Words: Keenan Cawley
As expected, the 11th annual Hotdawgs and Handrails event turned Bear Mountain out. All of Southern California piled dick-deep into a lifted Ford 650 complete with No Fear longsleeves, fuckboy fitted hats, and a serious thirst for stickers. Seriously. They were out for vinyl and blood and no measure of actual snowboard socialites (in tow with thousands of dollars in equipment) was going to stop them. But that’s Bear for ya.
As for the boarding, the boys turned up. ODIII lost a hoof, went backwards, and twisted the mind of all in attendance. Jon McDon went upside-down, a lot. Magoon honestly changed the global perception of snowboarding: everything goes.
And then there were the Minnesota boys. They let that 10,000 lakes blood pour over the course like a loose bar fight with motorbike rings and then cauterized the wounds with cigarette burns. Or maybe it was with spliff burns… Regardless, Jesse Paul handled every nook with technologic precision. And then @craigerr shit Gucci. Oh my. Let’s not degrade his riding with any more words – just know.
Before this digresses further into a barrage of dicksucking, let’s get to the podium. Fishmin rode to the top of his fishy capabilities, full cabbing (or migrating upstream) into third. Bonus aka OG Russian Bradshaw, self-induced in a hurricane, wound up in a respectable second. And Yuong JOC further solidified himself and his overtaking, earning first.
To watch him ride is a tutorial of power with the grit of late 90’s.
Oh yeah and Mariah Dugan won for women.
And that was all that happened.
If you don’t believe than you should’ve been there.