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TRUCKEE ADVENTURES...

Sitting here in Truckee CA. 2nd stop of the roadtrip. Drove through the night from the PBRJ at Snoqualmie WA to Tahoe. Stayed a couple of nights at Maddie's house in Truckee. The girls went up to Alpine Meadows and I chilled out in Truckee.....so much to do,Nauuut! got my nails done at truckee nails, ate some subway, and geeked out at starbucks. Took advantage of the cheap booze last night ($20 for sixty of green apple vodka)....BEER PONG w/vodka and kingscup woo house parties. The girls got their boards stolen last night so we missioned to San Fran and hit up the best vegan restaurant HERBAVORE.......enjoying a cup of "bedtime tea" at baby Lazz's..time for some much needed Zzz.s
To Do List:
-get the girls some new boards
-stop being hurt...ICE!
-4 more days until UTAH!!!!!

xo

beginning of the adventure...

Taylor, Caley and I are in Tahoe right now.  We started our trip on Valentines day with a Volcom PBRJ at Summit at Snoqualmie.  The set up was sick there was a corrugated tube, a flat down box, and a pole jam to down box.  Whistler cleaned up, Taylor came in 4th, Caley in 2nd, and i won my first contest in years.  So after the contest at about 10pm we began driving through the night to Tahoe.  Made it here exausted and greasy by 430pm the next day.  We had no where to stay so we sat at Starbucks until a friend came and rescued us.  Caley and I did some boardin through the streets of truckee behind Taylors truck the next day.  Then yesterday we rode some epic powder at Alpine Meadows yesterday with Nat and Nikki.  I drank a 3$ bottle of chardonnay last night, aand today we're off to Northstar !

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On The Horizon, Siberian Hunting Season

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Right now its in the works... tonight or tommorow....

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Lake Louise builds JUMPS w/ Jeff Patterson

TERRAIN PARK RETURNS TO LAKE LOUISE

LAKE LOUISE, AB - The Lake Louise Ski Area is pleased to announce that the Terrain Park will be returning to the slopes of Lake Louise for the 2008-09 winter season.

"One of the first things that new owner Charlie Locke wanted to implement when he took over majority interest in Lake Louise was the re-emergence of the Terrain Park," confirms Lake Louise Marketing Director, John Ross. "Due to liability issues, it won't be as extreme as it was in some previous years, but it will still be an excellent place to go have fun and practice your skills. Our goal is to have the Terrain Park back in action just as soon as possible."

TERRAIN PARK UPDATE

The Lake Louise Ski Area, the Rockies’ biggest, Canada’s best, is proud to announce that Jeff Patterson, world-renowned terrain park designer, is overseeing the design and final construction of the mountain's much-anticipated terrain park. Patterson's vast experience working around the globe with premier resorts, professional skiers and snowboarders reaffirms the Lake Louise Ski Area's commitment to providing a world class terrain park experience. Everyone is invited to check out the impressive size and variety of the many jumps and features during the park's official grand-opening party and slopestyle event on Saturday, January 24.

Lake Louise Slopestyle

Booked the weekend off to head out to Nova Scotia for the Billabong Flaunt it at Martock. Decided to cut the travels short and hit up Alberta for the Lake Louise slopestyle instead. -20 C Weather wasn't the most favorable contest conditions but the skies were sunny, and tried out my first toe warmers! TOE WARMERS will change your life! Got 2 runs for qualifiers and then 1 run in finals....

1st me
2nd Breanna Stangeland
3rd Brooke Voight

Contest set up was sick; 2 rail options, 3 consecutive jumps, and one more rail feature at the end. Things never got icy; the takeoffs stayed perfect, speed was straight, and the park crew kept things prestine.

Checked out night slopestyle at Norquay afterwards. Decided to opt out of hitting the sheer 60ft ice blocks and settled for the couple of runs with the free lift passe and the Coors Light beer tickets. PIcked up a couple packs of Tall Pilsner and attempted to play the hour of power....drinking is a sport and im out of shape. Spent the night at a buddy's place in Banff and muscled down some JD and coors at the Devil's Gap. There should be more wicked rock and roll bars like this one.
Banff is...quite possible one of the funnest places with some of the funnests people to party at EVER!

