Breckenridge, Colorado

Words: Alex Albers

After weeks of anticipation Two Plank headed to Breckenridge Colorado. On Saturday the April 19th, the Two Plank crew consisting of Brandon Clabaugh, Forrest Cole, Drew VanGorder and my self Alex Albers arrived at 8:00 am on the sunny bluebird day in Breckenridge. Meeting us there was Christian Allen, Tony Seibert, Luke (Ocho) and a few other Breck rippers.

We were towed up by snowmobiles all morning making laps on Freeways big jump line. Concentrating on the final jump we set up a camera crane that captured some really amazing shots. I had never skied that hard, that early in the morning. When Christian started throwing switch 9’s that early in the morning we all gathered our strength together and everybody really started throwing down. As one of the park crew guys said, “Things are going off”, that is pretty much how the morning could be summed up. Towards the end of the session a couple of us took laps on the up rail and tried to master a few tricks, while the others went to get breakfast. All of us were beat by 9:00 am and packed things up for the morning until the late afternoon session.

In the afternoon we were shut down by park officials and were told we would have to come back again the next morning. We were all pretty bummed to not get the sunset shots but we decided that the next morning we would have to come and kill it even harder.

The next morning 4/20, things started off just the way they had the previous morning.
However, it was really cold the night before and all the landings were super hard, but that didn’t hold anyone back. The crew really focused on smooth clean shots and that’s just what everyone did. The weekend ended with a few really good shots, and a few bruised bodies but no serious injuries, which is always something to be thankful of.

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 at 12:25 pm and is filed under TwoPlank Blog & News Archive.