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Last nights beach sunset

2012-01-25T02:26:00.001-08:00

Last night sunset down the beach was one of the best
Here's a snapshot

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This little man is the best

2012-01-22T03:02:00.001-08:00

No matter what

As is tc, tc and tc actually are the best

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Pain

2012-01-22T02:26:00.001-08:00

I (sc) hadn't caught up with good friend danny in a while and he thought it would be a good idea to catch up over a new tattoo.
We thought maybe a rosella on the foot was a good idea, which really sounded like a good idea, until the needle hit the skin :)
The pain was super bad luckily enough a few friends dropped by to keep me entertained
Pretty stoked on the outcome but it is still swollen and super sore maybe the other foot has to wait

The process

The result

Thanks again danny

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Snowboarding still rules

2012-01-01T09:42:00.001-08:00

Just a quick collection of some iPhone shots over the last couple of weeks involving snow boarding

Good crew at Brighton

Great light

Tj ripping

Xmas day at Brighton

Black is popular in snowboarding right now especially with these awesome people

Tara got to come shred,she loved it then she and Ted got sick which sucked

While in Austria we got some pow, the mountains are quite big there too

Adam and kat are snowboarding buddies now after Ralph hurt his arm

Always good light on this lift ride at Brighton

Ralph broke his wing but was still a great sport and came up the hill once or twice

Roundman made a Utah comeback and although we didn't get to much fresh he loved It

T and kat

Totally random shots but just a little reminder of how lucky i am to be able to go to mountains
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Location:Utah and Austria

While the family celebrated thanksgiving in the us

2011-11-25T13:08:00.001-08:00

We hit golf balls and ate mexi
Not a bad thanksgiving Aussie style, missing Ted and t though

Ralph ripping

Yum

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I'm going to miss this guy

2011-11-22T01:52:00.001-08:00

Tommorow Ted and Tara travel to the us for thanksgiving !
I have to go to Austria before I get to see them so it's three weeks without my family
Getting pretty sad that's for sure
Here he is this morning ! Legend :)

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Location:Home

Ted duties

2011-11-15T02:15:00.001-08:00

Tonight Tara had gym so I was in charge of looking after the little man.

He recently learnt to scratch his head when he is upset or feeding !! Pretty cute I'd say and I know I biased

He is also starting to chill, here he is after dinner just chilling

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Summer snowboarding

2011-11-11T02:39:00.001-08:00

It's not easy working for a snowboarding company sitting at work watching the north american resorts all the instagram shots and Facebook updates of opening days etc !
Luckily though we now have an indoor snow facility not far from home.
It may not look like much but I tell you it is the real deal a far as fun goes so get down there ASAP you'll be stoked

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iPad wars

2011-11-11T02:33:00.001-08:00

Sucks to be the one right now with no iPad !!!

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If I could eat mexi for each meal I think I would

2011-10-29T19:04:00.001-07:00

Ralph Rottura thanks for the heads up !!!

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Mega Ted update

2011-09-20T03:21:00.001-07:00

Ted is now 6 weeks old and makes us smile each and everyday
Here is some shots so far

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Snow season isn't over yet

2011-09-19T02:41:00.001-07:00

This post is for everyone who thinks snow season is over

No way Buller is ruling right now

Ralph riding the tbar

Bourke street run busy as ever

My new board went amazing

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Falls creek dealer launch

2011-09-04T00:53:00.001-07:00

A little over a week ago we hosted our annual dealer/product launch up at falls creek which is about five hours from our place.
It was hard Leaving Ted and the family but falls creek is awesome and really looked after us making it a little easier.
The set up day bought us the first casualty with Paul coming down with a really bad flu.
So we where a man down for the set up and I got a little nervous running the show but hopefully you see below that we pulled it off and people really liked the set up.
Thanks to everyone who helped with the set up and launch

More bags

For the first few mornings we ran a free bagel and coffee bar at the shop there to get people hyped to ride. Zander did a great job until he got the cold and flew back to Sydney with Paul to get better.

Jonny works at trigger and is an amazingly good dude, he shredded and had a ball thanks for coming man

The weather was warm in the day and cold at night and in the mornings which meant they could pump out heaps of snow

Burton sponsored a contest up there, the signage came up pretty cool I think a d Burton riders won the slope part and the rail part

Two awesome people, Kate from Wayne Ritchies albury (my old home town) and Angela who pretty much rules at everything including making sure everything at the launch went perfect

Ang, CIA (falls) and Bena who ran the venue and made sure the dealers had a ball

Ava and Dave from snow biz are not only father and daughter but also awesome riding buddies and make sure snow biz in qld have the best snowboard scene up there

The final dinner got pretty loose

And after that dinner there was a rail comp that our Aussie team rider jye won

Final day shredding with Abby from Buller, and Jenn and Cuzzy on left

When I left lachy mr falls made Ted this awesome mobile

Falls rules and I thank everyone for making the launch epic
Can't wait to get back up there

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Location:Falls creek

Only in the USA

2011-08-30T18:05:00.001-07:00

Do they put m and ms in a trail mix
But trust me I'm not complaining

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Winter is my fave time of year thats for sure

2011-08-10T18:27:00.000-07:00

And this new teaser from Burton should remind you all how good it is

Ted

2011-08-09T17:58:00.001-07:00

So after the longest day ever Ted Elliot Carter arrived just in time to make the 8 8 2011.
He was 8 pound ten and 51 cm long.
I had no idea it would be this epic, he is the best.
Anyway here is some iPhone fotos till I can get fotos off my camera,

Can't wait for everyone to meet him

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Location:We are still in the hospital

