Mount Baker Step-Up Session
lgallagher
- May 21 2009
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Words and Photos by Liam Gallagher
Got to be a part of the Mt. Baker Step-Up session last week. Just happend to be in the NW for a homies wedding. Luckily wedding was on Saturday, and the session was on Friday. So…rallied up to Bellingham Thursday night, saw some old friends, sipped on a few, stayed up too late, but got up early and headed up to Baker Pat, Burtner and a couple old friends from Montana.
Everything’s green in Northwest Washington right now. And the sun was out. Couldn’t have planned it better. Got real lucky.
The day was good. Some building, some beers, and bbq-ing. Lots of heads in attendance. Maybe 20 or so. Everyone just hiking and hitting that massive wedge, taking breaks to lay around like lizards in the snow, soaking up the first sun of the spring. Still a shit load of snow up at Baker.
Go get some. You can camp in the upper lot and hike right from there. Plenty of slush to slash. And jumps to build. Sure the step-up’s still there. And good to go. Just watch out for wet slides. We saw one come down. It rumbled like thunder and settled like cement.
Mid-May and still shredding….so stoked!!!!
Jesse Burtner breaking off some step-up history…
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May 21st, 2009 at 4:44 pm
first
May 21st, 2009 at 4:46 pm
second XD
May 21st, 2009 at 4:56 pm
fourth!
May 21st, 2009 at 5:07 pm
third closest yet
May 21st, 2009 at 5:35 pm
5th sukka
May 21st, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Who was that in the van? How old is this guy?
May 21st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
ahh, Jesse Burtner? How old is he and which sponsors had he?
May 21st, 2009 at 6:49 pm
well thanks for building the jump so the rest of us commoners could hit it on sunday at the REAL sesh-up. sick photos though.
May 21st, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Gotta love Burtner.
One of the coolest riders out there fersure.
May 21st, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Burtner is rad, i had him as a coach at hcsc
May 21st, 2009 at 7:32 pm
he is 50 and still killing it
j play he’s like 30, he just has a big beard
May 21st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
yeaa think thank
also
http://vimeo.com/4761013
May 21st, 2009 at 11:24 pm
http://josephhills.signalsnowboards.com/home
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 am
God, I hate that Shane Stalling guy
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:59 am
Lib-tech
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:01 am
Sk8 banana
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
This kind of web content is so good. Keep it up.
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
This interview with Jesse reminds me how far the drive from Bellingham to Baker is. Horrible……How do you guys do it daily?
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
That was real sick. All those dudes are keeping the NW on the map!
May 24th, 2009 at 10:52 am
seriusly transworl there is no such thing called switch frontside! its cab
May 24th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
you sir are dumb
May 26th, 2009 at 9:52 am
worst rocker construction ever. Banana’s suck.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Common - Cab is actually a skateboard trick that snowboarders have learned to use out of lazyness. Switch Frontside is the correct name of the trick in snowboarding, where as Cab is spinning from switch to regular on a transition without grabbing (Ex. switch 360 in a halfpipe) and is named after its inventor Steve Caballero. Young Guns for life.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:14 am
All those homies are ILL! Good to see Lando and Blauvelt up there too. Im jealous!>>>
May 27th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Did you see that FS crooks I just did. Pitted……. White room.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
your an idiot
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Great angles Liam. Shoulda put many pictures of Nick up there. He was charging harder than anyone. I wish there was that much snow at FlatBachelor and the backcountry. Props to all the hardcore high alpine snow campers, avalanche starters, and step up shredders.
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
I feel sorry for all the homes he has wrecked
July 20th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
you have no clue wtf you’re talkin about.
July 20th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
good call