Dec. 2023 - Vol. 18 | Issue 01

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ACT OF VIOLENCE

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HI THERE

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SHOP PROFILE: A LWAY S B OA R D S H O P

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BRAND PROFILE: C H I M E R A & PA L L A S

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ARTIST PROFILE: GRIFFIN SIEBERT

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SOUND CHECK

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O P E N I N G ATC Act While I will never be considered a great snowboarder or skateboarder, I can unequivocally say the greatest times of my life have revolved around these two endeavors and shared experiences with my friends. Curb sessions, weekends skating downtown in Jr. High and High School, trips to SF, the most abysmal weather conditions on a seemingly endless slow double lift, thigh-deep pow days, Ro Sham Bo for first lines, follow the leader through Star Wars at Brighton, slushy end-of-season park laps, and Japan. Each of these memories are magical, but only because some of the dearest humans in my heart were there to experience them with me. No one, NO ONE, relives a day at the office on their deathbeds. Go out, have fun, make memories. Taylor Miller, Corrine Pasela, and John Blume seem to agree.

Photo: Benjamin Littler

Wo r d s b y Daniel Cochrane

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DON’T MISS OUT ON OUR NEXT

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Pulling into the Brighton parking lot on a Saturday in May of 2023 offered a view much different than any season prior. Upon parking, one would notice a f lurry of activity: a skate ramp cover coming off, a pick-up game on an ad hoc basketball hoop, ping pong tables being rolled out, and most curious of all, the chairs of the Mt. Millicent lift were …. turning?

Introducing the first-ever Milly Meltdown.

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Long has the idea of extending Brighton's shred season been kicked around. From a public perspective, why not? Adding even just that much more value to the season pass and getting a taste of summer shred vibes at our favorite Wasatch resort? Sounds magical. However, the logistics from the resort perspective beg specific questions? Will the people who keep the lights on be able to work late into May? Will there be enough snow? Would diehards forego the spring valley sunshine for even more days on snow?

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The most consequential question of a potential extended season lay in snow totals.

Fortunately, the "22/'23 season delivered enough snow to make it a no-brainer to take this idea from the hypothetical to reality. Beyond the snow, it would be nice to pretend an effort like this can happen without financials being considered, but we all know there are bills to pay. Fortunately for all of us, the experiment was on. With the green light and all other circumstances prime, would the people show up and prove this all worth it?

If you ventured up to Brighton in May 2023, you know that the saying "If you build it, they will come" went beyond cliche. With everyone from local weekend warriors, curious East Coast and Midwest tourists to your favorite SLC pros, ams, and shop kids present, the Milly lift line proved that the people begging for a season extension backed up their talk and showed up en masse for one of the most unique Brighton experiences of all time. From that one "secret" side hit and waist-high moguls in the top zone to f lowy berms and continually refreshed park features, there was something for everyone in just one lap. The options even extended to the parking lot. Ping pong with pros, basketball and banter, cold drinks, tailgating, live music, and the aforementioned mini ramp allowed for just as much action at the mountain's base as on its slope. Thirty extra Brighton days like that made for some of the best vibes ever seen at the Milly Chalet.

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Not only did the budget sheet do well enough, but from an exposure perspective, it was also a massive success for Brighton. So, what does this mean going forward? Brighton is undoubtedly moving toward all-season mountain operations, and more spring riding is anticipated. The Captain, Jared Winkler, is entirely on board, "I've always wanted to turn Milly into an all freestyle-terrain side of the mountain." Does that mean we'll see a full-blown terrain park conversion on Milly? Probably not, but Jared continued, "This was a great exercise for us to try something like that and see how the f low would go." The f low was stellar, and the overall success of the inaugural Milly Meltdown pushed the spring bonus-season door open in the future: "We'll do the best we can to continue some sort of 'meltdown.' I want to keep it exciting and fresh, though. So maybe one year it's on Crest, and another maybe we get wild and build it up on Snake Creek. Even if it isn't through May, why not use our snow and keep things open as long as possible?"

Whether it's a couple extra weeks or an entire month, Brighton embracing the meltdown season and staying open beyond mid-April would be the perfect way to cap off the Big Cottonwood Canyon shred season.

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Growing up with a snowboard crew full of your best friends is something we’ll never take for granted. Throughout years of riding together, we have been able to watch each other grow and discover our own styles. Naturally being competitive with each other so early on really pushed us to learn about each other's riding. In between playing games of S.N.O.W or competing in rail jams, wanting to beat each other ultimately brought us closer together. Our own personal perspectives and interests within snowboarding really helped us discover more about each other.