JG and the Burton Bowl

2011-08-03T15:40:00.000-07:00

JG is the man at Burton and is so awesome at keeping us in the loop.
Today he sent me a shot from his lunchtime skate at the Burton Bowl.
And Yes i wish i was there with you too JG

Pretty stoked to have melbournes best mexi want to be my friend

2011-07-30T02:46:00.001-07:00

I know nbd but I'm still stoked
Can't wait to get back there, thanks Toby pola

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Our friend Chunk

2011-07-29T01:53:00.000-07:00

Our Friend Chris Jepson Has been a ripping snowboarder, a model, a watch rep, a ripping dancer, a tireless snowboard salesman and now he has turned his skills to acting.
Im not the biggest rap fan but this is awesome and cant wait to see what chunk gets up to next

The Battle At Baw Baw

2011-07-29T01:13:00.000-07:00

Last weekend, our sister company held its annual rail contest at local hill Mt Baw Baw.
For anyone that hasn't been there, Baw Baw is a little smaller fun resort with no chair lifts.
They have cool parks and nice people. They just need some new chefs or places to eat cause it drives me insane :) waiting for food that isn't that amazing sucks.

The contest went epic. Sun, good people and a BBQ. Judging was a little harder than the last couple of contests I have helped out on and luckily enough one of our Burton riders, Decampo, ripped super hard and won.

Chunk came up and kept the crowd entertained . . . we were lucky enough to have him as he has been super busy lately acting, but more of that soon

Free hot dogs were epic. Thanks Forum!

Ralph was the main man and killed it

Linc had a break from the yellow bird and ripped around for the day

This dude has been around for years and is 100% good dude. Shame I don't know his name, but look at his t-shirt. My friend Danny owns that company - so stoked to see the t-shirt still around

Such a cool tree, fun little hit at bottom too

Colby Dawg came down from Ksydney to bring the fun

Our new friend Mia made this clip, such a good job. She's from Salt lake too also so we like her double

Little Mountain, BIG Battle: Forum's Battle at Baw Baw from Mt Baw Baw Alpine Resort on Vimeo.

Good times at mount buller

2011-07-17T04:20:00.001-07:00

For the last four days I have been up at buller with Paul c and the rest of our crew from work installing a snowboard rail feature, running a demo day and organizing a contest.
It was some pretty cool times and here is a couple of shots from my phone so you can all see what's been up

Perfect day

Good sunset

Even better sunset shot

Our good friend coconut boadle was missing but he was there in spirit

Some dudes match their outerwear to their board and bindings to funny

Here is the set up for the comp and our 14 year old friend cam who ruled In the contest

Sel and her late nite snack

Metro loves hot dogs also not sure what he is adding but it didnt look good

Gracias amigos for some good times

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Location:Mt buller

Burton cattlemens rail

2011-07-15T04:43:00.001-07:00

After years of planning and talking about it
Finally we pulled it off
I even got to use a blowtorch today ( I know sketchy me and tools ) but here it is in it's glory

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Unreal end to a great day

2011-07-09T00:12:00.001-07:00

Today we had a big burton work demo day up at falls !! It was a busy as I thought it could be !!
Thanks to this team for working their but off !!

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Pretty stoked

2011-07-06T02:09:00.001-07:00

So while at the snow last week tc sent me a foto of a snow window display at the local salvo/op (Deseret industries) store. At the bottom of the display was this board from the 90s which has Thomas Campbell artwork on it.
It just so happens Ralph and Kay moved into the area of the store and kat heard me mention it and went and bought it for me as a surprise which is so freaking amazing
Ralph keep a hold of that one she's awesome

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So long to some good times

2011-07-01T03:57:00.001-07:00

Amazing fun

Not fun at all

And really sad

Thanks for the good times office ramp

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2011-06-28T04:01:00.001-07:00

When I started snowboarding there was a tonne of skateboarding friends that went up every weekend and were part of the reason I started snowboarding. Most of these friends don't ride anymore which sucks but this season one of the keenest snowboarders from back in the day adam started coming up again !
So awesome to have you back Adam

Anyway you really realize someone doesn't come up to our resorts to often when they question paying $8 for a Kransky dog, for anyone not from here lunch ranges from $15 to $20 here in oz at the snow

He later said it was the best $8 he spent ever

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Location:Don't call it a comeback

Good logo's make me smile

2011-06-19T03:36:00.001-07:00

Especially when it's on breakfast food which Is my fave meal of the day

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Baby class Sunday

2011-06-19T03:27:00.001-07:00

Today tara roped me into six hours of learning everything about the upcoming change in our life, the baby.
It wasn't to bad other than the movie and the lady although very knowledgable was a little boring and of course I'm not that good at sitting still
Anyway here's tara being the guinea pig for the massage training.
And happy bday to all the dads in the world I can't wait to be a member of that club

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Falls trip

2011-06-08T14:56:00.001-07:00

Yesterday weds I travelled up to falls to do some training again :)
It was snowing pretty much te whole way up the hill which is crazy for oz

Here's the van parked out the front of the snowboard shop, driving was sketchy

For some reason they are letting you drive round the village which is pretty much a run, I wasn't doing that so local legend matty drove me round, this shot is right before we almost slid into another parked car

Brooke and Lachy organized me to come up and always make you feel welcome and stoked. They know how to make my presentations feel like I killed it for sure, thanks guys

Australian resorts need snow bad so even when it is dumping the snowguns are on

This will be filled with people come saturday

This morning I'm off to hotham as long as I can get up the road
Which is the scene of my dreaded crash years ago
Wish me luck

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It's snowing

2011-06-08T14:46:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I ventured up to mount
bawbaw
which is about two and a half hours from home to do
Some training
As you can see it has really started to snow and
opening weekend is this weekend and it is going to snow everyday till then
Stoked

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2011-05-30T04:41:00.001-07:00

I found this foto of Noah on the Facebook tonight ( thanks Tristan ) but it really reminded me of how good noahs style was and always will be.
Noah was one of my fave pros back in the day he ripped on both a skate board and snowboard. I was lucky enough to end up working with him for a while and got to shred, skate and hang out quite a bit his front threes are still the best I have ever seen ever.
Noah you rule thanks for being my friend, the Carters miss u

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Location:Noah Brandon

2011-05-28T03:38:00.001-07:00

This is my childhood, skateboarding drinking pepsi and listening to these guys

Filmage Teaser from Deedle LaCour on Vimeo.

