Ride riders Austin Hironaka, John Shaw and Seth Kitzke continue their roadtripping as they score the goods on a mission to Cooke City. Peep this…

With not much going on in the Northwest the RWU crew jumped in the car and drove East to Cook City, MT to meet up with Todd Kirby and friends. Soon upon arrival in “kook city” came large volumes of snow! After about 5 hours there were already 7-8 inches on the ground, so they headed up the hill and built 2 jumps to have them ready when the weather cleared. Once the jumps where built they just explored the area and kept going back to the jumps to make sure no one high marked the landing. Well luckily enough at the same exact time that the sun came out, 2 snowboarders and a sledneck put tracks in both of the jump landings, subsequently ending the trip… When we got home we decided it would be best just to board in our backyard, “Ski Acres”.

The RWU crew experienced an unusual month, which consisted of high temperatures and mass volumes of rain. Instead of traveling anywhere they decided to stay put and film what they could in their own backyard. On their first sled mission of the year, they found a wall ride at the top of a mountain and had a rad time getting all urban in the backcountry.

A few days later they saddled up the sleds again to create a wooden pole jam in the backcountry. Once they found the right tree they cut it down with spoons and proceeded on with a good long jib session. After they rested up from the pole jam, they headed up to Crystal Mountain to film some rail goodness.

The Visual Collective Presents: Off The Cuff, their 2010/11 season edit, aka the 2012 full snowboard movie.

Featured riders: Jonah Owen, Justin Norman, Austin Hironaka, Max Warbington, Josh Dodson, Parker Worthen, Blake Payne, Seth Kitzke, Derrek Lever, Spencer Schubert, & Friends.

This is how they break this episode down…

So we got a little impatient waiting for snow in Washington so decided to road trip down to Mammoth Mountain for opening day. On our way down we thought it would be fun to take a pit stop and ride Boreal for a few days to get some early season shots, while working out all the kinks before Mammoth opening day.

Shout out to SixEleven Productions for getting ‘Ride With Us’ off the ground and running strong last season. Mike Peterson, the main man and filmer behind SixEleven, went back to school and couldn’t shoot season 2. Look for the SixEleven crew to make appearances in RWU episodes this season.

It takes about 1:45 until the riding begins, but even before that, things are quite entertaining.

With “Hot August Nights ” revving up in Reno, it is only befitting to showcase where our engines took us in “Hot August Days.”

Nick Visconti, Oliver Dixon, Joshua Parker, Sammy Spiteri, Seth Kitzke, Zach Jacobson, Karen Zach, Max Tokunaka, Nick DiPriest and Kyle Lopiccolo.

Edit: Nick Visconti