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Thanks to Ryan Johannesen and Elise Turcotte for footage and editing.
June 24th,
One Films Danchi 3 teaser.


June 23rd,
CFR team shredder Shin Campos on Method TV.



Standard Films new movie teaser "Aesthetica"


May 5th,
A couple of video clips from Jack and Johns winter and there trip to MT Quenn Bess.




May 2nd,
Skiers Jack Hanna and John Johnston are going to attempt the first ski descent of The Quenn Bess peak deep in the coastal mountains of BC Canada. Photographer Bruce Rowles and cinematographer Ellis Smith are going to capture it.
April 15th,
CFR team skier Ian McIntosh's first ski descent of the infamouse Papa jordan.
April 12th
The Binge crew checking out the Arctic Man up in AK.
April 11th,
Mike in Valdez.
April 10th,
The 52 hour strait drive home.
April 9th,
Team meeting. Erik and the Binge crew were hanging out next door. Another reason to buy a CFR DD rack for your snowmobile. Adam sending it over the creek. Packing the shit show up.
April 8TH,
A mix of sun and clouds changed our plans. This ice cave was really cool.Random guy at the top of a glacier. Hanging out in the MNT OPS cabin.
April 7TH,
Happy B-day Dave. Some other lines Joe, Eric, Dave and Vanessa's shredded. The sun was the best B-day gift anybody could ask for. Tomorrow we are going to hit the books. Jesse Tol R.I.P.
April 6th,
It was looking like the best day yet. We all rode some fun stuff. Mike B POV shooting. Some day.
April 5th,
Joe and i drove 6 hours each way to alyeska resort to pick up Eric,Vanessa and Mike B.
April 3rd,
Doug coombs R.I.P.
April 1st,
Joe and i started to catch the valdisease and had to get out of town. The MNT OPS Thompson pass CFR sanctuary.
March 31st,
Eric took the 5 am ferry to Girdwood, Alaska to compete in a snowboard extreme comp. Joe and i continued to hang out in Valdez. The Museum is a must do. We found a few things to keep us entertained.
March 30th,
It was snowing to sea level in Valdez. The laundry/shower mat was much needed. A few sites around town.
March 29th,
The 14 hour drive to Valdez, AK.
March 28th,
Dropping in to the valley of the goods. Here we go. The views on the way in. The steeps were protected by big holes and the snow was super deep but we found a couple of things to ride. Fuel was running low so we headed back. The run we called white fang delivered once again for some fun shredding.
March 27th,
The sun was out so we headed out early. The mission of the day was to get to the other side of the valley. Hours of route finding in and out of huge chasm valleys got us to a hill that eric could not even climb. Back tracking to another valley we were able to find our way down. It was to late to go any further but we will be back tomorrow. Joe and i shredded this peak in the alpenglow light on the way home.
March 26th,
The day started out with a two hour key search. The keys were found but the clouds rolled in. Some much needed snowmobile repairs. Ross mercer was staying next door and had a sweet set up. Ross was doing some filming with Frontier Films. Ross had just gotten back from sweden were he jumped his snowmobile 277 feet breaking the world distance record.