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Location:Descendants movie coming soon

Living in Chelsea has it's perks

2011-05-20T01:00:00.001-07:00

Coming home after work and running along the beach looking at this sunset really makes me smile
Emo maybe but whatever living in Chelsea is cool

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Snowboarding is awesome

2011-05-19T02:53:00.001-07:00

Today we ventured up to Mt. Baw Baw, which is about an hour and a half from where we live.
Although the lowest resort we have, they had a bunch of snow for this time of year and we had a little shred before we had to work.
The hike up was super easy and then we had some fun on a couple of boxes.
Here is a little photo update:

Paul had traveled to every resort in Victoria with me this week and still forgot his pants. I guess he is used to traveling with a surfboard and boardshorts :) Good road trip partner though that's for sure

Paul and Ralph at the top of the hill, which is a quick ten minute hike. Notice how they are both updating their status on either Facebook or instagram.

Paul ruling after getting salty all summer. Check out: gettingsalty.com

Ralph was having a ball, he is Mr. Baw Baw.

This is for our Utah buddies . . . Paul and his new gloves!

Straight from riding to a resort meeting. Some days you really appreciate your job, thanks Jake.

Promise to try and update this more often.

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Road Tripping

2011-05-17T04:37:00.001-07:00

I Sc have been out on the road a lot lately, hence the lack of updates. Slacker I know
Anyway Last Thursday night We ended up in Sydney for Chris Boadle's going work going away party.
it was awesome but sad also, we will all miss the legend boadle

Here's Darren he was fired up and having a good time

Lauren and Chris kinda tired, sad to see them go thats for sure

Boadle was thinking about all the bike stunts he used to do, Nick G was a little worried about his bike and Lauren was worried about his head, luckily not stunts went down

Great people Paul and Kate

Pie time all the crew.

more road trip updates to come, but Boadle family we will all miss you

Not long now

2011-05-09T20:06:00.001-07:00

What a view to wake up to on my run this morning

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Mindsnares last show at the arthouse

2011-04-30T16:23:00.001-07:00

On Friday night Australia's best hardcore band mindsnare played the second last night the arthouse was open. The arthouse has supported the punk hardcore scene for as long a I can remember, we used to put shows on their when we were a little younger hehe, some of the best shows I've seen there include gorilla biscuits, psyco, one inch punch/myc, h20, CRo mags, forcefed, toe to toe, beanflipper/mull grinder and of course mad circle/mindsnare plus way to many more to Remember
Here's a couple of phone shots of the last night it was way to hectic to get band shots

Nigel and danny are two good friends I've been going to the arthouse with for a long time and have both played in many of the best shows here

Danny did this backdrop for mindsnare epic

Emily is all time and has stayed true to the edge forever
Nailed to the x

Arthouse we will all miss you and thanks for the good times

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White legs and new shoes

2011-04-16T19:15:00.001-07:00

Relaxing at home after a big morning at the gym with the wife in my new shoes that I'm stoked on but tc is not sure yet ???
Next week she will want some, I even it apre/snow/hiking boots from them thanks native :)

Us trip blog post coming soon

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Sorry These meetings are keeping me busy

2011-04-12T18:12:00.000-07:00

But till i get home and update on my trip to the USA
Here is a clip of some shredders over this way that are epic

Updates soon

shane

oh yeah Burlington is pretty nice this time of year

2011-04-07T15:53:00.000-07:00

SO I just arrived in Utah for a few days shredding and visiting family friends on the way to Burton HQ.
Josh our epic brother/brother in law picked me up from the airport and drove straight to In and Out, Stoked

It is pissing rain outside and super gloomy which means pow in the hills but it is still a little hard to fathom I was in weather like this yesterday when TC emails me a picture from her walk this morning out front of our house.

Hopefully tomorrow is EPIC !!!
have a great weekend everyone

A Wedding To Remember

2011-04-04T03:47:00.000-07:00

On Friday, my old roommate and long time friend, Mandy, married her man Jo (legend).
It was without doubt one of the most romantic, emotional and fun weddings we have been to.
You knew from the start of their relationship that they would be together forever and they planned the day out perfectly. Jo's vows even came from a Cure song AWESOME

Her is Mandy with her mom and her stepdad.

Tara wanted me to post this, I know cheesy :)

Tara and Val queens of the kids

Cole, Cherrie and Tara

Bren, Val and Tara

Bren killed that dance floor

The Bride,Val and I

The end of the night - happy people

Thanks to Mandy and Jo for letting us be a part of their special day.

Visitors rule

2011-04-02T03:37:00.001-07:00

One of taras best friends from the us came downunder this weekend for a wedding.
Serena is really awesome and her new boy and brother where really cool to.
Stoked we got to catch up her

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Thanks to a good friend

2011-03-30T04:27:00.001-07:00

I now have our beach and boatshed on my leg
Microphone mark you are a king

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Amazing film of the great people at niseko photography travelling down to help in devastated Japanese areas

2011-03-23T03:25:00.001-07:00

A small relief effort. from Niseko Photography on Vimeo.

