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Charles Reid - Backside Lipslide


Andreas Wiig - Blunt






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Chas Guldemond - 1st Place


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Ruby Hill is now open. Super mellow, super fun and free! 6 butter boxes. Check it out. Platte River and Florida in D-town! Big ups to Winter Park for making it possible!


Opening Day, photo: Jeff Bernhard


Minutes from downtown Denver! photo: Jeff Bernhard


Sunset at Ruby, photo: kimsidwell.com


Lakota throws down. photo: kimsidwell.com


Ruby Hill is open from dawn to 9 pm, photo: kimsidwell.com

The latest issue, Feb / March,  hits the shelves in two weeks! ACSM 1.2 features Wolf Creek / Pagosa Springs, which is absolutely getting pooped on right now. Check out these stats, as well as the latest and greatest from ALLUS Colorado's free shred mag!

Summit Snow Depth - 208 inches
Midway Snow Depth - 167 inches
24 Hour Snow Fall Total -1 inch
48 Hour Snow Fall Total -25 inches
72 Hour Snow Fall Total -56 inches
7 Day Snow Fall Total -92 inches
Latest Storm Total - 87 inches
Year to Date Snowfall Total - 432 inches

I-25 South-bound to Wolfie, photo:terryratzlaff.com


DUB in the clouds with diamonds..., photo:terryratzlaff.com


NC Fine, photo:terryratzlaff.com


Free Freiboth!, photo: terryratzlaff.com


Lakota Sage, Shifty, photo: Jeff Bernhard


Knife Ridge at Wolfie, photo: Jeff Bernhard


Amazing how some d-bag always screws it up for everyone else.

Mathieu Crepel, Huge 1080 tail photo: Jeff Bernhard


Kelly Clark, First 900 in comp! photo: Jeff Bernhard


Gretchen Bleiler, Patented crippler photo: Jeff Bernhard


Congrats to the Aspen native! photo: Kim Sidwell


Mason Aguirre, Big Method. photo: Kim Sidwell

“Robots are things that go. Flobots are things that flow.” – Johnny 5



New Album - FIGHT WITH TOOLS

Like Transformers who transform from a vehicle to a robot on the run, Flobots have proven to transform from a skier to a snowboarder in one run, or one day at least. Flobot Stephen Brackett (aka Brer Rabbit) made his conversion from planks to board with a push from friends and a realization.
“I really didn’t like skiing, but I found it pretty easy to do,” Brackett said. “I could go down double-balcks, but wasn’t having fun. Once I actually strapped on a board, I felt like I was riding with the mountain, instead of against it.”

This sensation and the ease of Brackett’s transformation proved to be enough reason for Brer Rabbit to stay on a board. This coupled with a dramatic ACL injury which Brackett said occurred during a pick-up basketball game with his high school cast of West Side Story.
“He could tell that story without the West Side Story part,” Jesse Walker proclaimed. “But he chooses to add it.”

More jabs lead to an eruption of laughter that leaks through the cracks of the transformed garage-to-studio that the Flobots call home on Elliot St in Denver. The studio stands behind a two-story white house with blue colonial style trim. A dark path beside the house with a fence, leads to a flower infested back-yard. It is in the yard where this studio, matching the white and blue of the house, is found.
It is in Denver where most of the Flobots grew up. Now that they have experienced success in their native land, this hip-hop group is determined to give back to the community.

Through a non-profit organization, Flobots.org, and the sponsorship of Hunt Alternatives Fund, the Flobots have idle time to spend at the Denver Children’s Home where they teach music and build relationships with Denver’s youth. The experience is monumental to the Flobots, the lone female band member Mackenzie Roberts feels.

“It’s the greatest gift, being able to give back,” Roberts said. “I wouldn’t be where I am and able to do what I do if some teacher in my life hadn’t told me I could do it; if someone hadn’t handed me an instrument and told me that I could do it.”

When the Flobots aren’t at the Children’s Home, they are at their respective schools, teaching everything from science to music theory and mentoring children. Jonny 5 and Brackett said it is important that the Flobots put action behind the political messages that have become a staple of their music.

Recently the Flobots finished recording their first full-length release, “Fight With Tools.” According to Andy Guerrero, the recording process took much longer and was more work than the Flobots had anticipated.
“We’re very proud of (Fight With Tools),” Guerrero said. “We worked on it for 10 months and it sounds how we want it to sound.”  

Thanks for visiting allusmag.com.  Here is the rest of the Neon story...  Hope you enjoy...

For this issue dedicated to the old school, I couldn’t forget about the fashions of the day.  I was going through a bunch of old pictures from the 80’s and was literally blinded by the light.  It was the light of day glo from days of old.

I remember lacing up the Sorels, two sizes too big, and knowing that those were the only articles of clothing that I had no color choice or control over.   All the rest of my ensemble was as bright and funky as a proud peacock on acid.  I was so stoked on my Roffe hot pink and florescent yellow coat.  I had matching pants and a choice of matching turtle necks so I could alternate day to day.  For some reason I had a stocking cap with reindeer, standard issue with the big ball on top, only my reindeer were humping.  I thought that hat was so raunchy and cool.  I even sported neon gloves that matched my neon Sims Switchblade.  We are talking Super Sweet Style.

What were we thinking? If it could be any more garish, our retinas would have exploded.  I guess that’s why we had to wear Vaurnet cat eyes.  Top it all off with a L’Oreal hair spray hardened wave, and we were good to go.  Go where, who could really say.  It has ultimately led us all to the here and now, but I still wonder, where has all the neon gone.

I still have a few pieces of neon clothing from back in the day, and I would probably still sport it out on the slopes if any of it fit.  Unfortunately, everything I have is way too small, or maybe I’ve grown way too fat.  The funny thing is, the Sorels my Mom bought are still two sizes too big.  Who knows, if I hold on to the classic neon for long enough, my kids may want to steal my retro cool gear.  

I have seen a few splashes and splatters over the last few years, but it takes a special breed to pull it off.  And it has never caught on enough to make a comeback.  I know it is a hard sell for reps, and risky for shops to carry, but those colors were supposed to be the look for the future.  Here we are in the next millennium, and what we thought were the rebellious, loud, obnoxious, punk colors, have now sadly seemed to fade away.

-The Dude Drew