The ramp is for the double back flip Ross is throwing down later this season. The split board recon trying to get to the greener grass. The northern lights. Food stash.
March 25th,
The next morning in Haines was a pleasant surprise. Driving up to Haines pass. The snow depth and quality was awesome!! The grass is always greener on the other side. Joe and Eric found some stuff to ride. The clouds rolled in so we headed back to the truck to set up camp.
March 24th,
The trailer was stuck to the truck but luckily this guy came around to help us out. We drove over white pass into Skagway, Alaska. The ferry from Skagway to Haines was spectacular.
March 23rd,
The wildlife on the road kept us entertained. We made it all the way to Whitehorse.
March 22nd,
Day two we drove to Deese Lake, BC and arrived around 7. The only gas station in town closed at 6 and did not open untill 9am the next day. We spent the night behind the gas station and were first in line at 9am on sunday.
March 21st,
After months of planning we were on our way. The Mt Currie coffee company was an official sponsor of our trip. We stopped by on our way out of town to pick up our coffee supplies. The gas prices and the amount of fuel we were using towing the trailer took some getting used to. We made it almost to Smithers,BC our first day.
March 20th,
The CFR crew is heading up to Alaska.Check back for updates along the way.
Rob Alford getting some play in the spring Sled Heads snowmobile magazine.
February 18th,
We rounded up the crew and went for a heli drop on Mt Currie. The snow on Hibachi was not ideal but it was nice to stay in the sun before we dropped in on the north face. The rappel into the Y was a bit rocky to say the least. The snow in the shoot was semi soft and fast!!. The hike up for the next run is exposed and a bit stressful. The next face was blower pow. We got bitch slapped at the bottom by the alders. Out just before dark.
January 20th,
The sun was out but my snowmobile would not start. Kyle and i headed up for a day on the slopes. The lodge was full of a bunch of mec's that claimed the snow was crusty.
January 17th,
The record snowfalls here in the Coast Mountains stopped and the sun came out. We went out to see what the alpine looked like. Joe dropped into some variable snow conditions. The next run we hit a more protected area that was nothing but pow. We had our other boards with No Board pads on them and ripped a couple mellow laps. It was getting late so we decided to take a shortcut home. The shortcut ended up taking a little longer than expected.
January 14th,
The Greg Todds memorial was held in TL BC this past weekend. Greg was the inventor of the No Board and died in in a avalanche in 2005. A lot of $ was raised for Greg's family at the event. There was a few of us who could not make it so we had a No board day in Whistler the same weekend.
December 15th,
CFR team rider Rob Alford had a interview in the Dec 07 sled heads mag.
Decmber 13th,
Its official. I am sorry to say that on december 19th snowmobile access up the callaghan valley in Whisler BC Canada will be shut down to snowmobiling. Join your local snowmobile club and be proactive to stop this from happening anywere else.
December 11th,
John Johnson's photos of Joe Lax and Dave B riding the elephant nuts puts a smile on my face. I cant wait to go back.
December 10th,
Rob Alford has been gettin er done.
December 8th,
Winter was here. Then it rainned and flooded. The snow up high is still good to go . CFR had a booth at the Abbotsford snowmobile tradshow.
October 28th,
The WSSA snowmobile show in Puyallup, Washington last weekend had some cool stuff to check out.
October 17th,
CFR Snowboarder Ryan Johannesen out of Golden BC Canada has an interview on Biglines. Photographer, Skier, Mountaineer and friend Delaney Zayac has his new website up and running. CFR will have a booth at the 16th annual WSSA Snowmobile Expo in Puyallup, Washington this weekend. Come find us if you are going and check out the all new product line.
October 12th,
Revelstoke BC has 4 to 5 feet of snow up high and the sled heads were out. If you make the trip to Revy you should go and check out Rob Alfords B and B.
October 11th,
CFR Ski Team menber JD Hare got the cover of the new Freeskier mag. Here is a video clip from his First descent of "The Four Horseman" in the Waddington range of BC last May.

October 10th,
CFR got some play in the new Transworld Buyers guide.
October 7th
It is looking like a great start to the winter in the coast mountains. All winter recreation users listen up. We are losing backcountry areas left and right to the man and not even knowing it. Please sign and e-mail this petition. After you E-mail it print it out and send it registered mail. This will force our word to be heard.If we dont get together and fight this we will lose these area's and more in the furure. Please spread the word.
May 2nd,
The 08 REV XP looks like it should work out well for a poor man heli for next year.
April 29th,
The sun and cloud game was in full effect. We played our cards and nailed the twin shoots. I saw this line years ago and called it the Vagina. I was stoked that everybody was into hiking it. I hit solid ice at the top of the bottle neck so we had to abort. Next time.
April 21st,
The sun was out and so we met up at the local gas station. Joe wasted no time. The snow quality was top drawer. It started to get cloudy and we window shopped for a few runs and went home. Ryan Johannesen and the BMCP posse took a trip out to Chatter Creek BC. These photos speak for themselves. Ryan got a new HD camera and made a cool video of there trip.

April 11th,
A serious melt freeze rolled through and we wanted to see the damage done. By the sounds of jack and laura's runs it was pretty icy. Joe and i also rode some ice on a more north aspect.
April 2nd,
Vanessa and i headed out for a sled shred.
March 31st,
Jack and John gave me a call and asked if i wanted to go hit Plinth peak . I quickly blew everything off i had to do and started getting my stuff together. It was late afternoon when we took off.The avalanche sign warning was no joke. There was no other way around. luckily john brought the metal Sitka shit shovel and we chipped away at the solid ice avalanche debre. A couple of hours later

we managed to get our sleds

through the avalanche pile up and continued onward.