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I need to get one of these So AMAZING

2011-03-22T23:30:00.001-07:00

Japan Mega Post

2011-03-19T16:12:00.000-07:00

So the pow kept coming in japan and my blogging software didnt work so well so I figured It would be best to throw down a mega post when i got home :)
Enjoy the shots, mega cat boarding post to come also, excuse the spelling

In this hotel you can get some food or new bindings !

Darren is pretty serious about his food, he is at Ab Bu Chu breakfast is probably my fave breakfast place ever

Here is Ab Bu Chu in all its glory

IT is really sad the are knocking it down to make way for something fancy I guess

Ab Bu Chu also has dinners, here is Eric trying to dig off the fish of the cheese as he is vego

Manly men drinking non manly drinks at the Barn

There is a bar that you enter via a fridge door, the owners are pretty connected and we wondered if this was a real banksy piece

Smorking I mean smoking is now becoming frowned upon in some places, its good to go home not smelling like smoke

Rin is a real traditional japanese place our friends took us to, i didnt try this but it was horse

After Rin dinner it really started snowing, here is our gracious host getting the car warm :)

The next day everyone travelled out to Rustchsu (spelling) which is 45 mins away and a true pow mecca, noone around, notice the guy in the back ground setting up his board on a pow day. Lars in front is stoked and ready

Darren is used to having people set his boards up for him It took him a while to get sorted

Good snow thats for sure, joel wore his bright jacket in case he got buried

I think we doubled the numbers in the car park this day here is all 18 of us stoked

Lars Eric and ME (SC)

Lachy was stoked, he ripped around on the fish with Troy this day

On way back to niseko we stopped at Sushi Train

And then got the custard fish, yep warm custard filled pastry that looks like a fish, Lars was nervous but happy we got him some

That night Ralph, LArs and I went night boarding, Thats two resorts in one day, sore legs MUCH

Some spots it is a little dark especially when it is dumping :) Here is Ralph and Lars looking for something to jump off

Troy and Steph eating at the barn without doubt nicest dinner i ate all trip

Somehow Joel organised us a deal on some cat boarding, which was out of town it was still snowing, hence the crazy roads , thanks joel

Lars and Ralph drank this warm coffee in a can all the time, if i drank coffee i think i would to

Ralph and Lars testing their pieps, looking quite the back country dudes

I rather lizzy's style :)

The cat trip was really cool and deserves its own post soon, but here is a couple of non riding shots till then
lunch in the backcountry

The photographer checking lines

The welcome cat coming to drive us back up

This area we rode after lunch was way better than the morning, heres the crew spotting where we had all been

Not only did the guides and drivers give me crap for riding my sisters board (i took a nug 146, a really small new board from burton) until they saw it go but of course i didnt take a backpack or anything as I arent the most prepared back country guy, the guide loved it and ended up being one really cool guy

This was out last day and the sun really came out for ralph and lars, thats Mt Yoti in the back ground a dormant volcano that you can ride.

This face was our daily hike, its hard to see how good it is but for the 15 min hike out it is really worth it

Abby and Dion from Buller where over there also which made things even better !

We where staying so close thanks to our friends Joel and Troy, heres the main street at night

Of course there was an art show that we went too

One of the nicest resorts towns I have ever been to, Niseko

Billy, Mummi, Lars, Darren and Ralph

The magnificent Mt Yoti

Lars and The ninja

I didnt eat this but I know the wife would have loved to

Our last night at the Barn, heres Roy with Brett and Tokio (spelling) from the barn the most gracious hosts ever

Our last breakfast at Ab Bu Chu from left, Joel, Steph, Darren, Ralph Me and LArs

We couldnt go home without visiting the Gen Tem shop which is a specialist japanese snowboard company slash shop. Crazy how cool their boards and old school collection is

They even has a og Winterstick in the store with the Milo logo at the bottom, history there folks.

Roy was so sad to drive us to the airport he had to put a snorkel on, thanks again mate you really looked after us

In the top trips Ive ever been on, thanks to Joel and Troy especially for making it awesome and our wives for letting us go and everyone else we got to hang out with.
Its so sad what the country is currently experiencing and if you haven't please make sure you donate what you can. Here's some links to the red cross

USA Red Cross: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to Give $10 OR go to https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=0&5052.donation=form1&df_id=5052
Japan Red Cross: http://www.jrc.or.jp/
Austrian Red Cross: http://www.roteskreuz.at/home/
Australian Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org.au/default.asp
For additional regions/countries not listed above, please refer to this Global List of Red Cross organizations around the world: http://www.ifrc.org/en/who-we-are/directory/web-pages/

See you next year Japan (hopefully)

Day three japan

2011-03-05T23:49:00.001-08:00

Here is some iPhone shots from the last 24 hours here in japan
Firstly our hospitable hosts
Troy is one of the nicest people I know this shot makes him look angry which I have never really seen him really be

Joel wishes he was a tough guy but sorry mate it's not going to happen

Last night there was a cool fireworks show, the iPhone doesn't do it justice sorry

Fireworks are awesome

More yep I was stoked.

