Its nuking in the High Country, we riding it all soon….Im ready.
Ready for the late night sessions when the mountain is empty of everyone but the heavyweights, floating in and out of the shadows in the forest, silently smoking on the chairlifts, lifting through the low level clouds effortlessly. Night sessions are my favorite sessions.
get ready..
shredders delight.

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues by subpop

Bonus pics:

Stevens Pass catches up to the future with their new website, linked at the image>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

*Modern and sleek with webcams dialed in on the homepage, 3 historically long clicks have been deleted there alone, the webcam page by itself is even faster and more attractive againts a darker background.

*The Facebook widget is nice because it rotates everyones’ profile, if you happen to like that sort of thing. If you wait long enough, you will see your mug flash across the website of your favorite ski hill. Nice touch.
Defiantly naming the plugin Facepile is funny to me however it definitely confuses some people who cant quite do the math. My only tweak to that would be change it and just call it what it is: Facebook.

*The weather widget in the top center header is awesome, I love the weather graphic and its easy to read function. The hours of operations widget is as slick as it gets, no more loading heavy pages to get what you need, just click and you get a fast, good looking, simple to use widget that pop-ups. Talk about lightweight, this place just got dialed in bigtime!

*The Twitter panel is a good addition and I really like the title: Chatter.
Stevens Pass has never had a good twitter feed, back in the beginning they just followed pro’s and local chics, which means only one thing, a local bro was planted somewhere in sales “tweeting” for the mountain. Over the years he has expanded his base somewhat but its been sub-standard at best, it’s still very much like a personal account with selective replies only to homies and industry. Ive never been impressed at all until I found this feed (linked below), which really should be the official feed. Relevant shots of killer sessions, weather updates that are personable and realistic and just plain cool to peruse, follow this guy for the real deal. Anytime I login to twitter I always head there first for updates. We all know what it means to ride the lower elevations of the PACNW and we still come back year after year, whats’ superlative about this feed is it’s pragmatic realism: Here youve got a guy who runs a mountain yet has no compunction telling the world what we already know on those warm days: if you want the goods you gotta hike, or get your session in before it rains today or even better: huge storm last night, the snow is perfect so get out and ride!
I like it and I give him 5 stars for it: a well played account thats real-deal and chock full of mountain pics/stats that you need to know. Joel Matinez’ twitter feed punches the weather in the face every day and he doesnt care, he is going to ski it and then tell you about it. You gotta love it.

*The Snaps section is a great addition to the site but I think it can be greater. Setup a member based Flickr pool and user-source the plug from that pool. Every submission to the pool is Mountain reviewed and approved before display and every user understands that submission to said pool may result in usage on the site in that section. There are some serious photographers up there that are relatively unknown and it would be a smash hit for sure.

Bottom line is this: The site is fun to look at with the giant background of rotating pics, it’s easy to read/navigate with the layout and content placement. Full-on carbon fiber popups, it feels light as air when your’e there. The Park and Pipe site is new to me and again I am impressed with it. Its a sidebar that Ive never noticed before but I typically don’t ride park until late at night when hunting off-sides freshies with my crew so I never have paid attention to anything “park” on the site. I like the way its built and the content is good. I don’t know if that’s new or old but all that matters is I found it through the new layout. Good work.
Stevens Pass gets 5 stars out of 5 for hurtling themselves into the Octagon of Style and 4 stars for Ease of Use. Great work rebuilding the site, making it more attractive while increasing the features and decreasing the navigation.

*Get Some! Stevens Pass.