Saturday WAS a brilliant day! The park was sick and the vibes were good. I showed up slightly late but still managed to catch some very prize worthy action. Flips, spins, grabs, and hand drags were thrown down all day and it was all topped off with sunny skies and warm temperatures. Here are some more shots!
Cam Harris boosting over the hip with a 3
Method off the spine, so dialed
Grousepark.com's own Jason Frodo MacBaggins out getting some GoPro footage
There were a lot of flips hucked, almost too many, and Sam made sure everyone knew about it
~Bill
Tags: Bill Hawley, frodo, grouse park, oakley day jams, Sam Masih
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Saturday was a good day. No, scratch that, Saturday was a brilliant day. The sun came out in force, along with all the local shreds to get radical for the Oakley Year End Jam. The park setup was stella, with people throwing themselves into all sorts of ridiculousness, all egged on by Sam, the megaphone fiend. The prize bank was deep and everyone left stoked, so props to all those that made it happen, it was awesome!
Callem Peake gettin pressy.
Kate Thrasher MacMillan
Uhh, Mickey, the sign clearly says slow.
Tags: callem peake, Grouse mountain, Hamish Baxter, Kate MacMillan, mickey henry, Photo, Sam Masih, Sping, Terrain Parks, UBC Ski and Board Club
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Yesterday afternoon, on a spring day that could not have been any more perfect than it was, with a park setup built especially for the occasion, the good folks at Grouse Mountain Terrain Parks and Grousepark.com threw a season ending jam for the ages. Shaw Butterworth, Marcus Cartwright, Adam Nicolls, Tom Robinson and Dan Ripper were up early yesterday morning, hoping to get some solid build time, only to run into technical difficulties. With all issues finally resolved at 10 am, they went to work to build a formidable set up consisting of two jumps, a hip and a variety of rails. The hip seemed to be the feature of the afternoon, with kids sending it bigger than I’ve ever seen at a local Grouse event. I won’t ramble on too much as the other bloggers will be bringing you better coverage, pictures and some Go Pro footage. I just want to thank everyone from park crew that was there helping with the jam. Rob Morrison came out for his afternoon shift and helped out huge with course maintenance and tear down. I also want to give a huuuge shout to Jeff Silcock, Grouse Mountain’s Events and Sponsorship manager. Jeff is a background guy, you don’t really see what he does, but without this guy, we’d have no park and the parks definitely would not have grown to where they are. Jeff was there taking pictures all afternoon and you can find them all on our Facebook fan page.
Sunglasses and smiles all around.
Thanks to our sponsors, Quiksilver, DC, Oakley and Roxy, as well as Pow Gloves for hooking up over $3000 worth of prizing. Also, huge thanks to everyone that showed up and ripped hard. Most of you took a tongue lashing from me and put up with it. Not that you really had a choice. It’s tough love, kiddies. You’ll thank me one day. I called the local scene out on their lack of A-game, but you all definitely brought the noise yesterday. We’ll be back next season with more prizing to give away, hopefully I’ll be back as well, but that’s up to Jeff and the crew downstairs. Here’s to hoping we can get the parks bigger and better next year!
No one took me up on my offer to dance for a pair of goggles. Weak.
Tags: Adam Nicholls, Chris Dedinsky, Crowbars, Dan Ripper, DC, Facebook, Grouse mountain, Jeff Silcock, Marcus Cartwright, oakley, POW Gloves, Quiksilver, Rob Morrison, Roxy, Shaw Butterworth, Sunglasses, Terrain Parks, ThirtyTwo, Tom Robinson
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Aight kids, it’s here, the last Oakley park jam of the season. We’re dropping this one on a weekend and doing it in the afternoon, so you have no excuse to not be there. This Saturday, April 10th, we’re gonna get things started at 1pm. The format is simple, ride and we’ll hook you up if we something we like. The prize pool is going deeper for this one. We’ve got goggles, sunglasses, softgoods, outerwear, boots and even a board to give away for this event, so you’ll definitely want to be there and you’ll want to bring your friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, friends you used to hang out with in elementary but now hate because they wear Ed Hardy. You get the idea. Park crew has been killing it with their park builds and the Cut park has been extended further down the cut to accommodate 3 jumps and a hip as well as a bunch of jibs. There are also some features that you normally wouldn’t see in the park on an average day, which will be closed till Saturday. You’ll be getting a sneak peek at those tomorrow morning if you check back.
So, there you have it. Saturday at 1, the Peak of Vancouver is gonna get hyphy. Rumour has it that PYP will also be out in full force. you won’t want to miss this one.
Cheers,
Sam
Tags: Cut, Ed Hardy, Grouse mountain, oakley, Park Jam, PYP, spring
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I thought the season was over, I’d started to switch my thoughts from skiing over to biking and then suddenly.. dumps of snow! We’ve had over about a foot of new snow in the past 48 hours and it’s still coming so get up there and get some skiing done! A bunch of new runs are open and it’s almost like we’ve started the season over again. The other day a few buddies and I got up there and had the best day all season!
Tags: Bill Hawley, Drops, fresh snow, Grouse mountain, powder
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So for those of you that not only enjoy skiing but like too have a little fun off the hill as well i recommend watching this video. Basically its a video blog of pro skier Ian Cosco’s travels. That doesn’t sound too amazing but if you knew the guy you’d know that your gonna have a good five minutes of laughs during this video while Cosco and friends make complete fools of themselves while looking so prooo! Check it out.
Keep it real Grouse!
Eric Beckstead
Tags: Cheese, Chug Life, funny, Ian Cosco, newschool, pro, skiing
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Hey y’all,
Results are in. Looks like Nate Konyi takes this one convincingly. Congrats to all the runner ups. Brian Choi was in second and kept it pretty tight. Nate wins himself a pair of Oakley/Grouse Mountain collab Crowbars and a prize pack from our sponsors. Nicely done Nate, and big ups to Adam Wizinsky for proving the material on a one shot then pack up sort of deal. Well done boys.
Here’s the shot again. It’s a beauty!
Photo: Nate Konyi
Tags: Adam Wizinsky, Brian Choi, Contest, Crowbars, Grouse mountain, Nate Konyi, oakley
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