After dinner last day Roy took us to the barn which is a restaurant/bar owner by our friends that is really cool

Haitchi (my spelling could be way off here sorry) is the best bar person I know

Locals at the barn get a tab, they welcomed Ralph and I with open arms thanks everyone, and yep can u believe I spent more than Ralph our first night here :):):)

We hiked up the peak here again

The view from the bottom

If you look closely you can see our tracks, apparently the one and only terje just came down not long before us imagine one of there tracks is his :)

The hike out of so epic ten mins at the most on a groomed cat track

Only in japan do they have air hoses so you don't have powder stuck to your skies or boots

Good drink menu

So good in fact I had to buy one and shoot a photo for my brother in law Josh who drinks dr pepper like its water this ones for you joshy

Joel's work boots epic :)

Japan so far you have been great to us

Thank you
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Location:Niseko grand hirafu

Day one and two japan

2011-03-04T23:39:00.001-08:00

My blog updating software isn't working the best so a quick update from my trip to japan so far

Japan animations on the plane are epic

My fave snack, custard bananas

Ralph having his first custard banana

My kind of cafe, bayside is where we live in Melbourne for anyone not from Melbourne

Final flight stoked

Roy came to pick us up being the good dude he is

Joel and Ralph waiting to drop in

Same here with Billy

Pretty epic first day in japan and not a bad flight either
Lets hope it keeps snowing

Miss you all

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Location:Australia to japan

It begins

2011-03-03T13:47:00.001-08:00

This morning I flew from Melbourne to sydney to catch a flight to ride some japow
Along for the ride is mr Ralph roadtourer

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Chelsea pub

2011-02-27T01:43:00.001-08:00

Some friends and I have been going to Chelsea pub for dinner now for over 15 years we worked out tonight.
It has changed quite a bit lately and it was cool to have a new friend there tonight as metro bought his friend Kate along !!

Looking forward to the next few years of eating at Chelsea and yep it's way better than 15 years ago when I didn't eat meat :)
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Summer Was Back, for a second

2011-02-26T15:33:00.001-08:00

Yesterday finally summer returned to us.
OF course we spent the day at the beach, unfortunately the uptight city council made us shorten our ramp on our boat shed, which took most of the day to get done.
We did have a support crew though

Heres jammo and moos boy jack supervising

Moo and jack, not sure moo ever checks the blog but this is a cool shot non the less

Tara took this and wanted me to put it up for my mother in law :)

The amount of sand we had to dig sucked big time

Jammo, kev and mr matthews working on the ramp

Tara checking out seaford pier, (a beach a couple of suburbs down)

Good day to paddle that was for sure

Today it is pouring rain, and i was supposed to go skate. Oh well I guess thats life in melbourne

Sunday sips

2011-02-21T01:55:00.001-08:00

I've always laughed at the saying "Sunday sips" thinking why would people want to waste their afternoon sitting around drinking, well yesterday the weather sucked And a few friends met at the newish mornington brewery for drinks and pizza.
It was not about drinking but having fun with some buddies I think I'm sold on "Sunday sips" good old dr pepper would even do.

This shot if for zbruns, stu modeling the Aussie gold coast t shirt

Metro,jammo and I, we took this shot for our friend lars who was stuck renovating his new house

Some random girl rocked up with these cardboard friends in the hope of winning some trip to Europe, not sure about that contest

Kate drove all the way from Mt buller to see us, well not really but she did drive home not long after visiting us, see u soon Kate, metro forgot his wallet so I had to pay how convenient :):):)

Jammo and his son jack killing it

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Coming

2011-02-17T00:57:00.001-08:00

Coming home the journey always takes longer

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Manly

2011-02-15T03:00:00.001-08:00

Pretty nice up here in manly right now

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YeP We are Having a Mini Carter

2011-02-10T01:51:00.000-08:00

Sorry Scan isnt the best but i think you get the idea.

Today We all Lost one of the good ones

2011-02-08T02:14:00.000-08:00

Scotty Goodale was one of the most positive dudes we where lucky enough to call our friend.
We hadnt seen him in years and caught up with him over xmas time in utah, he was so stoked to see us and catch up and tell us about his family work etc and laugh about the old days working together.
Unfortunately he passed away yesterday after an accident riding.
Scotty will be missed that's for sure and all our love to his family.

Here's some shots I stole from the milo blog

Scotty is second from the left, old milo crew early 90's

One hundred per cent a ripper

On a Sunday

2011-02-06T02:14:00.001-08:00

Today started out nice and wet like the rest of weekend, but as soon as we decided we would go surfing the sun came out !!
While driving we managed to catch up with my second fave Australian animal

I know I know quite a few shots but it's not everyday you see a koala in the wild. Sorry to ruin Anyones idea of australia here :)

Jammo went windsurfing then surfing with us , true waterman

And Ralph is hooked buller look out I think someone is falling for the sea

Yep Its Raining Pretty Hard

2011-02-05T15:24:00.000-08:00

SO I'm not sure if you have heard but Australia is getting all kind's of weather lately, cyclones, floods and heat waves.
Anyway here's a couple of shots from our friends back yard yesterday CRAZY, sorry about the focus. Thanks bren

Driving the last couple of days has been mental, Im off surfing today lets hope the rain stops.

14 weeks

2011-02-03T01:25:00.001-08:00

So this week is tc's 14 th week of being pregnant, yep we are going to have a little carter :)
We have a baby scan shot that we will post soon but till then here's the mom to be

Our bike riding soon we include someone else

I can't wait

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Sitting in Work in this heat

2011-01-31T15:27:00.001-08:00

Makes me Wish I was here

The week in a nutshell

2011-01-22T13:23:00.001-08:00

So this week was a busy one
It started in Bon beach with a day at beach as in my last post

Ralph and I then flew to sydney and went straight to beach burrito, to meet coco and Darren

Ralph had everything he needed

The view from the roof of where we stayed wasn't to bad

We where there for work, Jake helped start the meeting with a little greeting that was really cool

Paul something in the woods is awesome and loved his piece of utah we bought back

The two people on the left are Scott and Kate And they are from albury where I grew up so you know they rule, ben on right isn't but still rules

Brendan and Loretta got the message to come get free coronas

Best part of week was meeting up with an old friend dion Antony who I hadn't seen in over ten years we where both stoked

Troy had a big night

As did chunk so he couldn't work out how to hold his phone

Breakfast are aways good especially when Ninj whom we know through school brings his wife and daughter Thalia to come hang