-3pm flight bak to Vancouver, B.C.
-off to Vegas tomorrow afternoon

Burton Am Series

So Dani Brown got to Breck last night! Really excited about it not gonna lie, we're going to have a lot of fun times :D Anyway, there was a Burton slopestyle comp today I decided to do kinda last minute. The weather was sooooo bad, just puking snow, probably over a foot through the course of the day. Needless to say, these aren't ideal conditions for a slopestyle competition. The jumps were sooo hard to clear, pretty much had to go as fast as possible and pop really hard to spin at all. Field started with 30 girls, and top 4 went to finals. I made it through qualifiers and by the time finals rolled around the sun had come out to show us the foot of fresh snow on the course! Hmmm... haha made it tough. But I ended up landing my runs really solid and stomped all my spins and ended up in 1st place! Stoked, made some money and got an instant spot for US Open! Dani Brown is my good luck charm...

junkyard bones.

Found a wicked spot this week! Endless opportunities!  if you look in the background on the left you can see where we built a QP on that dumptruck... Very fun!

[prairie fire. (very tasty..)]

Also, I turned 19 on monday....haha also very fun!

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got a few shots in this episode of tj's snowboard realms!

check the site!

Blue, Red, Grey Skies

The weather has been very warm in whistler, it is grey skies in the village and blue birds up top in the one photo you can see what it looks like, we are "riding on the clouds" and look whos back in town... KATE yay. Also the sky was like red the other day I was at work and felt compelled to run outside and snap a photo of it. Glowing red, strange. Park days everyday so fun.

whistler/blackcomb snow report.

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Jan 8

Best day ever!!!

Days like today remind me of why I love snowboarding so much! It was warm, sunny, soft, had some great friends with me and was so unbelievabley fun :D My friend Shelly and I woke up early and headed to keystone, saw some goober who had managed to drive his car UP the side of a mountain, had a good laugh at that. Not a cloud in the sky all day, it was so amazing, and just played around all day. It was my first day back jumping since Dew Tour, knee felt really good, was hitting the big line of jumps which were about 60 ft, didn't hurt the knee at all! So stoked. Played on some super fun tree rails that went thru buildings and stuff, some handplants, and finished the day with amazing Mexican happy hour yay! And I got my new camera, so took a bunch of fun photos today, check em out...

Wildfire!

There's a really bad wildfire really close to my house in Boulder, CO! I had to go down there earlier tonight to pack some stuff if we need to evacuate. But now I'm back in Breckenridge and stressing out :( SCARY!

Terrible weather...

Today it's snowing so hard and is so cold and windy they had to close the upper lifts at Breck! (doesn't happen often...) Hurricane force winds are really scary on a lift, so no snowboarding today. Tomorrow is supposed to be bluebird and powder though, can't wait!

41cm's of fresh in Whis

Last night our car was getting faceshots. Driving home from van ripping
car pow lines "this is so fun i can't imagine how it will be tomorrow" then tomorrow happened
today and it was better then I could have imagined.
I took some photos from my phone on crystal chair.
Snowing like crazy, more to come whistler is really fun right now.

Riding again!

Today was my first day back riding since Dew Tour because of the knee! I got a cortisone shot in it on Friday which is basically a steriod that relieves pain for up to 6 months. I've had a few in my left knee and they help so much, and I'm really stoked they gave me one in the right knee. So today I was back on the snow, took it mellow, but still so much fun. It's been such good weather out here, really sunny everyday, but the last few days have been frigid! Rode Breckenridge all day and had such a good time, Keystone tomorrow I think, and hopefully shoot some photos! Hoping the knee won't be quite as sore tomorrow so I can actually go jumping too :) Here's a pic I took of Breckenridge today too, hope the weather stays like this!

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Puking Snow

Yay finally whistler is getting whats needed, we did follow cams all day through some pow and tree stump jumping and fun little things like that!! Still hitting a few trees and what not but its getting way better out there!!! SO FUN we are doing fresh tracks tommorow yay!!! heres some photos from a week ago!

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!

FROZEN RAIL JAM 08 @ Blue Mountain.

3rd place holla.

read the whole story on the Snowboard Canada website here!

Dew Tour Weekend

I'm happy to be alive after this last week of such intense partying and riding, so ridiculous. I did qualifiers for slopestyle on wednesday, but didn't do as well as I wanted. The jumps were some of the biggest I've ever hit, but were also some of the best built too. The weather was really terrible for most of the week though, which meant they shut down the comp due to weather a couple times! It was snowing so hard and so windy that they couldn't run slopestule or pipe on Thursday. Spencer killed the slopestyle competition for the ladies, really stoked she won and I'm sure all the Canadians must be proud too. Her runs were so smooth and stylish, she really deserved to do well. Here is a sick shot of her back 3 off the second jump. (I still don't have a camera, hence why I use other people's photos haha.) Once the slopestyle competition was all finished it was time to party! Toyota rented out some gigantic mansion where there was open bar all night long, lots of dancing, and so many people! A fun little photobooth provided some hilarious pictures too...

