Quiksilver Park Edit – March 6, 2012
March 6th in the Quiksilver Terrain Park. Featuring myself, Trint Thomas and a special guest appearance from Kimmi Leonard.
*Be sure to watch in 720p
-Jason Macfarlane
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Snow in the City!
North Vancouver is a gold mine for handrails, but since we rarely get snow these rails don’t often see any action. Well we finally had some snow fall last night so Trint Thomas (newest Endeavor Am), Jeremy Cox and myself got down to work right away before the snow melted. We set up a 14-flat-11 stair down-flat-down. It’s a rail in my neighborhood that I’ve been looking to ski for the last couple of years.
Video clips to come, but for now here’s some behind the scenes shots from the session.
Jeremy getting the shot.
Trint about to drop in.
-Jason
Fresh Season Fresh Photos
What’s up Grouse Park blog readers? Jason Macfarlane here to put out content for another season. If you’re new to grousepark.com, this is my third season writing for the blog. I am an 18 year old skier from North Vancouver, currently enrolled in my first year of university. This year I am also a part of the Park Crew staff on Grouse Mountain. So I’ll be writing about the park, helping to build, maintain and keep it running smoothly.
Lack of snow has been a bit of a challenge so far this year, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t pulled off some good features. The Park Crew have worked hard (which hasn’t been me so far so I can’t take credit for this) and have put together an awesome line of rail features in The Cut park. Jam packed, it is probably one of the jib parks with the best flow the mountain has ever seen.
Recently, Trint Thomas and I spent a few hours in the sun shooting some pictures and video clips. Here’s one of my favourites from that day.
-Jason Macfarlane
Back Lip @ Grouse Park
Rider: Trint Thomas
Photo: Jason Macfarlane
Showdown and After-Sesh
This last weekend marked the annual Showdown Over the City at Grouse Mountain. In past years Showdown has been more of a Big Air focus competition. But this year, with the change in venue from Lower Peak to the Cut, the course ended up being a legitimate multi-feature slopestyle instead of a one jump wonder. After the competition was over park crew Rob was kind enough to open up the jumps for some friends to get down on. Here’s some shots from the competition and the after-sesh. One more thing, big ups to Shayan for placing top 10 in the pro division, held his own against some big names, congrats man.
That’s all for now,
Frodo.
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.
Grouse Park Olympic Edit
With the Olympics wrapping up and the gold medals building up, it is apparent we are well on our way to making Canadian history. For me the Olympics have been very busy thus the late release of this edit, which was filmed within the first week of the Olympics in the re – designed cut park. With a couple hours of filming with Shayan, Jason, Corey and Quentin, I was able to come out with this edit. Unlike many others, I tried to make this one different, in this case through the teddy bear crisis style rider/timelapse. If your not sure what I mean check it out for yourself.
Jeremy
JIB Edit
As Friday afternoon was one of the first sunny days in a very long time, I decided to make a quick edit. I spent an hour filming with Jason, Shayan, Simon and Ben in the jib park. Hope you enjoy
Hello, My Name is…
Hello readers,
My name is Jason, or as most of my friends call me, Frodo, and I have been lucky enough to be chosen as one of the Grousepark bloggers this year. I am a skier and have been skiing at Grouse Mountain since I was about 4 years old. Luckily enough, I live a mere 15 minute bus ride away from the mountain, so if I am free, you can bet I will be skiing. I am pretty recognizable on the hill, with an outerwear look consisting of tight pants and tall tees. If you see me, don’t be shy and say hello! Another thing I can usually be recognized by is a camera in my hand. I love to shoot pictures and if the weather is good chances are I won’t be caught up Grouse Mountain without my camera.
Speaking of pictures, here are some fresh pictures from the other day in the park.
Max Buchanan on the new, longer pontoon:
Trint Thomas nospressing while Shayan gets the shot:
That’s all for now, thanks for reading,
Frodo.
Introducing the 2009/2010 Grousepark Blogospondants
After a lot of discussion over the past couple weeks, we here at Grousepark.com are excited to introduce the our 5 blogospondants for the 2010 season. It was hard narrowing it down to just 5 with the depth of applications we got this year. But, without further ado, here there are.
- Alice Gorton
- Eric Beckstead
- Jason Macfarlane
- Jeremy Cox
- Richard Loat
I’m really excited to see what this season holds for these 5 bright, talented and young minds. If last year was good, our goal is to make this year fan-freaking-tastic, so you’ll want to keep your interwebs locked ongrousepark.com for all things board and ski related from people that live and breathe all things snow. Except for yellow snow, hopefully no one lives and breathes that.
You’ll be getting a short introduction from each of them in the upcoming week so let you know who they are. We have a bunch of locals, but some new faces to the Grouse Park scene as well. So, lady and gentlemen, welcome to grousepark.com. Strap in and kick it!
Brian Choi Alterna Shoot Shots
Brian Choi was up Grouse Mountain on March 29th to shoot the Alterna/Showdown session. He got some killer shots! See for yourself.
Showdown winner Sebastien Toutant keeping the sponsors happy!
...did I mention he is only 16 years old?
Ugh, clouds...
I must admit, I do love me some backflips.
Who said shooting into the sun was a bad thing?
Liam Casey with a flat 540.
Liam spotting transition on another flat 540.
Aint nobody grabbin like Liam Casey grabbin. - Flat 540
Liam getting all corked out on a 900. He landed this one like Wallisch.
So bright, so poppin, so clean.
Ouch.
Bonus shot!
Grouse Mountain Pro Team rider Spencer Watson slaying the wallride!
So that’s all the Showdown shots for now folks. A huge thanks to Graham Dalik, Jason Macfarlane and Brian Choi for sharing their shots with us!
Temperatures are rising and the snow is softening up. Session are going off in the Quiksilver and Rookie parks. Get up Grouse Mountain, get your goggle tan on, shred some slush, and have some fun! Only 2 weeks of riding left.
Don’t forget your sunscreen!
-cj