Hey all,
We’ve got a bunch of stuff to give away , so we’re having another Grousepark.com contest. Up for grab are a pair of Grouse Mountain/Oakley Crowbar collab goggles as well as a prize pack from our sponsors. Here’s the rundown.
- Take some pictures of anything ski/board realated.
- Pick your favourite.
- Email it to contest@grousepark.com.
From there, our team of bloggers will pick the top three entries and the pictures will get posted on our Facebook fan page. Then you gotta get your friends to vote on it by liking the pictures. The shot with the most like in two days will win the contest. Simple as that! Deadline for photo submissions is Wednesday, March 18th and please include rider credits if possible.
Remember: They have to be pictures that you have taken, not pictures of you riding taken by someone else. This is for up and coming photogs.
Tags: Contest, Crowbars, Facebok, Grouse mountain, oakley, Photo, Terrain park
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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.
Tags: Grouse mountain, Quentin Deboice, Shayan Aghourlikhani, Terrain park
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On Tuesday last week, Jack, Nick, Reid, and myself made our way up the rally course that is the road to Seymour, for some after-class shred action. Not exactly sure what to expect (as university students, we’re apparently still unable to check forecasts), 
we were greeted by slushy, drizzly, warm springtime conditions… a bit like summer, really. Needless to say, we forgot our shorts. However, the park was fun, no one was on hill, and the only people in the lift lines were two frenchmen chatting away the hours to each other. We all seemed to get lost in the quiet of this deserted mountain playpark, hot lapping and jibbing with ouropen jackets battering against the wind. At 10pm I remembered I’d brought the camera, so the few shots below are what came of it, after begging the one lone ski patroller to let us get just a few more frames before everyone went home. Great times.
Tags: Hamish Baxter, Jack Whelan, Mt. Seymour, Nicholas von Foerster, Night, Photography, Photos, Reid Buchanan, Strobist, Terrain park
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The fun factor at the Grouse Mountain Rookie terrain park has increased by a very large number. After the build for the Office Booyz contest, the rookie park is looking better than it has all season…or ever, for that matter. There’s a quarter pip/spine, two tires to do whatever you want on them, filing cabinets and desks to jib, boxes setup in a C formation, a whale tail to down box combo and an exquisitely manicured jump to top it all off. I was going to take pictures of some of the features for you, but I was having the most fun riding park I’ve had all year. I’d suggest going up and checking it out for yourself, you won’t be disappointed. Props to the park crew!
Additionally, the Quiksilver terrain park now has a FIVE hit jump line. What!? Yea, you heard right, the jump set up is so amazing right now. No more needing to straight line from the lifts! Throw up a big ol’ whoop whoop for Shaw Butterworth and his jump building!
I should be studying for exams, but after riding today, I’m pretty sure I’ll be spending all weekend in the parks. You should too!
Don’t hate, just ride,
Sam
Tags: Grouse mountain, Office Booyz, Park Crew, Quiksilver, Rookie, Shaw Butterworth, Terrain park
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For those of you hungry for some park footage, check Simon Dumont as he regains some street cred in his latest edit, Slum Dog Illionaire. Love him or hate him, the kid shreds hard.
See what others are saying about it over at newschoolers.com
Tags: Freeskiing, Newschool Skiing, Newschoolers.com, Simon Dumont, ski, skiing, Slum Dog Illionaire, Terrain park
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This winter has been quite the weather reporters dream, especially in BC, but more specifically Vancouver. We went from a mild and wet fall to a freezing cold -20 with wind chill in mid December all the while being pounded with snow. Vancouver, in the city received roughly 100cm of the fluffy white stuff in December, and let me say… the city was not prepared (nor were its citizens), but it sure was perty to look at. And so here where we are wearing t-shirts in mid-January thanks to a temperature inversion. If you’re not sure what a temperature inversion is, the kind folks at wikipedia.org describe it as: ‘an increase in temperature with height, or to the layer within which such an increase occurs’.
There is nothing like a temperature inversion, you wake up its grey, ugly and cold so you think it’s like that everywhere, but when you get about halfway up the mountain you are pleasantly surprised with blue skies and a warmer temperatures the higher you go. The city is covered and you feel as if you are on another planet, standing on top of the mountain looking out at a sea of clouds.
If you have the chance try and make your way up one of the local Vancouver ski hills over the next couple days as it is supposed to remain an inversion until possibly Monday or Tuesday.
Enjoy.
Cashen
Tags: Cashen, grouse, inversion, mountain, t-shirts, Terrain park, vancouver
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This season at Grouse we have designed and built some new features for the park. We decided to keep it simple and try our best to keep it Mother Earth friendly. We were able to create our new features using roughly 80% reused or recycled material that I found either on Grouse or on the internet.
Our biggest feature is a 40’ long, 8”diameter retired snowmaking pipe that has been raised to 9’ and will be set atop a spine as a flat bar. The other big project is a recycled pontoon trailer cut into a fat stall bar for atop our QP that will be maintained more frequently and properly with the help of our new park groomer. Also in the mix will be a variety of steel and plastic barrels, rails and random jibs.
Stay tuned for our opening date, as we are trying our best to get things open up at Grouse Mountain so all can come out and start playing on our new features.
Tags: barrels, Cashen, grouse, jibs, mounatain, QP, rails, Terrain park
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