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.

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!

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.

boardingwalrustacoeaters

Today was the first day we brought out the camera because it was a little softer and bluebirds. We grabbed coffee and Brad ptexed my board and de-tuned it and waxed it! WHAT A MAN! So yeah I finally bought my pass man it felt good but i am officially in Big person debit. With the whole credit card scene. Anyways our mood was pretty mellow at first and Chrig and I decided that had to changed so we tried to learn how to do the worm down the mountain. It didn't work to well but definitely turned into quiet the spectacle. Anyways we rode and filmed some things on what the park has to offer. There was some falling and laughing and dancing and trickers and way more girls then ever! Other then that here is some photos and what not. P.S. we had a taco salad and the red pepper is hotter then the green said three out of three people, for future reference.

Let it snow let it snow let it snow!

Good old Whistler weather 2008!
Warm Warm....snow, RAIN, snow, RAIN yay!

Alpine recreation forecast for the South Coast Mountains issued by Environment Canada at 2 PM PST Saturday 6 December 2008.
The next mountain forecast will be issued at 5 AM Sunday.

Synopsis.. A cold front will cross the south coast tonight bringing snow and cooler temperatures. Flurries will end Sunday as a ridge of high pressure begins to build in from the west.

Whistler - Blackcomb.
Tonight..Periods of snow.
Alpine temperature falling to minus 4.
Snowfall accumulation 5 to 10 cm.
Freezing level 1000 metres.
Mountain top winds southwest 40 km/h.
Sunday..Flurries tapering off during the day.
Alpine temperature minus 4.
Snowfall accumulation 2 to 5 cm.
Freezing level near valley bottom in the morning rising to 1000 metres in the afternoon.
Mountain top winds west 30 km/h.

5 Day Trend..A warm front will sweep across the south coast early Tuesday. Rising freezing levels will result in rainy weather in the alpine on Tuesday. A cooling trend will set in on Wednesday with freezing levels near mid-mountain as a front stalls over or near the south coast.

Extended forecast for Whistler - Blackcomb.
Monday.. Mainly cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries.
Snowfall amounts trace.
Freezing level near valley bottom in the morning rising to 800 metres in the afternoon.
Tuesday.. Periods of rain.
Rainfall amounts 5 to 10 mm.
Freezing level 2200 metres.
Wednesday.. Periods of snow.
Snowfall accumulation trace to 10 cm.
Freezing level 1200 metres.

Copyright 2008 Environment Canada.

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Some MiniHype @ Garfinkles

Last night was Runway Films Premiere, we also showed a lil somethin somethin. The night went well the bar got pretty full, bartenders spraying water, glasses were thrown , laughing and dancing went down, all good.

So we were just trying to get the word out about what we are doing this year. Due to a lack of snow it lacks the boarding in it, although we are just saving all the good stuff for Jan1st! So here you go a little minihype to please the eyes. Filmed by Derek Dennison, Darrah Reid-Mclean & Taylor Godber, Edited by Hayden Rensch. Enjoy.

On The Horizon MiniHype from Caley Vanular on Vimeo.

LAST NIGHT

we went hot tubbing then had an epic dance party at the beagle with a lot of people. D12 and royce da 5'9 or whatever were supposed to play at garfs but they cancelled so the bar was paacked. i stayed sober the whole night and still had a really good time.  me and caley did a good job of phantom ing from the bar and went back to her house around 2.

(image added by caley for dramatic effect and emotion on the lack of DA5'9 that night)

...the night before that, i locked myself out of my new house and ended up sleeping in my truck for a couple hours, then on the concrete ground in the entrance to where some hotel has snowboard storage (because it was warm).  im constantly getting myself in to ridiculous shenanigans.  oh and the night before that i drove myself into a ditch, because i cant drive my stupid truck and had to get it towed out for 65$.

my wrist is starting to move a bit, and i got some stitches out the other day.  im gonna have a surgery to get all the hardware out in jan hopefully, and in two weeks i have an appointment where they're gonna tell me if its healed enough to start shredding.  hope sooo.  hopefully it'll start snowing too, whis is not doing so good these days

On The Horizon Launch @ Garfs

EYES ON THE HORIZON LAUNCH!
tomorrow at Garfinkels Bar!

Paired up with The Runway Premier and the Circle!

Dont miss out!

Putting together a guest list if anyone is interested!
xoxo

BULLET PROOF!

Lifestyle shoot yesterday. got up the mountain at 130pm. derek was kind enough to film us for some penguin slides and 10 secs of riding. definately a sharp edge day...good thing none of us had any. did a couple more sketchy icy laps. downloaded all the way from solar coaster WOO WOO! had good company all day and a romantic ride down...haha. crazy to take the chair down in december...felt like a cold summer with the mountain still bare. no bears tho :(

Hanging at my house

Had some people over, we laughed and stuff.

