Oakley Year End Jam: Sunny Skies, Good Friends, Hecka Prizing
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.
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Oakley Night Jam – February 6
Here is a little something about the Oakley Night Jam presented by Coastal Riders we had on Feb 6. Biggest news was our very own Charlie Grinnel was co-MC, and did a great job rounding up the kids and keeping it fun. props charlie!
Charlie Grinnel MC for Oakley Night Jams
The turnout was HUGE that night, and everyone was itchin to ride. Here are some pics.
Keenan & Dan
A few of the younger shreds of Grouse
Zak Dolesky beating up Clinton Cameron aka Tsawassen
2 out of the 3 best mini shreds at Grouse Mountain, Zak and Nic
Heres the other one, Kevin Dzah
Park Crew Chris Dedinsky and Andrew Nicoletti battling over who gets to rake the takeoff for the flat box
Park Crew Chris Dedinsky and his pal Nic
Make your way to the next jam, and get the chance to win tons of prizes!
-Dan
The Greg Jones Interview
So Greg is a good buddy of mine who has settled with a different approach to this whole life/snowboarding theme. Instead of staying in the mainland, and riding the locals just about everyday, he decided to go rock it out in UVIC and show them whats up.
Greg knows there is more to life then just snowboarding and I give him major respect for that. While snowboarding is a great aspect, there really is more out there to explore. While attending University for the next 5 years isnt always on some peoples’ lists, seeking a path somewhere can be a good start. Mr. Jones isnt a huge name up on Grouse Mountain. Though he gets up a fair share of whatever time he can find to make the journey home and shred with his friends.
So this can be known as a short random sunday night interview I guess.
Scotty: So Greg whats your full name
Greg: gregory dylan jones
Scotty: ever notice your initials are GDJ? They all sort of make the same tones…
Greg: yea haha
Greg: its pretty crazy… like some kinda g’d dj who plays some intense music
Scotty: Thats pretty rad GDJ. now onto some more important questions…. what have you been up to the past couple years since you graduated from from high school?
Greg: um going to school full time at uvic sept- end of april. almost finished my second year. work away my summers try to snowboard in there when i got time. hang out with friends. nothing too exciting
Scotty: how many times have you gotten to come back and ride Grouse Mountain this year?
Greg: ummm a handfull somewhere between 10-15 id say
Scotty: whats your definition of a “silver fox”
Greg: silver fox? sounds like some kind of elusive girl that is impossible to get close to. am i even close?
Scotty: your almost on track. Its actually a babe thats over the age of 50… or well if she has grey hair, that works too
Greg: hahahaha
Scotty: alright, lets keep this PG now
Greg: fair enough
Scotty: sooo ummm when did you first start out?
Greg: start out?
Scotty: snowboarding
Greg: oh way back in the day decided i wanted to go downhill skiing instead of cross country skiiing one year at manning, i went to go rent some gear and saw they had snowboards. always wanted to skateboard but parents wouldnt buy me one so i decided to try to snowboarding. First day I hated life so sore and just sucked. did it the year after and sucked slightly less. then went to grouse with my cousin. Bought a board a year later after going through the biggest hassel renting and started to shred as much as i could
Scotty: you think of yourself as a role model?
Greg: haha maybe… im sure there are plenty of things that i dont set the best examples for kids but on the other hand i try to do what i think is right and if someone wants to put me up there as their role model id be stoked and surprised
Scotty: So how come you chose grouse as the place to ride?
Greg: because i always have fun there. no matter the conditions day of the week or time of day there is always someone awesome to shred with and something fun to do.
Greg: tell grouse i want $1000 cash in my mailbox everymonth after that comment (jokes)
Scotty: haha will do
Greg Jones and Chris Dedinsky ripping it up.
Scotty: So who did you look up to while growing up?
Greg: i’d have to say all those guys in the robot film movies cause they always looklike they are having fun. like travis parker
Scotty: Well thats all i got for tonight dude. Thanks for taking the time to speak with Grousepark.com
Greg: haha ok sounds good. Tell everyone ill be seeing them up there real soon.
The Vancouver Inversion in Photos
So last week with the inversion happening, I got to snap a few shots before my camera randomly stopped working. Along with photography, you get many different ranked shots. Many people dont ever end up seeing what 95% of a photographers shots look like. Well I would like to show you some of mine that dont end up making the cut. Basically some fun shots of people riding some tables. Alot of friends come over to see what shots i have of them which dont get released, and alot of other people dont ever get to see them. So heres a few i got from last week on Jan 14th.Remember though, along with these snaps no editing whatsoever has been involved.
Chris Dedinsky on his off time (Park Crew)
Liam Casey
Shaw Butterworth on his off time as well
Daniel Jonas BS 7?
Jayson Deguesseme
Sylvain Paradis after a day of school
So after some fun and warming up on the lower tables, the sun started to go down.
Liam and I went to go take advantage of it, and ended up with this:
Liam Casey
This is another shot but with Dan Jonas on the day before. As you can see the sunset wasnt exactly the same so we ended up with more of a flat light which I then turned into a silhouette.
Dan Jonas
Well now im off to go ski some Grouse Mountain. See ya up there.
Scott Titterington