Having learned so much about each other’s tricks and style makes finding spots for each other really easy. We’re always sending spots back and forth in the group chat, getting feedback, inspo, or just letting the homies know they should pull up. Sharing different perspectives of the spot is really helpful. One of us might have a different initial vision than the other, in turn helping unlock new spots to benefit the group. This has been a really constructive process for us during our winters of filming.

We try not to be fixed on one trick right away because there are a lot of situations where it simply just won’t work out. Natural speed spots are really optimum, it makes you feel like you're just riding a hill in an urban setting. However, in Minneapolis, there is a fair share of f lat spots.

Sometimes it’s a homie pull, and other times it will be a pump track from a snowbank. This is where it’s nice to have a crew with different visions pulling up to the spot. We're usually just yelling out ideas as we're getting our first looks at the spot. When someone gets a clip, it's exciting for the whole squad. Collectively we find filming a clip for our homie is just as thrilling as it is to get one yourself.

Music is pretty important to all of us. We all listen to a variety of songs and feed off each other’s music interests. Most of the time we listen to music at the spot while setting up, it's a great way to get the energy levels up in the crew. We find the music is just as important as the clip itself.

Having a song that goes along with your riding is sick, you could say it’s part of your style. Music makes the video so much more complete and it wouldn't be the same without it.

For us Street snowboarding is an art form and a way to continuously express ourselves. It’s truly better when you get to do it with your group of friends. We’ve been able to learn so much about ourselves and each other, which is something that amazes us.

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An Expedition to Alaska's Famed

THOMPSON'S PASS with

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Tailer Gray and partner Danny Kern huddled within their base camp on Alaska's Thompson's Pass, intently focused on weather data and hoping for windows, however brief, that would provide riding opportunities. A prolonged bout of poor weather before their trip made for low expectations. However, a refresher storm just days before arrival delivered a glimmer of hope for the possibility of good turns for Tailer and promising documentation for Danny. For Tailer, the waiting game and pouring over of data was a familiar methodology, albeit within a newer medium.

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The decade-long Tahoe local and United Shapes rider was raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

It was there, at an early age, that she began surfing and skateboarding, thus forming the foundation for a lifelong love of both the ocean and board sports. Working for a local surf shop in High School provided access to lift passes at the nearest ski area. Unfortunately, the "nearest" hill for a resident of Virginia Beach was still many hours away, so her periodic journeys to snow, despite being enjoyable, did little to facilitate growth or progression.

After high school, Tailer relocated to Oahu's North Shore, home of the Native Hawaiians, temporarily eliminating her already tenuous relationship with snow. In Oahu, she became wholly immersed in surf culture, specifically the near-mystical connection between herself and the natural world. A feeling she describes as being more significant than herself and limitless. Eventually, she moved to North Lake Tahoe, home to the Washoe tribe. While the relocation undoubtedly cramped her surfing endeavors, it opened the door to a comparable world: backcountry snowboarding.

In Tahoe, she was fortunate enough to befriend Eric Messier and Gray Thompson of the Warp Wave crew. This quickly led to Tailer embracing, adapting, and recognizing the similarities between her new mountain environment and the ocean. As with surfing, backcountry snowboarding is a contradictory mix of the profound, near-mystical connection to the natural environment and the people who have cared for the land for time immemorial, coupled with constant analysis of scientific data regarding weather patterns, wind, temperatures, and storm systems. For Tailer, it was an instantaneous match.

"I love this aspect of splitboarding. The effort you put in to get those glory turns and that solitude you're in search of, is a lot like surfing. You must be lined up, be in the right spot, tuned into the horizon, and paddle hard to get into the wave that you were patiently waiting for. Don't get me wrong, I love chairlifts and the access all the other tools grant you, and I assure you that I am no purist when it comes to accessing good snow. However, I feel the most at home when surrounded by the mountains and tuned-in splitboarding in my backyard or on a big expedition. The natural surroundings that are so much greater than me inspire me and make life feel limitless."

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There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Alaskan lines were a constant feature in many high-profile snowboarding productions. Alaska's bounty provided a reliable end-ofseason canvas for those final few powder shots among big lines and beautiful vistas before summer editing. However, the current state of tight budgets and the need for constant content has relegated this one-time industry mainstay to a luxury for only the most significant budgets and high-profile productions. This evolution ironically coincides with a massive rise in splitboarding, avalanche safety awareness, and backcountry access around the lower 48.

