Longboard Racing | Matt Chappell | E2

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The very first guest on Mind the Track is none other than Truckee core lord Matt Chappell, co-founder of orbitaldesignlab.com and truckeedirtunion.org. Recorded at the historic Gray’s Cabin in downtown Truckee, Matt shares some town history while we discuss a potpourri of topics from the Ag Check station to corn snow on Eureka Peak to longboard racing in Johnsville, to skier hitchhiking to ghosts in the attic. DOPE IS KING!

Topics include:

2:00 - Introducing Matt Chappell, O-lab and TDU
5:30 - Joseph Gray’s Cabin - Oldest Standing Building in Truckee
7:20 - Trail Whisperer goes off on the stupidity of the Truckee Ag Check station
9:30 - Skiers get lost off the backside of Sugar Bowl resort
12:20 - Being prepared - What gear do you carry in the backcountry?
23:40 - Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Nevada City and Lost on Purpose screening
25:25 - Riding 200 mile gravel loop a month before the Dixie Fire
27:10 - Lost Sierra Historic Longboard Revival Series in Johnsville
34:20 - Matt’s experience at the first Natural Selection Tour in Jackson Hole
36:50 - “Dope is King” - Ski wax, Lost Sierra ski race history and Snowshoe Thompson
41:30 - Ski touring on Eureka Peak
42:35 - What is corn snow?
47:50 - Low avalanche danger and the perils of crossing frozen lakes
51:30 - Matt’s thoughts on his first time touring Eureka Peak
53:25 - Skier Hitchhiking
57:15 - The importance of small local ski hills and donate to plumasskiclub.org
59:30 - Where did Trail Whisperer grow up skiing?
1:01:45 - THUNDERSNOW! - PowBot talks weather
1:05:15 - Truckee’s haunted past and the ghosts in Gray’s Cabin
1:09:00 - Outro