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Oakley Night Jams 3: Cut Edition

Last night was the Oakley Night Jam. Chuck was on the mic, keeping everyone entertained, Tamo was judging snowboarders, Peter helped out with the ski side of things and everyone was throwing down. The prizes weren’t being thrown out for nothing, the kids had to work for ‘em, so the result was a sick little competition. If you haven’t already heard, the park has been moved over to the left side of Cut and it is actually really fun. The park crew had to get creative but they’ve put a pretty rad setup together so check it out this week.

The comp started off with tricks being called out and prizes were given for whoever could do them first. Then, the format was changed up and there were qualifiers, where the first 3 people to do the designated trick would get into finals. Next, finals were moved to the elbow kink where the finalist who did the right trick first won.

In the end, the winners were Mr. Ben Neil on the ski side of things, walking away with a new pair of Oakley Ambush goggles and Oakley sunglasses, and an underdog on the snowboard side of things, whose name I still don’t know, but he fought hard for the win after turfin’ it pretty hard a few times, snaking a pair of Oakley Crowbars for his efforts. All in all, it was an awesome night, one of the best night jams yet! Don’t miss the next one, who knows it could be even better! Here are some shots:

Well there ya have it! Some kid even went as far as saying that Chuck was the funniest guy around. So, Chuck is officially the funniest guy out there and the park is still kickin’ and better than ever, so get up the mountain as soon as you can and have a good old time!

Flash Photography V2.0

After a few weeks of mixed up orders and payment problems, I am finally in possession of my Alienbees Cybersync trigger/receiver remote setup for my flash. I took it out to Seymour to shoot the Red Ledge on the weekend but as I said in that post, I had some troubles with misfiring. I think I finally had things figured out tonight and I am quite happy with how the shots turned out. Here’s the final product.

Shayan with a nosepress on top of the wall

Shayan with a nosepress on top of the wall

Ben spinning a blind 270 out

Ben spinning a blind 270 out

Michael Hoy with a tail back 1 out

Michael Hoy with a tail back 1 out

That’s all for now,

Frodo.

California Dreamin’

Hey guys,

Been really busy, so first blog of the season. We went down to Mammoth for the Grand Prix event a couple weeks ago with some old Grouse Mountain riders Brennen Kurchak, Keenan Filmer and Christian Cretu taking photos. 20 degree weather everyday and sunny skies, couple injuries, solid trip. Enjoy

Cheeers,

Tamo


The Red Ledge

There are a lot of urban rails that are seen time and time again in movies. Probably one of the most famous rails is The Red Ledge in Quebec. Ever since JP Auclair hit is some 10 years ago (don’t quote me on this, only a guess) it has been a relic for many film crews. Today, Mount Seymour played host to a rail jam on a re-made version of the infamous urban feature. It was my first day shooting with my remote flash set-up and unfortunately, due to weather, I was having a few issues. Here is what came out of it.

Front board

Front board

Seymour Park Crew with a switch on tips over the ledge

Seymour Park Crew with a switch on tips over the ledge

One last thing, to the commentator who kindly said “I better not see some gay blog about this,” I dedicate this one to you.

Frodo.

An Update from GROUSE

There may not be as much snow on the hill as this time last season, but that hasn’t stopped park crew from keeping this running smoothly. If you haven’t been up lately, you’re missing out. The park has something this season that it has been struggling with the last few years, flow. A few new additions to Grouse’s park crew have helped keep this flow in the park. The other night I got up the mountain and did a few photo laps with Shayan, Park Crew Conrad and new Park Crew Anthony. Anthony and I had a bit of a close call with him almost landing me. I was shooting with a fisheye lens and, as anyone who has shot with a fisheye lens can tell you, it makes things appear to be much farther away. Due to this, I couldn’t tell just how close Anthony was until I felt him tap my backpack on the way down. Anyways, here are some shots from the night.

A close up of Anthony's face from the jump where he almost landed on me

A close up of Anthony's face from the jump where he almost landed on me

Anthony looking a little less frightened this time with a 3-tap on the barrel feature

Anthony looking a little less frightened this time with a 3-tap on the barrel feature

Shayan with a tap 1 in colour

Shayan with a tap 1 in colour

That’s all for now,

Frodo.

Slushy Deliciousness!

On Tuesday last week, Jack, Nick, Reid, and myself made our way up the rally course that is the road to Seymour, for some after-class shred action. Not exactly sure what to expect (as university students, we’re apparently still unable to check forecasts), Method Stepoverwe were greeted by slushy, drizzly, warm springtime conditions… a bit like summer, really. Needless to say, we forgot our shorts. However, the park was fun, no one was on hill, and the only people in the lift lines were two frenchmen chatting away the hours to each other. We all seemed to get lost in the quiet of this deserted mountain playpark, hot lapping and jibbing with ouropen jackets battering against the wind. At 10pm I remembered I’d brought the camera, so the few shots below are what came of it, after begging the one lone ski patroller to let us get just a few more frames before everyone went home. Great times.

Reid Buchanan, method off the corrugated pipe

We only had two attempts at the shots above before we had to go. Jack Whelan with the Tap 180 out. Reid Buchanan with the 50-50, and Nick von Foerster slashing

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

Matt Whelan. 180 off the first perfect step over

Kyle Jasper on the up box

Kyle Jasper on the up box

Getting artsy on the way home

Getting artsy on the way home

Bill