POV | EPIC DAY Snowboarding at Hyland Hills, MN

It is so cold. Whoo! Whoo! Gloves. Yes. I need some sunscreen. Whoo! Whoo! Hands are freezing. Hey! Hey! Whoo! Whoo! Yo, I got some new bibs from Burton. I'm so stoked on these bibs. They're so legit. It's a brand new... God, I love Burton. They take such good care of me. If you guys remember those old snow pants I had I got for ten bucks at the thrift store. They had rips all down the seams and everything. My hands, bro. They're gonna fall off. These snow pants are really nice. Like, they actually cover my boots. So today we're back at Highland. We're riding with JD again. He's coming out. They expanded their park here a little bit. So there's some new terrain. They're pretty baggy. I just need a second. Just gotta warm my hands for a second. Oh. Oh, my God. So much better. I'm experiencing that tingling feeling. Like, once your hands are super cold, you put them under a heater in a warm room. You know what I mean? I think we got everything we need, eh? Just gotta put down the rest of my Celsius. That should give us all the energy we need for the day. These pockets are massive, too. Yeah. I love that. Simple things, right? The simple things. Gotta catch the shuttle. Cheers, man. Thanks. Cold. It's icy. Oh, the snow pants, dude. Look at these. These are so sick. What a day. What a gorgeous day. It's like a little layer of powder on top. Damn, the jumper looks majestic. So sexy. All sex over here. So this is the big park now. That little, like, rainbow down rail looks sick. Start on the small stuff. What the hell? Oh, my gosh. Dude, it's just snow on top. Everything's sliding so beautifully. Sending it? Sending it. Yes. Just warming up the legs. You know, we want to feel good. I feel so free in these snow pants just because, like, my other ones were a little bit smaller on me and a bit restricting. But, like, I feel like I can do anything in these bad boys. Let's get after this down rail. There we go. I want to get up there. Oh, that rope is faster. What's up? Am I hitting the jump? Can I just cruise in? Oh, yeah. Oh, he's sending it. Let's ask him how much speed you need. Yo, sorry. When you start from here, are you making it all the way to the landing? Are you overshooting it? Yeah, I'm making it all the way. You guys are going, like, from the right and not hitting the speed bump. Yeah. You like the speed bump way? It's a little sketchy. Start off with some jumps today. Oh. Bro. It's just gorgeous. Snowboarding is just gorgeous. When you see someone do something like that, you're like, hot diggity. Oh, got some big balls coming in. Throwing threes, aren't you? Yeah, yeah. Oh, it's almost going for a five. Maybe more speed. More speed, more speed. Yeah, what's up? Hi. What's your name? Thank you. My name is Nikoma. Nikoma. Oh, nice to meet you. I like it, yeah. Ain't no one riding through over here. Too gnar gnar. Feels so weird to be, like, in a city, but snowboarding. Let's try it. Nose grab and then a tail grab. Double dip it. Got it. That jump will wake you up in the morning. Better than caffeine. Let's get that again, but let's get a little bit better this time. Oh, that was dope. I mean, I used to do that trick when I was younger. Forgot about it. I just forget about tricks I used to be able to do. Do I frontboard this rail today? Potench. Might get that today. Yeah. Big 180. Yeah. Where's JD? That's my boy. Need some motivation here, because I'm just kind of doing what I normally do. Holy ----, that was scary. Yeah. I'm having such a good day. Woke up feeling nice and strong and healthy. You know, I had a good brekkie. Yeah. Oh, switch into this? Bro. That scared me. My heart's actually racing after that. I don't know why. Slow down the breathing. Yeah. What's up, bro? What's up, dude? How you doing, man? How you like Highlands? It's fun, dude. Yeah, there's so many features. Everyone's having a good time and really nice. You come every day? Pretty much. Sick, dude. Right after school. It's Monday today, right? Yeah, Monday. You skipping school today? Pretty much. Love it, dude. It's good to meet you, bro. Yeah, thanks for saying hi, bro. Damn, Luke. Holy ----. There he is. Good morning. What's up, man? How you doing, dude? I saw you go up the jump in the parking lot. This one? Yeah. I'm in. I'm sick. Oh, thanks, dude. How are you doing today? You doing all right? I'm doing