a little something something
Friday, January 30, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
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, 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 kind
a 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...
a 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...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
whistler/blackcomb snow report.
Snow
New
24 Hours 48 Hours 7 Days Snowbase
12 cm 14 cm 35 cm 145 cm
Jan 8
New
24 Hours 48 Hours 7 Days Snowbase
12 cm 14 cm 35 cm 145 cm
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...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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!
Monday, January 5, 2009
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.
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!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
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