Farther down the road we had to dig out a couple spots to get through. There was no way to snowmobile past the next avalanche trench. This is were we would have to start hiking from. It ended up adding about an hour and a half each way to our trip.We snowmobiled back to a shelter we found and set up camp and preped for the next day. The 2 am wake up was early to say the least. By 3:30 am we reached the Avalanche and parked the sleds. The elevation was 2200 feet. Four hours later we watched the sun coming up as we entered the alpine. It started to get steep so we put on our crampons and pulled out the ice axes.The snow got deeper and deeper the higher we went so we had to change our route up a couple of times. Looking back down.We reached the top 8 Hours after leaving the snowmobiles. The elevation at the top is 8750 feet. The views of Mt Meager, Devastator peak, job peak, lillooet glacier and the Pemberton valley were spectacular. The shredding down was all-time. It was steep and the snow was deep and sloughing like crazy. There was a great view of the plinth on the way out. We reached the Avalanche path and the site of our snowmobiles was great to see. It was around 5:30 in the afternoon. A solid 14 hour day.
March 27th,
Another sunny day was a great surprise. We headed out early with the elephant nuts line on our mind. Joe about to kick the nuts hard. I had great sloppy seconds. Delaney wanted to slay the Dragon Slayer. Joe slashed this bank. We found some fun multiple air lines on this face. Joe sending it. Jack broke a bolt in his sled and some how managed to get a couple runs and get home.
March 26th,
The stars were out in the early am. Vanessa,Sam and i headed out for a much needed sunny day sled shred. We hit it all real good and had an amazing time.
March 25th,
The forcast called for sun. Bad avalanche conditions and flat light ended our snowboarding for the day. We decided to go on a quick recon to another zone instead.


The rock and avalanche paths had ran and made things interesting.
March 23rd,
The weather did not look so good but we went for a sled shred anyway.
March 15th,
The snow line keeps going up. The clouds were in and out all day.
March 13th,
We went out to break the trail into one of our favorite zones. Its going to be good tomorrow.

March 10th,
Jonaven Moore, Scott Newsome, Chris Ankeny, Dan Kostrzewski and i snowmobiled into callaghan country lodge for a three night and four day retreat. It was cold, the sun was out and there was four feet of the driest snow i have ever seen in the coast mountains. The terrain was all split board and snow shoe access. We had a late start but managed to ride a couple of things. The next day was cloudy so we stayed in the trees and rode some pillow lines.



The next day was sunny. Scott toured to the top and un leashed this line. Jonaven decided to cross court this monster air.

The ping pong table in the lodge was a hit with the crew. The next day was cloudy so we headed back to the pillows. Jonaven tried to piece this line together.

It was getting late so we headed down for the sled ride back to reality. The callaghan crew took great care of us.
Jack and John have been nailing some first descents of some familiar seriously exposed spine lines. I test drove the new Toyota Tundra. Soo nice!!!
Tom @ Booter camp needs our help. The Government is trying to shut him down. Please e-mail dbaumgarten@gunnisoncounty.org and nicely tell him that you supprt booter camp in the Elkton valley and do not want Booter camp shut down.

March 5th
Please sign this petition and save our snowmobile terrain. We went out for a sled shred and had a fun run before the clouds rolled in. The Forum is all fixed and working properly. Thanks to JP @ weknowsnow. Go to the Forum and post some stuff up.The CFR Metal snowboard rack got some play in the new vancouver Metro. The new Yamaha Nitro is looking like a great 4 stroke poor man heli option for next year.
March 3rd
Ryan Johannesen and the rest of the BMCP posse went on a road trip to shred some Selkirk Silk. Py Leblanc had some good days sled skiing in the whistler backcountry the last few days. CFR is the official supplier of snowboard racks for all of Atomic snowboards M-8 Arctic Cat snowmobiles.
February 26th,
The avalanche danger is rated high right now in the Coast mountains. Play safe.

February 23rd
Ryan Johannesen has been out killing it in golden BC as usual. Chris Ankeny went out with Jack and john to one of there secret spine lines in the whistler backcountry. Chris and i went for a sled mission. We had a great day.
February 22nd
This zone required a river crossing . The fog was thick on the way up. Jack ended up in the trees. We got his sled out with a little tree trimming.

 

 

The Sled came out with no damage. The sun came out and we headed to the alpine. Another great day in the coast mountains.

February 20th
Justin,Rob and i headed out for a day of pow shredding. We trandemed up the logging road. It took around 1 hour to get to the top from the sled. The run was steep and deep!! It was so good we went for another. If it was sunny.

February 13th
We went out hoping the skies would clear.Dan was entertaining us while we waited.
February 1st
Pics of the new Rev.

January 31st,
JD,chris X 2 and i broke into a great zone for the first time of the year. The snow was hard packed and very thin.The wind was howling We all did one run and then decided to go exploring around on our snowmobiles the rest of the day.
The Tube park can be dangerous.



