Quiksilver Showdown Over The City – View from the Beer Garden.
This years Quiksilver Showdown Over the City was an amazing first taste of sunny spring. The new location for the course lead to a perfectly situated spectators area. Knowing that the photographers and videographers showdowns would provide extensive coverage of the event, I took it too the beer garden to see who was hangin’..
Luisa Jeffery celebrates the fact the beer garden takes visa!
Snowboard Canada photographer Ralph Dammon on the scene getting the shot.
Always nice to see DC’s Logan Haubrich
Posted up for the day – Matts Kuli
Nitro’s Alice Gorton lucked out having her 19th birthday on such an amazing weekend.
8mile’s Johnny Lyall + Quiksilver’s Dario Phillips know they have two hands for a reason.
This guy is hyped.
Some good lookin spring boardin style.
Still got it: Chris Dufficy
DC’s Jody Wachniak + Quiksilver’s Matt Belzille enjoy the day off from filming.
Jon Versteeg wins promising 15% to the after party tab.
Steph Weber at the peak of her season.
Caley Vanular and Luisa Jeffery date laps.
Jack of all trades: Chris Brown
Altitudes Apres – Ending the day off right..
Brad Broughton knows how to judge what’s good.
Beer-utifullll day.
-CV
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8MILE Hit Runs at Grouse!
The 8mile boys made their way around the Grouse park last year and added it to their hit run edit!
Check it out!
Johnny Lyall Opens the Olympics
If you caught the opening ceremonies last night, you probably saw the opening snowboard sequence in the backcountry. If you were wondering who exactly dropped in through the rings with that burly indy, it was Grouse Mountain’s own Johnny Lyall. With a little help from Katal Innovations, makers of the big air bag, Johnny was able to air through the Olympic rings and ride out onto the floor of BC Place with the eyes of a few billion people on him. Here a picture from Matt Houghton’s blog on Push.ca.
Atta boy, J-Bone! Hope you’re having a good time in Barcelona.
Grousepark.com Presents: “Our First Legit Contest Ever” Contest
Hey folks,
I’ve got some pretty hyped news for you. We’re opening up a contest for all you Grousepark.com faithfuls. The prize that you’ll be dueling for will be a day on the hill for you and three buddies with the Grouse Mountain Pro Team on Sunday, January 17th, as well as a prize pack for you from our sponsors. You could tell all your friends that you are now friends with not ONE pro, but multiple pros, thus making you the coolest cat on the block. How do you win? It’s pretty easy. There are three questions below. You need to send an email to contest@grousepark.com with correct answers for all three and we’ll put your name into a draw. The deadline to get your answers in is January 13th at noon. That gives you a week. We’ll announce the winner later that night. Please remember to mention your first and last name, as well as a telephone number that we can reach you at to set things up. So, without further ado, here are the questions. Get Google fired up!
1. In which team snowboard film did Chris Dufficy make his comeback and what was the movie called?
2. What was the trick that won the 2002 U.S. Open Big Air (skiing) and who won it?
3. Which North American resort was the first to allow snowboarding?
Good luck! Get those entries in!
Reminiscing…
Thought I would post this link on the blog. This winter was a great season to shred the local mountains and ride good powder. For a week straight I had the pleasure of riding Grouse every morning with Devun, The guy i’ve looked up to ever since I started snowboarding. It snowed every night and we woke up early every morning for the first tram ride up… then we would ride Olympic chair until our legs were wobbly. It was an amazing week! This is a little clip that Karl from ISdesgin put up on his blog.
Endeavor Snowboards *New* 2009 Website
Endeavor just put up their new site… and it looks pretty good! Check out the new boards, clothing, online store, team, artists, and downloads for your computer and your iPhone!
Grouse Vacation!
Went up to Grouse Mountain the other day with some of the 8mile homies Dufficy, Kale, Dionne, Mikey Rencz, Benji Ritchie, and Paavo filming a bit for some of our new web videos! It was a blast! We were joking about how it was like a Vacation up at Grouse because it’s was sunny and hot … meanwhile it was cold and cloudy down in Vancouver. Here are a few pics of the hang and a little video clip of kale doing a lap!
The Boyzz love the wings at Altitudes bistro!
Hanging above the clouds!
Kale brought up his whole family! Grouse is fun for all ages!
Endeavor Photo Shoot
Went up to Grouse Mountain on Wednesday to shoot the Endeavor catalog with the rest of the Endeavor team. Fortunately it had been snowing all night and all day so we got to ride some pow laps on olympic chair all morning before the shoot. It was the best day of riding i’ve had this year by far. Keep that snow coming!
Snow in the the parking lot... so you know its good!