Knew Management

During our summer visit to Hood, Knew Mgmt sponsored an evening photoshoot at the Windell’s snow camp facility for some friends and riders. The cast of riders included Nate Farrell, Greg Bokenkamp, Matt Bothfeld, Kade Madsen, Niko Cioffi, Jeremy Grandahl, Cody Rosenthal, and Lane Knaack. Shooters Jeff Curley and JGC, along with filmer Silent Greg were also on hand to capture the hot-action (literally, as temps were high) through the lens.

We arrived at the 60 ft. step-up booter by way of a rickety old LMC snowcat around 6:30 and a few of the riders had already unleashed the guinea pig and were stoked. After a quick rake, the crew began sessioning in rhythm. Matt Bothfeld was throwing down some mean front 5 tails. Nate Farrell and Greg B. had frontside 3 Indy-pokes on lockdown as Vermont shredhead Niko Cioffi brought up the rear with a super clean front 7 tail. Before long, each rider was throwing down hammers in pristine lighting conditions. Jeremy “Buns” Grandahl was annihilating the step-up with both back 7 and 9’ nose tweaks while Nasty Nate “Etan” Farrell began rotating two times and over
with som frontside 7 and 9 tail snatches. Cody proceeded to hit the jump switch, nope not a spin- a flawless 60 ft. switch nose straight air which is no easy feat! Props to Cody… Although the light began to dim, Greg B. still had it in him for one XL, lofty backside 5 while Niko followed close behind with a super smooth frontside 9 to wind down the session. Due to the lighting conditions, we left the step-up and moved the operation a few hundred yards uphill to the post-dusk Windell’s pipe for some plant action. Although Bokenkamp nearly took out Curley’s lighting gear, Nate and Cody sealed the shoot with some contorted Miller flips and Andrechts and Kade and Silent Greg ended the night pipe session with some hot-pow pipe slashes.

Great conditions, an eyeful of superb shots, and excellent riding, what more can you ask for. Everyone rode away from the shoot stoked, including the ski patroller.

Sidenote: Pat “The Eye” Bridges and Lane Knaack had a blunt session in the pipe. We won’t tell you if Lane nailed his blunt (right pic), we’ll leave that up to your discretion…

*A big thanks to Tim Windell, Jan Wallace at Timberline, Bridges, Jeff Curley, JGC, Silent Greg, the ski patroller/cat driver, and all the riders involved in the shoot.

-Knew