipped into this mall and came across this Ripcurl shop. Random right? Tomorrow we make our way to the mountains to start the journey! For now staying in a sketchy hostel for the night...

Endeavor Split-board??

Huh Endeavor Snowboards is now making split-boards you may ask? No they are not but part of my interview with Snowboard Canada will be turning a fresh new board and cutting it in half, to turn it into a split-board for touring! Tamo ordered my split-board kit yesterday and I can't wait to make it when down in Chile. Thanks to Ryan Patey for giving me 2 fresh decks to go down with!

Beyond Boarding down in Peru

Tamo and the rest of the Beyond Boarding crew have been down in Chile the last month helping out the less fortunate building floating gardens and traveling down the amazon river. I am so excited to meet up with the crew August 15 down in Chile!

Check out the full article at :
http://www.snowboardcanada.com/news_article?news_id=2097

and

http://beyondboarding.org/blog/


Heres a couple webisodes Tamo has put together....

Living the Dream at Camp of Champions

I have been at Camp Of Champions for the last month and it has been amazing! Getting paid to snowboard is essentially living the dream. First of all I want to thank Chris Dufficy and Colin D Watt for making this all possible. I was coaching kids for two weeks and when I wasn't coaching I was working as a buffer (salting features, putting up flags and working security). I would like to say i got really good at snowboarding but nope i still suck.... Pretty much every day on the glacier I was working so I didn't get much time to my self to work on the bigger tricks i wanted to learn. The focus was making sure all my campers had a blast and I did what I could to teach them new tricks. My body is pretty banged up from some injuries so I am in need of some much needed rest and a surf session. This has been probably the best month of my life and I can't believe it is all over :( See everybody next year!!!

A couple camp edits below where everybody kills it! I don't have any shots in them so don't waste your time looking for me haha

Birthday Edit

Fun day up in Whistler enjoying the sun and hanging out with good friends.

Boarders Without Borders Fundraiser

Tamo Campos and the rest of the Boarders Without Borders crew held a fundraiser at Sitka shop to raise money for their charity down in Peru. The night was a lot of fun and it was a great turn out. There was live music, a raffle, a 2-6 tonney toss and of course a lot of beer to be consumed. When you go to the BC Liquor store and buy 300 hundred beers you know it's going to get wild! All in all I believe the night was a success.

BBQ Skate Jam

It was the first weekend were people were officially done school for the summer and I knew the weather was going to be nice on sunday. So I had a bbq skate jam for a bunch of my friends that I work with and ones that I use to work with. It was a great time and I hope everybody had fun! This was the first of many bbq's to go down at my house this summer...see everybody at the next one :):)

 Frontside smith for me

 Crooked grind for Rhley

Fakie 5-0 in the straw hat

 Dave feeble to fakie

 Ryley sacked himself

 Brenen and Andrew killed the grill

 Drink time

Mark going huge