Bachelor Skate Escape

For Mackeys bachelor party we went to Salt Lake City which over the last couple years has become our favorite place to get away to and skate. Its far enough from our everyday life's to feel like we are on a real vacay but close enough to drive for the weekend. 

Bachelor Skate Escape begins with camping up in the Big Thompson canyon then a full day of skating on saturday and driving home sunday. Super awesome weekend and glad to see one of my closest friends tie the knot.

Nathan

Tryin out the root brews fresh outa our "fridge" in the river

Me almost burning my face off

5 DAYS OF FREEDOM
Nathan made Mackey this shirt to wear all day saturday while we were skating

Jeremy came out to join in on the skate escape action

locked in

Thanks again for joining in ont the action Jeremy!

Cruising downtown SLC late night.

Josh Kingry is a...

BOSS!

I have known Josh for a little over 10 years. I first met him in highschool. He moved to my hometown in Iowa my sophmore year of highschool and he joined up pretty much all the same activities I was into. So we became friends. We hung out a lot and went through a lot. From Josh almost dying after falling off my shoulderes and smoking his dome on the cement to one of our friends actually dying in a car accident. Josh was around for only 2 years then moved away and we barely talked after that.

THEN

Eating entire pizzas.

Hes a boss

Party time

Last year Josh By random chance moved to Colorado and we got hooked back up. Dude has changed a lot. When I first re-met him he was still fresh outa college still pretty much a "Frat boy" which made me pretty nervous. But after like 6 months and getting him up on the mountain with me that all changed. Josh is super rad and has definitely grown into a beast of a dude. Like 6'2" and is built like a house. Stoked that Josh and I have been able to regrow our friendship. Look forward to charging life with this dude for a long time.

Now

Jonathan, Myself, Jim, and Josh all way dirty from bein out in the wild on 4-wheelers

Me observing Josh tear down a tree

Josh and I at the top of Mt. Huron

Goin up

Our crew at the top of Mt. Sherman

Not a whole lot as changed since highschool. 

we played with stingrays and didn't get stabbed

Josh likes to cut down trees

Boys will Be Boys weekend

This weekend my wife manipulated me into spending my birthday weekend with the guys (so she could have a ladies weekend and not feel guilty about not spending my birthday with me). We took our motorcycles and guns up into the mountains to a secluded cabin and spent the weekend there. What a good way to celebrate my friend Ryan and I's birthday/ Memorial day weekend.

unpacking

Nathan had this stick and was beating things with it all day

All dogs go to heaven 4

When my good friend Mike came into town he made a documentary of our friend Greg. It is starring myself and others. It is hilarious.

my family is talented

My family is way talented. For example these are my cousins. They rock out!

They can sing and play guitar, my uncle has ran his own business for many years, My Granpa has hit a couple hole in ones on the golf course, And for me..I ummm.....Well most of my family is talented. Take a gander at these guys killin it.

What a difference...

24 hours can make

 Yesterday it was 80+ degrees and I hiking with my wife and then....

 

Today we get crazy blowing snow and it looks like this...

I do love Colorado but the weather is sooo crazy...Oh well Give it an hour and it will be totally different

Trip to Breck+Crash=trip to the ER

Yesterday my day included snowboarding at Breckenridge and then making a trip to the ER because of a head injury. I remember nothing from the entire day. Luckily my friend Lee was there with some of my family to help me out. I am guessing I was not to "with it" afterwords because I found this note later on in the night on my phone

So I spent the rest of the night in the ER

 

Ahh soo fun. Anyways, Ended up with a pretty bad concussion and zero memory of anything that happened yesterday. At one point, yesterday, I got off the phone with Katie and then about 5 minutes later her Uncle called her pretty worried because I wanted to call her and tell her that I fell so they were pretty worried. This is my second really serious concussion. Good thing I was wearing a helmet.
Thank you Lee and my awesome family for taking care of me yesterday when I was clearly unable to take care of myself.

The doc told me that I'm supposed to take a month off of snowboarding since this is number 2. There goes my season

Jibfest has returned

I couldn't be happier about the fact that the Nixon Jibfest is returning. One of my favorite contests and events of all time. It was one of the first videos I ever actually bought myself and it changed my life and my view on what snowboarding was. Thank you Jeremy, JP, and Dave for bringing it back!

Made the team

Blacklist \\ Welcome to the team \\ Eric White

EXTREME GAMES EDIT

Edit from the Extreme weekend at the Extreme Games

XGAMES from Eric White on Vimeo.

The Big Show

This weekend Mackey and I adventured up to Aspen for the X-Games. We drove up Friday night and stayed with some friends in Beaver Creek. Woke up early Saturday morning to the smell of a mans sized breakfast and then took a few runs at BC. Then off to the games. I am working on an edit so keep a look out for that coming soon.

Our Breakfast for Saturday

Jeremy and me

 

Macks and Jeremy

 We got to hang out with Jeremy for a little bit and met his family. Super nice people! Got to check out his board for next year. It looked and smelled really good.
The snowboard street event was way cooler to watch for me than the big air and even the super pipe. I can actually understand the tricks that were happening and think about trying those myself. probly wouldn't actually land most but at least I can figure out how its done. I dont even understand the big air jump and how you can feel so comfortable just hucking your life away over those jumps. Dudes are nuts. And I will never get how Shaun White can get 25 ft above the deck of a 22 ft high half pipe.

Crazy skier going sooo big

Mackey snapped this off of Shaun on his first hit in the super pipe of his winning run

Half pipe was pretty fun. We charged our way through the gates and kinda just "head downed" our way through security and no one ever said anything to us so we just kept going up. We ended up here where Mackey was able to catch this photo. It's wild to have these dudes flying over head so high.

Just finished up my first major, professional video project. Check out www.freeyourlegs.com for the full videos. The website was designed by Mackey Hooker and he did an awesome job.

Thanks to everyone for all your help! More to come in the near future!

I O W A F A I L

IOWA BAILS from Eric White on Vimeo.

ENJOY

I O W A

Myself,  my wife, and good friend Nate West took a trip to Des Moines for a family/rail filming mission. Unfortunately we got kicked out of some of the best spots but we still managed to get some shots and have some fun. Short Edit coming soon

Merry Christmas

 

Nate Falled

I falled

Front 50-50 180 out

Front 50-50

Gap front 50-50

Nothing like seeing something you just worked your tail off for actually come to life on camera