NICK FRANCKE

Here are a few new shots of NH native and DFL EB Snow Team Rider Nick Francke. He's simply still ruling it. Not only does he build parks he destroys them just as well. Photos bause.at

SPRING SESSIONS

Hans, Ian, Mike and some of the guys were sneaking in a mini session between monsoons a few days back.

CHEAP SHOES

If you haven't had new kicks since this photo of Dave "Bones" Mills was taken back at Turtles ( April 1986 ) then come on in. We just took all of or sale shoes and marked them down again. We should have something that fits you from around $20-$45 plus all the newer Spring shoes that have been coming in from around $45-$70. The sun is actually due out and temps should be lurking in the 70's this weekend...get out and skate!

JUSTIN BRACE

Sunday April 11th 6-9pm at Rye Airfield. Join us to skate and ride for our great friend Justin. There will be best trick prizes and other giveaways through the evening. Bring your skate or bike and make a $10 donation to the Justin Brace / ALS Fund and you're in. To learn a bit more about ALS click here. If you have never been to Rye before please have the waiver ready.

LAST CALL EDIT BY MARK

Last Call 2010 from eb danvers on Vimeo.

It always amazes me what someone will try over less than ideal conditions. The snow actually had a little give on the channel but the wind was cranking and the light was a bit flat. The rhythm section was a riot...the 1/4 pipe was burly and "firm" but everyone charged it like any other day. Gotta love New England snowboarders....and Last Call! If you haven't watched this yet have a look. Thanks to everyone that makes the trek to join us every year. See you all for the 11th Annual.

HIGH CASCADE SNOWBOARD CAMP

Get your slide on all summer at Mount Hoods High Cascade Snowboard Camp! Sessions are already filling up so quit snoozing..... check it all out here.

WATERVILLE VALLEY SKATE CAMP

Waterville Valley skate camp will be cranked up sooner than later. Make sure to check out the WV site or come to EB and get a brochure to sign up for the session that fits into your schedule.

FOR THE HELL OF IT

FOR THE HELL OF IT from tanner on Vimeo.

Tanner has posted "FOR THE HELL OF IT" to view for free now...go check it out.

Trails

Trails season is right around the corner time to dust off the shovels and get buck. Also this dudes rips just sayin

Darin Read Diamondback Web Teaser from brennen britton on Vimeo.

OLD PHOTO OF THE DAY

Gormley report:
"Dan Brothers has been a terror for years. On four wheels or two edges, he always looks comfortable on his board. This snap is him blasting a smooth frontside 360 off the Boneyard table top. Can you identify the MIA board he's riding?
Summertime Dan would show up at the Waterville Valley skatepark with his boat in the back of his pick up truck after pulling some small mouth from the river. After a couple of runs we'd sit in his boat and dip into the well stocked cooler. "

Dan worked in the Fitchburg EB for a while too.

SAM ADAMS PRE GAME

After we wrapped things up the other day we slid on down to the Bunyan room at Loon to warm up and sip on a few carbonated juice drinks. Later everyone took a breather and met up for dinner and started to party. Good stuff, great friends, many laughs and one foggy morning.

Insane

I think everyone can appreciate this it might be old news but really...

Snowboarder Magazine

Thanks Pat, T-Bird, Reid and Huggy for making the trek with us again to celebrate the 10th Last Call. Here's what they had to say. Pics write up and video.

MARY WALSH

Redbulls Mary Walsh has more Last Call 10 pics here.

Last Call 10 winner Shane Fortier and Mary sipping delicious suds. Peep her pics and blurb. Thanks Mary....and thanks for not being a quitter. Cheers.

Transworld Snowboarding

Transworld Snowboarding Last Call write up and pics.

KOVALL

Congrats to Eric "Assman" Kovall on his new baby. Take a good look at this guy. Yeah..exactly.."plum crazy" isn't just the cars color. Eric is one of EB's original team members. He still rips too for a guy that needs to be asleep by 8:30 pm.