For Tailer, it's a complex situation. As a splitboarding guide and avalanche instructor, she views the backcountry growth as a fantastic advertisement of accessibility in, let's be honest, a very inaccessible sport. As an athlete, however, she concedes that big Alaskan lines have lost some relatability with consumers, resulting in the current proliferation of park laps and urban sessions churned out weekly to satisfy the thirst for content.

"I think that it's important to advertise accessibility. The ski industry is already so inaccessible for most people, and street snowboarding is like skateboarding in the sense of showing people that you can express yourself athletically in an 'affordable' way. This is probably great for marketing and sales. Splitboarding is a significant investment and, in my opinion, a very worthy one. Resort season passes aren't cheap, and Heli-boarding in Alaska is definitely not affordable. However, shoveling snow to make a feature rideable and pulling on your friends' hands to get momentum into hitting that feature is definitely more feasible for most. Also, the creativity that goes into that is so inspiring. I look at it as an encouragement to get into snowboarding. And that's a positive. As much as the mountain athletes deserve more attention than they receive, it isn't as relatable. However, we need people to see that to showcase the limits that are being pushed and the boundaries that are being broken every day by people who immerse themselves in big mountains. Inspire people of what humans are capable of outside of the urban setting. The wild places one can access by their own two feet."

Back at Thompson's Pass, Tailer and Kern continue to monitor the weather for windows of clear conditions. Their ten-day excursion is planned before Tailer's scheduled Advanced Ski Guides Course. Here, amidst the glacial peaks of the pass, Tailer can find her peace.

Unbothered about relevance or content, she places herself on the mountain with reverence and humility and trusts the mountains will, in turn, provide, and provide they certainly did.

Weather patterns promising the briefest of windows stretched to twilight sessions, leaving rider and photographer wishing they packed more snacks. Conditions deemed below average by locals proved beyond expectation for Tailer and Kern, producing the extraordinary images that grace these pages. An accompanying video project is tentatively slated for a mid-season release. For both, it was an adventure well rewarded.

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It’s easy to overlook how small and communitydriven snowboarding actually is. Especially since the corporate side of the industry can occasionally seem overpowering. The soul of snowboarding is rooted in people who genuinely care about it. Mike Harrington, aka @f lanellifestyles, makes snowboarding better.

As Community Manager at Brighton, Mike’s favorite part of the job is showcasing our locals and keeping the SLC community connected.

From his days at Nubs Nob on his 161 Forum Leines 20 years ago to his current role as the “Brighton Guy” hyping storm days on the ‘gram, Utah snowboarding has been a staple in Mike’s life.

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SHOP PROFILE

Wo r d s & P h o t o s b y Rob Zeglin

We are a rider owned and operated snowboard shop focused on mountain fun in western Pennsylvania. As a family-owned business, you can usually find myself or my wife working behind the counter, assisting customers on the sales f loor, or waxing boards in the tune shop. Servicing our local community and our passion for snowboarding are what drives our enthusiasm!

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Always Boardshop is located off the Donegal exit of the turnpike, on the way to the Laurel Highland ski resorts: 7Springs, Hidden Valley, and Laurel Mountain.

We opened in 2009 and continue to adapt to the needs of our customers with the changing business dynamic in the industry. We stock a mix of small core and large brands to offer a unique inventory made up of the best gear available on the market! As we get ready for another season and the racks fill up with product, the excitement grows to see new and familiar faces roaming the shop, tailgating in the parking lots, or the lapping terrain parks.

Location Always Boardshop 3 8 5 6 PA - 31 J o n e s M i l l s , PA 15 6 4 6

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There are fewer splitboarders than you probably think; even though it seems mainstream it’s easy to overlook the fact that just a few years ago splitboarding was as niche as mono-skiing or snow scooters. As a snowboarder from the east coast, whose major life decisions had all been around trying to be in mountains and in snow, moving to Utah in 2002 and being introduced to a splitboard was like a caveman being handed the secret to fire; it felt limitless, like you were from the future. However, there were very few options for splitboards that felt and rode like a snowboard, and were shaped and designed for backcountry terrain and conditions.

So, around 2009, we started building our own. A converted 10’X10’ shed in the heart of the central Wasatch became our first workshop. We built for ourselves, then close friends, then friends of friends and then finally to customers around the world, from Japan to Norway. Over that time, we’ve grown and split off Pallas Snowboards as a women’s focused company, which has always been under the control of a group of die-hard women snowboarders operating their own unique brand. And, Chimera has recently joined Pallas in designing resort and street focused snowboards in addition to our traditional line-up of splits. However, throughout the years our beliefs at Chimera and Pallas have never changed; to design a splitboard you must be able to build one; to run a snowboard company, you need your friends; and, if you love snowboarding you’ll also love splitboarding.

