Private Pipe Session with Shaun White, Danny Davis and Mason Aguirre

It’s rad when being a bone-head works out for the best and you somehow end up better off because you blew it.

My latest lamest move was forgetting to put my snowboard in the back of my truck, driving off and not realizing what I’d done until around 10 pm that night, when I’m sure my shred sled was well on it’s way to somewhere else in someone else’s SUV. Blew it.

I was gonna shred Park City the next day, shoot a few photos of their world-class park, slash hot pow, do a little write-up on what they got going on and call it a day. But that couldn’t happen now, not with out something to slide on. Drove up to Park City anyway, figured I’d check lost and found, I might be a dumb-ass , but for some reason I felt lucky.

I climbed out of my truck and looked over toward the pipe, spotted one dude sessioning it alone, instantly recognized the style, “that’s Shaun White,” I thought. “I should check that out.”

Turns out Shaun was filming for Park City, working on getting a good still for next winters ad campaign and bag a few shots for their newest film. The pipe was perfect and Shaun was all alone. All time.

It’s the kind of session filmers and photographer froth over, and I just happened across it, because of a bone-headed move the day before. Boo yeah.

It was a perfect spring day, the pipe was freshly cut, not a cloud in the sky, there’s no wind, and only one dude riding and that dude is the best half-pipe rider in the world. Oh, and then Danny Davis and Mason Aguirre and Keir Dillon showed up, decided to join in, do a few one-hitters, work on some tricks before they fly east to the Open. It’s an inpromtu Burton A-team assault on Park City’s pipe and somehow I ended up on-hand with camera in-hand.

Never felt so lucky to have lost a snowboard. I had planned on heading up the hill about the time this all got underway. Had I remembered to put my board in my truck, I would’ve never been in the base area, wouldn’t have looked over to see Shaun going 18 feet out in an empty pipe, wouldn’t have been in the right place right at just the right time.

What luck. And what a session it was.

Mason was spinning like a top, Danny was doing huge alley-oop crails, and Shaun was blasting triple over-head airs on both the backside and frontside walls. Two day’s ago these three were standing next to each other on the podium of the World Superpipe championship, but now, they were just three buddies riding pipe together and having a hell of a time.

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And while the photos will show that this was an extraordinay pipe session, it was certainly the kind of day that we’ve all had: shredding a perfectly slushy pipe with your homies, one-upping each other, slapping high-fives, slashing the last hit, chilling for a few, lapping it ‘till your socks are too soggy to stand in, then finally calling it. That’s snowboarding , and even a bone-head can recognize that.