Friday night I headed over to the Ride team house, and got the pre-game going with them by shotgunning who knows how many beers. Once everyone was all loosened up and covered in cheap beer and Ride stickers, we headed to Liquid Lounge. Electic was throwing the party that night, so of course it was a rager. The whole Electric team was there, as well as the TM Creepy Cyle, who really got the party going as always. Such a fun night, wish I had some photos! Saturday night was one of the most ridiculously packed nights at the bar, I've never seen so many people at Cecelia's Bar in my life! It was the Redbull party, so lots of redbull&vodka to go around, although I had enough to drink the night before so I was a sober soldier. Everyone was dancing their faces off, and I saw more than one person try to drunkenly dance on the stripper pole! Another late night with lots of fun all around.

Yesterday, Megan Ginter, the other Ride team girl who's still here, and I went shredding at Breck for most of the day. We finally some warm weather and sunshine, so stoked it cleared up. We used our last food vouchers from Dew Tour, bought lots of cheese fries, and soaked up the sun a bit before riding around the mountain. Had a really big crew, which is always a good time, got sprayed with snow, and definitely had some laughs.

Last night was the icing on the cake, really a great end to the weekend! It was karaoke at Cecelia's, which is always a good local's night, and the bar was packed! Everyone was hammered and singing, we even got our Ride TM to sing some Aretha Franklin, which was absolutely priceless to say the least. My throat is killing me today from all the singing I did last night, I was belting it out to a few different jams.

All in all, it was a really great start to the season, got everyone stoked for winter, and reminded me of why I snowboard- I love it, and the people I'm always surrounded by are some of the best out there. I am glad that the town won't be quite so crowded, but it was all worth it in the end!

MOUNTAIN MOVING Ditch broken gondolas lets go on bigger ones

Hahah so instead of the blackcomb gondola which is still fallen apart, we decide to celebrate its collapse traveing across two mountains on a cord. OUR FIRST RIDE on the infamous PEak to Peak.. more like mountain moving machiene.. or park to park or lodge to lodge defintally lacks the peak part. UM anyways it was chirgys birthday and was it ever cold.

Do the Dew?

I'm sitting in bed and I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight! Tomorrow is one of the biggest competitions I've ever done, the Dew Tour, right here in Breckenridge. I rode by the slopestyle course today to check out the jumps and such, but couldn't hit it because it was skier qualifiers. The jumps are MASSIVE to say the least, and a lot of the skiers couldn't clear the last one. But they are all built really well, and pretty similar to how Breck normally builds their jumps, so I think I'll be pretty comfortable on them. I have to do open qualifiers tomorrow, 25 women in the field and they take top 4 to prelims, pretty tough. Especially when there are so many girls who kill it so hard doing qualifiers like Silvia, Raywen, Bev, Leanne, and soooo many others. It's going to be such an awesome day I can't wait, wish me luck and I'll tell all about it tomorrow!

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Uhhh yep. Here's a 5-0. Nice to meet you. I'm Alaura. City-snow in Kelowna!

BLACKCOMB GONDOLA BREAKING

So we had a wicked fun day on the mountain riding around with some friends, getting some old tricks back my feet back on my legs and what not the park is super fun and it wasn't as cold as it was before! They were blowing so much snow with all this cold weather. So we are ripping Solar laps and they were like its closed you can't go up and then we ripped over to escaliber and then to jersey and jersey was closed then back to gondola and that wasn't working so we ducked the ropes and sent it down the landmind feilds. I WAS RIPPING through the flats with rocks everywhere, could have died really. Then we find out that a pole on the lower part of the Blackcomb gondola is bent and they are evacuating the mountain the tower snapped in half! people are on it whistler is going crazy its above all the houses, one of the gondolas is on the ground. There is a bunch of houses under that so its hectic they closed the road and fire trucks are here and the hospital has helicopters ready incase anyone has to go to van! HECTIC TIMES im going to go try and get a photo! BRB.

