This past new years my friend Jared and I decided to do things a little differently, we set out on a five-day road trip from Salt Lake City, UT to Big Sur, CA. Along the way Jared had to shoot a video for this clothing company, SLVDR, so we made frequent stops at anything that looked remotely interesting. Which was perfect for me because while he was doing his thing, I wandered off with my camera glued to my eyeball. Making only one overnight stop in San Francisco, we spent the rest of the nights in a cabin at Big Sur. Besides coming down with food poisoning on New Years Eve, which put us both down for the count that night… it was a pretty amazing trip, Big Sur had been on my list of places to go for quite a while.

Check out my photos and Jared’s video after the jump… they will tell the rest of the story.

Along the way I shot a series of photos of my feet in all the different landscapes we passed through… this is the result.

Random truckers taking a stroll through the salt flats in Utah.

One of my favorite photos I have taken from a moving car.

Random sign of love I found in the salt.

Sketchy living situation in the middle of nowhere.

Hard to top this place though.

And their matching “guest house”.

Inside someone else’s car. Signs of a good time.

One of my favorite shots from the trip.

Jared setting up one of his SLVDR shots… the shirt eventually fell in the water.

And shooting it…

Big ol’ tree we found on a hike. I can only imagine the size of the spiders crawling around in there.

I have a feeling you didn’t realize that is just a tripod he is holding when you first looked at this photo.

Nice to relax in front of a fire after a day of hiking around.

As good as this looks… this may or may not have given me food poisoning.

As horrible as I look… this probably didn’t give me food poisoning.

As much as it sucked having to cross through this cold, still, body of water to get the beach… it made for a nice photo.

In one direction you saw this…

And the other you saw this.

I wish I had taken more photos of the trip from Big Sur back down to Los Angeles… but I still felt pretty horrible from the food poisoning the night before. It is an incredible drive along the coast though. I highly recommend it.

Above is the video Jared shot along the way for SLVDR. You might recognize most of the locations from my photos. Stay tuned for a whole separate post on this clothing brand… they make some pretty nice stuff.

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Last week I went on quite the whirlwind of a trip on a leg of the Rome Snowboards movie tour. No we weren’t hopping around from spot to spot on a jet… it was me and 6 dudes in a van from Southern California to Seattle. Check out the gallery and story on SNOWBOARDERmag.com

You can also download Rome’s full movie “The Shred Remains” on iTunes.

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Realizing the road from Yosemite to Mammoth was closed. +7 extra hours. Getting to Mammoth and riding crust. A low morale. One flat tire on the way home from Mammoth. -1 spare tire. Having another tire pop an hour later. $200 for a tow truck. $50 for a scary hotel room. $540 to get all my tires replaced. The story and pictures from the most ridiculous roadtrip ever. Priceless.

Check out the the full story and pictures from my crazy road trip on snowboardermag.com

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A week or two ago I made my way up through the hills, deserts, and mountains to catch the Roxy Chicken Jam and Quiksilver Cluck off up in Mammoth. Everyone I talked to said the six hour drive from Southern California to Mammoth Lakes sucked, but the wide open landscapes made it pretty interesting, for me at least. When I finally made it up to Mammoth, I was greeted by my friends decked out in sombreros, ran to the mountain, grabbed my credentials for the weekend, found the biggest hot dogs I have ever seen, cooked them, and went with some friends to skate the Volcom Brother’s Skatepark that was mostly covered in snow. More pictures after the jump. All the landscapes were shot while driving 80mph….

Dirty Windows.

Salt Flats.

$1.95…. how could you not buy these?

This is what I was greeted by when I got to Mammoth.

There was only a small section of the park cleared off to skate…. but if you haven’t been to this park I highly suggest going. One of the most creative/flowy skateparks I have been to.

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