good. I'm doing really good. I woke up and realized I didn't put any of my stuff in the dryer. It's soaked. I was like, oh, my God. How you doing, though? You good? Yeah, doing good. Yeah. Dude, I got some new Burton soap pads, dude. I saw that. I was looking at those right when we got on the road. Do you like them? I like them, but you have to be honest with me. Are they too baggy? Perfect bagginess. I want to do this today. This kind of like a... Yeah. That looks so cool. A lot of speed for the jump. I think we'll make it from here. You want to follow me? Yeah. Pretty sweet, eh? Super chill. Yeah. Do you normally go in the middle when you hit the jump? Yeah. You do? I'll follow you this time. It's a little sketchy of a rolling. Oh, it is. I almost lost it. Yeah, I want to run that, though. Let's run it again. I want to do like a half cab over the jump. Oh. Can you be cooking that fast, Switch? We'll see. Yeah. If I see you do it, I'll do it for sure. Yeah. Oh, he's going right for it. Whoa. Damn. Yeah. You're good. No, I didn't think you were going to spin backside over it. All right, I'll try it, Switch. We'll see if I make it. Okay. Yeah. I don't think I'm making it. Definitely. Let's just go switch up here. Oh, God. Oh, my gosh. I made it. Did you get it, too? No. Yeah, it's better if I follow you off the jump so I can film as well. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, you lead the way most of the day. It's wild. It's chaotic, dude. If it gets too bad, we can just go over there. I kind of like it. Oh, not making it. Did you get the five? Oh, no. I just aired the big one. Oh, you're going to try the five on the small one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll try three at first. Oh, I want to hit that and then that. Goofy. Man, I'm goofy. Got it. Yeah, yeah. How's it going, man? Yeah, good. No, I got the three. Oh, you got the three. Yeah. After that little jump, you don't hit the... Little two, bro? Yeah, you don't hit it. I forgot it was there. You're so zoned in. I want to lip slide this. It's so easy. Oh, little one. Don't go switch right now. Not even close. You go from three to seven. Spinning off my heels, I'm just... I'm really challenged when it comes to that. God, I can't. Have you done this rail? Yeah. Yeah? You want to try it next run? I'm going to come back up. Yeah, I'll try. I didn't know what it was called, so I was calling it the earthquake, because I felt like it's rattling underneath. Oh, yeah. Is there a name for it? Firecracker. Oh, really? Yeah. I was calling it firecracker, too. Oh, baby. That was a lip slide right there, baby. No, I got the lip slide, though. Oh, for real? Yeah, it looks good. So you're locked in and everything, huh? I was locked in on that one, yeah. All right. Check out this lip slide. Okay, I'm watching. Went over it. Just trying to show off. Where's my boy? That was good, right? Just didn't make the whole thing, but... No, dude. Even when I was young doing rails and stuff, I was, yeah, scared of those. Oh, he's 50-50ing it. Shit. Straight into the sea. What a baller. 50-50. Maybe I could 50-50 it. It's super chill. How was that sea, too? You hopped on pretty easily, it looked like. I just don't know how to follow the angle of it. I kind of end up just riding off. Straight? Yeah. You got this. Oh, that's a gap. Oh! I didn't know there was that big of a gap between the... Oh, yeah. It's pretty big. Firecracker? Yeah. I'm going to try to get into a board slide on the sea rail, and if I make it the whole way, I'm going to try to spin out of it. Yes. Let's see it, bro. Are you riding? Yeah, what's up? I'm a fan. How you doing? I love your videos. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Second, I jumped on the rail. I felt all of this when I was riding. It scared me. Is it broken, dude? No, I just have to tighten it. I'm going to get this before I'm dead, dude. I'm getting it. The board slide on the firecracker? Yeah, yeah. I'm going to get it. And then, I think I just need to go a little bit slower on the sea, if I'm going to 50-50 through the whole thing, and lean. That's really what it is, just the lean part. That's what I learned, at least, when I ended up getting it the whole way. Yeah. I just leaned super hard. Yeah. Ooh. Oh! There it is. The whole thing, baby. Got to get over it, bro. Yeah! Oh! My bad, dude. All right. We both got it. That