January 30th,
CFR got some play in the January issue of Freeskier magazine. CFR ski team members Dan Treadway,Chris Collins and Sage Cattabriga Alosa were featured in the story.

January 29th,
Join your local snowmobile club so stuff like this does not happen!!

January 28th,
Chris and i went out on a pow hunt. The snow looked good on this shoulder.You have to hike up for about an hour to get to the top. The snow looked amazing. I dropped in first and the snow was deep!! I got to the bottom and watched Chris get taken out by his snow sluff. I heard some really bad sounds and was stoked to see chris come out okay at the bottom. A 1/2 hour hike out and we were back at the sleds. It was a one run is enough day.

January 27th,
The day started out with a bang. It rainned to the top on tuesday but It was sunny and nice so we went out for a roop not expecting much. We were pleasantly surprised when we saw this. The snow was around 5 inched deep on a soft layer underneath. It was perfect conditions for the steeps. We went to another zone for a last run. I fell in this huge hole on the way up the ridge. We made it down just before dark. The moon light was a pleasant surprise.

January 25th,
Drove to vancouver to get some supplies. The sunsett made my trip.

January 20th,
The sun came out at noon and Joe,Johnny and i quickley assembled our gear and headed out to the local sledshred zone. We tested out the snowpack and found that the top 6 inches was blower pow with a firm base. The snow was stable and great for shredding the steeps. Joe did not hesitate and dropped in and out of the main spine line.

January 17th,
Ian, Eric and I decided to get a Heli drop on Mt Currie. The snow was all time and it looked like it would be great conditions from the top to bottom. Pemberton helicopters was our taxi and gave us a great flight. Guy our pilot said to hang out on the top and he would fly around us and take some photos and video.

The top was compact and super fast. The snow in the pillow lines



at mid mountain was really fun.

We hiked a couple of laps


and headed down. The gully at the bottom had slid and was rock hard ice and rock mixed together. The logging road coming out was thick will alders. We made it out just before dark.

January 13th
We headed out to The Selkirks for our good late friend Greg Todd's memorial. Greg is the inventor of the No Board and created a new way to snowboard with out foot pain. The No Board is a pad with rubber nobs and a handle in the middle that you stick to the top of your snowboard. A piece of elastic webbing is connected on each end of the pad and screws into your inserts on your snowboard. Instead of using bindings your feet are free to move around anywhere you like. Holding onto the rope keeps the snowboard tight against your feet and when you feel comfortable you can let go and surf the snow. No Boarding has been taking off with the numbers growing faster than pads can be made. Cholo Burns was Gregs partner and is keeping the dream alive. The Selkirk's had gotten 8 feet of snow the previous week and the temps were -20 so the quality and quantity of snow was top notch. It was perfect for No Boarding. Saturday started off with a timed event for both amateur and pros down a natural jump filled clear cut. Gabe Langois took the mens amateur and Scott Penner took the mens pro with smoking times down the fresh Selkirk silk pow course . Following the timed event was the Asian Canadian downhill sponsored by Red bull. It was a full on anything goes as all of the top pros strait lined it for the $200 first place prize and the glory of winning the prestigious event. Sky Sheele took home the money and the title for this year. Ian Millar took home the Charger of the day award with a huge air that i Personally witnessed. It would have made No Board history had he landed. That night there was an auction to raise money for gregs family. Snowboards, outerware and paintings were just some of the things auctioned off. MC Stu was in a giving mood and auctionned (Right click save) off A kick (Right click save) to the nuts. Scott Penner won but could not do this to another man. Andrew Hardingham stepped up to the plate and kicked Stu so hard that i am surprised it did not kill him. A lot of good laughs and $$ was raised for Gregs family. The next day we awoke to blue skies. We were moving slowely but surely trying to get out and enjoy the sunny day. The snow was amazing and we had some great runs. The alpenglow light on the way home was a great way to end the trip. We left for home the next day. Waiting for the ferry on the way home V and Fanny did a couple of No Board laps. R.I.P GT.

January 6th
The snow keeps coming.(Photos courtesy of ian Millar) Chris Ankeny has been out getting some great photos of the Whistler backcountry.

January 1st
Happy new Year!! We headed out on a New Years eve day sled shred mission to an easy access zone. The wind had scowered all exposed ridges but the windward slopes were super fun. After a great day we decided to play a little jamaican Ping Pong to celebrate New Years eve. The Cross country ski mission to see the fireworks in town was more difficult than you could imagine. Six hours later we ended up back at home bruised beaten and tired.
CFR user Dave Norona just wrote an article for the Metro newspaper out of Vancouver BC on sled skiing.

