October 12th 2009- Hike to Cascade Cirque, Mt. Timponogos

Brother Ian and i wanted to get the legs fired up, so what better mountain to climb then Mt. Timponogos? You can start at the valley floor and climb 5ooo+ feet to the top, which is insane for utah. Our goal was to hit the summit, but we started off on the completely wrong trail which led us to the base of the waterfall at the bottom of cascade cirque instead! We were 2 miles in and the trail stopped! We had no choice but to bushwhack as far as we could go... We made it up to the gut of the cirque and boy, it was a work out! Check out the great views!

The start of the hike. Not knowing that the trail would end so soon, we kept trotting!

After about 3000 feet of scrambling and bushwhacking we made it to Cascade Cirque- Epic Views!

I brought the drum along for some extra weight in the pack to get those legs workin'... Sure worked!

Possibly the first drum session to go down in Cascade Cirque...?! The Billy goats seemed interested!

Check out this pack of gruff Billy's. Must have seen 20 different goats that day!

Loooong ways down into Provo valley, here we go!

This gruff Bill was hanging solo, protecting his crew

Where did the trail go? oh ya, there was none! Talk about BUSHwhacking!

We followed these crazy mule deer and billy goat trail's on the way up and down, Sometimes leading us in to some pretty dangerous terrain! Would have been impossible without em', but it was pretty sketch following those things!... Thanks to the Mulies' and Billies up at Timp! They are some rugged creatures!

October 1st 2009- First turns of the year

The morning of October 1st was a great sight to any winter lover's eyes. The wasatch got a nice dusting of snow up to about a foot at the top. That means it was time to grab the Snurf' and head for the hills to see what we could get! The views and colors this day were amazing from a photographers stand point. My brother Ian brought our camera along for the hike to capture the beautiful sights... Check out his photos!!!

This was the view driving up the road to the pass

Rovin' up to the start our hike...

Up on top of the ridge looking back into Big Cottonwood

I got to thinking how sweet it would be if the colors were like this all winter long.... Now that would make some really interesting tree skiing!

My first snurfin' turns of the year, rocky but successful!

This photo here is from October 6th. Zack, Ian and i went on another hike to find some isolated pow still left behind. We found this choice patch as well as a few others and had a good old time!

Not bad for October 6th!!! Full on snurf' run!

Check out these short Clips from our day Snurfin'!

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Fuel.tv Interview!

BIG thanks to Robbie Sell over at Fuel.Tv for hooking this up!

Link- INTERVIEW, PHOTOS, VIDEO: NEIL PROVO

Provo brothers P.O.V.

This is a short edit my bro Ian made recapping our 08-09 season here in utah. WINTER IS NEAR!!

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Summer backpackin 8/21/09-8/22/09

August is a great time for camping in utah. The temperature is far cooler then salt lake and pc, and most of the skeeters have died off for the season. My brothers and i decided it was time to go do some hikin'. The fishing at this zone is epic! Justin, Ian and good friend lance "Monkey" made the hike over ___ peak around noon... I had to do some work that day so my buddy jabroni and i hiked up later around 5:30. The views are epic, Doesn't get much better then sleepin under a clear starry sky!

Matt looking down into the valley where he forgot his smoke at my truck, allll the way down there by the little road!

Taking in the views on top of ___ Peak, before heading down into the basin

Soon we had forgotten about the forgotten ganj down below, cause the views were sweet!!!

Once we got down to the lake i rigged up my rod in hopes hooking into one of the many cruising cutthroats! This place is the shit!

The stars were epic, photo by Ian Provo

One of my favorites! Ian throwing some loops early morning in the long Johns!!

I choice west basin cutty...

Be back next year in the spring, with snowboards and fly rods in hand!

Lake hoppin 8/16/09-8/17/09

Went for a nice overnighter in the uintas, to go explore and fish some new water. Cr johnson and Zach Siebert joined my bro's and i. It was a great time, got down to 23 deg. that night! Brrrr..gets me stoked for winter!

Backpackin bredren's

Saw so many shooting stars that chilly night... Milky way photo by Ian Provo

CR, trying to reel a deal!

Ian and Dutch. Dutch is force not to be reckoned with!

Wyoming bonneville cutthroat journey 8/4/09-8/6/09

The brother and i went backpackin to a small river in southwest Wyo for 3 days, in search of native Bonneville's... We found em! Had a great time exploring this new river. Pretty stoked to go back for the spawn next summer when the river is filled with large migratory cutty's!!! Here's some photos from the trip!

-Dutch and i scoping out some runs to go fish

-Throwing some loops!

-Love this place!

-Ian getting bent out of shape!

-One of many choice bonneville's fooled by Ian

-Another...

-Love this photo!!! Epic fish in an epic river!!!

June summer split tour 6/18/09-6/19/09

Just before i turned 21, ian and i set off on a mission to ride some peaks in the Uinta wilderness... The conditions and weather were perfect! We were planning on waking up early in the morning after camping in middle basin, and making it to the summit of Spread eagle peak, but the snowpack was rock solid and we had NO crampons or ice axe! ...bummer! Next time i go back im going to be ready, and have LOTS more energy! Had 2 great runs with killer storm snow on the first day, and great corn on the second.

...Check out the video and the photos!!



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^The route of our tour over ____ peak.. 1st day Green on the way up and down the other side, and the second day is in red coming down the face.

^The hike up to the other side!

^This line was waiting for us on the other side! It tops out at 11,800ft- higher than the BIRD! did i mention this is also Ian's first time really shredding lines on a board! Turns out some of the lines were a little much for him, but he nailed this one no problems!!!

^Not bad at all for the middle of JUNE!!! there was 5 inches of fresh storm snow when we came down, so money!

^The sun was going down and we found this choice dry spot to camp on

^Sun setting over Hayden peak and Ryder Lake below

^Sunrise earth, Spread Eagle peak 7:03am -Our plan was to summit the peak, but it was suuuper icy and we had no crampons or ice axe's. Dummy's! Next time i come back here i am going to be SO prepared!!!

^Back on ___ peak, waiting for the other side to warm up to proper shreddable snow!

^Boy the view's are epic on top of ____, will be back someday with proper equipment to shred the shit out of the peaks in the backround.... Massive lines to be had out there, Massive!!!

Summer couloir scouting 6/8/09

Now that the highway is open, we are stoked. Soon the fishing will be off the charts, but for now, there is still some good skiing to be had. We took a line down a west facing couloir and it was great.

the snow is melting, soon it wont be this easy.

the day started out good. Blue sky after some fresh snow fall from the days before

our line, looking good.

Then, in typical Uinta fashion, the storm clouds rolled on through.

Just like that we were back in winter. It started dumping like crazy. Neil setting the bootpack

time for the jacket and gloves. Just before this photo was taken, we were almost struck by lightning. It was scary as shit. We were still about 30 feet from the top, but we swiftly got off of there.

We dropped into what was basically a winter abyss. You could hardly see shit. We did score some pretty nice pow turns for june though.

glad to be at the bottom, after being scared off the mountain.

Hayden Peak