Words: Dave Driscoll / Photos: Blotto

With the Burton "Get Off On The Bus" Spring Tour in full swing the crew woke up in their bunks/caves in the back of the bus at Mammoth Mountain. After rounding everyone up for some breakfast we drove the bus down to The Volcom Brothers Skate Park for a session. The outdoor concrete park was built with the help of many frends of Jeff Anderson as a tribute to Jeff and his life. It is free to anyone who wants to skate it and is filled with bowls, stair sets and all kinds of goods. All of the riders were killing it on the concrete but Luke Mitrani was for sure the stand out with a fakie backside 180 and kick flips off a six foot drop. Davis also landed a smooth backside 180 off the stair set.

After leaving the skate park we drove the bus up to the hill and parked right under the Gondola. We were greeted there by Mammoth's youth marketing director Oren Tanzer with tickets in hand and sleds waiting to shuttle the riders for when after the lifts close. We had a couple of hours to do laps through the park on the main mountain and get our shred on. It was sunny at first and sessions were going down all over the place. Keegan and Luke were shooting pond skimming with Blotto. Mason, Danny, Kevin and Jack were testing out the jump and sessioning some jibs. Rencz was ripping everything in site. Danny got a dope handplant on this cool new log jib in the park and Mason was doing nose press to backside 180 out on the thirty foot banister rail. Then it was on to the wallride for a sesh where numerous tricks were thrown down. We were planning on shooting on the jump and maybe the pipe but the weather rolled in and the winds were to strong to do either. All and all it was a great day riding with the crew and the camera's were rolling to capture all that goes down both on and off snow for the new Burton movie and a show for Fuel TV.

Mason

Keegan

After riding it was back to Luke and Jack's house for a BBQ and game of PIG on the trampoline. We are heading up early to hit the jump in the morning. Till tomorrow..