We just spent a couple of days on the north shore of Tahoe with Jeremy Jones, Stacy Thomas and Dave Downing. We got a lot of great snow but had to do a little window shopping to make things work, and boy did things work out. Stacy charges. She'd mach into huge arching turns, top to bottom, and even throw in a couple of drops to top it off. Definitely one of the fastest and smoothest pow riders we've seen. Dave has the best style on snow. When you watch him ride you realize that his upper body doesn't move at all - just his legs. I'm sure that when he was born he yelled "dropping!" 'cause it just looks so natural. Throw Jeremy in the mix and you have entire mountains torn up in a matter of hours - and we'd move on for more. The "more" in this case was the TB Super Spines, first ridden ten years ago by Tom Burt in TB-7. To the best of our knowledge it hadn't seen a repeat until this day. Jones asked Downing for his opinion on the line and Dave simply said "looks like some gnarly Jeremy Jones shit, but I guess that's what you're into...I'm not riding that!" After some careful analysis, and Downing's vote of confidence, Jones went to the top.
I remember Tom's line. Everyone remembers Tom's line. It's amazing to me that snow can stick to a line so steep. Even more amazing is that snowboarders can stick to it. Yet, even more amazing is that Jeremy aired at the top, surfed across, dropped to the lower spine and tail pressed it to scrub speed, and coming in just a bit short of terminal velocity - flew off the ramp and rode it out. NUTS, NUTS, NUTS!
"If I had seen it from the bottom first, I wouldn't have done it" - Jones
"That was the gnarliest thing I've ever seen...it looked like an alien coming down it" - Downing
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so sweet! nice post-
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