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Five weeks ago I called Austin Stevens to talk about shooting this Summer. My main reason, the Boyz hadn't had their doubles fix from the previous park shoots. Too bad so sad? No, our crew is stronger than ever, but their strength isn't shown if we don't have the shots. So Austin and I generate a plan that would have PBP shooting during Session 3. The crew, Dane Tudor, John Spriggs, Matt Walker, Tim Durtschi, and Nick Martini.

As Austin and I solidify our plan I work on another: getting a helicopter to capture all the joy. Oh my lord, the next five weeks up til' the last minute would yield more emails, phone calls, meetings, plotting, financing, athlete logistics, athlete tug-o-wars, and faxes to get the heli in the air. This would be the 1st helicopter filming permit issued by the National Forest Service to shoot on beautiful Mt. Hood in history. Score!

There were two nights of shooting, one without the heli and one with. The 1st night of shooting was nearly perfect, a little windy, but we captured some great shots. Spriggs threw flawless sw9s, sw7 mute to tail, and rodeo 5s with his self titled "microphone grab" (see photo). Walker set out to get both sw7s perfectly. As we loaded and watched clips at DaHoodHouse, Liam Downey said, "you look a little huck on your switch right 5s on the small jumps, but damn when you get to the big ones you make it look too easy." A compliment. Durtschi, well, he laid down fives and right fives as he does, with little to no effort to the bottom. Durtschi, like the others in the crew, seemed to reserve themselves for the following night, the heli night. I say this because as the 1st night shoot was wrapping up, Durtschi set a sw right cork that he slowed down because he didn't get the right pop. I asked Spriggs about this later and he replied, "I think he was setting up for sw right dub 10." Oh, ok, I guess he doesn't have that in the backcountry so why not here? The night shoot wrapped up with Martini seemingly less than satisfied, unusual for this guy. And, Dane, oh Dane, he concluded the shoot with his 1st hand-drag double cork 9. Sheeeeaaat!

The next morning day I talk to each of the guys about the game plan for the night. I would not be there to rally, put the blunts out, get everyone on the cat, motivate to salt, etc. The crew is tight, they remember what we talk about and when I show up in the heli, its on, on for everyone except Durtschi, he decided to model for Ralph Lauren and hot Russian models. Martini, Spriggs, Walker, Dane, and because of Mark Frank Montoya's backing, snowboarder Jonnie Paxon was on hand to join in on the session. No time was wasted, Spriggs kicks it off with a perfect dub cork 12, then Martini with dub flats and sw dub 10s, then Walker with a rodeo 12, Paxon, double cork 9, and Dane, with an immaculate hand-drag dub cork 9. I swear, we could have left after shooting for 10-minutes...this night was a total success.

Thanks to everyone at Timberline. Thanks to the National Forest Service for trusting me to shoot out of a helicopter. Thanks to Tim Windell for helping with everything. Thanks to Keaton, Chase, Sean, Randy, and Austin at Windell's for towing, organizing, shaping, salting, and making this go off without a hitch. Thanks to Wiegan for shooting and getting a hold of Ike for the extra cards. Thanks to Johnny, Cody, and Tyler for everything. Thanks to Sunset Helicopters and Ty. And thanks to Spriggs, Walker, Martini, and Dane for not being completely satisfied with the previous jump shots, you guys keep a fire under my ass (no homo).

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