BACK TO THE BONE YARD 2

Check out pics and video from Pat Moores Back to the Boneyard 2 at the Snowboarder Mag site and the Transworld site. Pat had some pretty sick trophies to hand out...an indian head for Preston, sorceress figure, giant pants to fill for Nelson, dream catcher for Zach, wizard plate with gems, a life sized butler for Nelson for being served so hard, a plug in light of a kitty and waterfall for Nelsons biggest pussy award...Nelson really swept it come to think of it...a giant barbarian sword for Greg Maxwell which he seemed extremely stoked on, even the "cat lady" award to his mom Deb. Pats a good guy and puts on a great event even in pouring rain. It's not often enough someone remembers to give back once they "make it." Thanks for the fun day Pat, Luke and all Waterville folks.

AZ VID.

kris corms, derrrrek, luke ruffio macfee, and dave antonukki went to sunny AZ.

Arizona from Kris Cormier on Vimeo.

SOFA KING

Sofa King New England 10' Teaser from Sofa King on Vimeo.

Hope you can make it.
Sofa King New England premiere party is Tuesday March 23 6pm at Legends Bar, 6 Village Road located in Waterville Valley center. Event is all ages and everyone is welcome. Awards will follow the video.

ROAD TRIP

Leo locals Luke, Kris, Dave, and Derek embarked on an adventure to Arizona just in time to miss out on the flooding here in Mass. 4 hours of footage and 2 trips to the emergency room made for a damn good time in the grand canyon state. Thanks to Jordan Bozeat and Jeff Pulliam for being cool and hooking it up during the trip.

BRENDON REGO

I talked with Rego for a bit tonight who has been living up at Loon all winter. Sounds like Norton and the guys have been pushing snow for Last Call already and the channel gap is taking shape. He's also known to be a rail slayer so it was cool to hear him stoked on more air features this year. Here's a hand plant shot by Cole Martin of Brendon in Plymouth NH and another by Andrew Domin on a rail in Leominster.

OLD PHOTO OF THE DAY

Matthew Gormley..East Coast - West Coast correspondent and all around shred has been hooking me up with some cool old shots and blurbs that I'll be dropping in here over the next couple weeks. For those to young to personally know some of the heads that will be shown here in the old pics, just know they all were ruling the same trails you're all riding now and most helped pave the way to make better parks happen in one way or another. Take it away Matt....

"Prior to his ascension through the ranks at Burton, Adam Moran was a heavy ripper for K2. Blasting out monstrous airs and smooth lines despite running Clickers, Adam defied physics and convention by proving you can still have style with step ins.
While he eventually was allowed to step out, Adam and Jeff both made that K2 Clicker system look good. Here Adam drifts another proper method for the 1995 Ride Guide cover shot. Money."

For the record step in systems were one of the worst times for snowboard equipment developement. Companies had pressured shops to carry it explaining to us that this was the future! ummmmm yeah...the future land fill piles. Adam Moran has since become Burtons Global TM

Adam Moran interview 1
Adam Moran interview 2

NICK JULIUS

Men’s US OPEN Slopestyle Results
1 Mikkel Bang NOR
2 Ulrik Badertscher NOR
3 Sebastien Toutant CAN
4 Stale Sandbech NOR
5 Chas Guldemond USA
6 Peetu Piiroinen FIN
7 Tyler Flanagan USA
8 Janne Korpi FIN
9 Nick Julius USA
10 Jeremy Thompson USA
11 Jason Dubois CAN
12 Gjermund Braaten NOR
13 Charles Reid CAN
14 Marko Grilc SLO
15 Mark McMorris CAN
16 Tore Holvik NOR

Looks like Nick held it down pretty well against some heavy hitters. Way to go Nick.

TAYLOR OWEN

Looks like Taylor had some bad luck at the Open. Word is that she had been riding really well but when the temps changed the course slowed down leaving her coming up short and she has blown out her MCL. We won't be seeing her at Last Call for the first time in years. She had been on a good streak with a few events this year too. Best wishes going out to Taylor and her quick recovery. See you back on the snow soon.

