Karl Fostvedt was more then excited for this opportunity.
He also suggested letting his roommate, Jeremy Lato, tag along since he had another sled.
I approved of this idea and very happy I did.
We rolled out of Salt Lake fairly early on Wednesday March,31st.
When we arrived in Tahoe the storm was already winding down and setting up for a perfect first day.
We had multiplethings scoped out that we were hoping to bang out quickly.
Obviously, I was pretty frustrated at this, but we just had to work with what we had.
We started by filming a couple of mini lines and a little jump over a cliff.
After a couple hours there we headed to build a jump.
The forecast in the morning called for strong winds by noon followed by moderate size snow system.
We decided to take the day mellow and go hit a trap rail in Truckee.
Instead, we decided to just build a step down over the cliff.
After a quick less then two hour build we began to session the step down.
Unfortunately for the first couple of hits thicker clouds rolled in creating an intense flat light.
All I could think of is all the other back luck we have had with weather this season.
The forecasters were once again calling for 20-30 inches or more from Sunday night to early Monday morning.
We woke up at a decent time Monday morning and checked the snow totals and avalanche reports.
Everywhere I wanted to head was reporting 24-40 inches just from the previous night.
The only problem was intense winds and the new snow created dangerous avalanche conditions.
We decided to gas up the sleds and head out there anyways.
The snow stayed amazing all day, and with out a doubt was D.O.S.
Media’s best day of filming ever.
We got all packed up andtried to head out, but the car was stuck.
We got out to Sonora and immediately went to a jump zone I knew of from years past.
Wednesday was our last day in Tahoe and we spent it once again out in Sonora.
Christian joined us this time but still without his sled.
We got out and found a nice untouched landing that was not getting baked by the strong April sun.
This build ended up being a lot longer than we anticipated.
In fact, it took us well over 4 hours I believe.
We rolled back to Tahoe that night and eventually back home to Utah the next night.
I ended up getting about an hour of sleep that morning in my car before another day of work.