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Griffin Siebert creates whimsical paintings, drawings, and mixed media pieces that ref lect his love of nature, as well as skateboarding, surfing, and snowboarding. From Iguchi, Lynn, Blender, and Miller to Geno, Rav, Gonz, and Templeton, the cross-over community within skateboarding, snowboarding, and art has always existed. Whether painting, drawing, music, or other media, boarders frequently explore creativity across multiple disciplines. Griffin fits squarely into this categorization. He attributes this fit to the overall sense of community in Salt Lake City, where inspiring friends and peers cultivate a fertile atmosphere where creativity f lourishes and combats the everyday pressures that wear each other down. He credits Jeff (Richards) and Trev (Brady) from his tenure at Milosport for the freedom to do random bits of creativity in the shop, from doodles to bathroom paintings. The liberty they graciously gave allowed Griff to grow, learn, and hone his personal style.

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The last time ARK ADE touched base with Griff, he was majoring in geology and was in his final years of college. Despite his science-based major, Griff had long harbored a desire to work in graphic design. After graduation, he entered his field but, ultimately, didn't click with its offerings. An encounter with Nitro Art Director Paul Brown provided him a pathway to explore his design dreams. He submitted some graphics concepts at Paul's behest, eventually landing an internship at Nitro under Paul's teaching.

Griff 's creative processes and achievements bring him satisfaction regardless of the method: snowboarding, cycling, climbing, painting, or, lately, creating graphics at Nitro. For him, creating without the expressed purpose of selling your work, just creating for the sake of creating, is fantastic. He states, "If people like and buy it, great, but if not, you've still made something, and that's a beautiful thing." Luckily for Griff, people are buying. In addition to his work with Nitro, he has recently done art for Autumn Headwear, Salt Lake indie radio station KUA A, Quiksilver, and Uinta Brewing. It's not too shabby for a geologist turned designer who traces his roots to doodles on bathroom walls.

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A Deeper Heaven Fire EP

Mirrorball

World's Worst

Mirrorball is an L.A.-based duo composed of singer/songwriter Alexandra Johnstone and multi-instrumentalist/composer Scott Watson. The duo has been creating wonderfully catchy dream pop with subtly dark themes since 2019. Their latest single, Red Hot Dust, debuted in June of this year and saw the band honing their songwriting and expanding their sound to create a captivating ode to the late 60's L.A. era that Joan Didion described as having "this sense that it was possible to go "too far," and that many people were doing it." An era that famously culminated in the shocking Manson Murders and is generally considered the "end" of the 60s mythos of peace and love. As I said, dark themes.

Worlds Worst is a Salt Lake four-piece (Andrew A. Guitar/Vox, Jake P. Bass, Max S. Guitar, Zach M. Drums) that's been making waves locally for the past few years. Their first E.P. landed in 2020 and was aptly titled EP1, and 2021 quickly delivered a second E.P., EP2, while 2023 finally produced their first full-length, the self-titled World's Worst. I cannot get enough of this band, which is wholly set in the late 80s and early 90s grunge guitar nostalgia a la Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and so many other bands of the era. As an old guy who grew up in that period, W.W. reminds me of so many of my friend's bands from back in the day. A warm hug of memories delivered in thick guitars and GenX/Z-esque lyrical apathy. Simply amazing.

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Marmoset

Tassel is a Phoenix, Arizona project consisting of vocalist Trey Sequiera joined by multiinstrumentalists May Winterhaly and Ashley X. The trio constructs dark post-punk and industrial dance compositions firmly rooted in 80's traditionalism from influences such as Skinny Puppy, Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, etc. The band has released two E.P.s in 2023, New Covenant, released in May, and Old Covenant released in October. I’ve had the privilege of catching the band on their first headlining tour over the summer and they did not disappoint. Winterhaly and X constantly swapped from guitars and bass to keyboards and sequencers while Sequiera held court center stage with a rousing theatrical performance worthy of their influences. If you like dark industrial music, this band is highly recommended.

