I’ve posted before about how downright gnarly Jeremy Jones’ and his blog is. Well him and the Deeper: Alaska crew have been on a month long mountain climbing snowboard camping trip into the powder and spines around Glacier Bay, 65 miles from Haines in the Fairweather Range. They’ve been documenting it on the new Jones Snowboards websites blog. Besides some amazing photos, of which I’ve taken a sample of above, there is some breath taking writing about snowboarding in Alaska. I love riding slushy park as much as the next guy, but when you see what these homies are up to, it reminds you of how ‘real’ snowboarding can get. Below is an update Ryland Bell wrote about his first real Alaskan line of the year.

“I stood at the top, last one to drop, so nervous. I remember talking to the helmet cam telling it this was going to be the run of my life and I already knew it. 3 feet blower on 55 degree spines. Standing there alone, shaking waiting for my turn, I puked. It was… The line of my life (up to that point). We hit the glacier running, we had a west face that was too good to pass up, and with 5 hours to go and 7 miles to skin and snowshoe we had the rest of the afternoons work cut out for us. Exhausted and low on water we made it to the West face Jeremy would later name “Freefall Wall”.

Heavy.