NXTZ

Every year we have made and given the riders an event t-shirt for entering Last Call during registration. This year will be no different except that we're tossing in a 10 year anniversary NXTZ on top of it. Sort of like a sign on bonus.

NICK JULIUS AT THE OPEN

Word on the street is this guy made semis for slopestyle today at the Open. Go get it Nick! Good luck.

Burton Shifting Snowboard Production To Austria

Burton Shifting Snowboard Production To Austria - Project Economy News Story - WPTZ Plattsburgh

LAST CALL INFO

REGISTRATION IS $50 AT JAVA JUNCTION near the Bunyan Room FROM 8:30 - 10 AM ( fee includes lift ) BE THERE BY 9:30 IF YOU ARE LISTED HERE. RIDERS MEETING AT THE TOP OF THE COURSE 10:45AM WE START AT 11...PLEASE DON'T BE LATE
MEN
1) Jeff Deforge, 32, Stepchild
2) Dylan Peters, VZ Ride
3) Ben Ross....Stepchild EB
4) Marcus Rand...... Endeavor 32 VZ Civil
5) Scotty Lago...Flow
6) Tim Humphreys...Flow
7) Brandon Reis...Flow EB
8) Jeremy Thompson...Flow
9) Scot Brown....Flow
10) Shane Fortier...Flow EB
11) Nick Julius...Flow Volcom Oakley WV EB
12) Ben Pond
13) Scott Stevens...32, Volcom, Capita
14) Riley Nickerson....Burton Darkside
15) Chris Berseford...32
16) Tanner McCarty....Forum Oakley EB White Flag Loon
17) Merrick Joyce....Oakley WV
18) Shaun Murphy.... Forum Oakley Blend Neff Volcom Streetwear White Flag
19) Big Mike Gonsalves...White Flag
20) Ian Hart ...Forum Oakley WV Blend White Flag
21) Sean Ryan...Forum Blend White Flag
22) Rob Hallowell ....DC Oakley
23) Nick Doucette...Oakley WV
24) Brendan Rego....Oakley
25) Brandon Griffin...Oakley
26) Billy Hogan....Ride
27) Danny Garrity.......Gnu Oakley Vans Idekay EB
28) Ian Keay.......Ride
29) Graham Hoffman.....Flow
30) Luke Mathison.......Waterville Valley EB
31) Will Mayo........Burton
32) Jesse Wells...........Burton
33) Sam Lukens.....Burton
34) John Murphy.........Burton
35) Reily Nickerson..........Burton
36) Travis Neuenhaus… Loon
37) John Murphy....Analog Nixon 802
38) Andrew Aldrige....Nitro
39) Colin Hart........Nitro
40) Kai Wiggans...Nitro
41) Danny Toumarkine.....Burton
42) Danny Tedesco....Volcom
43) Luke Haddock
44) Yale Cousino.....Burton Gordini EB
45) Jeff Harvey
46) Zack Wilmot
47)Andy Laprade
48) Alex Rodway
49) Brendan Hart
50) Jack Herald
51) Jacob Aaronson
52) Tor Hathaway
53) Dylan Gamache.... Endeavor 32 VZ Civil
54) Justin Keniston....Loon
55) Forest Bailey.......Redbull Gnu Drop 686
56) Adam Stander.....Nashoba Valley
57) Zack Normandin....Nashoba Valley EB
58) Dylan Dragotta ........... Lahoots
59) Ted Lavoie..........Weekend Bond EB Loon
60) Mike Ravelson........Capita, Union, Coal, EB
61) Chris Rotax
62) Eric Beauchemin ........DC Mtn Riders SMS
63) Eric Verillo.....Mtn Riders OMS
64) Chris Carr.....Salomon Oakley ASS Wax Dakine Depends Vagisil EB Loon
65) Tom Peplinski – Vans, Capita, Union, Oakley, Snowboard Shack, Muscle Milk
66) Eric Serra ..........Oakley Forum
67) Tarik Blowers ........Oakley Forum
68) Jeremy...( from Copper Mtn ) Ass
69) Chelone " Chilly" Miller......Arbor

