Jon Cartwright 2001 Termas de Chillán, Chile
Anybody who knows Jon Cartwright knows damn well he can snowboard like nobody’s business.
Travis Robb asked me one day, “Do you want to go snowboard in Chile? You’ve never been there and I’ve got some connections.”
I said yes.
Next thing I know, we had accommodations, lift tickets, food , everything covered for eight people at a hot spring ski resort in the volcanic mountains of Chile. Of course I did have to provide them with the lion’s share of their print advertising material for the following year through the deal (no problem). I honestly can’t even remember how long we stayed. We hit every nook and cranny and every major peak that we could physically get to. It felt like another planet.
What really hit me was being in the Southern Hemisphere. Storms spin clockwise instead of counterclockwise. The moon looks upside down at night. There’s no Big Dipper. No Polaris guiding you north. Down there, people navigate by the Southern Cross. And obviously their winter is our summer.
It gives you a strange feeling , like the whole world has quietly flipped over.
But none of that mattered to Jon Cartwright.
He was too busy launching himself off this massive cliff in a foreign country, thousands of miles from home, riding like he belonged there.
Shot on Fujifilm Velvia. Termas de Chillán, Chile , 2001.
#Snowboarding #Chile #TermasDeChillan
Spring 2000 Pemberton Ice Cap
Jonaven Moore in his element , big terrain, no easy access, and a mission just to get there. Rutherford Creek access was not even an option, we came in from Brandywine, hauling gear deep into the alpine (The around the world mission )and staging fuel along the way. Different era. Different mindset.
We worked at shaping this Quarter pipe for days. After hitting it a number of times we finally began towing Jonaven in by sled to get the speed.
Not quite the Ingemar Backman height we were looking for but the style and control was definitely right there with the best of that time. Think Jeremy Jones meets Terje Haakonsen, and you start to understand the level Jonaven was riding at.
These were the days when getting the photo meant earning every inch of it. Still one of those shots that holds its weight over a quarter of a century later.
Shot on 35mm Fuji Provia 100 ASA Brad McGregor shooting 16mm Kodak 50 ASA negative on his wind up Bolex.
Those were fun days with a heavy load to carry on not the best snowmobiles!
#snowboardhistory #burton #snowboard
1998
Oboe Mountain
Shin Campos dropping in on the first turn, nothing more.
Below him was a full line… a couple thousand feet straight to the valley. Clean, fast, no interruptions. The kind of line you remember for the ride, not the first turn.
But something about this moment stuck. The way the snow rolled off the cornice, the light, the shape , it just looked right. So I shot it. Didn’t think much of it after that.
Then it took on a life of its own. The image won an award, Nitro Snowboards ran it, and somehow (my wonderful friend Colin Blake coach of the freestyle Olympic team in the 1998 Nagano Olympics) it ended up in front of an exec from The Coca-Cola Company. Next thing I know, it’s printed on Sprite machines all over the world.
Still the highest-grossing photo I’ve ever taken.
And the part that never made sense , they had me recreate it later… but with three snowboarders hiking up under the cornice instead of Shin riding it.
Sometimes the shot you almost don’t take ends up going the furthest.
We accessed it by helicopter with Peter Mattsson a.k.a. Swede & Beat Stiener shooting a 16mm Arriflex for Adventurescopes movie “Quest”.
From the 1990s archives.
Shot on Fuji Velvia 35 mm positive film. #snowboardhistory #Nitro #snowboard
1997 — Rainbow Mountain
Martin Gallant
This photograph of Martin ran as a full-page image in one of the first issues of Snowboard Canada Magazine.
Oh, to be young.
I wanted to share this one again with Martin’s upcoming memorial. He was part of a special time, and a special group of people , that helped shape snowboarding in those early years. Something that caught me when I looked at this image earlier was the fact he was wearing a togue which is pretty rare these days. Zoom in a little closer to check out the symbol of life.
Hope to see everyone there.
April 26 at the Fairmont.