December 25th
Merry Christmas!

December 22nd
The snow just keeps coming. December is on its way to set new records in snowfall here in the southern coast mountains. Joe lax catching some air on his snowboard checking out the 250 cm+ base. Erich Kunz has been down in Mt Baker riding the powder snow also. Brab Mcgregor's my space site is worth taking a peak.

December 9th
Winter is in full effect in the Coast mountains and through out canada. It has been the best november snowfall on record. Crews have been getting things done and sampling the goods. Colorado is having a great season also. JP @ weknowsnow.com has been out trying out his new Phazer in the deep pow. New CFR team member and Fellow Idahome Wyatt Caldwell went to Colorado for some winter camping along with some snow shredding. New CFR Team rider Erich Kunz has been skiing Baker every day. The sun came out for a day and Erich went and tried out his new sled. Booter camp is getting geared up for the winter offering backcountry skiing and snowboarding in Crested Butte Colorado. The GAS (Golden association of snowmoboarding) crew has been out enjoying the great early season conditions in Golden BC.

November 14th
The snow forcast was right. The Coast mountains have been getting pounded on with snow. Its been great to see. Whistler is opening on Saturday and Mt Baker on thursday. The CFR Double D rack with two dual ski bracket set up on this 2007 REV 800 is looking pretty dam sled ski ready. The Yamaha Phazer with CFR's Double D rack with snowboard bracket on one side and dual ski bracket on the other side is also a sweet set up.

November 8th
The sled shred access on the backside of Aspen Mountain in Colorado is having some land use issues. Powder to the people is an organization keeping the dream alive.The snow line dropped in Pemberton BC Canada last night. This weekends forcast looks about as good as it can get.

October 29th
Big storm front just moved through. Most was in the form of rain here in the coast mountains. It is showing some signs of winter. Some parts of the interior and northern BC got nailed with 60-80 cm's. Luck of the draw. CFR just signed a Deal with Aaron @ NME Tours in Golden BC Canada. CFR will be the official suplier of ski and snowboard racks for there fleet of rentals.

October 24th
I just got back from the puyallop trade show in Washington state. CFR had a booth there and had an overwelming response from the 10,000 plus people that were there over the weekend. This Yamaha Phazer 4 stroke with a Turbo looked amazing. Arctic Cats M 8. Ski doo's 800 151. Turbo Rev?? The show had a great vibe and people were selling all kinds of used snowmobile gear in the parking lot.

September 25th
Its been snowing on Utah and colorado. Jon-Pierre Stoermer just sent us some photos from last week. It is looking pretty winter like . Check out his website.

September 17th
Team CFR skier PY Leblance just finished up his new website. It loaded with amazing pics and videos. Check it out. The farmers alminac is looking good for the west coast. Go to the farmers and see for yourself.

September 14th
Another sign of winter on Mt Currie and Blackomb mountain. My friend Todd started importing these cool moto's from New Zealand. I took one for a spin and had a hell of a time.

August 30th
The new Frontier films snowmobile movie teaser is out. Its got some kick ass snowmobiling in it.

August 12th
Winter is on its way. I saw the first dusting of snow on top of some local peaks. Stoked!! The new winter season brings new videos. Check out the new bandwagon teaser. Standard Films Draw The Line . Sandbox's Flavor Country teaser.

June 24th
Check out these photos from Kirk Zach of HMK snowmobile boots on his june 21st summer solstice snowmobile ride. The new Thunderstruck 5 video teaser is out. Its got some real good rednecking going on. On Tuesday i was in the back seat of a truck that got harpooned by a unexpected tree. We were driving at maybe 10 clicks on a side dirt road going to the river for some lunch.We hit a log on the side of the road that instantanly proceeded to go through the front corner of the windsheild and out the rear right window. I still cant beleive what i saw. Luckily Nick the driver did not have his seat belt on and was able to dive forward before the tree took his head off.

May 21st
Check out Team CFR's Ryan Johannesen of Golden BC Canada's winter of 05-06 video.

