Brooke Geery

LT Park Day and Night

It's cool when ski areas support snowboarding and actually let people who snowboard promote them. Then you end up with websites like ltpark.com and the above video. But since you guys will probably all balk at the skier shots, we figured a little interview with LT Park's Will Moss was in order. YoBeat: Who is the LT Park Crew? Will: The LT Park Crew is a loose affiliation of snow sliders living in western Montana's Bitterroot Valley and recreating at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. We build parks with limited resources and have fun on other people's dimes. We try to positively combine the rural, laid-back attitude of the ski hill with (our…
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Your 2010 New Year’s Plans

Happy New Years!!! It's officially 2010 in Australia, but for us in the rest of the world there's still time to make plans that are sure to let you down. In the words of Pat Bridges, "A New Years you can remember is a New Years to forget," but if you are not actually trying to get black out drunk by 10 pm, one option is snowboarding. Here are a few resort across the country where the lifts will be spinning until midnight. Woo! Party. Wild Mountain, Minnesota As we've already seen, Wild Mountain knows how to party! Will the Michelot's or Zac Marben's mustache be there? Probably not, because…
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How to Keep the Dream Alive

This is from the 90s. I was sure I would "make it" and be as cool as JP was soon! If you are reading this site, there’s a good chance you do now, or at one point, wanted to be a pro snowboarder. I know I did. All the glamor, travel, and most importantly free stuff seemed mighty tempting. For me an injury essentially ended my “career,” but for most life just happens. One day, you wake up and realize you’re in your mid 20s and 17-year-old kids are way, way better than you ever were or ever will be. But don’t fret. The dream doesn’t have to die with…
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Happy Holidays from YoBeat

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly to their inboxes by Santa himself, but on this most joyous of holidays, we present to you the outtakes! For this shot we were summing up our various roles at YoBeat. You'll notice Party Time Nate drinking, Zimmerman taking a photo with his iPhone, Nick Lipton being a pain in my ass and me reading…
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States #33-35: Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky

Circa 2002 I hit the I-70 stretch on a road trip from Bellingham to Vermont for summer vacation. I recruited Orion to make it an epic skate mission, and then Malcolm signed on because he needed a ride to Boston. This was during my artsy black and white phase, so you'll have to excuse these photos as they were scanned from a contact sheet as no one owns a film scanner anymore apparently. Kansas We skated a couple parks in Kansas on the way across I-70. I honestly don’t remember the names, but I do remember bonding with a boy from Kansas years later over the fact that I had…
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Hump Day Salutes El Schwarez

The fateful day. Nothing but smiles. Anytime someone is seriously injured snowboarding, it’s easy to start throwing blame around. And in the case of Mike “El Schwarez” Schwarz’s injury, there’s no shortage of culprits. Last year, at the World Quarterpipe Championships at Timber Ridge, VT, any paranoid person would say it was bound to happen. Even when I learned someone had been airlifted to Dartmouth following the event, I wasn’t surprised. In the hubbub of the gauntlet and the fire pit, I didn’t even notice when Mike Schwarz fell, hitting his head twice on the way down, and then stumbled off. It wasn’t until the next day I heard official…
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State # 36: Arizona

Circa: 2004 I made it to AZ with skateboarding in mind. It was February, I had little to do with my life, and a friend living in Flagstaff. As it turns out, it’s freezing in Flag in February, but we did make it to Phoenix to skate some of the perfect concrete parks. I later hit Flagstaff in the summer, another notch on my list of random college towns that could be anywhere list. Please note: At this point in the story I was still shooting this weird stuff called film so photos are somewhat limited. Jeff, my host and fellow nerd. The have this Canyon there, it's somewhat grand.…
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The Keywords of 2009

Guess what! It's the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some keywords to remind us what went down (that way we don't even have to think that hard.) Some of our most frequent search terms were newsworthy events we remember, and some, well, some were just the ridiculous result of Google predicting what people were searching for. Here is some of the stuff people came to…
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Real Breck Dew(sh) Tour Results

slideshow by Zak Shelhamer Ok, we have a secret. Our "exclusive coverage" was totally made up. Shaun White wasn't even there, much less skateboarding in the Superpipe. But that's really the only way to get anything "exclusive" in this internet day and age, isn't it? And since Totino's didn't pay to send me out there, (Alli does pay Nick to be there, but they also expect him to do their coverage because of that, and he's not a big multi-tasker) I'm covering it in my pajamas, from my couch. And by covering it, I mean, posting a few random thoughts and the results. (more…)
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