Max Ballesteros getting pitted on a lefty
Photo: Adrian Cole
It is very easy to get caught up in today’s media driven age in which the sentiment of “if you didn’t get it on video, it didn’t happen” rings all to true. Nearly every single skate trip, whether it be a group of professionals or just the local skate crew getting down, is now almost sure to include a photographer or at least a camera of some type to document what goes down along the journey. This motive for media can sometimes zap the aura in the van and rather than just looking to get some with the homies, each session can quickly seem like a mission with a clear cut task that must be accomplished. Recently a crew of some of some heavy hitters piled into the Muir Skate Van and headed into the great expanse that is Utah looking for new, untamed roads to get heady shreddy with. What is about to visually unfold in this publishing regarding this epic trip into the unknown was captured without the aid of any photographer or even any DSLR camera. Rather than spending time trying to capture the story, AJ Haiby, Max Ballesteros, Max Capps, Oscar Gutierrez, Ian Freire, Dylan Whittier, Riley Irvine, Camilo Cespedes, Trevor Ovenden, Kalil Hammouri, Adrian Cole, and a few others allowed their skating to tell its own organic story and only brought back iPhoto images as “proof” of their findings.
This waterfall left was tricky, not being able to see the inside of the corner while entering your drift. But everyone managed to find a line
Photo: Max B
Dylan Whittier hitting his groove
Photo: Max B
Not everyone made it through this turn unscathed
Photo: Max B
Max B and Ian Freire were mobbing into this super tight Hairpin
Photo: Adrian Cole
Ian Freire calmly showing some steeze through this fast left
Photo: Max B
you have to almost come to a complete stop to make it through this hairpin
Photo: Adrian Cole
This bottom left separated the wheat from the chaff. While being gripable, you’re flying into this turn, so most people through out a drift just to be safe
Photo: Max B
Riley Irvine was killing it the whole weekend
Photo: AJ Haiby
One by one people came zooming into this left
Photo: Max B
The always steezy, Oscar Gutierrez, doing his thing
Photo: AJ Haiby
Max and Ian killing it
Photo: AJ Haiby
Max Capps dropping that ass for the money line
Photo: AJ Haiby
Adrian Cole coming out of the fastest section of the hill about to through a drift for the chicane. There was still snow on the mountain in some spots. you can see some in the background here
Photo: Oscar Gutierrez
Micah Green coming out of one fast left, about to enter the next fast left
Photo: Oscar Gutierrez
“It was such a beautiful view, when you weren’t focused on the road, looking out from such high elevation and appreciating the fact that no one was going to interrupt your session on this road that leads to nothing.this is a road that was built before the housing market crash so theres a road but no houses. So no one drives up it.” -Adrian Cole
Photo: Oscar Gutierrez
