Restrictions for travel within the country here in Norway got lifted. Soooo….
Weather was looking good and we were itching for an adventure. So me and torgeir packed up the car with our favourite toys. Last minute our buddies Øivind and Espen joined in and met up with us in Stryn, Norway. We were joking about going on “The Adventure Of A Lifetime” before we left home. But this actually turned out to be one of the best trips of my life! Great Friends, insane weather and nature, camping out in the wild and just not worrying about anything else than having a good damn time!
So I guess I should start with introductions, for those of you that don’t know me my name is Zach and I reside in a small yet bougie ass mountain town in Colorado called Aspen. I know first thoughts of Aspen for most are either of the ultra wealthy skiing with furs n shit, XGames and or the movie Dumb & Dumber. Fun fact, that movie was filmed almost entirely in Breckenridge. Aside from all the glitz and gold, this town is home to some real ass mountain heads that know what this place is holding.
The “Knuckle Draggers” crew is a collective of my close friends that reside here in Aspen. We skate and shred together on the regs. No one is caked up or even spons’d really. We just started documenting if you will, our sessions everywhere we are squaded up. AspenSnowmass gets a lot of traffic so you never know who you might catch us shredding with.
With all the resorts around the world closed down I originally thought I would be spending this period split boarding. But the government has issued strict guidelines urging people not to undertake any dangerous activities, which covers everything from surfing and cycling to skateboarding and surfing. Whilst this was a bitter pill to swallow at first,I now realize that it is so as not to put any additional strain on the health services. So here is some footage I shot a few weeks ago of the infamous Tunnel Piste here in Alpe d’Huez!
The Tunnel Run is one of the steepest pistes in Europe, so steep in fact that the top section cannot even be pisted as the piste bashers can’t get up there! It gets its name from the 200m long tunnel which is actually carved through the mountain from one side to the other. This makes for a really cool and unique ski run that I haven’t seen anywhere else. – Malcolm Moore