THE NORTHERN EMBASSY

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Seth Bernard – Layton, UT

I’ve been fotunate to grow up around a lot of awesome bike riders, many of whom were on this trip. We had lots of different styles – street guys, trails, concrete shredders. We rode a lot of stuff. Mostly parks, but a lot of stuff.

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David Clay – Bonneville Salt Flats

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Andy McGrath – Layton, UT

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Tony Piff – Salt Lake City

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Cary Lorenz – Heber City, UT

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Greg Rooke – Ketchum, ID

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Tony Piff – Hailey, ID

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Matt Horak – Somewhere in Idaho

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Mat Ridgeway – Salt Lake City, UT

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Cary Lorenz – Salt lake City, UT

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Mat Ridgeway – Salt lake City

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Greg Rooke – Heber City, UT

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Matt Horak – Heber City, UT

This edit does not have nearly as many views as it should. The Atlantis squad (Orlando, Carl, Brad, Hango, Luke, Schubert) took a trip to Vic this past summer and maximized their time to say the least with this banging/ good vibe edit. Peep it again and get stoked for warmer weather.

Montreal’s OG presence crew making the most of winter with this winter mix. “2016 Presence Winter Mix featuring: Albert Krolikowski, Jeff Evans, Jeremy Deme, Francis Pasquino, Sean Cooke, Colin Fried, Dillon Lloyd, Justin Kirnan and Corey Dewey.

Presence Last Stand in progress”

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For two years in New England, Fat-Trax was my bmx family. I was very stoked that Greg, Matt, Seth, James and Colby could join our crew of north westerners for this trip. The shop itself is a mainstay in the New England scene – owned by an old skier, but run by locals in the bmx, skate and snowboard scenes. The New England crew covered the most ground of all of us, branching off to hit Colorado after everyone else headed home.

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Each year, I’ll map out a course of skateparks that I want to ride in a new part of America and invite a few carloads of friends that I’ve met over the past two decades of riding bmx. As many of us get older, these trips are a way to remind ourselves of simpler times when we didn’t have jobs, kids, or significant others. To be clear, adulthood is great and I think there are amazing benefits to all of those things, but every once in a while it’s therapeutic to be able to set the every day heavy lifting aside and hit the road with the only concerns being where to camp and how long we’ll last at a bunch of epic concrete giants before security, darkness or exhaustion forces us to move on.

Cary Lorenz brought a 35MM camera and captured this adventure perfectly (on film!). We’ll be posting more photos and an edit from our trip through Idaho and Utah in the days to come.

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One of Ontario’s best kept secrets, Dean Hartley made the trip to Le Taz in Montreal to film his welcome to Radio edit. Mitch Radcliffe filmed and edited it wonderfully and Dean came through in typical Dean fashion, tons of ridiculous stuff looking way too casual.