was so sick. I see there's an S there, too, dude. I want to get that. Yeah, it's a little baby one. I got to do this firecracker, bro. Definitely. It's all about commitment for me. I'm just afraid to go, to lock it in the middle of my board. Yeah. There's a little trick I was trying to do. Oh, my lord. Oh, I think you sent that to his back. Yeah, he did. Oh, he's good. Anyway, the little rollover bit, I like the idea of going on the left side and doing, like, airing and, like, tweaking out your tail. Yeah. To bonk it, and then you whip it around 180. Oh, yeah. Yeah, dude. I saw somebody do that off of a tree. Yeah. I'm going to let you take that one. God. Not even close. Woo! Oh, boy. Hey, I don't know what I was doing. God. Oh, closest. Get the firecracker. Just like that. All right. Let's go. Did it, bro. Felt so good. It's just because of the angle I took into it. I'm like, listen, you don't have a choice at this angle. You're going to be centered. Yeah. Woo! Let's go, bro. Jesus. Oh! Other side. This rope is so fast. Oh, fun. Woo! Dude, those jumps look way too big. I think the only way you're going to hit the jump is to taxi it off the rope. Yeah. And, like, no cars. The snow is pretty slow, isn't it? At the top, it's super slow. Once you get over that ridge, though, it's not bad at all. Dude might be going for it. Oh, he's going for it. Dude, it's not. Like, that's a big gap, dude. Yeah. I know. Wow. Sticky. Oh! Try a gap. Ooh. Yeah! Hex it. Oh, he did it! Bro, it hit it. Hit it and did it. Whoa! Oh! That was stylish. So sick. That first one? Yeah. All the way through. On the second one, I'm starting to get some air. Feels like I might be able to lip slide it. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Woo! A little gap to boardy. Woo! Oh, my God. Oh! Just animals. I kind of want to go for that 270 on. You got it. No, I know you got it. I believe in you. Not this one, though. Okay. Whenever you're ready. What's up, bro? I love your videos. Oh, I appreciate that, man. Thank you. Another gap. I'm just the cameraman this time. Woo! Oh, dude. It looks so sick. I like fairly thick. Yeah. Do you want me to video you with your phone? Yeah, yeah. Oh, no. That dude in the green is a pro. I ripped my... Aw. Yeah, they're starting to get all frayed anyway. Yeah. That dude in the green is a pro. What's his name? I don't remember. Oh, yeah. 4K60? Yep. Okay. Which side do you want me on? Left or right? Right side. Woo-hoo! I got it on the next one. Oh, this is going to be hard. Oh, no! What? Aw, bum. My strap broke. Oh, no. Hold on. What? Aw, baby. You ready? Yeah. Hey! Sick, bro. Hold on. Oh! That was so legit, bro. Yeah, dude. Got it. How do I dabble with that S? Just tap it. Say hello. Yeah. I don't think I can hit it first try. Oh! Damn, bro. You just sended me. That was awesome. Me, too. Oh, that's not cool. Woo! No! He's too afraid. Oh, it's scary. I'll go for a 1080 today. Oh, my God. Yeah, you're ripping. 50-50. Oh! Oh, my God. Oh, he's okay. Holy ----. Okay. That's doable. Scared me. Really, really scared me. I don't know either. Now I know I can get this S. Oh, yeah. Yeah. First one, you look at least comfortable getting on to it. Yeah, that's my scariest part for me. Once I'm on it, I'm okay. 50-50. Oh! How's it going? You're watching videos. You watch my videos? Yeah, yeah. Oh, dude. Thanks, man. Oh, yeah. I'm from here. Oh, you're from here? Yeah, yeah. I grew up riding that buck. Oh, really? Yeah. You guys are ripping, by the way. Oh, thank you. So much inspiration. Yeah, you can make it. Too much speed. I went over it. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, at least you know you can do it. Yeah. I'm like 270. I missed it all the way. At some point before we leave. Hell, yeah. Now I'm going to switch it up with the teardrop. Just gap. Gap to boardslide. Woo! Oh! I mean, I'm here to support you, but I'm also here to take you to the hospital as well. I'm going to try and get that S. Oh, I got it. Oh, baby! Let's go. What? Yeah, what's up, bro? I tried that 270 on the apron. You're trying it? No, you. What the? I'm going to try it. I just know if I go backwards, that's a far fall. I got to figure out my bail strategy. At least I grew up there. I'm not liking it. I got to figure out how I'm going to get off. Yeah. It's good that you're thinking of that. Makes me feel better. All right. Should I try it? Oh, yeah. I mean, if you're ready. I'm ready to watch. I'm always ready to watch. You got it. You got it, homie. You got it. 270. 