I’m stoked to announce that the winner of our first online contest this season is Grouse Mountain local shred, Eric Behn. Congrats Eric, you and three buddies are going to spend a most likely rainy Sunday afternoon with a bunch of the Grouse Pro Team. The weather may not be super hype, but I’m sure you’re still stoked. For those of you that didn’t win, have no fear, we’re working on a second contest dropping in just a couple weeks, so keep it locked on grousepark.com for that.
In case you were wondering what the answers were, here they are. Out of 24 entries, only 11 answered all 3 questions right. I warned you that number 3 was going to be tricky.
Chris Dufficy’s big comeback part was in Forum Snowboard’s True Life. I have it on VHS if anyone of you wants to borrow it.
C.R. Johnson won the 2002 US Open Big Air for skiing with a bio 1260 mute. Everyone that entered got this one right. I guess skiing, all around, is just too easy. I’m joking, don’t hurt me.
The first resort to allow snowboarding was Suicide Six in Pomfret, Vermont, back in 1982. A lot of you said Stratton, but the questions wasn’t which major resort was the first. Can’t always trust Wikipedia!
I recently broke my thumb in practice at the Showdown Over the City so I’ve got a good week left to catch up on my blogging. First off, I wanted to announce that I’m more than stoked to be riding for Signal Snowboards and Celsius. Like an unfaithful boyfriend, I have been eyeing down the Signal website for the past few months, checking out the product at SIA in Las Vegas and have happily made the “board sponsor” transfer.
Evidence that the 156 Park Series can eat powder as well. R: Barry Hartman PH: Bryant Bell
I’ve been riding the 156 Signal Park deck for the past couple weeks and am really stoked. When it dumped, the thing floated ontop of powder. It’s a solid park board that felt great on the 70-foot booter that Grouse Mountain built. The best thing about the Park Series is that you can find one for $400 since it’s Signal’s lowest priced deck.
Broken thumb FS 7 in the semis. Photo: Bryant Bell
FS pretzel. Photo: Bryant Bell
Signal homie Tim Barker showin' how it's done. Photo: Bryant Bell
Grouse Mountain extended their closing until April 26th so don’t pack in your shred anytime soon. With about three weeks left you can be sure the park crew will be on top of their game.
My good friend and fellow PYP member Pat King also runs a company called napKING. He is proud to announce the “Think you can rep harder then Spencer Watson?” Contest. So here is the deal, you submit a video to Pat himself of you repping something SUPER hard, doesn’t have to be napKING, just a video of you repping things super hard, the winner will get some 2010 product that NOBODY has seen yet. You don’t have to buy anything to enter this, grab a camera and go have some fun! Good luck everyone!
Fellow blogger Dan Jonas and I were able to get out paws on some 2010 Ride gear to take to Grouse mountain. With the help of Rodrigo Caula, proprietor of Choice Apparel, and two femmes from Grouse’s local J-Crew, Alice Gorton and Sydney Schram, we were able to test the Crush, Machete and DH on the men’s side, and the Canvas and Compact on the women’s side as well as a bunch of bindings and those crazy light boots. Keep your eyes peeled for product reviews coming soon.
Speaking of Choice Apparel, the new product was shipped out last Wednesday and the line is officially launched as of March 11th. If you haven’t already done so, hit up the site and get your orders in via email at choiceapparel@hotmail.com!
Some more Choice news. Grouse Mountain pro team rider, Jenelle Pritchard is the first girl on the Choice team. Yay!
It’s been flaking kittens for the past week and that good ol’ west coast snow is covering the mountains. It’s wet, it’s heavy, and it’s so much fun. Get out and play in the trees, but don’t slow down or get stuck.
Is it just me or is that quarter pipe amazingly fun? Good job, park crew.
I currently have no park board due to base delamination. Lucky for me, it’s been pow so I’ve been able to get my 159 out of retirement. Anyone wanna help me out with something a little/a lot smaller?
I’m going to be sitting down with the founder of Spacecraft Clothing, Stefan Hofmann, for an interactive interview this weekend. For those that haven’t heard, Spacecraft is an art project using clothing as a medium. Go and check it out. The product is sick and the art is even better. They’re currently based out of Bali and keep a grassroots feel to everything they do. Pacific Boarder will be carrying the spring line, so make sure you go and take a look. I’ll have more on Spacecraft in the next couple days.
Just a quick one today to let you know that my good friend Mr. Rod Caula of Choice Apparel has some new pics of the new t-shirts on his site.They should be here in about 2 weeks, they look super sick!
On another note, Grouse Mountain Pro Team Rider Jenelle Pritchard is also now on the Choice Apparel team which is super sick as well.
Even more good news! My recovery is going very well, and I will be heading to the Okanagan next week to do some filming with Progressive Youth Productions (check out the PYP Facebook Group) and by the time I am back I should be well enough to film on Grouse Mountain on foot, my goal is to be on skis in 4-6 weeks just cruising and being super careful and filming. So fingers crossed! Also after the trip you should be very excited to see PYP’s promo/teaser, it will have a mix of everything from urban to park to pow, so keep the eyes peeled.
