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Day 1: Snow Bowling In
Montana
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What is it about snowboarders that they are always late? Snowboarders are a notoriously lax bunch of people on a whole. While this is a massive generaliztion, I can honestly say I have yet to begin a road trip with a bunch of boarders at the scheduled time. This trip was no different. Our Seattle loc crew consisted of Jimmy and myself, a 19 year old Rusty rider named Bobi Ray, K2's Josh Rosen, and Lib Tech's Billy Summers. Finally after giving up our 9:30 AM departure time from Seattle, Jimmy, Bobi, and I pulled out of town at the early evening hour of 4:00 PM. No worries. Well, one small worry, Josh and Billy who were driving another car still hadn't shown up--so we left. We knew they'd catch up. Besides the fact that Josh is 18 and charges like a mother-f-ker, he was driving his sporty 1992 two-door Eagle Talon TSI (complete with a 16 valve DOHC, turbo, all-wheel drive engine, and Blizack tires)--he wouldn't be far behind.
A few hundred miles later we crossed the state line between Idaho and Montana and our pilot, Jimmy Clarke, bringing us smoothly into Montana accelerated the super-boo a little taking advantage of the lack of speed limit in the big sky country. We had been keeping it around 80 for most of the trip but crossing the state line allowed us to breath comfortably at 95 without much concern for the law. It was a seven hour trip. Yes, we probably made record time, risked our lives passing semis on curvy, ice-covered roads, but it was a short trip East on 90. Missoula, Montana and K2 rider Ross Peterson's pad was our destination for day 1. We would be riding Snow Bowl, just outside of Missoula, on Wednesday morning. The SOL Tour had begun and needless to say, we were stoked. With miles and miles of pavement to be driven and fresh tracks looming in the near future, who wouldn't be? the storm warning had been issued. Fronts were moving in just behind us and we could feel them coming as we drove over Lookout Pass in Idaho with a wall of fresh snow lining the road. |
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