Rider Tunes

One of my good friends from college, Jesse, recently launched a project called

Rider Tunes

It complements another Web site he constructed called

Ski Movie Music

Basically, it is a conglomeration of music from various ski and snowboard videos, with links to iTunes so that you can download the mixes and start riding like a pro. I've found some good hip hop groups this way. And if music makes me feel like a pro when I'm snowboarding, it cancels out any face plants. Check it out.

Rider Tunes

My friend, Jesse, from college has started up a Web site worth browsing. It's sister to a site he started awhile back at www.skimoviemusic.com. I wrote about it at the time. Anyway, the new one is www.ridertunes.com. (For some reason, my blog isn't letting me link to outside sites, Sorry.) It has a list of all the songs on various snowboard vidoes released in past years. You can click on the songs and download them from iTunes. The first site is how I discovered that I really like Sweat Shop Union. Check it out.

Showing off

A college friend, Jesse, came to visit this weekend. He is on a road trip through a few Western states, and I was lucky enough to be one of the stops.

Jesse is one of the original Knowles Hall Mafia, which is what we coined our hall in the dorms freshman year. Half the hall was girls, and half were guys. It made for some epic water fights and a steady stream of practical jokes. Anyway, Jesse and I have managed to stay friends all this time.

He and I have the same weakness for the outdoors, so I had to show off my area a bit. The minute he got out of the car I dragged him out for a game of ultimate frisbee. Saturday, we did one of my regular mountain biking trails. And Sunday we went on a hike near Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite. I had to make him work off all that beer I know he's been drinking on his other stops. We were really lucky with the weather — it was sunny and warm every day.

Jesse impressed me by making me stir fry from scratch after we got back Sunday night. Who knew he could cook?

Lesson learned: Jesse can still keep up, three years later.