April 22nd
It had been snowing for days. The weather had kept us at the resort but today was the day. The sun was out and the temps were cold. A crew of us headed up the Callahan to get some sled shredding in. We had an early start. The drive in. We reached the morning Glory and it was lookin all time. We went up and dug a pit on the upper saddle. We heard and felt a big woompf as we started to dig. We all started hiking back up on the ridge when the entire upper slope ripped a metre deep. The slide propigated all the way across the entire bowl. The snow exploded as it flew over the exposed rock and went all the way to the valley below. I had never seen that slope rip and had never seen a slide like that before so close. A very humbling experience. We headed up to the glaciers were the snow would be better and hopefully not have such a bad layer. The twin shoots looked good to go. The snow here was very winter like and did not have any hard layers. Vanessa was the first to drop in. Joe followed. I took slopy seconds on Joes shoot and figure eighted his turns. Cholo was on his No Board (Go to www.noboard.ca) blowing us away that he did not have bindings on his snowboard. Chris and Joe found a fun zone to shred. We scoped out some other potential runs and took off. It was a great day considering the Avalanche conditions.
April 5th
An unexpected high pressure moved in and i found myself with a crew of good friends for a trip into the Tantalus range outside of Squamish BC Canada. The crew consisted of Kevin Smith, Chris Ankeny, Tom Routh, Mike Harrelson and I.
The 6am departure had clear skies in Pemberton. We drove to Squamish to find mostly cloudy skies. The weather looked more promising for the next two days so we jumped in the a star (Right click and save) up to the cabin. The weather socked even worse as soon as we unloaded the Heli (Right click and save). It got windy and cold and even began to snow.We were all pretty tired so the day was spent catching up on some sleep. The cabin was still under construction but provided a dry and wind free place to hang out. The next day we awoke to sun and clouds so we quickly gathered our things and headed out. We saw a chute from the helicopter the day before we wanted to ride on Mt Dione. After a long hike (Right click and save) we could not find the entrance to the original line. Luckily we found another chute to ride that ended up feeding into the original line we checked out from the heli. The views were spectacular on the hike back to the cabin. There was an amazing sunset from what felt like the top of the world. The night was full of good food and good times with our rations if CR and canadians. The view from my bed of the sunrise was a great way to wake up.The next day we decided to hit Mt Serratus. The hike was steep and the temperature was really heating up. The bergstroms were huge on the face also and would not allow us to summit. We ended up not being able to get to the face that we wanted to but opted for another line. The clouds looked like they were going to shut us down so we headed back to the cabin. Once we arrived at the cabin the sun was poking its head in and out. Chris decided to hit this shoot we had been looking at since we arrived. After watching Chris i saw another line beside his and hiked up and did it. We all went back to the cabin and started to pack our stuff. We had been very good with our alcohol rationing and decided to polish it all off before the Heli arrived. The pilot gave us a radio and said he would call and give us a heads up before he came. The sounds of the helicopter coming was a big superprise as we were finishing packing,cleaning up and drinking the rest of our booze. We quickly ran all of our stuff outside to the landing area. We will be back.

March 30th
The sun woke me up at 6am. I jumped out of bed and checked the sky line. It looked like it might be another sunny day. I checked the webcams and it did not look as promising. I made breakfast and slowly got my stuff together.I made some calls around 7 but the clouds were getting thicker. By 8 the sun had gone away and was no were to be found. I was all ready to go so i had to do something. Joe Lax and i decided to go on a bit of a recon mission.
The snow had gone isothermic and was like mash potatoes. It was hard to get around but we were managing untill we hit the river crossing. The bank coming out was really steep and we were not sure about getting back. I walked ahead a ways to see if it was worth building something to get across. The alders got really thick up the road a bit and i turned around. It was going to require a lot of work to get up to the alpine. The snow was so isothermic that it was hard to snowmobile up anything steep. We would come back when the conditions were better. When i got back to Joe he was working on the bridge. He agreed that we should leave and so we were preparing to take off. Joe looked over at some dead trees and said i think we might have something here. He proceeded to push the tree back and forth. I helped him and the tree finally fell over. that was fun joe said. We knocked down the other two and constructed our own bridge. The sun was coming out another valley past were we were at. We decided to come back to the bridge building and alder cutting another day. The peaks on the other side of the creek looked amazing and we would definetly be back. The next valley had much easier access. The light was okay and we decided to try and gain elevation to check out the first valleys alpine access from above. Joe and i attempted many times to do the hill climb with no luck. Joe noticed a small shelf on the right side of the hill we were tring to climb. I tried it and next thing i knew i was locked into a side hill i could not get out of. I kept her pinned and made it to the top. I radiod to joe and he was stuck in the trench i made on the way up.I took a few photos of the lower valley we were trying to get to earlier. I worked my way down and helped Joe get un stuck. I had trenched the road up really bad so Joe and i decided to head home. Joe was in front of me as we worked our way down through the trees. We came across a narrow bridge and next thing you know i am being catapulted through the air off of my snowmobile and into a bank wall. The snow bridge had failed on the right side and dumped me and my snowmobile into the creek. I radiod Joe with no return response. I worked quickly. It was getting dark and joe would not stop untill he gets to the truck. I managed to dig, cut and pull my sled over untill it was flat. I then built a road out the side on got out just before dark.

