Sunny Days in Grousepark
Unfortunately this year has not been the stormiest winter in 50 years. It has not been the La Nina season the weatherman promised us. We have not been skiing endless deep pow days. But you know what, that’s ok with me. Thankfully the park crew has held it down and has continued to help the park stay better than it has ever been in previous seasons, and this season I’ve come to the realization that a sunny park day with your good friends can be just as great as a deep pow day. A recent sunny Saturday, a good portion of the old crew was in town and we had a damn good day riding a pristine jump line and the rails of Quik park. Shane Craver busted out his camera for a good portion of the day and came out with these stunners. I haven’t had a decent shot of myself skiing for a couple of season, so it was nice to get down on the other side of the lens for once. Thanks Shaner, you did good work.
All photos taken by Shane Craver.
Frodo.
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A weekend at Grouse and Seymour
HDDSLR’s seem to be taking over the video scene with Canon leading the charge. A friend of mine, Cole Jandrisch, got himself a 60D just after Christmas and has been getting behind the lens whenever he can. This past weekend we filmed an afternoon at Seymour and a day at Grouse, and here’s what Cole made of it. The riders are myself, Cole Jandrisch, Blake Kurchak and Andrew Wynnyk. Check it out.
That’s all for now, expect some more photos soon.
Frodo.
Funlaps With FRODO
Hey guys hope you all had a good break. I was up with Jason MacFarlane (AKA Frodo) at the beginning of the holidays and filmed two laps top to bottom with him. On the first run, he decided to switch up his usual style and swap his fitted jacket with my enormous one. For his second run, we changed back. I was able to string together a small edit. Enjoy!
Funlaps with FRODO from Simon Stulberg on Vimeo.
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Sunny Days
Here’s a little montage Trint Thomas threw together from one December 17th, one of the few sunny days this season. The riders in order are Corey McIntosh, Brian Choi, Myself and Trint Thomas himself. Filmed entirely in the Quiksilver Terrain Park, which if you have not check it out yet, is probably the best it’s ever been since I started riding park at Grouse.
Frodo.
Hello again
Frodo here checking in for another season of blogging with grousepark.com. I am very excited to be back and have plans to follow suit from last year and keep shooting as often as I can. The season is already shaping up nicely with Grouse having what I can honestly say, from my few years riding park, the most fun and most flowy park they have ever had. This can pretty obviously be attributed to some fresh faces on park crew and an early snowfall. If you have not been up I urge you to get up there and check out the Quiksilver Terrain Park, you won’t be disappointed.
Earlier this year the Lower Mainland was blessed with something it did not see at any point last year, snow in the city. I called up a few people and we decided to take advantage of this and shoot some urban rails before the snow melted. We got to work and came out with a couple of shots, here’s one of Tom Mckay, setting up for a 270 out.
That’s all for now, expect more soon,
Frodo.
Second That!
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
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!
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) 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
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