Whistler Day Trip

So, if you haven’t heard, Whistler is AMAZING right now. To take advantage of this fact, Frodo, Kyle Jasper, Matt Whelan and I headed up there yesterday and oh ya, it was perfect! Started off with some park laps and found that every jump was absolutely perfect so we sessioned them for most of the day. Since we were having so much fun, I didn’t even bring the camera out till about the 6th lap and only managed to get a couple decent shots before heading in for lunch. After lunch we went up the peak to shred some pow. It had been almost a week since the last storm and there was still plenty of fluffy white powder to float on. We were all pretty tired, so we decided to head down on a good note. All in all, the day was sick and everyone reading this should head up to Whistler before the huge crowds arrive because it’s prime right now. Here are the few shots I got this weekend and hopefully I’ll be able to shoot some deep pow slashes up Grouse soon!

Matt Whelan stoked on the park (and life in general) after the first lap

Matt Whelan stoked on the park (and life) after the first lap

Matt Whelan. 180 off the first perfect step over

Kyle Jasper on the up box

Getting artsy on the way home

Bill

Second Oakley Night Jam

Hey everyone,

So if you didn’t know, this past Friday was the second Oakley Night Jam of the year. Hosted in the Quiksilver Park, there were plenty of features to hit. The jam took place on the Flat Down and the Up Box, providing great fun for all. Congrats to everyone who killed it, I hope you got your prize. The prizes included the Oakley wallets, backpacks, laynards, toques as well as POW spring gloves. The final prize included 10 Boardroom gift cards which were given out to just about anything ‘unique’. The Jam was wrapped up with a raffle for a pair of Oakley Sunglasses and the new Shaun White A-frames. Be sure to come out to the next jam February 5th, 2010.

Jeremy

Holla

So here it is; my first post to Grouse Park. Being as none of you really know me, I should probably introduce myself. My name is Hamish and I’m Scottish. I grew up there, though I now live near Boston, MA. I started snowboarding in Waterville Valley (East Coast jeaa!), NH, and it wasn’t long before shredding began to take over my winters. I finished high school after a few years of being a weekend warrior and proceeded to spend the following year as a ski bum in New Zealand and Colorado.
Now, I go to school at UBC, which despite the work and classes, really isn’t all that far off from living like I did in a ski resort. I’m up at Whistler pretty much every weekend, and now, thanks to Sam as well as all of you reading this, am going to be spending a lot more time on the North Shore Mountains shooting photos… stoked! But rather than go on rambling, I’m going to leave you with two of my photos; the first is from the bottom of the world, and the second is from a more familiar place just up the road.
Enjoy.

Unknown rider, Snow Park, New Zealand

Dylan Green, Blackcomb Park

Hamish

A Change of Scenery…

As fun as Grouse has been the last little while, something I am always appreciative of is a change of scenery. Living on the North Shore, I’m lucky enough to get that change with very little travel time. Last Friday, along with Shayan and Spencer, I headed up to Seymour to check out the scene there. Here are a few pictures from the day. Enjoy.

Spencer on the new 6.0 DFD handrail

Shayan on the stepdown

Ryan Paterson on the stepover

That’s all for now,

Frodo.

Fight for Silver and Bronze

With less than a month to go till the Olympic halfpipe event, it seems like Olympic gold has already been decided before the torch even reaches Vancouver. Shaun White threw down a Double McTwist 12 in practice at the Grand Prix. Given that he doesn’t fall, come February, the race won’t be for gold. It’ll be a duel for runner up.

Marcus’s Music Friday

Many of you Grouse locals may know Park Crew veteran, Marcus Cartwright. A staple on the Grouse Mountain scene, Marcus also has quite the ear for hip hop. Starting next week, Marcus is gonna drop a weekly track, maybe two, maybe…actually, however many he feels like. To kick things off, here’s a bomb track that sums up all of 2009 and rings in 2010. As Marcus says, better late than never. I’m pretty sure he stole that from somewhere though. You can follow along with the lyrics and the track is available as a free download too.

2009 Rap Up – Skillz

A Day With The Grouse Pro Team

Recently, there was a competition up on the site in which three riding related questions were asked. This month’s winner, Eric Behn, won an Oakley prize pack as well as a day of riding for him and three buddies with the Grouse pro team!

Despite the lack of snow, I think I can speak for all of us when I say it was still a super awesome day. Check out how the session went down!

Still Kickin’

There may not be much snow on the mountain right now but that doesn’t mean the park isn’t still awesome! The park crew has used a little creativity and worked their asses off to somehow keep the Quik Park as sick as it always is. The best feature in the park right now is the up box. There are a bunch of other rails and boxes but the up box is definitely number one. Frodo and I went up the mountain last night to do some shooting and got a couple decent shots. They’re all of the one box, but we did our best to get creative.

Get up the mountain tomorrow night for the Oakley Night Jam, it’s gonna be fun no matter what. If you can’t get up the mountain, then you should go to Centennial Theater to check out the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, which starts tomorrow and goes till the 29th. So, if you’re sitting at home tomorrow night complaining that there’s nothing to do, then now there’s no excuse! Here are some shots to get you stoked for the Oakley Night Jam!

Frodo tailpressing the box

Frodo's shifty out

Frodo with a shifty off the box, over the city

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(caption: Frodo with another shifty off the up box over the city)

now on to whistler peace!

~Bill

Oakley Night Jams, Scene 2, Take 2

Just wanted to let all you kids know that the Oakley Night Jams for January has been rescheduled to this coming Friday, the 22nd. Location is to be determined, but will probably be in the Quiksilver Terrain Park. I know there’s not a lot of snow, but we’re making up for that by giving away a bunch of free stuff, so you can’t really say no to that. It’ll be a good time, for sure. Come up, bring friends! If it rains again, I’m going to be really pissed off. More pissed off than if I were to die by shark attack.

Sam

A New Home

Hey there!

Unfortunately, I haven’t had internet for the past week, but this weekend I did have the opportunity to ride some powder up in Whistler. I’m sure most of you remember former bloggers, park crew and Grouse riders Dan and Nathan Jonas, Scott Titterington, Liam Casey, James Anderson and Ryan Belich. This year, they flew from the Grouse nest and are all living together in a house in Alta Vista, Whistler. It’s been nice to catch up and ride some powder with them at their new home mountain. The six of them have been continuing to kill it in Whistler and after seeing them the past few weekends, it seems like their loving it up there. They’re all really cool guys and are doing great things up in Whistler this year. Here are some photos of what they have been up to lately, and also some shots from last year at Grouse.