Loosh and Geeves got all cute with eachother.

See What I See Premiere/ ON THE HORIZON Mini Tease

So WE have teamed up with GARFINKLES, whistlers favourite nightclub! Runway films is having their premiere at Garfs this Thursday and what better audience to premiere our mini tease too; A club full of snowboard chickens!!! We will be handing out free goodies from THE CIRCLE and lots of STICKERS!! Definitely come on down to Garfs this thursday and support the cause!!

ComputernerdinG

Wrist is still pretty effed,  I've been putting some serious time in on my computer.  Declined offers of going out last night and tonight.  Drinking probably wouldn't be good for the swelling.  Had my first shift at Showcase tonight, it was busy and hectic.  Tomorrow I move out of my pretty house in the village and into a house in Alta Vista with a bunch of boys.  I'm getting pretty used to packing up all of my belongings and moving.

This interviews worth reading i think..for several reasons.  Its been up for a while but whatever.  One of the best freeriders everr, plus he's aware of environmental issues.  More snowboarders probably should be...  The green mountain project sounds kinda coool

Nicolas Muller Interview

Holden has a line of outerwear made with waterproof hemp thats super environmentally friendly too. interesting...

not snowboarding...

k this isnt snowboarding at all, but my friend just showed me this link and its gnarly.  i dont understand how he mangled himself so badly.  

also.. i just discovered THIS

aand happy american thanksgiving!

Wrist Shenanigans

so i went to get a pin taken out of my wrist yesterday, which i was told was a mellow procedure.  after having my arm cut open and an hour of some lady yanking on metal in my wrist with pliers, i was thinking it didnt seem too mellow.  finally they decide to xray it again on a different angle and discovered it wasnt a pin sticking out of my wrist it was a screw... which was attached to the plate holding my bones together in there.  so they sewed me up and schedualed me for a surgery in squamish next week. sweeet.  im taking a few days off work cause its real sore.  it was opening day today and im not allowed to go snowboarding (doctors exact words were: if you fall on that wrist, you will break something) but i figured id just be veryy careful.  slept at gills, woke up at 530 and headed to the village with jan and jake.  3 hours later we were on our first gondola of the season.  it was a pretty fun day despite the serious lack of snow and my extreme cautiousness.  everybody was up and stoked, it was a good vibe.  went inside for lunch, and discovered my hand was huuge and swollen.  kinda worried me, so i cut my day short.  i think im going to follow the doctors instructions and not snowboard til this thing is healed.   we'll post pictures later

ACL TEST

We went up to Kadenwood today for a little pre-season shredding, it was my first time since the surg. and the happiest day in a long time. Caley, Darrah, Taylor and I ripped some pow turns after some mad hikes and shit went off...ch.

Shred Kits Ready...Just Waiting For The Snow To Fall.

So...my saturday consisted of setting up my snowboard, sticker job completed, lacing up the boots, and strapping in knee brace and all and doing some sweet presses in my living room. I'm pretty cool hah, but the knee feels great almost 6 moths post op acl reconstruction and I think I'm ready to shred. After some sweet carpet pow turns it was off to the final Sandbox premiere to catch up with some old friends and make it rain. Here are the results of our super high profile photo shoot and some extras from the night as well as the Vancouver premiere. Embrace...

Second Snow +Sandbox Finale= goodtimes : )

So the mountain was said to open saturday but due to weird weather lately it couldn't do it. Although on Saturday it snowed and we all headed up to base two. There was a bench, log jib, jumper thingy, sign jibby and a downrail. Huge crew hanging out and doing their thing it was pretty fun, remind me to dull my edges those babies are scarrryyy!! Then i headed to pasta lapino with Hayden, Geeves, Logan and Hayden's brother. It was so good and so affordable, i forgot how good that place is. Chugged a Vitamin water from the circle and headed home to shower and get ready. My dad and i made a stir-fry it was okay, not as good as i usually make them we had a lack of sauce, so we made due. Geeves came over and then Chrigy,Freddy,Gill, Mark, Adam, Jody, Belzile and we played a drinking game we made up called Spin The Bottle: Hug or Drink. Ha-ha so what happened was you spin the bottle and the person it points to can either Hug you and drink with you or drink by themselves 3 times. Ha-ha so that made some laughs, and Geeves popped some champagne with a knife and accidently broke the top which accidently cut his pinky finger. We said cheers and laughed and stuff. