A couple of my good snowboard friends approached me with a jib idea that they had stashed away and wanted to get some photos of to send to their sponsors.
So one day we went and checked out the spot which looked like the type of shoot that was right up my alley.
I love shooting old industrial stuff and this Jib was an old Snow cat that these guys wanted to do a snowboard stall on.
I decided it would be a good thing to shoot at around dusk to get the sunset like effect in the photos.
So one day we go up to the spot and start building a snow quarter pipe which would allow them to stall the top of the snow cat.
As we where setting up Co decided to start building his own line which he thought would work out a lot better. Co had his eyes on doing a wall ride across the front window of the snow machine.
Everyone thought he was nuts but it was taking forever to build the quarter pipe due to the quality of the snow we had.
It took basically no time for Co to build a little jump into the wall ride so it was the obvious choice for him to drop in first.
Once Co gave himself the OK to drop into this line, I set up all my flashes for his first attempt at what everyone else thought would be disaster.
Luckily for Co one of our friends who worked at Whistler Auto Glass was also on the same train of thought that the glass could withstand the impact of a snowboard skimming across the wind shield. Althought everyone still watched in Horror.
Co this strapped into the drop in section and counts down his drop in…
Whammy, Co slides across the glass and stomps the landing first try with no problem at all.
This put a spark into everyone else eyes and before you knew it they where all rushing up to the drop in spot to try it out.
Everyone had a few tries and landed smoothly when Co decided to step it up another notch. He reaches into his bag-o-tricks and drops into the line that at this point he’d hit a few times before.
Co lands a solid wall ride to 180 out, which turned into one of my favorite shots of the night.
This shoot was a lot of fun and we ended up not damaging the snow cat at all (Phew) and the guys had another thing to check off their lists.