WOMEN
1) Jessa Gilbert....Burton
2) Laura Rogoski
3) Makayla Tierney
4) Ashley Tuttle
5) Kasandra Dolan
6) Alissa Finn
7) Lily Calabres
8) Olivia Wiggins
9) Emma Graham....DC, VT Skateboards, PM Snowtec
10) Mary Rand, 32, VZ, Volcom, Rome, Civil, Loon

NEW STUFF AROUND THE SHOP

We're seeing shorts, t-s, Deathwish, longboards from Never Summer and Arbor, complete Hoffman bikes and all sorts of good stuff for Spring rolling in.

MATT GORMLEY

With the Spring comes the most fun events of the snowboarding season. Back to the Boneyard 2 at Waterville Valley is the day before Last Call at Loon. There is no excuse to not be there for both. Call in dead, rent a room, bring your board, all your friends and join in all the fun. Pat is flying our old East Coast hero Matt Gormley in to make sure the gathering of old shreds is legit. Matt called to warn us of his return and sent us these cool old pics of Pat Moore too. The rest of this blurb is from Matt.


The worst thing about looking at old photos is realizing that time passes so quickly.
These shots of Pat Moore when he was 8 years old. His mom was my boss, so this little red haired grommet with a wall of teeth always smiling would follow us around all the time. He'd help hang banners, set up bamboo and carry prizes. He'd just point it and hit all the jumps.
Around this there were some really good locals at Waterville Valley: Jeff and Adam Moran, Zach and Aaron Diamond, Andrew Mutty, Trevor Kupetz, Nick Francke, Dan Brothers and Alexei Garrick. The other batch of young upstarts included Matty Ryan and Luke Mathison. Years later this family is still pretty tight knit. Matty Johnson, Bill Enos and Mike Bettera are still heavyweights in the shred game.
I still think Pat has one of the best styles around, but one thing I always find is that ear-to-ear grin while strapped to his board. That feeling is contagious. Smile and ride.
More pics to follow. Be there on Tuesday for Back to the Boneyard 2. Do it.

Gorms


( Thanks Matt..keep the blurbs and rad old pics coming buddy. See you in the Bone Yard on Tuesday the 23rd! )

Party Marty hard at work

Ryan Martin recently dropped his part in VideoTron, a local video put out by long time eb head Read Jana(how do you spell his name again) and other local rippers. The video has a solid mix of riding and no front flips, so i was stoked. Ryans part is receiving good words all over the internet, including Transworld bmx and Vital bmx. You can view his part here but i highly suggest figuring out a way to get your hands on a copy. Sit down with the buds, a couple brewskys and enjoy some good New England bmx riding.

Ryan Martin VideoTron from Country Strong on Vimeo.

EXPERTS AND INSIDERS

Thanks Tim

BRANDON HONEYCUTT

Good luck to our local shred Brandon as he makes his way up to the Open. ( ..and Last Call....or else. ) After that I have kicked him out of Massachusetts.
BS 1080 into the sun, photographer Brian Nevins, BS 9 photographer Adam Baisley

Starts Tomorrow..... Be HERE Early.

This is the best deal going. One weekend only. Snowboards, boots, bindings, Jackets, Pants and more are 241, so bring the family down hook up the kids, split it with a friend, because there is tons of riding left this year. If you don't have a friend, come solo and get 40% Off a Single Item.

10 YRS OF TERROR

The 10th Annual LAST CALL March 24th 2010 from eb danvers on Vimeo.

ALMOST DOUBLE IMPACT DECKS

Check out the new six ply super tough ALMOST DOUBLE IMPACT DECKS with a 45 day warranty. We just got a whole bunch of them in all the shops. If you grab one just register it with their site and don't focus it on purpose...they will be watching you.

TORONTO BMX JAM RESULTS

Check out this Transworld linkSounds like Zane took a pretty hard fall. Glad to see a good chunk of EB heads making the event and getting some more riding in while we await Spring here. B Hunt, Zac Earley, Ian and Zane Bradley...way to go guys.