{"id":53,"date":"2024-07-15T04:14:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T04:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fridaynightracer.com\/wp\/?p=53"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T22:54:54","slug":"remembering-karving-block-at-mount-hood-in-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattwynn.pro\/snowboard-instructor\/2024\/07\/15\/remembering-karving-block-at-mount-hood-in-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Karving Block at Mount Hood in July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hard to believe it has been 5 years since the four epic days on Mount Hood with legendary Ryan Knapton, wonderful Katie Tsuyuki, superb Giri Watts and the other campers. Organized by Donek Snowboards<\/a>, it was the most spectacular training event in my 30 years in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anticipation with Sky and Hoover when first seeing the glacier on the volcano.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 1 keywords<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 1 on the Palmer Snowfields glacier. There were thousands of California tortoiseshell butterflies heading to the top, just amazing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Katie being joyful<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yeah, Giri agrees, Palmer Snowfields is a kinda steep slope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 2 was cut short by bad weather, but we met a fellow who came to snowboard without gloves or much of a coat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A favorite picture, the perfect gloves are hard to find<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Day 3 keywords<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 4 was also cut short by weather<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 5 was another beauty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All the campers went home with a signed Ryan Knapton poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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