180. Oh! Stuck a one. Oh, what? Got the 180. Yeah. You got the one. Dude, these guys are jumping from the left jump to the right. Was that easy? Yeah, it's pretty easy. You can try it. Yeah. That looked legit. Perfect little landing on the other side. Yeah. Don't go too fast, they say. Oh! Yeah. It's super smooth. Yeah. I like that. And then you can do like a little butter to the down. That was like fast landing. Yeah. The three was sick, though. Yeah. It looks so good. I want to give it a go. That looks awesome. Woo! Yeah. I'm about it. Yeah! Start with a 180 on it. Woo! Oh! Dude. Gnarly. I went frontside three off the coast. You did? Yeah. Oh, nice. You landed? Pretty sick, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to try it, too. I'm going to do it after you. Oh! Still good. Just kind of landed flat. I don't need to go that fast. Woo! Oh! Nearly lost my life. Back three. Front three. Clean, bro. I caught like the top of the jump. Your edge on it? Yeah. During the landing? Yeah. Yeah, it was scary. I need to get it one time, though. There it is! All right. What are you thinking now? I might get back to the A-frame business. Yeah, yeah. Back to business. Oh! Oh, ----! It looked like you swacked your face on it. No, I faced it with my arms. Oh, okay. It would be sick to just clear the down? Clear the whole down part? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Get ready to dial the operator. You want to try it? Oh, yeah. Oh! I don't think so. Oh, my! Whoa! Oh! There's no way that just happened, bro. Bro, you just got it. There's no way! Whoa! Just got to Buck Hill. Just going to slap on these big old boots. Get out there. Buck Hill is just pumping out the snow. Are you Brian Burris? Yeah. Nice to meet you. Dude, thanks, man. What's your name? I'm Ben. Ben, good to meet you, man. How was New Zealand? It's amazing, bro. How did you get out there? Yeah, my wife and I, we actually met in Australia, and then we moved to New Zealand. This was, like, way back in the day. And just went on, like, a work and holiday visa. Oh, yeah. And did that for a year and fell in love with the place. We had to leave because of COVID, and we've just been trying to get back ever since. And finally, we got a three-year visa. We're living there now. How do you like the board? Oh, dude. It is so sick. Yeah, dude. Nice meeting you. Yeah, good to meet you, man. Cheers. God, everyone's just so nice. Yeah, we just need the snowboard. Come here. Oh, camera. Oh, my gosh. It's wild out here. We're back out here. It's going to be kind of cool going through this. Where's my boy, JD? Where the **** is he? No, thank you. So sick. Yeah, get some slashes. See if we can garner enough speed to carry us over yonder. Oh, no. It's getting us. Cut it out. Ow. Oh, it hit me right in the face. Ow. Dude, I'm cold. I am cold. I might need another layer. This run would probably be fun to go down. Don't get me. Oh, thank you to everyone who's watching my YouTube video. So much love. So much appreciation. Thank you for hanging out. Can't feel my face. It's official. I need to throw on another layer. So to the car. Just getting a little air in. Whoa. Check out CJD. Hey. What up? Why did you run back to your car? Did you forget something? No, I just, I was too cold. I feel you. Yeah. I had to sit in there with the heat on high before I came out here. Yeah. When I got out of the car, I was literally warm until I got halfway up here. And I'm like, I'm cold as hell. Yeah. I wonder how bad that would have hurt. Like standing in front of that. I keep thinking it's going to hit me. I like lift my board up a little bit. Oh my God. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Ow. Yeah, I'm just listening to my body, you know, like, like I can do everything. But I just shouldn't push it. Yeah. You don't want something small that could be figured out in a day or two. Yeah. Turn into something big that could be like a week or more. Yeah. Like I actually tore this pec last year around, around Christmas. And it just hasn't fully recovered. Yeah. So one thing about that's good about getting older is you understand your body a lot more. You kind of know when to push it and when not to push it. Yeah. I don't know. I'm thinking about even just calling it. Yeah. I don't know. Should do a lap or two through the powder. Yeah. I'll be down. I'll just chill out on the park for a little bit. Yeah. They stopped us right in the way. I'm missing out. Oh no. Oh baby. Oh. Woo. Oh. Hey. Ah. Yeah. That was mad fun though. Just touching untouched snow the whole time. Yeah. That was good fun. When we do it, I'm going to follow you. So like, so we're like. Yeah. That'll be dope. Woo. Yeah. Oh baby. Woo hoo. My God. It's cold, dude. I want to get good at carving really badly. Like I'm ass. I'm ass. Yeah. Like fully extended arms. I want to get that to that level, but it's really, that's a really fun run. All the humps, all the little fresh snow bits. When I was like 14, 15 or whatever, I remember them blowing snow on this run here. Teacher's Pet or whatever. They would like keep the guns there for like two days. So these big mounds would build. Yeah. And that's where we would like try to throw like front flips off of them and ----. One of these days, I'm going to send it over these trees. Dude, it goes up on the other side. You're going to die, bro. It goes up? Yeah. Ah. Oh. Woo. Oh. Oh, that was a good one. Whoa. Yeah. Woo. That spot was way deeper than I thought. Yeah. We're the only ones that put tracks over there. It is. And they're blowing so much snow over there. That's like every run feels like a restart. Yeah. Well, I just had the most fucked up intrusive thought. All of a sudden, I thought JD is going to push me off the chair right now. Oh, my God. I was really scared. You've got like proper like an icicle dripping. I just I just hit it off like an actual icicle on your helmet. Good call. Yeah. Ready? Yeah. Through the gun. Whoa. Oh, that's rock hard. Hey. Oh. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh, thanks. Yeah. Yeah, bro. Nah. Now this is piercing. Yes. Yeah. Don't wait for Connor. It's so cool. Oh, that one. Yeah. And then is that the same one where you caught your edge flying forward? Oh, God. Yeah. Just shot up snow like disappears. And then he's like Scorpion. Yeah. I got a posse. Yeah. Oh, we're going to switch. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So far. So far in there. Oh, my God. That's right. Yeah. It's always the struggle. Like I take a screwdriver and like ratchet it into place so that it can't move. Yeah. And I don't take it off the helmet. It's just stuck. Yeah. Like it's staying right there. It's perfect right there. You always feel so gutted when you see your footage and it's just nothing that you. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh, what happened? He didn't lock it down. Oh. Your board flew off? No way. Holy ----, dude. Yeah. Oh, my God. Imagine me driving home after just riding with him all day and I get a text. Dude, my board flew off on the highway. What are you talking about? Oh, my God. You ready? Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. Oh, no. There goes all my speed. What did you do? I just lost all vision. Yeah, I can see. It makes sense what you said about your GoPro, though, because when your helmet came off, I'm like, how did your GoPro not flinch? Yeah. It stayed the exact same. Yeah. That's a little secret of the trade, you know. Every chairlift ride, I just have my hands balled up and the gloves are so cold. Yo, like my hair is frozen there. Yeah, really like frozen together. Yeah. That's crazy. I think I maybe got two or three left in me. I don't blame you. I was just about to say, I need to sit in the car for a little bit. Dude, your whole head is ice over it. Mine? Yeah. It's just ice. Here we go. What's the team? It's so beautiful in here. Yeah. Oh, ate it. Ate it. He was behind us. Oh, first. Oh, what am I doing? I put my glove on the wrong end. Yeah. Oh. Oh, goodies. Yeah. It's getting hard to talk. My lips are frozen. Yeah. I'm struggling as well. Yeah. I just realized your pants have the globe on them. Dude, aren't them sick? Yeah. Dude. They've got all these patches on them, dude. I love it. Yeah, it's easy. Yeah. Can't see anything. How you doing? Bro, I thought you weren't going to come back to vlog. Oh, no, dude. Am I going to be in the video? Yeah, I'll put you in the video, bro. Dude, I literally can't see. I just can't see. Yeah, I'll let you guys know. Be safe, brother. See you guys. Cheers. So cold. Ready to go home. My hair is proper frozen, eh? It's all matted up and icy.