Intro: Tyler "T-Money" Flanagan

It's too bad Jared couldn't make it to this year's Riders Union. But Tyler is back yet again and is down to teach us all a thing or two! T-Money rides a bunch at Mammoth as his work takes him down to SoCal frequently. The above video is from a few weeks ago and their buddy who has a really sweet video camera taped them. It looks really good! Tyler already said he's going to throw front flips off the dock during mini-shred Friday. Siiick!

Rider Intro: Tracy "T-La"

Tracy's picture above is old. That's because Tracy used to totally push himself on the skiboard until he got old. Now he's a cautious carver wearing his body suite worth of crash pads and two helmets to make sure he survives until Monday so that he can make it to work. If you try hard enough, you can get T-La out of his protective shell and into full shred/stoke mode. This is when the party starts. All activities surrounding Riders Union 2010 are designed to get T-La to show us his inate abilities on the snow tray: from the beer we'll be drinking (Pabst) to the Jib Shesh (awesome) to the on-hill fun (Squaw) we will hopefully see Tracy laying down the full extended soul carves of old and jibbing box like he used to before he met his wife.

Matt Hylander: Steezy Bomber

Matt loves to slide, period. Whether it be snow, tree trunks, rock, puckboard or corrugated pipe he is down to nosepress and tailpress anything that comes in his way. More power slasher than light footed shred stick spinner, Matt destroys things with his butter knife more hard core than anyone not named Beefcake Hundox. His new Lib Tech magne-traction technology gives him insane control in the deep pow puff pack and blower turns have become even more blower-y than with past skiboards. Do not shred directly on his right unless you want a jacketful of snow shrapnel. And if there's anyone who will gladly take down an Artic Cougar in the lodge, this is our kid. So for all you dating/married dudes, please allow us to vicariously live through The Hylander at Riders Union '10 when it comes to spitting hilarious anecdotes about cork spinning humongous booters. As we all know, Artic Cougars latch claw onto anyone who talk about the super durdy funbox tailpresses they laid down in the park earlier. Steezy.

Marklar: King of Chuck It

Those that know Marklar understand how crazy of a mofo this guy is. He loves many things in life (cheese, breasts, wine, tits, sports, cans) and takes these loves to the absolute max. Thankfully, one of his loves just happens to be having as much fun as he possibly can on a snowboard. When Marklar rides with a good crew, he is so fired up that he will most likely hurt himself trying to push it. Which is totally awesome not only on the humor scale of his fellow crew members, but, more importantly on the STOKED factor of the entire group. When Marklar brings The Stoke, he not only improves his riding but also the riding of everyone else he's getting totally gnarly with. The Riders Union cannot function properly without a member who's amp factor we all constantly feed off of.

Ryan: Mr. McTwist

Ryan comes to The Riders Union via SoCal where the parks of Mountain High and Bear Mountain molded him into a feature slaying madman. His legit style and love of the spin drop jaws on the mountain and the collective panties of snowbunnies. When he busts McTwists on a wakeboard, bikini tops literally snap off into the lake never to be found again. Yes! Ryan is no rookie to catching air as his record setting high jump career at Cal Poly prepared him well. And even though he started a business selling electric vehicles to the residents of Lincoln, word on the street is that he catches serious air with them as well.

J: Leader of the Fucking Pack

Jason "J" is one intense skisurfer. His "point it and fucking go!" attitude leads his crew into many awesome situations on any shredday. When J spots a pow line, he takes it first, faster, and more shredtastic than anyone not named Jeremy Jones (big mountain JJ not jib JJ). Jason honed his skills while working in the Tahoe region over many extended Winter Breaks in college. Through his adventures, he has compiled seemingly 100 shred sticks for any on-mountain destruction situation that may be presented to him. J doesn't mess around. His mantra of "no friends on a powder day" and "I'll meet you at the Starbucks at Squaw at 7:30 am" push the crew to new, tasty adventures at every ripping turn.

CNOTE: Riders Union OG

CNOTE's tall-guy steeze and short yet wide boards give unknowing sliders the perception that he should fall over at any point. But somehow his Travis Parker Robot Food influenced riding translate into decent pow slashing and a love for the park features. Cam has toned it down over the years after two separate ACL Replacement knee surgeries brought on by overshooting landings in the Northstar Park. But his thirst for the gnar brings him to the hills day in and day out. A connoisseur of the latest and greatest snowboard vids and bright outer gear adds to the progression of the crew. And as the founder of Truckee chapter of The Riders Union, Cam enjoys the challenge of bringing like minded shredders into a universal gathering of backyard jibs and Squaw Valley slaying.........and beer.

Josh: Beefcake Slayer

Josh "Beefcake" Hundo uses his substantial college football build to literally shred the snow off of the mountain and into bolivian. A pow-hound at heart, this guy went to South Shore Soliders Adult Snowboard Camp in 2006 and bypassed the perfectly manicured jumps, rails, funboxes and babes to make his snowboard instructor show him where the pow was. Out of 50 people in the camp, Beefcake was the only one to constantly sniff out the pow of Heavenly over a 5 day period. So when Josh launches, he makes sure to land in some sweet, fluffy white stuff.

Josh is a vital member of The Riders Union. His "drink more beer" attitude paired with his veteran nose for the pow (ha!) immediately ups the fun factor of any snowboarding mission.