Random Rambles II
Hiya folks, you know the drill.
Fellow blogger Dan Jonas and I were able to get out paws on some 2010 Ride gear to take to Grouse mountain. With the help of Rodrigo Caula, proprietor of Choice Apparel, and two femmes from Grouse’s local J-Crew, Alice Gorton and Sydney Schram, we were able to test the Crush, Machete and DH on the men’s side, and the Canvas and Compact on the women’s side as well as a bunch of bindings and those crazy light boots. Keep your eyes peeled for product reviews coming soon.
Speaking of Choice Apparel, the new product was shipped out last Wednesday and the line is officially launched as of March 11th. If you haven’t already done so, hit up the site and get your orders in via email at choiceapparel@hotmail.com!
Some more Choice news. Grouse Mountain pro team rider, Jenelle Pritchard is the first girl on the Choice team. Yay!
It’s been flaking kittens for the past week and that good ol’ west coast snow is covering the mountains. It’s wet, it’s heavy, and it’s so much fun. Get out and play in the trees, but don’t slow down or get stuck.
Is it just me or is that quarter pipe amazingly fun? Good job, park crew.
I currently have no park board due to base delamination. Lucky for me, it’s been pow so I’ve been able to get my 159 out of retirement. Anyone wanna help me out with something a little/a lot smaller?
I’m going to be sitting down with the founder of Spacecraft Clothing, Stefan Hofmann, for an interactive interview this weekend. For those that haven’t heard, Spacecraft is an art project using clothing as a medium. Go and check it out. The product is sick and the art is even better. They’re currently based out of Bali and keep a grassroots feel to everything they do. Pacific Boarder will be carrying the spring line, so make sure you go and take a look. I’ll have more on Spacecraft in the next couple days.
Shreddies for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner,
Sam
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Nimbus, Montage, and Pow, Pow, Pow.
Three years ago the face of skiing was forever changed by a group of skiers and a little movie called Idea. Eric Pollard, Andy Mahre and Pep Fujas opened people’s minds to what was possible on a pair of skis in powder snow. Nimbus Independent was born.
Pollard and crew stepped up their game the next season and produced Hunting Yeti, a 5 part web series followed by a DVD compiling the highlights. This year the Nimbus crew is at it again with their third release, En Route. So far the crew have pow-slashed their way through Japan and Austria. Check the website for their latest webisodes.
Warning: Extreme Pow Shreddage Ahead! If nothing done by Nimbus gets you stoked then please do not read on.
If you don’t know…now you know. Montage Inc is here to stay. Based out of California, these guys are really showing the big boys at Nimbus that they know a thing or two about shredding pow. They just dropped their new website with a couple of sick videos, so check it out. The following clip is some of the best backcountry jumping that has ever gone down. Just see for yourself:
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Speechless,
-cj
p.s. It’s puking up Grouse Mountain right now… strap on yer fat boards and send ‘er!
(in-bounds of course)
Christmas Holiday at Grouse Mountain
Hey everyone, haven’t been able to post an update in a while to do the hectic holidays. I have ridden quite a bit through these holidays, but not quite as much I would have liked due to how busy Grouse gets during this time of year.
Some highlights were Dec 24, Christmas eve, Grouse got DUMPED on and no one could make it to the hill (Thanks for driving Jay) so this resulted in an epic pow day full of drop, lines, pillows and hit run laps all day long. No pictures to show for it because it was just too good.
Lots of night riding has been had, once again to avoid the holiday line ups on CUT and OLYMPIC. Park has been pretty non existant due to the large amounts of snow falling, which buries already standing features, and makes the already buried features long gone… time to go probing.
As Scott mentioned, we got alot of our friends out for some good times on Monday night. Snow was soft, skies were clear, and no lineups. Hit run laps all night!!
The park is slowly making progress, Shaw has been in the cat as much as he can pushing snow and decking rails, one jump is up, and a couple more should be on the way. With lots of snow in the forecast, the park should be bangin in the next couple weeks.
With the snow in the city, and in our own yards, some of you may have been hard at work shoveling driveways or making your very own parks in your yard or both!
My brother Nathan and I have been hard at work buildin our extensive snow mini ramp when we arent riding at Grouse Mountain. Our setup has been a drop in to hip into the mini ramp with a roller in the middle. Also have a drop into 2 options: Flatbar or hip. Also have a six pack of jumps down the side of our house. Its pretty sick and learning to ride these tight transitions help in all sorts of situations.
Ramp
Drop in to the hip into the mini ramp is to the left out of the picture
The new year arrived with a bang! I decided to throw a party for all my friends to come enjoy. Some of the infamous GROUSE PARK CREW came to party. Near the end some people decided to jump into the freezing cold pool… I also just saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I liked it. You should go see it.
Pow, sweet pow!
Merry Christmas! I hope Santa was good to everyone. For those of us who wished for snow, we most definitely got it.
The best Christmas present ever!
Grouse Mountain is getting PUKED on! My brother, cousin, and I went up for a Boxing Day shred today. There are still a few small trees and branches sticking out here and there, but knee deep pow makes up for that.
Make sure you come up and get some while the gettin is good! Here’s a few shots of the good stuff. Would have taken more but there was gnar in desperate need of a good shredding.
Tram pow!
Getting ready for a day of shred.
Jesse shredding, CJ missing the shot.
Snow!
Actually come to think of it, no, there’s no snow. Don’t bother heading to Grouse Mountain. Its far too snowy, fun, deep, average…
Here’s to a fresh start this 08/09 season…
I just wanted to send a message out to all you Grouse Mountain rippers that the season is almost upon us, and we are trying desperately to get the jib zone on Paradise set up as soon as possible for you to enjoy. We have lots to look forward to this season, as we have added some new staff that we saw in the park often and gave us feedback last season, including a park groomer as well as a ranger. We have also built some new rails and other jibs that we hope you will enjoy, as I know the Grouse pro team, park staff and myself surely will.
We are in the park daily and we ride it when we’re not working, so we try our best to keep it fun, progressive and well maintained as best we can for you to ride. If you ever are riding and have a suggestion or see something that might need some attention, don’t hesitate to approach one of us and let us know. Like I said, we are park riders too, so we want the best park to ride just as you all do. We really appreciate the constructive criticism and ideas, in fact we encourage them, as I mentioned we build the park for park riders just like you and us, but being extremely negative or straight up hateful gets nothing accomplished and is very unproductive…no matter what you want to accomplish in life.
I look forward to seeing many of you up Grouse this season having fun and enjoying all the hard work that is put into producing one of Canada’s best terrain parks.
Pray for snow.
Cashen
Numero Uno
Here we go, my first blog of the season, I’m hoping to keep my blogs updated as frequently as I can throughout the season all season long. I will be discussing any and all topics I feel will keep you interested… or not.
Today as I got of the tram this morning it was pouring rain, but as I was getting closer to the peak office I began to notice the odd wet snowflake (if you can call them that), which then turned to a heavy snow fall.
YES, it is snowing up here at Grouse and sticking! Now, I’m not getting my hopes up, as the weather forecast says rain is on its way, but either way, it seems like whenever the first snow falls I still get that super excited feeling I used to get when I was wee lil’ boy. I just like the way snow smells, feels and looks, I love when there is enough snow to blanket and cover all the worlds imperfections, making it a perfect winter wonderland.
With the snow on its way, I just wanted to get all you boys and girls excited and remind you that it was on Nov. 27 last season when we opened up the Paradise Jib Park…so get your gear ready and stay tuned!