HIKING UP the gnar ,, with Will Brommelsiek

05/05/2015

INDEPENDENCE or what ?!

Mr. Higai picks up the motor home at the hookup of Heli Service ASG, I pick up the snowmobile at Baldy's and see off the crew from Japan at TAILGATE AK

Let's shoot snowboarding in Alaska with Japanese Legend Photographer Hikai!So start

Attack with Higai-san and the Polaris RMK700 XNUMX years ago in doubles (two-seater)! !!This strategy

Mr. Higai came to the town (area) called Haines for the shooting of ICON, so why not stay a little after that?Would you like to shoot?I was invited.

I can shoot with a photographer who is already here, but I want to move for shooting and leave a good photo I want to show what snowboarding is like in Alaska I want to keep it as my own record Do it with a snowmobile Is a next-level challenge for me and is quite challenging.

Snowmobiles are dangerous and difficult everywhere, but in Alaska it's really cool.I got on Tahoe, Jackson, and Revelstoke, but Alaska has big and crevasses.

After all, since the sunny day on the first day, the days of snow, rain, clouds, and wind continued for XNUMX days, and during that time I slipped a little but the down days continued. ..

And finally, the falling storm came out.

Wil B (Tahoe's extreme snowboarder, vegetarian and hippie), who have been attacking together in Alaska every year since they met in NZ, are dispatched by a big crew of about XNUMX people.

There are a lot of risky points to go up in doubles with less snow, and finally it is a point. ..

After going to Alaska, I finally took my photographer to the Alaskan slope where no one was slipping and took a picture with my own mobile.I organized the whole series by myself.There was a small feeling of satisfaction.It's just the beginning.I grew a little, but it's always a point.

Will isn't interested in the good points that can be turned on the mobile.Over there!But let's go on the steep line of walking!It says.As expected, I like big lines.

Hike is fast as usual.I'm not impatient, step by step, surely. ..

If ○○, there are many things.Silently and surely continue to climb one step in your life.

If you think it's too dangerous to stop, you'll regret it if you don't.

If you don't want to regret it, it's done to the end.

After this, there is a turning point of sugar snow on the rock surface. ..

Dave, who was between Will and me, climbs there.Unable to step on, slippery rocks, wall-like slopes, and falling snow. ..Will was first, so he miraculously made up with baht and is already on top.Dave slips from here after trying various means for a while.I decided.

Originally climbing with a boot pack, I attached the board I had in my hand to the backpack and gripped the vibram sole at the pointed point of the rock under the sugar snow and put my arm on the snow and rocks that I do not know how it works. If you put your weight on it and slip it now, it's the end of the volume. ..Rock climbing where the snow is just jamming.I thought rock climbing would be interesting because I climbed up the rocks to access the slopes I wanted to slip in Alaska.So I was able to climb. ..Will has finally done it!Screaming.Will is dangerous.I know.

I hope that a picture of Mr. Hikai at this time will appear in the world.

For that reason, I'll keep the photo of the slope face down. ..I want to put it out

Alaska has slipped in a lot, so I've come to understand a lot from the beginning, such as taking lines.

I can only say that I like a place where I can feel the progress every day.

Mr. Hikai enjoys free riding on the way back from the point.

Snow, the best. !! !!

Alaska Snowmobile & Snowboarding Shooting Independent Day

Valdez, Alaska. 2015

Alaska is home to many Great Snowboarders. ..This is Jamie Lin.You have a little Japanese face, right? I once greeted you in Japan, but it feels good anyway.

Various things come out of my pocket. ..

The helicopter doesn't fly, the mobile can't go, and the down days are long, so I have the opportunity to talk, and it's fun to talk, but it's cool.

And below, this one was also here.Mr. Iguchi Mr. Gucci

Since Jackson's sushi restaurant.It feels like there is something to do with it. ..I can't go with you again this time

Justin on the left is a middle name with Japanese blood Shoji-san Iguchi-san is Yoneo, (Is it different?) Three Japanese shots.I'm sorry.