Ghost Chili Pepper Challenge, featuring David Boots.

The other day there was a challenge thrown up onto facebook for The Anchor Pub's 6 Ghost Chili wings. Once I saw the post, I had one man in mind, my good friend David Boots. When I asked him without question, he was ready. We headed down to the Anchor to get in started, on the way there we got word that David Blome had just finished the wings! Boots now had a challenger. It was on.

If you are not familiar with the challenge, you have to eat six chicken wings in five minutes. First they cover the wings in their habanero sauce, then each wing gets six drops of the special ghost chili sauce. They throw the wings in a bag, shake em up, and there it is!

We arrived at The Anchor and met up with Bobby who was sponsoring the wing challenge for the day. Blome had finished his about twenty minutes prior and you could still see he was feeling it. The wings come out, Boots gets the run down, puts on the gloves, and dives in. After the first wing, his only complaint was the actual temperature of the wings, as they just had been out of the oven. Boots finished the wings, no problem, in two minutes and twenty eight seconds beating his opponent Blome by half his time! Only problem here....Boots has to now wait another two minutes and thirty two seconds before he can take a drink. With a full glass of milk sitting in front of him, mocking him, Boots sweats it out, what I can only assume felt like a lifetime, and dives into that glass of milk.

In the end, the two Davids got free wings, free t-shirt, and hours, maybe days of pain. For us on-lookers and witnesses, we were provided with great entertainment and I, great pictures. The pictures I will now share.

Props to Dave Blome for getting it done also! We didn't get there in time to get photos of him getting at it, but he finished the challenge with one second to spare!

On an unrelated note, my website is up and almost running at 100%. Feel free to check it outand shoot me an email or something. Let me know how you like it.

David Boots talking to the bartender about what he's getting himself into.

The wings arrive.

Gloves on, timer out. Game on.

One down, working on number two.

Almost done.

Finished. The face says it all.

Two and a half minutes until he can drink that milk.

Sweet Relief.

Ready for more.

Ice cream to mellow the burn.

This mouth is on fire.

We tried to walk to Skinny Raven after. Not a good idea.

Hope Trip #1

Saturday a group of friends made our way out to Hope Alaska to our friend Ian's families cabin. We were blessed with a great drive, honestly probably one of the best I've had in a long time. It was a true Alaskan experience. We had weather that was all over the place, but when we arrived to our destination it was beautiful! We started a fire, chatted for a bit, then began the festivities. Mainly beer pong, sauna, and running through the woods in boxers trying to find Grant who decided he would rather sleep in the forest. Oh, I should probably mention that he won 9 games of beer pong straight (most of which where down to last cup) and 3 of those were him playing by himself. He was toasted.

Next day we all got up (except Grant), dressed, and geared up for an awesome lunch at Tito's, courtesy of Ian. After lunch we packed up the guns and ammo and headed to the shooting pit. Shot a good 150 rounds of 12 gauge and close to 200 rounds of .40 and .45 then packed up to head home. It was a short trip, but a lot of fun. The crew this time included myself, David Boots, Ian Markis, Rebecca Huerta (Beckie), Grant Oney, and Sara Belarde. Below are a couple of my favorite shots.

David Boots

Ian Markis

Turnagain Pass

Jay Kuzma and crew came by and picked me up around 10:30 a.m. this morning and we made our way South. The drive was pretty nice until about Bird Creek and it started raining. We could see breaks of sun above the low level clouds so we kept moving. Once we hit the Girdwood turn off, the rain turned into snow. We were now, even more stoked. Once we got to the turn-off for Tin Can, it was snowing a little bit. We got geared up and began the hike to a kicker Jay had built a few weeks prior.

When we got there the snow was coming down pretty hard and the visibility was pretty limited. Regardless of the poor visibilty, the snow was amazing, so we built up the kicker a bit more. I found my angle and it was only a matter of minutes before the first rider shouted "dropping!".

Overall it was a fun sesh, and a tiring day. I got to try out my new snowshoes and had a blast with that. Got to ride with some great people. Today was a good day.

The view out of town, heading South.

Parking at Tin Can.

Noah Gotthardt getting gnarly.

Kuzma steezin' it out.

Kolby Saetre getting fresh!

Phaze One

So the other day I was asked by employees of Zaks Boardroom to come to their new skatepark and shoot some photos for a flyer. I was stoked. I've been wanting to check out the park, and getting the opportunity to shoot for it was awesome. This is Anchorage Alaska's only indoor skatepark, and they did it proper.

The park is kinda small, but they way they are working around that is wonderful. They are doing 2 hour sessions on weekends. You have to call or stop by the shop to make reservations, and each session only allows 10 skaters at a time. Now, 2 hours might not seem like a lot, but if you're like me, and out of shape, 20 minutes is all you need!

Very well constructed, fast flow, helmets required, under 18 years old needs parental consent.

Phaze One skatepark.

Slackin...

So its been awhile since I've posted anything, I've been pretty lazy actually. Plus I worked a bit during the holidays, and I hate the holidays, so I've just been slumin around....if Im not shooting.

On the bright side, I have been shooting a lot lately, so I've been feeling rather productive. I'll probably do two posts today, but for now, I'll just show a couple of my favorite shots from the last few weeks.

Some fairly good news, for me at least. Im finally making my way to Southeast Alaska for a much needed snowboard trip. I am very excited about this, I've been talking about doing it for about 4 years now. In about 12 days I will be in Juneau Alaska. I will be meeting up with the Webbers from Cordova and shredding with them, and just taking in JNU life.

Matt Wild - Nosepress

Logan Imlach

Jay Kuzma - Tailpress

Review of the Goomba stomping

Kolby Saetre - Overcrook

Trick or Street 2009

Creator of Butterfresh Productions, Matt Wild, along with various sponsors and Hilltop Ski Area, threw down a great event on October 30th. There was a large number of competitors of all ages. It was pretty cold out, with a bit of wind added. Didn't get many shots of the event, but these are a couple.

T.I.A. live at Bernies Bungalow

My good friends T.I.A. played another show Thursday, October 22nd at Bernies Bungalow. The show opened with a couple other bands including Snack Pharm, and Spitshine. I really enjoy Spitshine, they have a great sound and have been playing together for something like....10 years I believe. A couple shots I got from this show are seen above. For a great write up on the whole show, please check out The Petri Dish.