March 29th
The weather forcasts for the past week have been not even close to being correct. Wednesday was forcasted to be cloudy with a chance of showers. It ended up lookin like this. The posse was 6 strong and included Joe Lax, Delaney,Dan Treadway,Dave Treadway ian Miller and I. Ians snowmobile is getting fixed so we tandemed in. The Glory never looked so good. I had a line i really wanted to do.I had done it before but ended up having to hike out because the take off had some trees on it. It was more filled in this year and it ended up being one of my best lines of the year. Stoked!! Ian rebated It slides you dies. He had to hike out also the year before because of lack of snow in the shoot section. The turns coming in looked like mid winter snow. The quarter pipe wall slash was awesome and i could almost here Ian giggle as he slashed it. Joe was ripping the Glory to pieces. It was Delaneys first time at the glory but it did not hold him back. Dave Treadway was skiing every run like it was his last. The clouds rolled in and we rolled out. Three runs each on the Glory for all of us. It was a great day.


March 28th
I left early on saturday march 11th to catch a plane to Bella Coola. I was going to film for a television show with Director Tim Miln, camera man Daryle Hackett and sound guy Paul Vance of Ride Lounge productions. I was the token snowboarder along with skiers Chris Eby, Davey Barr and Charlotte Moats. The drive from Pemberton to the city has never looked so sweet. The flight up to Bella Coola was not so bad either. The highlight of the flight was definetly the Mt Waddington fly by. Flying into the Bella Coola valley. We were all staying on the ultimate set up. The 110 foot Ocean Explorer with a bell 407 helicopter on the back. Hank was not only the captain but the mister fix everything all around nice guy. Jay was our gourmet food maker.
We got into our gear asap and jumped into the heli to go and take advantage of the cloudless sky. I would have to say we found the most windscowered face possible for our first run. We took our time getting down and by the time we were down it was time to head back to the boat.The second day we found a fun zone.The snow was a little wind affected but we manged to find some good pockets. Weather moved in for a few days but luckilly the boat was anchored right next to a sweet hot springs. Even with the bad weather there was so many fun things to do. The sun came back and all of the peaks looked good to go. This was the next run. We ate lunch and figured out our game plan for the afternoon. We all had our own wave to slash on this cool face. Chris made the guiness book of world records on the next run with the longest spine ever ridden. The final run of the trip had an amazing view of cascade Inlet. Chris launched a nice cliff off of the top. Midway down the slope we stopped and took in the sites. As we were waiting for the helicopter to come back for us this wall was having non stop natural avalanches coming down its face.
The last night on the boat was a night to remenber. Whisky was the drink and strange stuff happens when you are drinking whisky. Andy put $150.00 on the line for anybody to jump off of the top railing of the boat into the cold water below. Everybody else pitched in and next thing you know it was up to $260.00. I am a sucker for stuff like this so i jumped. We all wanted one more night in the hot springs so we then headed for one last soak. Jay our cook was drinking wild turkey and was jumping off of every rock into the tub. Jay was entertaining none the less. It did not stop at the hotsprings. When we reached the boat jay was in wild turkey mode gobble gobbling around the kitchen. It was hard to leave the boat. It was the most relaxing fun vacation i think i ever have had. Life will never be the same.

February 28th
High Avalanche danger did not stop us from going up and checking out the conditions. We were planning on doing tree laps but the sun came out and we had to sample the alpine. Delaney cut the top and the slope let loose. After the slide we decided to let the alpine settle and rip some tree laps. The snow was really deep(Right click and save).Go to the Forum and check out the rest of the story.

February 11th
Another 2 epic days have wrapped up. With the high pressure system clearing the skies, it was game on. Day one we ventured into a zone i can only describe as 'the jungle', spines instead of vines. We started early and got on breaking trail into the zone. Here's a view from the top of zone. Not to shabby. First runs were fun. We had to deal with massive cornices that surrounded the entire rim of the bowl, there were a few entrances but getting to them proved to be tricky. After a lap Dave B decided it was game on and unleahed on this line. It was fast and sick, I was in awe. Then Joe decided to get extreme and hit Eric's Peel. I stayed stayed mellow. Soucy banged off a few bangers too but I have no pics. We wrapped up and out of there anticepating an even bigger day tomorrow.