And the lastly some skating with jack sparrow to end a great week

Thanks everyone for being a part of the week that was
Till next week adios amigo's

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Location:Bondi beach Bon beach and a couple of airports

Another good day at Chelsea beach

2011-01-15T20:50:00.001-08:00

Today started a little overcast but ended up pretty nice, we had to leave a little early as I (sc) have to work this week up in sydney
Hopefully ksydney is as good as Chelsea

Tc loving summer

Ralph keV And Alice

A tired wife

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Good first day back in Melbourne

2011-01-08T01:07:00.001-08:00

My first day back in Melbourne since the first week in December started with some nice hot weather
Perfect day to visit a new ramp close by

Simon used to be a dirty punk now he is a policeman that rips frontside 5050 an still has good Taste in music and is nice enough to have a new ramp at his place

Metro is all round legend and he helped his brother build the ramp
It has been a while since I got to skate with mike and it was RAd to see him ripping

After skating it was straight to beach, a couple of people around that's for sure

Tara with Kat and mel Rottura and Kats friend Ainsley ?

So good to see Ralph we even got to surf some little waves

Bay waves

Mel tara Ainsley and Libby

Sunburnt feet and bay waves

Stoked to be in Chelsea
But of course missing utah

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#Chelsea beach #surf

Last day at Brighton

2011-01-03T12:41:00.001-08:00

Today was my Last day shredding at Brighton
Super sad to leave, tears for sure

Thanks everyone

Zbruns picked me up for a " meeting"

Mitch came And shredded stoked to see him thanks man

The weather wasn't to bad

Best Part of the crest lift ride up

What a team for my last day

Love this car park

Milly in all it's glory

Bye everyone
I already miss you

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Tc's last snowboarding day for a while, and Sarahs first ever

2011-01-02T20:40:00.001-08:00

Tomorrow we leave salt lake, so tara had her last day snowboarding today and our sister in law Sarah decided to go snowboarding for her first time ever, she did really good and told us she isn't skiing anymore
Here she is with tara getting ready

The snow was still so so good

Warmest day up here in a while

Karen Craig/bottom is a ruler and her and t got to shred a tone today thanks Karen

Matt and jess where stoked to ride in warm weather with not many people around
See you in oz matt

Food time

Slava runs the cafe and knows my father in law, legend

He hooks us with our face food nice and cheap

Here is tara giving some lessons to Sarah

More lessons

Drive down was epic I love this view

Getting into town

I get one more morning of shredding tomorrow then we fly home in afternoon see you soon oz

And utah know we will miss you more than you know

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Today is going to be a good one

2010-12-30T06:19:00.001-08:00

And here is a couple shots from today

The streets where a little slidy

This one is for you Paul colby, miss you buddy

If you look closely you can see pat flying a frontside five out of the famous field goal jump

Liz doman/copene is the best so glad I know her, even if it is hard to keep up with her

Pat and Josh rulers

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Christmas shredding at Brighton

2010-12-26T18:20:00.001-08:00

Christmas day was epic here, family breakfast, present opening and then my fave part, snowboarding with the wife.

There wasn't to many people around and the snow was nice and dry even though it didn't snow that previous night.

Here some shots, merry merry belated xmas wherever you are

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Location:Brighton

Good times with good Friends !

2010-12-23T19:56:00.000-08:00

Well it hasnt stopped snowing in days and today a bunch of crew where up at Brighton.

Here is a little snapshot of a great day, this is also Chris's last day down in town, he will be missed.
He is editing a gopro movie right now so watch facebook for some footage

anyway to the photos
Milly chair

Brighton looking out off crest chair

Off the crest chair again, before the power went out and people got stuck on the chair

Zbruns was ripping

Looking down into the rock gardens

TJ about to drop

Wrong turn for us, here is TJ and Karen suffering :)

Zbruns and Chris looking where to go

TJ rules

Now some not so arty shots
Brock is one funny good dude

Tj is karens husband and she rips harder than most people i know

Not to many people around today :)

Tomorrow is my fourth day like this

2010-12-22T20:59:00.001-08:00

Thought id just share the snow report that i just discovered online
Monday was 19 inches over night
Tuesday was 10 inches over night
and you can see what we are getting tonight and it hasnt stopped snowing in the day yet either.
STOKED
Not sure my legs can keep this up

Yeah Mexican

2010-12-22T20:07:00.000-08:00

Other than shredding, inlaws and shopping the other best thing about visiting america is mexican food.

And I thought Id share some of my fave food shots so far

Today was a good day !!!!

2010-12-20T17:05:00.000-08:00

Today was in my top 5 riding days ever, it was to good to take shots riding so i figured these might set the seen.
19inchs of fresh over night and non stop snowing all day

A shredding good time indeed

Me stoked :)

Chris Zbruns came and shredded with us, here is a shot of us in town, check the flakes in town thats 20 mins from the hill.

Tomorrow is going to be epic

Straight from the Airport in Salt lake to

2010-12-18T09:59:00.001-08:00

No where else but one of the best mexi places in town

CAFE RIO

Vermont update to come !!!

