
Ian Millar - March 9th
March 9
An interesting day. Last night someone else made my days plan with out letting me know. So I woke early to meet a crew of North American ski shreds who I was going to be doing a big ski tour with. Of course they made there plans over drinks and when we showed it was a bunch of dudes on laptops and not even close to being ready. After an hour of lagging I busted out of there solo.
The whole episode reminded me of what i don't like in pro photography. When organized media trips have too many heads and every one lags around changing the plan a hundred times over. I wasn't the photographer on this shoot and really had no reason to be there other than a friend bringing me there to tag along.
I left and headed up to the Happo-One back country where to my surprise the snow was good. I rode a line called 'the mix'. It was my first time on this particular line. I met a fireman from Kobe named Kochi, who was also doing a solo ride.
Yesterday I was watching this video on VBS.TV and in it Billy Rohan mentions how he only ever wanted to skate for Zoo York. It is a very cool video of course but I just thought was funny to see this older Japanese man sporting this coat...
It snowing now and the forecast looks promising. So hopefully some deep pow pictures to come.
-Ian






