Snowboard Scouting and Fishing Alaska

With the pandemic closing everything folks started doing things outdoors more. We saw outdoor recreation increase by three times last year. We had booked our Alaska adventure before all this happened. I got to Scout Alaskan Terrain For Snowboarding & Caught Big Fish. Follow us by subscribing on YouTube to get all our new videos & tips. Flowing Freeride will teach how to pick the right snowboard gear best for you and drills to improve your skills. You’ll have access to all our snowboard tutorials when you sign up that cover every step and feedback from your coach. We also have some free snowboard videos to prepare for snowboard safety on our YouTube Page. I recommend watching these snowboard videos; Building Rhythm, Advanced Snowboarding Getting Air, Snowboard Bumpy Terrain, Snake Course, Snowboard Dynamic Flex & Extend, Advance Snowboard Lesson: Dropping Cliffs, Snowboarding Off Piste, Snowboarding Chutes, Active Passive Absorption, Funnel Turns For Navigating Obstacles & Snowboarding Moguls.

I know a lot of my mates that snowboard in the winter participate in other outdoor recreation activities in the summer like rafting, biking, hiking and fishing. I’ve started raft guiding on the Weber outside of Park City. I’ve fished the rivers around here too. I like going to the lake to fish because they stock the lakes and it’s easier to fish on lakes because you don’t have to deal with fast moving water. Taking kids to the lake is good fun and I just use worms for bait. It is usually non-stop and I’m constantly baiting, tying hooks and casting. I release most of them or give them to friends I meet out there that aren’t catching. Being outdoors is brilliant and good for the mind and soul. Fishing is something I can do with the wee lads. They can swim and play around the water.

Alaska has a ton of great snowboard terrain. I was out deep sea fishing on the Cook Inlet and I saw a ton of peaks that still had tons of snow on them in the middle of July. I asked my captain about those peaks. He said that people go out there to snowboard in the summer. It does cost lots of money to get there and usually use helicopters to fly them to the top. I would love to go Heli-Boarding sometime up there. The best day I’ve ever had snowboarding is when a client took me out heli-boarding. The snowboard resorts have good terrain but if you can book a guide to take you heli-boarding in Alaska.

We went out deep sea fishing three times whilst there. We went out from Ninilchik, Seward and Homer. We caught lots of halibut, sea bass, rockfish, cod, dogfish and stingray. We didn’t keep the dogfish or stingray but had loads of the others. I also fished on the Kenai and Russian River near the falls. The Kenai has been overfished and we only caught one king salmon that was too big to keep. It’s not the river but out in the ocean they use a drag net or other nets that catch anything. If they catch fish that they’re not fishing for then they throw them overboard and most die. It’s too bad what is happening to the fishery. We caught lots of sockeye salmon below the Russian River Falls. It’s called flossing because the fish aren’t feeding and you snag them. They weren’t as big as the halibut we were catching but much more fun and sporty. Deep sea fishing was much easier and everyone could catch out on the boat.

Fishing in the Rockies in the lower 48 is a great time and when you are good there, step it up and fish Alaska. The snow lasts much longer in Alaska and April is one of the best months to snowboard up there. There isn’t much daylight during the winter and almost endless sun during the summer. You can sign up for the full course to gain access to all of our snowboard lessons, study guides, textbooks, glossary, tests and direct feedback from your coach. Learn to snowboard online with flowingfreeride.com and take a look at our YouTube Page for more free content and learn to snowboard right! Online snowboard resources like videos on our YouTube Channel and articles like these can help you a ton. Professional snowboard lessons help even more. My name is Blake Tholen Clark Contact Me if you want to book a lesson or have any questions about Snowboarding.