CV

UPDATE: my brother just talked to one of the kids that was in the gondola that dropped and he got so mangled his feet were out the window when it finally stopped bouncing. He is okay tho, he will be rich.
Its on CTV man they are fast.

crazyy

a tower on the blackcomb gondola just broke, there's a gondola in a condo, one in a bus stop and one dangling over the river apparently. this literally JUST happened so this could be innacurate info, but thats the word right now.  there's a helicopter on the landing pad right now and ambulances and police people everywhere so who knows whats going on. SO HECTIC. hope no one is seriously hurt... scary shit.  it'll be interesting what this does for whistler as far as tourists during christmas vacation.

had my 3 month post op appointment with the surgeon in whistler today and got the official OK to start shredding again. im happyyy.  hopefully the weather will get better, but even if it doesnt ill be up there preparing to brave winnipeg winter in a week.  i really wanna do some rails while im in the peg cityy but my snowboarding skills are a little rusty at the moment. we'll see.

alsoo... yesterday i went sledding!! my first sledding experience.  i just got doubled mostly but i got to rip around a bit on my own too it was so fun!  theres not much snow up there at all its pretty sad.  i definately wanna go again when there is.

aand finally, had to get my truck towed for the second time today.  im really ruling at owning a truck.  i think i need it out of my life now.  oh! and im moving back to alpine for the month of january into my old room which is now max's room.  yay!

ledge fun!

here's some photos from our little ledge session on saturday.

so fun.

video clips to come!

MOUNT BAKER!

Organized a trip to Mt.Baker wooooooooooooooooooo! Barry Hartman was my partner in crime just like the old days.

First official road trip in my truck, yay! Such a sick mountain! So much ridiculously fun terrain! They didnt have much alot of snow but they had enough to get a couple wicked turns in.

Such a different feeling being at a mountain where you dont know anyone, where you dont know where to buy a lift ticket, dont know where any of the lifts go, where the good runs are at, where to park........all that snaz! its fun to be out of your own element and go on some real adventures!

Dropped down into some roped off areas cause some randoms said that it would hit a cat track...more like a massive cliff. Ended up hiking out, no big deal. Met up with Pat, Jake, Sean, and their friends and they showed us some runs that we would have never found, SO FUN! Definately a mountain where you have to ride with the real loc doggs. Those guys can rip! Def fun just keeping up with them and a treat to shred with them.

Stopped off at Graham's, the first food spot cause barrys stomach was growling! Wood burning stove, old school rustic bar style, both me and barry's first legal US beer...tastes even better when its legal and some damn good burgers and old school fries.

Can't wait to get back to Baker! That mountain really knows whats up! Lots of chairs, sick terrain, NO BARS ON THE CHAIRS... Already checking the weather out to make the next adventure out there after their next snowfall.

Good news!

Went to the physio today for my knee, see what he had to say. Turns out I'll be good to ride Wednesday in the Dew Tour! I just have to go to the gym and get it comfortable and get the swelling down. So I worked it today, and probably won't ride till Tuesday, mayyybe. Want it to be golden on competition day. Won't be able to train before, but I'm pretty confident with my tricks. Can't wait!

Peak to Peak!

Today was an exciting day on Whistler/Blackcomb, as it was the opening of the Peak to Peak gondola. I was a sucker a rode it, although I didn't wait for the glass bottom cabin. It's pretty amazing though, amazing view, nice and roomy and you can now warm up in whis park in the morning and head over to black park for the sunny afternoons in a mere 11 minutes. Some technical details: the gondola spans 4.4 miles making in the longest gondola in the world I believe and making Whistler/Blackcomb one of the largest, if not the largest ski resorts in the world! It's only supported by 4 pole, so if your afraid of heights...stay away. Check it out for yourselves @ ww1.whistlerblackcomb.com/p2pg/ 

Knees are terrible...

I've been jumping my face off the last few days, getting ready for dew tour and all. Today was going really well, stomping all my tricks, riding with some good friends. Then I did a switch backside 540, and I'm not exactly sure what happened, because I landed it a little funny, then felt my right knee dislocate. Effff word. So now I'm icing the knee, which isn't the knee I usually hurt, but I'm hoping it will be okay in a couple days. Fortunately I do this all the time, and it doesn't feel too bad, so I'm still planning on doing Dew Tour next week. But now I'm just hanging out with some friends who are doing a fabulous job of cheering me up! Johnny Lazz is the man basically, he makes me laugh non-stop so he's good to be around, p.s. he is determined to marry Caley V haha. So I'll be keeping it mellow for a couple days, so I'll keep the knee situation updated!

taybirthyyy

So yesterday was Taylors birthday to start the day off Chrig and I went up the mountain early and ripped up a bunch of paper to make confettie and cut her name out into a chain thingy. Then we saw her run into the lodge and we surprise happy birthdayd her. Then after boarding we got hot wings and hung out at earls. Then Chrig and I met Taylor at lily where she was getting her make up done and we then headed to cinnamon bear where we had dinner and drinks and played pool and hungout and she got her best birthday present ever D.Dennison flew in FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY for tay!. After that was garfs and the whole crew dispursed. Dancing laughing throwing glasses and pizza eating went down.