The 5th Annual Quiksilver Showdown Over the City

Grouse Mountain hosted it’s 5th Annual Quiksilver Showdown Over the City this weekend, and it was awesome! Born five years ago , the event has grown to attract top talent from across Canada and the US with the TTR World Tour 4 Star point designation. Over the past few years the event had been caught in bad weather systems but this year that was not the case. The sun was out, and the beer garden was jumping. Another exciting factor about this years Showdown was the jumps. The Grouse Park Crew built the best course to date. Each of the jumps in the double jump line could have been featured as a stand alone Big Air kicker. With 20′ tall wedges and 60′ decks these kickers were no joke.

Here are a few shots I captured at the event.

Drop In! "What's the speed?" "Straight in from here."

Unidentified Sender!

Heli Cam!

Judges judge. Darcy Sharpe flying.

Man Sized Air

The top jump was no joke.

Snowboarding Roayalty - Chris Dufficy Happy about his cookie and riding in the finals with a huge Cab 9 to Double Wildcat.

John Versteeg $5,000 richer.

Results:

1) John Versteeg

2) Darcy Sharpe

3) Craig McMorris

Stay tuned for the Andrew Santos edit for the Filmmaker Showdown.

-Myrosha

Showdown over the City Course Preview

I don`t know about you, but I cannot wait for the Showdown over the City. If you don`t know, the Showdown will be taking place this Friday and Saturday at Grouse. The course is pretty gnarly this year with some big features. I thought I would snap some shots of the course exclusively for you, our Grouse Park viewers. Here it is from top to bottom.

For more info check out the official Showdown over the City website here.

See ya there!
Andrew Santos

New Snow!

There has been a lot of softer snow in the park these days, it’s real mellow! Here are a couple shots from last weeks shredding in the Quiksilver park. The set ups and conditions have been prime lately, nice and soft!

Trees looking awesome after some new snow.

The fun Double Shotgun bank at the end of the day.

All of this snow is going to make great conditions for spring riding….cant wait!

-Matthew

Sun in the Grouse Park

Many students like me got to take advantage of class being out early this week. The sun was out and the park was dialed. My fisheye lens arrived right on time for this and I brought it up to snap some shots. Here’s what I came up with while enjoying this wonderful holiday.

Adriano Tongko with a sweet method into the sun.

On set of Pocket full of Gnar.

Got to learn some new tricks after the big dump on Sunday night. Photo cred to Kaz Yamamura.

Shawn Greensides rides trees.

Shawn with the Tank.

That’s all for now,
- Andrew Santos

CV – Grouse Park Playlist 5 – Diet Bones

Take out your trumpet, its March: Playlist 5 – Diet Bones , a mix of slow but.. upbeat tunes. Perfect for all the sunny miracle march fast laps that are about to go down. Sip on some diet dew and shake some bones, its go time.

Stream or share here: Playlist 5 – Diet Bones by Caley Vanular. Look for more Grouse Park Playlists coming up on the Grouse Park Grooveshark page.

Tracklist:

Dead mans bones – loose your soul

Lana Del Rey – Diet Mountain Dew

Little Dragon – Ritual Union

First Air Kit – When I grow up

Thee oh sees – Warm Slime

Fitzgerald and The Tantrum – Money Grabber

Grimes – Vanessa

Beirut – Santa Fe

Animal Collective – My Girl

The Joy Formidiable – the greatest light is the greatest shade

Flight Facilities – Crave you ft. Giselle

- CV

GPC (Grouse Park Crew) Reveals February Photos

You all know the GPC (Grouse Park Crew) is busy maintaining the parks day and night. You probably also know that the crew rips. I mean no one spends more time in there then they do. The crew took some time off of shoveling and raking in Feb to get a some photos for you viewing pleasure. Check it out! #likeabowse

Grouse Park Crew: Snowboard – Edwin Poulsten , Greg Le Patourel , Robert Morrison and Marcus Cartwright. Skier – Liam Mullaly

GPC February Photos

A Couple New Quik Park Features

Went up recently to the Quiksilver Park to check out some new features that have been moved around and added. Here is a taste of whats new up there! Looks as though snow is in the forecast this week which is a promising sign!

This rail is set up with mellow banks on both sides – Tom ollies a 360 over it into the new C-rail set up:

I think the C-rail could be my favorite feature these days…

One of the other big features added was this launch box – You can take it to a jump style landing or just hop into the transition early to save you knees!

The 3 jump line on the side cut is looking very promising in the coming days, looking forward to that! A new Quiksilver park edit coming very soon!

-Matthew

Sunny Park Laps @ Grouse Park

Last weekend was a preview of the Spring riding we are going to get a little later in the season. The sun was out and the jumps were super fun for learning! Here is an edit and a slideshow from last weekend.

-Matthew

Straight from the Quikpark

I have to say that both the Cut Line and Quikpark are prime right now. Did a couple laps yesterday and I was having way too much fun. I brought out the camera for the last run. Here are the results.

These are only three of the many features that are up right now. Come up and check it out! Photo creds to Kaz Yamamura and a big shout out to the Park Crew.

Later!
Andrew Santos

Fresh Season Fresh Photos

What’s up Grouse Park blog readers? Jason Macfarlane here to put out content for another season. If you’re new to grousepark.com, this is my third season writing for the blog. I am an 18 year old skier from North Vancouver, currently enrolled in my first year of university. This year I am also a part of the Park Crew staff on Grouse Mountain. So I’ll be writing about the park, helping to build, maintain and keep it running smoothly.

Lack of snow has been a bit of a challenge so far this year, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t pulled off some good features. The Park Crew have worked hard (which hasn’t been me so far so I can’t take credit for this) and have put together an awesome line of rail features in The Cut park. Jam packed, it is probably one of the jib parks with the best flow the mountain has ever seen.

Recently, Trint Thomas and I spent a few hours in the sun shooting some pictures and video clips. Here’s one of my favourites from that day.

-Jason Macfarlane

Back Lip @ Grouse Park

Rider: Trint Thomas
Photo: Jason Macfarlane

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Showdown over the City Course Preview

New Snow!

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CV – Grouse Park Playlist 5 – Diet Bones

GPC (Grouse Park Crew) Reveals February Photos

GPC February Photos

A Couple New Quik Park Features

Sunny Park Laps @ Grouse Park

Straight from the Quikpark

Fresh Season Fresh Photos