Its Springtime!
whatup! Long time no update eh… well I have been very busy with school and riding lots so I finally found time for an update.
A couple weeks ago we came back from our rail trip from the Okanagan which was a blast! And you have all probably seen the footage and pics! Here are a couple good ones i found…

Can you spot Liam Casey?

Scott has a Volksawagon Golf.

Liam eating a huge donut!

Charlie was pretty hungry, that my friends is a rotisseri chicken.

The alley rail!

Pat King getting the shot!

I snapped this great moment of Scott and Liam laughing at me.
OKAY, now for some snowboard talk. I got the chance to demo next years Ride Nitrane bindings which build off the Contraband chassis. Be ready to hear more of this in the future, this binding was awesome.
Sam, Alice and I will be demoing next years Capita, which I am super stoked for considering this years Horrorscope FK is my favourite board to date, and I don’t think I can ride any other board.
A couple blogs that I have been following lately are www.gnarcore.com. www.shayboarder.com and www.ashburyeyewear.com!
Gnarcore always has sick edits and posts about keeping snowboarding fun. Shayboarder always has fun, informative posts about this years and next years gear. Ashbury updates their blog multiple times a day and follows some of my favourite riders including Nick Dirks, Jed Anderson, Nima Jalali and lots others so check it out!
Everyone check out Alex Beebe’s blog, Peachhat; he’s got a new teaser out! Check it!
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Peace out, go snowboarding, have fun, smile!!
-Dan
Photographs eh?
So since youve heard the road trip story multiple times, theres no point telling it again. Heres some pics of what went down…
Thursday Night:





Friday:






Friday Night:



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Saturday Night:


The shoot up north…
Well more north than North Vancouver lets say…
So to start off here was the crew: Charlie Grinnel Grinnell, Pat King, Graeme Meiklejohn, Spencer Watson, Dan Jonas, Liam Casey, and me Scott Titterington.
So around 3pm Thursday, I jump in my car, and go pick up Liam and Dan from their places in my little GTI. We managed to pack 3 pairs of skis and a snowboard, filled with cam gear, clothes, and just enough food to survive. Dan was in the back seat with gear crammed all the way around him, and well suprisingly enough we got a few odd looks on the way up to our first stop Westbank Kelowna. As we arrived from a 5 hour car ride we met up with the rest of the crew and got straight to work. The first night was sort of rough due to not skiing or riding for a couple days and starting off with such a gnarly rail. We still ended up with a couple wicked shots though, and quite a few crashes.
The second day we got out around 11ish and headed out to a handrail which was shot in one of the sandbox movies. As said by Spence the cops came and luckily enough they didn’t have any problem with what we were doing. I gotta say, I sure wasnt expecting the constables response to sliding a handrail in a residential alley… Later on that day we basically went to scope out what else was around town, and call it a day. Getting back to Pat’s place around12:30am, we uploaded our footage and went straight to bed.

So Saturday we went full out and headed out by 10 o’clock. We headed out to a steep handrail by a highschool. Shortly into the sesh we had a delay due to Dan catching a back edge and concussing himself. Charlie and Graeme went with him to the hospital as Spencer, Liam and Pat and I finished off this railing, and headed to the next spot. As Dan and the hospital gang were doing their thing, Liam went to scope out this pretty crazy line a few steps away. We had some time so we set up the line and shortly later Liam ended up stomping it like nothing.


After we got back from picking the rest up at the hospital we headed back to Pats place to upload footage once again. Once it got dark we headed up to Apex Mountain and shot a wallride for the most part. Liam and Spencer were celebraties. Liam gave some kids a couple Choice Apparel stickers, and Spencer gave away a Napking bandana. The kids gathered around and cheered them both on while they lit up the wallride. On the way back we started the generator up and hit some pow laps in the dark 15 feet from the highway which turned into a couple cool pictures. As which ended we headed back to Pat’s and slept the night away.
9 30am arrives Sunday and we pack up to go back home to either the Mainland or Whistler since most of us have school or work to get back to Monday.
ps. ill be posting some actual riding pictures in some future posts so keep an eye open!
See Ya for now!
Scott Titterington
Calgary Trip
It all started when I got an email from my Westbeach guy Jon Cartwright about the “Ante up” contest at C.O.P in Calgary. I did the contest last year and it was a good time, a slope style event with nice jumps, everyone from our snowboarding cirlcle was there, and alot of the industry people too. So I though Why Not?
So we got a crew together, Mark Sollors, Hayden Rensch (filmer) and Russell Dalby (photog), and decided to drive out cause we planned on staying to hit some rails after the contest. We found out a couple days before leaving that the contest was turn into a 1/4 pipe contest… None of us are really into pipes but we had this whole thing planned out and we went for it anyways thinking “what the hell, lets just do it and then film some rails”.
The day we’re leaving the Coquihalla Hwy is closed due to mud slides! so we have to go north through Whistler, Duffy lake road, which is fresh with snow and gnarly. We pulled these aussies out of the ditch with Russell’s F-350. We finally get to Sicamous, and now Rogers Pass is closed due to Avalanches. So we meet up with our pal Jeff Patterson (Photographer). He’s been stranded there for Days waititng on the road to open and he’s telling us all about his crazy adventure. S0 we’re checking the road updates every 20 mins. At midnight the road opens so we book it! Of course it’s snowy and there’s black ice everywhere but we powered through it. Got to Calgary at 5:30 am. Yes we drove through the night.
So I’m super beat from the drive but still going cause of all the red bull I’ve been drinking. We sign up and it’s time to practice… My practice was doing park laps and I called it a day. The next day, contest day, I was feeling 100 times better then the day prior. I practiced on the 1/4 pipe, it was going ok. Mark was killing it in his heat with b/s 7 and going bigger and bigger till he hit the deck and hurt his back. He made finals but couldn’t ride anymore. I just made it through to finals after figuring out how to do b/s rodeos on the QP in the last 20mins of my heat. in finals I just tried doing the b/s rodeos as big as I could. then I started trying to bring them around to 7, but that didn’t go so well. I hit the deck and sprained my wrist pretty good. But in the end I got 5th place and won a little bit of money so I was super happy with that.
We were all injured after the contest so our rail trip didn’t go as good as we wanted it. We brought Jed Anderson along with us to Edmonton and basically watched him kill it on every rail. We drove back on a sunny day, the roads were dry and safe and the scenery was sweet. Now Mark and I are recovering from our injuries.
Thanks Evan Park for the photos!
-Belzile





