The Rest is History Teaser

Props to Dillion Blodgett for capturing these truly magnificent Photographs and Zach Ostrander for doing a great job on this years park! It's better than Chuckie Cheese.

Pillows, Cliffs, and Other Mid Season Madness

Sour heads out and get after some epic lines in some epic conditions.

Inside Sour from Matt Clarke on Vimeo.

Barefootin Sour Style

Barefooting requires the skier to travel at higher speeds, speed can be approximated by the following formula: skier weigh / 10 + 25. We never used the formula on high elevation Blue Mesa Lake, at 7,519 the little 1992 ski boat had to be held wide open to achieve Barefooting speeds. Turn up the beat and watch the carnage as the Boyz Progress their Barefooting skills..

Jackson Hole Freeskiing World Tour

The Western State Freeskiing Team traveled ‎1120 miles, 21 hours 54 minutes, 10 people, in 1 van, 1 chance to stomp it. Be ready for some pole whacking action, because the team ripped it up! Congratulations to Mark Mikos for Placing 4th overall and pre qualifying himself for the rest of the tour!

WSC Freeride Ski Team's Rail Jam

WSC Freeride Ski Team's Rail Jam!!! from Matt Clarke on Vimeo.

Sour Steezle athletes, filmers, and photographers put on a show at the January 21st Rail Jam, put on by WSC Freeride Ski Team. Free Hot doggz, flying Redbulls, and a flippin' good time were had by all. Sour Steezle's John O'Rourke took first, Casey took second and Jon Kane taking third.

Hut Trip

Mt. Crested Butte at Sunrise
While the majority of the Sour Steezle Team competed in Jackson Hole for the weekend, Justin took an AIARE Avalanche 1 hut trip out of Gothic, Colorado

Soon-to-be Avy 1 Certified Skiers and the Guides


Beacon Training

Digging pits at 12,300' in Virginia Basin

"Gothic: One Helluva Mountain"

Endless aspen forest

Examining the snowpack on a NNW aspect at 11,000'

Breakfast of Champions courtesy of Hank

Gothic Mountain and the Maroon Hut at sunrise

Getting an early, but beautiful, start

Justin throwing some tracks down Snodgrass Mountain

Blowing Lines of Powder

Staying true to their new years resolutions, Sour Steezle has been heading into the backcountry to knock out a few lines on their seemingly endless list. Here's a few of the highlights...

Mt. Axtell, The Pencil


John blowing into one long line of powder


Looking for the lead in the pencil...


John-o Bringing his #2 Pencil to the Test


Rob stopping to check out his cursive


Justin dropping into Redwell Basin


Checking out the scenery in lower Redwell


Creek Jumpin


Gettin after it in The Anthracites


John-o on a stellar line somewhere in The Playground

Colors of a Gunni Sunset

Sour Steezle riders Mike Curran and John O'Rourke throw down for a sunset session on the new Western State College Campus Rail Park. Special thanks to the WSC Freeride Ski Team for building the park and allowing the crew first hits.

Freeballin and Fruit-Bootin

Boots McGootin


Andy Fruit-Bootin a gnarly hand rail

Striking Gold


Freeballin! Garrett going massive first hit.

Sour Steezle Presents "Hit That"

Abusing the land by building illegal structures is against the law, please respect the land! Here's the full length film of our 2009-2010 season shot on location at Crested Butte, Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, and in the BC. Sorry for the delay! Keep following the blog for season edits and updates on what we're up to! We look forward to seeing everyone on the hill!

ENJOY!

If you don't do it this year...

Yet another year comes and goes, Sour Steezle heads out this New Year to make sure they're not one year older before they shred some sick lines!

Matt and Clovis Crew headed out on a hut trip to Red Mountain Pass for some sick pow skiing!


Fat Skis with Skins Everywhere!


Matt Goin Fast

Cody Stomping his Three


Matt


Matt And Cody getting off the cat. Special Thanks to Greg at Ouray Scenic Jeep Tours and Crew for hooking it up with cat rides

Meanwhile... The rest of the crew was slaying lines in The Backcountry

Rob's Sled after Two weeks of DUMPING!


Skinning through a sunny forest on Axtell


Mt. Emmons From Axtell


Mike Gettin Some Pow


Brandon on top of Red Lady


John gettin after some pow in Redwell

Winter Break on the East Coast

John-o headed back home to the East Coast with two pairs of shred sticks. Luckily he was able to take out his fatties when mother nature dropped over a foot of pow in New Hampshire, making for some of the best east coast skiing conditions. Here's a few runs captured by the Gopro camera at Cannon Mountain, NH and Wachusett, MA. Check it out!

Ashwabay Powder Day

Many of the Sour Steezle athletes headed to their hometowns for the holidays. Max headed back to Bayfield, Wisconsin and got a good opening weekend at his home mountain of Ashwabay. Check out the footage!

New Camera!!!

Mikey Curran adds yet another High Definition Camera to help with the production of edits and the full length film to drop at the end of the 2011 season. The camera setup here at Sour Steezle Productions is starting to look quite professional and we couldn't be more stoked on the athletes contributing to the cause!

We currently have a Canon A1, 3GoPro HD Cameras, 1 HD-HV30 Camcorder, 1 HD-HV40 Camcorder, and the newest HDR-CX150. Not too shabby for a non-profit production company!

Mikey put together a test edit with his new HDR-CX150, check it out! We're already stoked to get this cam into the backcountry and put it to proper use!

The Japan Edit

Sour Steezle riders Justin, Andy and John-o enjoy an awesome day of champagne pow and epic white-rooms at Crested Butte.

The Japan Edit from John O'Rourke on Vimeo.

Tim Shreds On

Our dear friend, Timothy Riley was lost in a tragic snowmobile accident two years ago, December 5^th 2008. He is never to be forgotten.

Details- http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20081210/NEWS/812109998

My Favorite Photo of Tim

Backcountry gate Snowmass

This abandon bridge was about a five-minute drive from our high school and on lunch breaks we would often go jump off of it. On this particular hot and calm day Tim heads to the very top for one more jump, 50 plus feet. Just our luck, a police officer rolls up and gets out and starts yelling DON’T JUMP. Tim calmly looks at the officer, sucks his index finger and causally puts his hand in the air and tests the wind. With no hesitation Tim throws and huge cork 5 and floats down river. I was viewing this from the other side of the river. The officer was flustered, he had no idea what to do. On the way back to school I pull over and Tim emerges from the tamarisk, hops in, and sure enough we make it back right as the first bell rings.

Slushy Face Shot

Summer Jib- looks like Bruce Lee on skis

Admiring the Halibuts

Pillow Lincoln loop

450 out

Tim Wins Limbo Night

Tim's almost finished crocheted hoodie

Tim getting high at Aspen Snowmass

mug shots

Tim was always so stoked to ski

Tim's First Jib ramp, he called it a PJM (Portable Jib Machine)

Tim and I loaded the ramp into the green machine (his pickup) and headed off on an urban mission. We were pumped, not to often does Grand Junction get enough snow to hit urbans. Wile driving we hear a noise, like one could imagine, a heavy 10ft tall ski ramp being lifted from the bed of a truck and forcefully exploding on the pavement. oops lesson learned

Tim dropping into the x-games course on this icy flat light day. No one else had the balls to fallow.

Shred the Eternal Pow

movement movie from Matt Clarke on Vimeo.