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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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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Hey all,
We’ve finally got the finalists for the photo contest. The response was huge and we’re stoked on the submissions that came in. There were a bunch of good shots and narrowing it down was a challenge. In the end, our crew decided on four finalists, instead of the originally planned three. They are Colton Labou, Brian Choi, Josh Remund and Nate Konyi. Below are their submissions. As of tomorrow night, these pictures will be on the Grouse Mountain Terrain Parks Facebook page and you’ll have all Easter long weekend to vote on your favourite one. Come Monday morning, at 10am, the picture with the most likes will win the contest and the photog will walk away with a pair of Grouse Mountain/Oakley collab Crowbars and some out swag. Congrats to our finalists once again.
Photo: Colton Labou
Photo: Brian Choi
Photo: Nate Konyi
Photo: Josh Remund
The Grousepark boys are placing bets on the winner. All I’m saying is, if my guy doesn’t win, no one is getting a prize. Just kidding.
Happy Voting,
Sam
Tags: Brian Choi, Colton Labou, Crowbars, Easter, Facebook, Grouse mountain, Josh Remund, Nate Konyi, oakley
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The days are getting longer and the sun is starting to set late enough for us school goers to be able to get up the mountain in time to catch some sick sunsets. I have been trying my best to shoot during sunsets lately (working with silhouettes mostly) and the other evening I just happened to have my camera on one of those nights where you get off the peak chair, walk to the run and suddenly bam! All you can see is what seems to be fire in the sky. So we decided to do some lifestyle shots. Here they are!
Also check out my personal blog to see some of the shots that haven’t been on Grousepark.com. There’s some cool stuff so if you have the time, take a gander to find out what I do off the mountain. I’m not just a ski and snowboard photographer.
Tags: Grouse mountain, grouse park, Harrison Jack, sunsets, the peak
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