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
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Sunset Shot at Grouse Mountain
Bill Hawley and the local crew went up a couple days ago and got some shots in the newly rebuilt park. I got to go ride it last night and it’s a whole bunch of fun. Get up there while the sun’s up and the snow’s soft.
Grouse: Cut Park Montage
The park is now running smoothly on Cut with some very fun features. Here’s a quick little edit thrown together by Shayan including some shots from Quik park when it was still in business. Enjoy.
Frodo.
Flash Photography V2.0
After a few weeks of mixed up orders and payment problems, I am finally in possession of my Alienbees Cybersync trigger/receiver remote setup for my flash. I took it out to Seymour to shoot the Red Ledge on the weekend but as I said in that post, I had some troubles with misfiring. I think I finally had things figured out tonight and I am quite happy with how the shots turned out. Here’s the final product.
Shayan with a nosepress on top of the wall
Ben spinning a blind 270 out
Michael Hoy with a tail back 1 out
That’s all for now,
Frodo.
An Update from GROUSE
There may not be as much snow on the hill as this time last season, but that hasn’t stopped park crew from keeping this running smoothly. If you haven’t been up lately, you’re missing out. The park has something this season that it has been struggling with the last few years, flow. A few new additions to Grouse’s park crew have helped keep this flow in the park. The other night I got up the mountain and did a few photo laps with Shayan, Park Crew Conrad and new Park Crew Anthony. Anthony and I had a bit of a close call with him almost landing me. I was shooting with a fisheye lens and, as anyone who has shot with a fisheye lens can tell you, it makes things appear to be much farther away. Due to this, I couldn’t tell just how close Anthony was until I felt him tap my backpack on the way down. Anyways, here are some shots from the night.
A close up of Anthony's face from the jump where he almost landed on me
Anthony looking a little less frightened this time with a 3-tap on the barrel feature
Shayan with a tap 1 in colour
That’s all for now,
Frodo.
Second Oakley Night Jam
Hey everyone,
So if you didn’t know, this past Friday was the second Oakley Night Jam of the year. Hosted in the Quiksilver Park, there were plenty of features to hit. The jam took place on the Flat Down and the Up Box, providing great fun for all. Congrats to everyone who killed it, I hope you got your prize. The prizes included the Oakley wallets, backpacks, laynards, toques as well as POW spring gloves. The final prize included 10 Boardroom gift cards which were given out to just about anything ‘unique’. The Jam was wrapped up with a raffle for a pair of Oakley Sunglasses and the new Shaun White A-frames. Be sure to come out to the next jam February 5th, 2010.
Jeremy
A Change of Scenery…
As fun as Grouse has been the last little while, something I am always appreciative of is a change of scenery. Living on the North Shore, I’m lucky enough to get that change with very little travel time. Last Friday, along with Shayan and Spencer, I headed up to Seymour to check out the scene there. Here are a few pictures from the day. Enjoy.
Spencer on the new 6.0 DFD handrail
Shayan on the stepdown
Ryan Paterson on the stepover
That’s all for now,
Frodo.
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
It’s Sunny, Go Shred!
Hey all,
Contrary to popular belief, Grouse Mountain is still super fun right now. Call up a couple homies and hit it up. Get creative and you’re bound to have a good time. Just ask local boy Shayan Aghourlikhani. I got a call from him yesterday afternoon and he was having a heck of a good time with fellow local and grom, Kevin Dzah. Temperatures are dropping, snow may be coming, but go now and enjoy yourselves.
Also, I’m stoked to announce that we’ve taken on two new bloggers for the remainder of the season. Grouse local and aspiring pro photographer, Bill Hawley, and a guy that I can’t say enough good things about, Hamish Baxter are both on board to bring you more content from the hills. Both these guys travel a bunch and they’ll be sure to bring you not only what’s fresh on the local scene, but also around BC and maybe outside of BC too. And you thought the universe ended outside these borders. They’ll be introducing themselves real soon, so watch for that.
Cheers,
Sam
The Mug Shot Blog
It’s time for you Grousepark viewers to get to know the faces that frequent Grouse Mountain. Here are some mug shots from this season.
First up we have Corey Mcintosh. This kid is killing it on the hill, keep your eyes on him as he is definitely going somewhere in snowboarding.
A frequent in my blogs and another kid blowing up this year, Shayan the brown man.
You might recognize this guy from a personal blog I did on him, but he’s worth mentioning more than once. Here is the mean mug of Ben Neil.
Next we have our friend from Eastern Europe, Eduard Mikulcik. He also answers to Halldor Hellgason and might really be from Iceland.
Up next is Bryce Mclean, the one other tight pant skier who frequents Grouse.
Geoff Shaw from the East Coast, so he has had no problems dealing with the less than stellar conditions this season has presented us with.
And lastly, your man behind the lens and the blogs, myself, with this lovely self portrait.
So if you see any of these guys on the mountain, don’t be shy. Say hello, as they are usually pretty friendly people…usually.
Frodo.