Winter Wars

In 2010 Peep Show vowed to made better mistakes tomorrow. This year the girls have gone to war. With what- I'll never know. Maybe Gapers? Or dust covered crust days? Anyways, Peep Show is back with another banger video. You'll have to wait for the Fall to see the whole thing, but you can satisfy your eyes until then with some teasers and clips of the misadventures the girls encountered during filming. Check out their website to watch more videos and updates on Winter Wars.




Winter Wars riders: Bryn Valaika, Claudia Avon, Colleen Quigley, Danyale Patterson, Darrah Reid-Mclean, Desiree Melancon, Gabi Viteri, Gabby Maiden, Laura Hadar, Jess Kimura, Joanie Robichaud, Madison Blackley, Silvia Mittermuller and friends.

Week till Mt. Hood!

I can't believe how quickly this has come up. I had the month of May to relax at home, hang out with friends, and get myself back in shape before I spend the summer on Mt. Hood. I had lots of plans for what I needed to do this month:

• Go to physical therapy to make sure my knees don't crap out over the summer.
• Unpack all my stuff and reorganize my possessions before having to pack up again.
• Lay out at the pool to get tan before the summer starts.
• Finish my edit
• Do yoga
• Get a six pack (or just get toned)
• Find a place to live in Oregon
• Find someone to drive to Oregon with me
• Skateboard a lot.

I didn't accomplish much. Didn't do physical therapy. Still have a hurricane disaster in my bedroom (see here). Only laid out twice (got lobster red the second time). I'm still trying to track down some of the shots I got this season. Haven't done yoga once. Still don't have toned abs (and this has been a goal of mine for like 3 years now).  Don't know where I'm ending up once I get to Oregon. Haven't found anyone who wants a ride up there either. Skateboarded for like 4 minutes.

So I'm looking at the calendar that says it's May 21 and I'm wondering where this whole month went. I mean, I have been doing stuff, just not the things I planned on getting done. I went to a concert with Rebecca, and Vivian and got invited to the after party. I've made new friends. I've gone out to play in SF. And I've discovered a handful of tv shows that I really like. Inbetweeners? HOLLA. Workaholics? HELL YEAH. So whatever. Things will work out.

I can't wait to spend that summer up in Oregon. I'm going to try and see if there are any last minute openings at Windells or High Cascade and if not I'll see if I can get on Dig-to-Ride at High Cascade. I know things will work out somehow and my riding is going to improve a ton over the summer. I'm figuring I'll be able to get some shots with the Crack Grease guys, and I became friends with Marie Hucal at the end of the season and she told me she'll be out there and I should meet up with her and the Peep Show gals to get shots. Which would be awesome.

Sitting at home is killing me. I've started having the dreams about snowboarding every night again. I just have to remind myself I'll be on the snow again in a week. I can't wait!

Anyone else going up to Hood or elsewhere for summer riding?

PeepShow/Transworld Premier

Last friday was the Peep Show "Let's make better mistakes tomorrow" and the Transworld "In Color" premieres.  Take a trip back to July to see the Peep Show teaser. They gave away a lot of awesome product, which I unfortunately did not collect. Well, besides a hat and tee shirt. But my friend Sophia won a new pair of boots which is totally awesome! I had fun at the premiere, seeing friends and such. The movies were okay, but I need to stop watching snowboard videos because the wait for snow is really starting to kill me.
After the premiere I went to some parties in Reno with some of these kids, egged some frat boys, and went back to Truckee. I got stuck in Truckee until saturday night when an Incline friend of mine picked me up. From there we went to a party in Kings Beach but I was just wayy too tired to party. I found a ride back to Incline, assuming I was being brought back to campus. Instead we went to someone else's house so I decided to sleep on their couch until my group was ready to go. Well they didn't wake me up and I woke up the next morning like "Shit. I just want to be home." I found a ride back to campus around 11am and was so relieved. I need a car. Being stuck all over the place sucks. The weekend was too exhausting. I don't know how many more of these adventures I can force myself on. Whatever. Just live right?

Teaser time!

We've got a new preview from the ladies at Peepshow. I watched it. I liked it. It got me stoked on snowboarding. You should watch it too. I love watching other girls rip it up because it makes me think that I can be like that one day. One day it'll be me in those videos. But for now, I'm at home just lurking the peepshow website and watching their videos.

And now I present,
Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow

Featuring Terra Michilot, Laura Hadar, Marie Hucal, Robin Van Gyn, Desiree Melancon, Esthera Preda, Colleen Quigley, Jess Kimura, June Bhongjan, Nicki Slechta, Laurie Gauvin and friends. Filmed by Pat Barraza, Colin D. Watt, June Bhongjan, and Matt Charland. Edited by Esthera Preda

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Chick Flicks

A snowstorm hit Portland and left me stranded in a car for over 7 hours. In this excessive amount of time I was able to view multiple snowboarding videos on Danny's iPod. Two that I hadn't seen were "Asthetica" and "That's it, That's All". I must say I was disappointed. I mean, it was good snowboarding but hellllloooo? Where were the chicks?!?! I mean, come on? Either girls need to step up their game or the guys need to take some notice. I prefer to think of the latter. So yeah, absolutely no girls in That's it, and Priscilla Levac repsresented the entire female shredder population for Asthetica. Let's get some more girlies up in this place.

I was talking about this with my homie Jodie Gordon who's out there with her shred stick in Canada and she suggested a few movies to me. The first was See What I See, Runway Film's 2008 video. I must say, those girls tear it up. I'm so glad I went out to Zumiez and bought it. I love watching girls shred. Seriously, it's cool watching guys but when its girls it just hits home, ya dig? The second video (series) she suggested to me was Peep Show. I've only watched the first video but this is pretty sick as well. If you want to watch some girls tear it up, get these videos.

See What I See trailer
Peep Show channel