Up and Running for the 2011-2012 Season!
I’m stoked to say that the Grouse Park blog is up and running for the 2011/2012 season! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Andrew Santos.
Grouse Mountain is pretty much a second home for me and I get up there as much as I can. This is my second year with the blog and this season, along with the crew of bloggers, I will be posting tons of new content so you know what’s going down in the park. The Park Crew has some sick new features that are just waiting to be seshed. If you haven’t checked out the Cut line yet, get up there. You won’t be disappointed. Here’s a shot by Kaz Yamamura of me on opening day:
If you see me give me a shout, I’m always down to do some laps. For now you can check out my Vimeo here and Look out for some more posts coming your way.
See you in the Park!
Andrew Santos
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A few noteworthy stories I stumbled upon in the last couple of weeks:
MGT Snowboard Camp announces MGT Academy and it’s lineup for 2009 including a weekend at Grouse Mountain:
In 2009, MGT will be holding three, two-day winter camps, the first being a camp at Canada Olympic Park on Dec13th-14th, the venue for the first ever Burton Canadian Open in February. Close on it s heels is another camp for the coastal crowd at Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver Jan 3rd-4th. To cap off the season, MGT is once again returning to Alberta, its original breeding grounds, to session Mt. Norquay’s re-vamped and professionally cut snowboard park on April 4th-5th.
TTR World Tour has launched a new website.
Grouse Mountain’s opening day weekend had loads of people building kickers and enjoying the snow. BTW, if you have pics you want to share, throw a link in the comments.
Here is the craziest weather forecast ever for Grouse Mountain. It’s really detailed and surprisingly accurate.
The North Face has now launched an iPhone app in the same vein as Snocator et. al. Still don’t have an iPhone to check it out… wish I did. Feel free to post reviews in the comments.
Now, I want to thank everyone who has submitted an application to join our team of blogospondents. The opportunity has now come to a close. I’ll be reviewing all the applications in the next couple of days and will communicate with each applicant by the end of the week.
Lost in the archives: 07/08 Opening Day Park Session
This post was never published last year, apparently. It was posted by Jeff Silcock about December 1st. Hopefully it will get everyone in the mood for a new season to begin:
Here’s a video I put together from Wednesday’s opening Night. For anyone who made it out for the opening day session hopefully I managed to catch you on film. If not, I will be filming very regularly throughout the season and hopefully get you in the next one. It was great to see so many park rats up having a good time. It seemed that the skiers were definitley showing up the boarders….not to stir anything up. JS
Paradise Jib Park Opens
Grouse Mountain’s 81st winter season officially opened November 27th with the Paradise rope tow and Jib Park open for business. We have since opened up The Screaming Eagle quad chair and The Cut and are anxiously awaiting more snow so we can get going with the park builds.
One of our byop faithfuls, Andrew Prost, provided this photo of the first jib park set-up.