Going Deeper with Jeremy Jones
lgallagher
- May 04 2009
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Jeremy Jones is a mad man. Guess that goes without saying, but the blog entry and photos below are further proof of the lengths he’s going to get Deeper these days.
TransWorld will be publishing the full-story from this expedition in the coming volume. Click HERE to subscribe and ensure you get the first look at the story. Or… keep an eye out for it to hit newstands. It’ll definitely be a must-read.
Until then, read up, get hyped, and go get yours. It’s still winter somewhere.
Or if you’re stuck inside somewhere click HERE to read more from Jeremy Jones blog.
We are finally out of the mountains after 27 days camped on the ice. It was the most incredible experience of my life. The challenges were large but the rewards were larger. In 20 years of snowboarding I have never felt highs like I felt on this trip.
The trip was an experiment with a lot of question marks going into it and I am proud to say that it was a total success. We rode world class lines in unexplored mountains with out the use of a helicopter. Living in the mountains at the base of our objectives gave me an intimacy with my surroundings that I have never felt before. We knew every layer of the snow-pack before we even went out because we lived threw the storms. It seemed like everyday I was learning something new in the mountains and doing things I have never done before.
We consistently had to back down on lines waiting for the right conditions because hiking the lines from the bottom up left no room for error. For the big lines we would be exposed for 3 to 5 hours as we hiked up the faces we would ride. With a heli you can limit your exposure to minutes.
Now I am in “shock” mode as I settle back into society. I will role out some journal entries and pics as time permits. Below is some highlights and a few pics from the first two days of filming.
-12 ft of snow fell while we were camped on the ice. (a 10 day storm, and a 5 day storm)
-We ate 100 pounds of Clif Products.
-Filmer Garry Pendergrass wins the “Toughest Bastard Award” for lasting the whole month in camp.
-Travis Rice was the MVP. Putting in 25 days with non stop energy and stoke.
-Tom Burt is truly the God Father of Big Mountain Riding and a huge reason for our success.
-Jonaven Moore is my favorite person in the world to ride with.
-I had 31 runs
-Hiked 30,000 vertical feet.
-Rode 17 out of 18 days. (I missed the 10 day storm for Shane’s Funeral….Thanks Shane!)
-Climbed 3 major unnamed peaks and rode world epic lines off them.
-Named the biggest and baddest one Mount McConkey
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May 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Jeremey Jones is such a Bad ass!! First Bitch. hahahahaha so dumb
May 4th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
sounds pretty epic
May 5th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Notice none of the boards are reverse camber. Not even Travis Rices. Fuck Reverse Camber! Shits the same as step ins. We will be laughing about it in 5 years.
May 5th, 2009 at 11:28 am
hey man, not too burst your whole theory with reverse camber boards… but, notice all these boards are split boards. you think skinning on reverse camber is easy? with how much touring they did, i would prefer to have camber for more contact… just me, i think also for Alaska, i don’t know, i think i would want a more directional cambered board. leave the reverse camber for trees, jibs, pillows, sidecountry pow, and then directional for touring. word bird.
May 5th, 2009 at 11:31 am
probably shouldn’t make a comment like that unless you know what you’re actually looking at (or talking about for that matter). the first two boards in the foreground are banana hammocks, featuring reverse camber and reverse side cut. i’ve heard quite a few people say that reverse camber split boards don’t work that well for ascending since it’s tougher to press the camber flat than a traditionally shaped deck. that would mean less traction in an environment like ak, where you want as much traction as you can muster up. i don’t ride reverse camber boards myself, but i see some value in them. i just don’t understand running your mouth when you don’t know what the fuck your even talking about.
May 5th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
im gonna agree with that reverse camber is a good idea, but not for me..
May 5th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
thank you for teaching his ignorance
May 5th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
The filmmaker who is filming this epic trip with Jeremy Jones is Chris Edmands. Check out an interview with Chris where he talks about these human powered snowboard projects.
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editor SnowboardSecretsTv on Youtube
May 5th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I super respect JJ, he is taking it to the next level. Eschewing all the superfluous guff to get real.
Respect
Tim
May 6th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Very very interesting, can’t wait to read up some more on this project and to see the movie next season. Hopefully there will be a making-of doc with it.
Can’t wait to see Jonovan Moore ride. If hes got Jones’ respect then he must have pulled off some crazy stuff.
Season 09/10 can’t come soon enough.
p.s. who cares what boards they ride, just appreciate the riding rather than bitching all the time about peoples gear.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am
oh yeah, also, love the name for the craziest mountain. R.I.P. Shane.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Word ‘em up! This is the most impressive snowboard venture the media has ever displayed.
Jonaven Moore has been riding the wicked tits lines and going huge for years!!
May 6th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
this is so cool!! really impressive!
where do i enroll for the next trip?
congratulations!
leo
May 7th, 2009 at 12:01 am
C2, Travis also rides the c2 power banana witch handles much more like a conventional board but has the good float of the banana too. I wanna saw mine in half for some hiking adventures next season.
May 12th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I added this to digg
May 13th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
right on brother. kid has probly never gone miles for his turns.
this is impressive stuff. learn from it
May 19th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
That is a sick rail. I did not know that quebec had such a good park. I need to get up there and see then next event. I heard that Travis Rice might be hitting it next year. I hope to bring the new Burton Snowboards that i picked up from this site. So far I have only cracked it in one place… we will see if it holds up for next year.
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