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Flakes On Tour IN CO/NM Part 2

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Ok, so we left off in Leadville and headed to Asssssspen from there. This is home to Chris Erickson, Jake Sakson, Will Cardamone and Nick Devore. Everybody was in town except Nick who was off at school in AZ. All the guys had waited to watch the show on the big screen at Belly Up.

It was fun to see their reactions and hear the home town crowd of 170 cheering for their local boyz.

The CAIC raffle was stacked, including a pair of BD Zealots. They raised $$ to keep current avalanche information rolling in from the mountains.

We always seem to end up at Little Annie’s when we go to Aspen, must be the cheep beers and shots. Chris Erickson, Will Cardamone and the brothers Howell.

No you are not mistaken, those are ketchup/mustard shots.

Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?

Goes down smooooooth…….

Sorry guys I had to post those pics, too funny to hide in the vault.

We had a nice little show in Glenwood Springs the next evening at the local rec center. I forgot to shoot any snapshots of the event, but picture 60 people drinking free Big Sky Beer and watching the show.

We headed over Kebler Pass into Crested Butte in front of a storm and spent the next day enjoying the town and the snowfall.

Hit up the coffee shops.

And the library.

Then it was showtime at The Pub. Great building, bar and staff, thanks for having us.

The legendary MacMillan Brothers and local ripper Sydney Fuller brought their friends out for the evenings festivities. Not a bad turnout despite a negative ad campaign from the local theatre.

We headed out of town riding a similar storm to the one that brought us in.

Next stop was a visit with our sister and family in Albaquerque New Mex!

It was a nice break from life on the road even though we pulled some muscles playing Wii. Swayze days!

Here is Hannah modeling the latest PW fashions. I guess your famous now you sweet cup of chocolate milk you.

After a day off we shot North to Santa Fe for our first visit with official PW tour. The local shop did a great job of spreading the word.

And an even better job at popping the free beers donated by, yes you guessed it, Big Sky Brewery. We played FLAKES across the street at the funky little Jean Cocteau theatre. New towns are always a surprise, so it was nice when 80 extremely excited folks came away highly stoked for winter.

Turning North en route to our home in SLC, we stopped into another new town for our final show on the road. Pine Needle Mountaineering in Durango stepped up to offer their sweet shop as a venue.

We turned this….

Into this….

There is Nick Devore on the big screen, he also made an appearance in the flesh. Big thanks to Luke for spreading the word and rallying the local tele crew.

Jonah came down with his annual road illness, so we booked it home asap.

Safe and sound, but tired and well worn from the road we pulled into SLC mid day and uneventfully celebrated the end of another great movie tour with a high 5.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this the most successful and well attended tour to date!!

I could go a long time without seeing this movie again, but we do have one final show in our backyard on Dec 4th at Harry O’s in Park City. This will be a fun show with most of the “FLAKES” in attendance. Tickets are $10, show starts at 8pm with doors at 7pm and two reggae bands to follow.

Be well,

On Tour In Colorado (part 1)

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Wow! Just arrived home from 2 weeks on the road and it’s nice to be back in SLC.

Behold a photographical recap of our shows ranging from huge blowouts to total busts and everything in between. Yes, this is going to be a long one.

Started off with a bang in FT Collins at the New Belgium Brewery. This show has grown steadily each year and 200 folks came to see the movie, or was it the 2 free beers, or was it to support the Diamond Peaks Ski Patrol? Over $1,700 was raised to keep the only backcountry ski patrol in the U.S. operating.

Here I am welcoming and warning the crowd that, yes some of the snowflakes were harmed in the making of this film.

This has become a fun pre-season and pray for snow event for us and the community of Ft Collins. Thanks to Shawn and Lucas for helping put this together.

Nest stop, Boulder, and home of THE Megan Michelson.

We moved to a nice new venue this year saying farewell to the Dark Horse. Great call!! The warehouse at Avery Brewery housed a mad throng of 260!!

Flylow Dan and I with our best mannequin impressions.

Considering a new larger venue for next year, but a warehouse full of beer is tough to beat. We’re thinking we can get a bigger screen and more chairs so we can keep it here.

Boulder is home to some of our sponsors like Zeal Optics, Scarpa and BCA. We swung by to pick up some new lenses and swag for the raffles, thanks guys.

Shan Sethna is pretty much single handedly responsible for our mega-event in Denver at the Oriental Theatre. Can you find Lemon Boy? He’s much nicer in person than on the interweb.

We blew the doors off it this year with 650 folks cramming the theatre to set a record as the single largest event this venue has ever housed. Friends of Berthoud Pass raised over 3K thanks to everybody throwing down for raffle and silent auction items.

What a night, but it wasn’t over yet. Jonah and Megan empty their glasses and cheers to the upcoming season.

Not sure what Wren and I were up to here.

Or here…..

made sense at the time….

What happens on tour, doesn’t stay on tour, it gets blogged. Wren and Megan were onto something here. Sorry for posting this gals, but it’s too funny not to.

The next night was a great show at the new location for Wilderness Exchange near downtown Denver. I blew it and forgot the camera, but the place was packed 150 deep and we had to turn folks away. Great looking shop with the latest gear and a consignment area downstairs.

Up the I-70 corridor we went to the newly liberated town of Breckenridge for a show at 320 South.

Dan hit the road with us to display and promote the new line of gear from Flylow. Nice display! Dan has become a good friend of ours over the past few years, it’s fun to hang out and talk about the ski industry and our little start up companies.

With the recent legalization of marijuana in Breck, we could only speculate that folks just plain forgot to come to the show. However, a good time was had by those in attendance and almost everybody won gear from the raffle.

Days in between shows often end up at coffee shops using the internet to take care of business. Not sure what Dan is measuring here, but you can bet whatever he does will be swayze like the rest of the Flylow line.

The show must go on, next stop, Avon. We’ve had large shows (over 100) in the Avon/Vail/Edwards area over the past years, but only 10 folks showed up for the flick.

I attempted to draw in a crowd with my pole dancing skills. Nobody was impressed.

Jake Sakson drove down from Aspen in his new ambulance which he is going to convert to Bio-diesel and live out of for he winter. Now that is the ski bum spirit!

The police swung by to see what was going on.

Jake had everything in order and there wasn’t any trouble. But later we got to see a guy step out of line and get tasered. I was going to take some pics, but it didn’t seem right. Interesting night all in all.

First trip to Leadville was not a disappointment. The Scarlet Tavern was incredibly hospitable to the 90 or so guests who came out to shake the snow globe and see if it wouldn’t snow.

We ran on two screens with a few minor glitches. Thanks for coming out everybody, see you next year.

I’ll try and get part 2 up tomorrow after skiing! Going out with Jason West if we can drag him away from his little girl.

First turns of the season

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With a week off from touring the country, and a fair amount of new snow, it seemed like a good time to kick off winter 2010.

Jonah, Darrell and I hit up Alta, which seemed like they had more snow than anyplace else. Nothing new there.

Don’t be fooled, it wasn’t that deep just blown in wind drifts.

This is more representative of how thin it was. I’ll stop bitching and whining about it now.

After all, it’s always nice to get out and breath deep, move some muscles and know you are alive.

What lies beneath?

Jonah decides to find out.

Fat skis help keep one from finding land mines.

It actually was as good as it looks, but only for a few turns.

Nice day for some beacon drills, dialing in the new HD helmet cams and reminding the legs that soon enough they are going to be called into highly active duty.