Reunion's Definately Dont SUCK

2010-12-18T08:19:00.000-08:00

Sure a lot of bands are getting back together these days but this is really Amazing.
This band was a big part of my life and I would have done pretty much anything to be here
Hey even the band i was in for a little time did this song

Thanks Danny Blank for the tip on this

Stowe Vermont adventures begins

2010-12-11T17:47:00.001-08:00

So I arrived in Vermont USA late Thursday night to no bags and therefore no jumper.
Yesterday we worked out of the burton us office and finally my bags turned up at twelve last night.
Today we shredded a little resort called Bolton valley, boadle, Darren and tim from our office and I.
A little fresh and some fun runs awesome first day back shredding stoked.
We just arrived at Stowe resort and here is the view from our room

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Yeeewwwwww

2010-12-09T10:47:00.001-08:00

Andy from our office just sent me this photo with "yeeeeeeewwwww" as the title
Andy is one of the main reasons I got my job at burton and he has been pretty burnt out on snowboarding for a while now due to a few things including injuries and hasn't ridden in years.
But to see him stoked on a mornings shredding in park city today really made my day
Thanks Andy
I cannot wait to shred on Saturday

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Painting the boat shed

2010-12-04T14:02:00.001-08:00

Yesterday we had to repaint our boat shed down the beach, I can tell you now I think I'd rather flip burgers than be a painter

The water wasn't that clean due to all the rain as of late

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Location:Chelsea beach

Cyberspace xmas party

2010-12-03T00:21:00.001-08:00

Unfortunately i couldn't stay in sydney for our works Xmas party due to unforeseen circumstances.
Luckily good dude Linc is keeping me in the loop through cyberspace

He titled this shot "chris plays darts like he drives" this was after he smashed into two cars while parking the other day with both Linc and I.
Legend

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Location:Sydney via Internet in Melbourne

Bridget and Marcus get married

2010-11-26T22:42:00.001-08:00

Epic day, best way to show it I think is in some shots. Super stoked to have been there !

Father and mother of the bride

The guy ran the photo booth, he ruled

Yep Selena had a ball !!

Location:Dromana

Wilsons prom day trip !

2010-11-25T02:39:00.001-08:00

So our good friend stu is getting older and his partner Katie booked them into the coolest accommodation at victoria's epic Wilsons prom national park.
It is so beautiful down there and we even got to get salty
Here's some shots from the day

Can't wait to get back down there
Thanks for invite

Location:Wilsons prom national park !!!

Good friends who travelled far and wide to chill in Melbourne

2010-11-25T02:29:00.001-08:00

We had some friends down from sydney for a skateboard event which meant a good friend chris got to also travel over from utah to party
Here is a shot from chris's last dinner here in oz
Paul, Kate and tc went roller coasting during the day and showed us all what happens on the way down

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Location:St Kilda

Good night with some good dudes

2010-11-24T01:16:00.000-08:00

Thanks guys

Who wouldn't want to win a cake

2010-11-20T01:29:00.001-08:00

Whats Wrong with this Shot

2010-11-16T17:29:00.000-08:00

Who would have thought Ralph would be working away in the office with a surf movie playing.

Check the teaser here obviously its thats good that Ralphy skate dog is watching it non stop :)

Now, An Analog Moving Picture Project from Analog Clothing on Vimeo.

Salty Dog

2010-11-16T13:08:00.001-08:00

Crappy Iphone photo from my trip to manly yesterday, but it shows you how salty our boy Chris Boadle is, any break we had while working he was straight out on his new board, trying to get up on this site.
Yeah Boads

What A Trip

2010-11-13T15:58:00.000-08:00

Such a Cool clip

Here's the description
"This little clip documents In the summer of 1968 three men - climber and surfer Yvon Chouinard, climber and skier Doug Tompkins, and champion skier Dick Dorworth - set off from California in an old van to surf, ski and climb their way down to the southern end of Argentina where they met up with a young British climber, Chris Jones. Their goal was to climb a mountain that had been climbed only twice before: Cerro Fitz Roy.

In this excerpt, watch as Yvon, Doug and Dick score waves in Peru. First they surf a left point break in Chicama and then shoot the pier in Cerro Azul. "

thanks jamie robinson for the heads up

Breakfast of Champions I think not

2010-11-11T15:05:00.000-08:00

Anyway this post is for anyone that loves flavored milk
Especially you BRENNER ADAMS

Summertime

2010-11-05T23:51:00.000-07:00

At the end of the Australian winter I always think man should we move to a mountain town ?
Then when you walk out the gate of our apartment complex to days like this you remember why we live in Chelsea/Bon Beach

Tc tanning today

No Horse Racing For Us

2010-11-01T21:43:00.001-07:00

Today is a holiday here in Melbourne celebrating the Melbourne Cup, which is our most popular horse race.
Although I had a win the other day, we decided it would be in our best interest to go exercise.
So we ventured out to the Dandenong National Park and walked/ran the 1000 steps.
The 10oo steps is a bush walk with 1000 steps (obviously) scattered through the walk. On the way up it took us 19.5 mins on the way down it took 14.5 mins. Really good workout and start to the day

Here's some history behind the hike

And Ralph and TC at the top

Happy Halloween

2010-11-01T20:55:00.000-07:00

So yep we carved our first pumpkin over the weekend, sorry for delay but Ive had some technical difficulties getting the update up

We didn't get any trick or treaters but since we went out and watched Paranormal Activity 2 (really scary) till late I'm guessing was the reason.

Happy Halloween where ever you are

Action Packed Sunday

2010-10-24T02:43:00.000-07:00

So our friend Joel needed a lift back to Buller after the bucks yesterday. I thought why not (do good get good) and got up nice and early and drive him back up the hill (3.5 hours). It was a cool drive and I figured there would be some snow so why not go for a little hike.

Here is Joel with his broken femur, next summer Joel's hiking the patch with me :)

I know I shouldnt post a shot of my self but I was so stoked to get some little hiking on I had to post this shot (thanks joel for the photo)

After dropping Joel off, it was straight to the Wilson house hold for one ripping skate in the sun. That three and half hour drive never took so long ever. AL recently purchased our friend Brendan's ramp and added an extension and sorted the coping out perfectly. So stoked to skate this perfect back yard ramp, thanks again.

