Season Ender Bender

GrousePark,

As you all know, Grouse has just about closed up shop for the season with one week left of riding!

Wanted to say that it was an awesome time getting to write for the park blog thanks to Grouse, the park crew, Oolar and the snow gods for making this season one of the best in a long time. I had a great time shredding Grouse riding with buddies and new buddies and stoked for more!

Make sure to get up for the last couple days, and if you can’t make it up to ALL of the remaining days get up for CLOSING DAY, and wear something rad! Tell all friends Grouse is going to be firing!!!

Look out for hopefully a few more edits either from me or any other of the righteous team of bloggers.

P.S. Jake Blauvelt’s Naturally series is one of the best I’ve seen in a while. Blauvelts riding style is ulike any other. Enjoy


See you at the slush,

Jean



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Get Your Sunny Spring Laps In!

You may all have heard this already, but Grouse is going to stay open till May2nd.  And yes, there will be a park on Cut as long as there’s enough snow.  Either way, Grouse is going to be the place to be on the North Shore till May starts.  Get up and get shredding.  I went up last night with Grouse local, Callem Peake, and it was a beauty.  The sun’s out longer and the snow is staying softer later into the night.  you have no excuse not to be there.

Cheers,

Sam


Season Bender Oakley Park Jam

Aight kids,  it’s here, the last Oakley park jam of the season.  We’re dropping this one on a weekend and doing it in the afternoon, so you have no excuse to not be there.  This Saturday, April 10th, we’re gonna get things started at 1pm.  The format is simple, ride and we’ll hook you up if we something we like.  The prize pool is going deeper for this one.  We’ve got goggles, sunglasses, softgoods, outerwear, boots and even a board to give away for this event, so you’ll definitely want to be there and you’ll want to bring your friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, friends you used to hang out with in elementary but now hate because they wear Ed Hardy.  You get the idea.  Park crew has been killing it with their park builds and the Cut park has been extended further down the cut to accommodate 3 jumps and a hip as well as a bunch of jibs.  There are also some features that you normally wouldn’t see in the park on an average day, which will be closed till Saturday.  You’ll be getting a sneak peek at those tomorrow morning if you check back.

So, there you have it. Saturday at 1, the Peak of Vancouver is gonna get hyphy.  Rumour has it that PYP will also be out in full force. you won’t want to miss this one.

Cheers,

Sam


This and that; GOOD TIMES

Hey everyone!

Grouse has been killing it lately, and there have been a lot of opportunities to free ride as well as hit up the Cut park and Paradise jib park. Last night, we mostly looked around for natural jibs and fun little side hits on expo. At one point, Reid Alex, Anthony Cervantes and I were riding up the Greenway Express chair. A small child decided that it would be a good idea to hop onto our chair last minute. He managed to get on half way, and we all tried to pull him up. By this point we were a little ways up, and without him saying anything, we had no idea what he was trying to do, so we held on. After about two meters, he jumped off and ducked just in time for him to miss the chair that was coming towards his head. I’m going to have to say that at the time it was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life and  thank goodness he’s okay! Keep your kids on a leash! Haha, don’t actually. This was one of the exciting points of the evening, as well as scoping out some fun logs and natural stalls. By 7pm, the sun was starting to set, but the snow remained slushy and fun!

It’s awesome to see everyone having fun on all the local mountains, as well as Whistler! Heres a video of one of the best days in Whistler ever! Most people switched skis for snowboards and vice versa and had one of the funniest days filming ever. Ex-Grouse locals Liam Casey, James Anderson, Spencer Watson and Ryan Belich killed it, and make sure you watch to the end to see the banger! Enjoy!