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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Rainy Laps with Shaun White
With the whole public relations and media hype around the Olympics, it has been a while since some of the athletes have been able to do what they came here to do. Last night, US National Halfpipe team rider Shaun White, coach Bud Keene and friends Gabe and Kevin came up to Grouse Mountain so that they could get back on snow after having not ridden for almost a week. The conditions weren’t too bad, the rain was there, but visibility was good, and thanks to our new Grouse Mountain Oakley Crowbars, Chuck and I were able to see without having to deal with foggy goggles. Stay posted for a segment introducing you to these goggles, they’re sick.
We got up to the top around 8pm and took a lap through the park on Cut, then head up on the Peak chair to Peak face, dropping in on some side hits. Shaun then ducked into the skicross drop in before we cut in to Expo. Next up was a lap around Heaven’s Sake, back into Expo and a couple more runs down Peak before heading in. The mission to get back on snow, get warmed and have some fun was a pretty big success. Big ups to Jeff Silcock for helping us out with this one.
We’ve got a lot more Olympic content you won’t find anywhere else coming up, so keep it locked to Grousepark.com.
Sam Masih
Alterna Shoot – Through the lense of Graham Dalik
Sunday March 29th was a beautiful day. Blue skies, warm temperatures, and a 70 foot stepdown manicured to perfection. The Showdown Over the City was a thing of the past but that beast of a jump used for the competition still remained, begging to be hit. Jeff Silcock, the Grouse Mountain Events Manager, invited the Alterna Films crew to come up and do a shoot on the monstrous jump. Mr Silcock also invited a small group of skiers: pro team rider Spencer Watson, local shredder and all around good guy Liam Casey, and yours truly. The jump was meticulously perfected by the park staff (and a few of the riders), and by noon, the session was on.
Unfortunately Spencer Watson was injured early on after overshooting the jump and landing nose heavy, on his left side, near the flat bottom. He went absolutely, unfathomably, HUGE. Spencer decided to call off the rest of the session. But don’t worry, he’s fine now.
I invited my good friend Graham Dalik to come up and shoot some photos. As promised, here are a few of his shots:
Waiting for the session to start.
Beau Bishop rocking the Westbeach tall jacket.
Huge.
Spotting some transition.
In living colour.
Backflip or BASE jump? CJ loves hangtime.
Liam Casey and CJ. Front flip and back flip.
Dan Jonas. Grousepark.com. Legit.
Gettin tail.
CJ corkin a 540.
Goin huge. Gettin corked. Grabbin tail.
Liam showing Grouse Mountain why he is the man. - Flat Spin 540.
You can check more shots from the session and some of Graham’s other work on his flickr page.
Grouse locals Jason Macfarlane and Brian Choi were also in attendance snapping shots. As this post is already getting a little photo heavy, I will save their shots for another time.
Hope you enjoyed. I sure did.
-cj
Just a mellow update
Hello!
Ok so I know this is a bit off topic and maybe just barely coming into season, but I think you guys will like this. I have been at the Showdown Over The City (SOTC) all weekend and have been super busy so here you go…
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Props to Jeff Silcock (Grouse Mountain Events & Sponsorship Manager) for making the SOTC a huge success, everyone was stoked! Also props to Shaw Butterworth in the cat, the dude is making plays! And the rest of the park crew.
More goodies to come,
PYPopular!
Chuckles