So the bigger day arrives, an even earlier start was muffled by an unexpected patch of ice on the logging road up. After Dave slid backwards down the hill with his sled in the back of his truck, we had to re-think our plan. We hummed and haa'd, and in the end pinned it up the ice field bouncing off the water bars, we all made it with out incedent. But it put us off about an hour. Still a nice ride up though. It's been a while since this zone has been broken into, lucky for us a couple guys, Jack and John broke the trail in, when we got there it was good to be back. The ride up is a beauty. Winding threw a one gnarled out glacier and eventually arriving at the shred lines. So we shredded some warm ups then Joe got gnarly again, sketchier times have never been witnessed...In this picture Joe is tieing into a skidoo, about to shovel out an entrance into Joe's spine line. The whole deal took about half an hour, i watched wondering why I let my friends do this. All in all it turned out sweet, i should have some pretty sick shots from it. After the shredding was done we moved down the ridge, shredded some more sweet lines, the nub in the end of that picture is where Dave is in this picture. I had the spine on the right, the snow was dope, we were stoked. Sanchez took the gut of the shoot and ended up at the pick up here. All these laps are huge, lots of vertical, Joe and I were beat. Super Dave is never beat so he and Sanchez went for a super lap. and hiked off into the sunset. It was late so Joe and I put in one more and packed it up... and we were out of there. On the way out we hooked up with Jack and John, cracked a cooly and ripped home.

February 8th
The last 2 days of shredding have been purty sweet, day one was up the valley. The lite was in and out all day, but started nice. When we cracked that mist it looked a little like this then like this. Shredded a few laps then started breaking and building a road. Lucky us, the road took us to a short walk from this shooter . Dave B drpped in first. a couple more epic laps and it was time to go .

Yesterday day was Karine's and Vanessa's B-Day's so we rounded up a posse and shredded sledded some trees, (Vanessa went Heli) again the light was in and out but it was still pretty fricken awsome .
We trandemed our little hearts out, and burnt off laps for most the day. Abby makes for a nice picture up close and from a far, site seeing with Pilar (black dot on right). More epic liight moved in and more epic laps were had. All in all and good day in the trees with some good peeps.

February 1st
Welcome to the new site.
The 07 CFR products line up is our best yet. Go into the product section and take a look, we think that you will agree. Cheetah Factory Racing manufactures snowboard and ski racks for snowmobiles and snowmobile racks and accessories. CFR Products are designed for snowmobilers, snowmoboarders and sled skiers. The snowmobile products you see have been developed through some of the bumpiest and roughest access roads around. We are harder on our products then you could possibly imagine because we know that the people that buy our stuff will be harder on it than us.
Snowmobiling is one of the most fun sports around and at CFR we make products to make it even more fun. The D and Double D rack are now powder coated in black for a super solid look. The D and Double D racks will enable you to bring your gas, extra backpack, overnight supplies, camera gear, skis, snowboards or whatever else you might need to take with you on your snowmobile.
Snowmoboarding is combing the fun of snowboarding and snowmobiling together.   Sled skiing is combining the fun of skiing and snowmobiling together. It sounds easy on paper but when it's all said and done it can be back breaking. Our goal at Cheetah Factory Racing is to help bring the two sports together and make it as easy as possible. We were the first to manufacture snowboard racks for snowmobiles and ski racks for snowmobiles and continue to be the best. Our patents pending designs are designed to keep the feel of the snowmobile the same while bringing up your snowboard and or skis. Maneuvering up to your favorite line or jump spot is not always easy especially tandem riding (Two people side by side). By keeping equipment on your snowmobile you can concentrate on maneuvering and guiding your snowmobile to the top. Having your equipment hitting you in the back of the head not only can hurt but also can knock you off course and be dangerous. Keep your equipment off your back and on the CFR rack.
The CFR hood lock downs will keep the hood of your snowmobile from ripping off when you happen to accidentally role your snowmobile down the S-shoot.
Go into the Forum and see all of the information we have put together to further your knowledge of this amazing recreational activity. Become a member and make new friends by sharing stories and pictures with other members. Learn how to do simple maintenance on your snowmobile in the mechanics section.
The CFR team section will show you the collection of snowmobilers, snowboarders, skiers, photographers and cinematographers who all use, test and design CFR products.
Cheetah Factory Racing sponsors snowboard videos from Standard Films “Walk the line”, “The bandwagon” Sandbox's “Flavor Country” and Frontier Films “Two Stroke Cold Smoke 9” who all use CFR snowmobile accessories while filming these cutting edge Action videos.
All of our products are designed with you in mind because we, like you, we are on our snowmobiles any possibly day we can be during the winter.