Marmoset is a throwback review. The band's last L.P. came in 2009, and the project is dead for all intents and purposes. Even during their decade-plus of activity, the indie outfit, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, was relegated to the underground's far reaches. There's nothing profound about Marmoset. The band merely created fun, infectious indie guitar pop across many sub-genres. The band probably would have found a broader audience in the preceding 80s college radio scene vs. the postgrunge over-commercialized "alternative" era of their day. It’s always intriguing to find bands like Marmoset which produced great music but were eventually lost to the sands of time despite many similarities to some of their more prosperous contemporaries. Give them a listen.

Die Sexual

Stereo Christ

L.A.-based Die Sexual is a Dark Electro project of husband-and-wife duo Anton and Rosselnni Floriano. Anton is also one-half of the production/D.J. duo Black Light Odyssey (another recommended listen). D.S. produces pounding, sexually charged electro dance touching on themes of desire, submission, and seduction. Do you know all the Keanu Reeves movies where he chases someone through a dark, smoky leather/latex goth club? Die Sexual is what should be playing in each of those scenes. Enough said. Their first E.P. was released in September of this year and is a promising debut.

Our second featured project to call Arizona home, Stereo Christ, is a fuzz and desert psyche powerhouse reminiscent of genre originators such as Nebula, Kyuss, and Fu Manchu. Stereo Christ half-jokingly claims to reside at the center of a Venn diagram consisting of Kyuss, Sabbath, and Motorhead.

Toss in some vocal stylings and the doom punch of the first couple of albums from The Sword, and it's a spot-on self-assessment. The fact that this explosive band consists of only two members, Douglas on Bass/Fuzz and Moucha on Drums/Vox, is surreal. Their selftitled release is one of my faves for 2023 and absolutely worth checking out.

Self-Released 2023

A Deeper Heaven is the Salt Lake-based crossgenre project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Marc Wheeler. Despite the relatively new project (all releases coming this year), A Deeper Heaven benefits from Wheeler's long history of musical knowledge as a performer and producer. As such, ADH's first releases (two singles and an E.P.) have hit the streets with a full-bodied, polished sound atypical of most initial recordings. Wheeler's tastes are rooted in the mid-eighties and early nineties with many of the era's quintessential indie bands, such as The Smiths, The Cure, Ride, Adorable, and The Verve. He cites Rourke (The Smiths) and Gallup (The Cure) as major influences for his bass playing, while The Cure's seminal Seventeen Seconds L.P. was the blueprint for teaching himself guitar. Not one to live merely in the past, he also enjoys indie contemporaries from such bands as DIIV, Beach Fossils, and Wild Nothing. Such a wide variety of influences across many decades has enabled A Deeper Heaven to assemble soundscapes that sound simultaneously familiar and fresh. Younger listeners will pick out similarities to contemporary bands, while those of us who are older will find parallels to the music of our youth. It is a winning dynamic used skillfully on the Fire E.P. Each of the E.P.'s three songs, Let Go, Don't Say, and Fire, offer a unique personality while contributing to an overall cohesive sound. Let Go is reminiscent of jangle/Brit pop (I am reminded of the lesser-known late 80s/early 90s project Ultra Vivid Scene). The slower Don't Say is an homage to the layered hazy shoegaze sound, while the titular Fire has a more modern Beach Fossils vibe. Wheeler is currently in the (slow) process of writing and recording the project's first full-length, which will eventually incorporate live performances.

Check them out on Bandcamp.

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BALDFACE IS THE PLACE P: Tim Zimmerman

FINAL D E S T I N A T I O N F

D Not long ago, the 700-inch snow year was considered to be the limit in Utah. To our collective euphoria, 900 inches became a reality last season. The impacts of that much snow were tremendous and farreaching. There were seemingly endless pow turns yielding quads of steel, a significant boost to our reservoirs and the vital Great Salt Lake.

Unprecedented avalanche conditions resulted in historic slides, the fiercest red snakes (and memes) ever witnessed in the Wasatch, and the lengthiest lift-serviced season many resorts have ever seen. For the old heads, it triggered nostalgia for a time when consistent big storms were the norm and the era of “Brighton time,” where you could enter the one-way around 11 am and snag a parking spot, still existed. For the young guns, it provided a glimmer of hope that copious amounts of “The Greatest Snow on Earth” is still a possibility and not just reserved for stories of days gone by. Will we regularly get 900, or even 700-inch seasons? Of course not, but at minimum, it’s a reminder of what the Wasatch can be when Mother Nature turns on those atmospheric rivers.

We’re not in the business of forecasting snowfall, but we certainly hope for heaps of it! Whether it is an average or another historic year, you’ll see us out there enjoying every last f lake. See you on the hill.

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