The kids where also ripping and here is Unkle Ralph and Z man starting them young.

Al ripping up the back yard paradise. Front rock extension

We then visited our nephews which where amazingly cute, all in all one epic Sunday thanks to everyone involved.

Horse Racing ?

2010-10-23T02:16:00.000-07:00

So our friend's Bridget and Marcus are getting married soon and this weekend was their Buck/Hens weekend. For the bucks they started the day with horse racing out in Yarra Glen which for those not from Oz is on the way to our local hill Mt Buller a little over an hour away from where we live. I drove so I would'nt hit to party trail and end up in the city partying all night with everyone (which would be fun don't get my wrong).
Anyway I got into the swing and things and started to actually enjoy it and was betting with the best of them. I was pretty much even when our friend Joel from Buller said lets pool our cash and bet on for the win just so I could say to the way indimadating booky "$40 on the nose" on a horse we liked the name of "Bowlabouncer".

Since Id just won i betted on a couple more random ones also.

SO we forgot to watch the race and continued on chilling when Marcus comes up stoked telling us the horse he just backed won he thought , what horse we said and he goes "The bouncer one"
"No way" we said, 2nd and 3rd where also my horses so we cleaned up.

I stopped after that $140 in front stoked, it could get additive so thats my one gambling day for this year I think.
Thanks for the invite Marcus good luck tonight, think Im glad I got out of there :)

Thought This Was quite Funny

2010-10-16T16:09:00.001-07:00

Next to our booth at the Canberra Trade Show this week, was this booth.
They also had a tshirt that they said was popular with snowboarders that said
"Poles are for dancers", Im really getting on as Im not sure youll see me rocking a Tshirt that said that.

Danny Blank your the best

2010-10-16T04:51:00.000-07:00

How good is it when you visit a friend who luckily is an amazing tattooist who wants to stay back after work and tattoo you even though he's tattooed all day
Danny you rule, to see more of his work check here thanks again mate.

Sorry about the white leg and crappy i phone shot :)

Canberra Trip !!

2010-10-15T16:21:00.001-07:00

This week was spent in australia's capital for our annual Snow trade show.

Here is chris and darren setting up the stand

Lachy from falls came to help also !

Linc from Sydney obviously has neater handwriting than I, he was allowed to write on the wall

Tuesday night was skate night, and we ventured out to some new park, check this 1/4

My fave section, pool coping and a wall ride

There was so much stuff going on, you need to spend a week here

Al Wilson bought IGDD to canberra

Ralph Rottura showed this gap who was boss

Canberra was full of good times but As always its good to be home

TC is a Running Machine

2010-10-15T16:19:00.001-07:00

She even practises inside the house.
Congrats on your second half marathon !!

Quitter

2010-10-15T16:05:00.001-07:00

Breny had his last day at work last week, he is moving on to be a landscape gardener. We bought him his fave drink as a going away present JD ,he was over the moon,
The bottle shop even gave us a free JD toiletry case gift with purchase.
The office isn't the same that's for sure and we already miss him but I'm sure all our gardens are going to be looking better because of it.

Anyone looking for a job ? check it out here

Miss you man

Delayed Sydney Trip Update !!

2010-10-04T02:06:00.000-07:00

A little over a week ago, Tara and I ventured up to Sydney as I had a meeting to go to and their was a movie premier ! But more importantly long time champion Chris KBoadle Turned 30 and we had to celebrate with him
Anyway here's a couple of shots from the weekend

There was a standard movie premier on organised by no other than Paul Colby on the right !

Who would have thought Tara would win a prize through some ticket draw here she is with Jimmy from DC

Pretty much everyone I know in Sydney was there, from the left Nick G, Selway and Trines

All round good dude Alex Hawkins was up there since DC payed for the premier, that's Nick texting someone that Gaslight where playing a side show here in march, never seen someone so stoked to hear about a show, glad we got tickets already.

Selway loves anything free, he doesn't mind a party either

Kate (who looked after us in Sydney) and Lisa Sulways Future wife

Lauren knows how to organize a good party that's for sure, here she is with her birthday boy

Growing up we would always call Chris's brother Marcus Blinky as he always blinked quite a bit. Little did we know we might have to start calling Tara blinky even Chris is blinking, man I don't think we can ever call Marcus blinky again after this shot

You know what Sydney ain't so bad, but it is a long way from the snow so i don't think we will ever be spending more than a week or so up there, Sorry Team :):)

Heath Kirchart in Stay Gold

2010-10-03T21:59:00.000-07:00

Well the new emerica skate vid is out and in the bonus Heath Kirchart has I guess what is his final part to a joy division song, since he just retired. I will miss his skateboarding and music choices thats for sure.

Here is his part from Sight Unseen back in 2001

Last Night's Forum Movie Premier

2010-09-20T17:07:00.000-07:00

Last night we ran a movie premier for Forums movie F..It. It went epic and was at a really cool venue that has quite a few of my favourite artists pieces on the wall, including Shepard F, Perks, The Serps, Chris Johanson etc. etc.
Anyway here is a couple of shots from the night.

Chris J did some of my fave decks with anti hero back in the day, here's a little piece he did for a great art show a few years ago.

Good dudes Chunk and Metro

And Tara, Rick and Cinnamon (maybe) up on the pop site

Sean Southwood, CFO

2010-09-19T19:39:00.000-07:00

Our CFO Sean is a legend and He loves to ride and really has a go, not the typical CFO that Ive worked with that's for sure
He has decided to move on to be closer to the surf which is a shame as he will be really missed.
Here is a couple of epic shots of him having a go also a little movie that one of our dealers made not to long ago, you see him trying to ollie at the 29 second mark.

Southy you'll be missed !!

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