#1997 #SnowboardingHistory #RainbowMountain #MartinGallant #SnowboardCanada Snowboarding Whistler SnowboardCulture 1990sSnowboarding
India, Himalayas 1997
Kurtis Croy , Brad McGregor, Dave Basterrechea, Derek Heidt , Brian Savard, Adam Hosetter
These are the four riders in this photograph that’s a brand new Bell 407 Heli. I was taking the photograph Brad McGregor was shooting 16 mm and that helicopter is 2 months old from the Bell factory, this thing operated like a Ferrari, so our pilot said. $1.2 million machine and they had 2 of them. To fly in altitudes like this is not easy and the Swiss pilot we had was one of the most incredible humans I’ve ever met. At the LZ after he slowly settled into it for what seemed a very long time we were buried in snow. He was concerned if he congrats even set it down properly. When we tried to exit, we couldn’t even open the doors to the helicopter. We had to force them open. We couldn’t see out of the windows taking five steps was hard. We were breathing heavily and having pulmonary edema kicking in. After that, we dug that machine out as much as we could, and as much as he felt he could to fly away.. exhausted we started to flounder with deciding how to shoot what we were going to shoot who is gonna go first etc. and our guide was like you got a drop elevation now we need to drop 1000 feet because things are getting crazy here this is pulmonary edema. The loss of ability to make decisions properly.
The journey alone was something else, winding roads, small villages, and a culture that stays with you.
A landslide blocked access to the lodge we were supposed to reach. Nothing out there comes easy.
On our first day, we learned a local guide had passed away the day before. I never knew his name… and that’s something I still think about.
We kept going.
Three more days riding terrain that felt endless.
This shot,around 17,000 feet, beside a massive glacier.
A 3000-meter descent from top to bottom.
One of the greatest moments,and images,I’ve ever been part of.
Kurtis Croy
35 mm Fuji Velvia 50 positive slide film in the heart of the Himalayas flying out of the Manali region.
@cinemcgregor@derekheidt@dvdbas@cheetah_snow Brian Savard and Adam Hostetter I don’t have handles for ya, what a trip!
Someone has to go first. It doesn’t matter whether you’re dropping into a line, setting a skin track or getting out of the tent to fire up the stove, in the mountains we need those willing to put themselves into the unknown for the benefit of others. All hail the trailblazers.
For this blast from the past, photographer Kurtis Croy (@kurtiscroy ) breaks out his slides from the mid-and-late 1990s, a time when a small crew of snowboarders hopped on (underpowered) snowmobiles and pushed deeper into the hills than ever before. Along the way they changed the way people experience and enjoy the Coast Mountains.
Read the full story at the link in our bio.
✍️ :: @feetbanks
📸 :: @kurtiscroy
#MLCoastMountains #Snowboarding #SeaToSky
1997 This is a photograph I took on the Cover of Transworld Snowboarding , the most influential snowboard magazine in the world at the time.
📍 Lone Goat backcountry, near Bralorne, British Columbia.
Canadian rider. Canadian photographer. Canadian mountains.
This image of Derek Heidt (CAN) @derekheidt reached an estimated 2.2 million people worldwide. Inside the same issue, JF Pelchat , also Canadian , had a full interview.
That’s a lot of Canadian representation in a U.S. published magazine. Pretty damn good, eh.
We were living deep in the alpine, based out of a cabin maintained by the Bridge River Valley Snowmobile Club , flying fuel in by plane, sometimes leaving sleds behind and using a helicopter to access zones until the snow was nearly gone. Brad McGregor @cinemcgregor was shooting 16 mm film for the upcoming Adventure Scope movie “Quest”.
This became one of the most iconic photos I ever shot. Burton originally wanted it for an advertising campaign, but after some serious back and forth, Transworld took it for the cover.
The board Derek is riding is the Johan Olofsson pro model of that year, and it sold like wildfire shortly after the issue dropped. Sold out!
This wasn’t just a photo.
It was a moment in snowboard history.
Shot on 35mm Fuji Provia 100asa positive slide film.
From the 90s archive.
#transworldsnowboarding #burton
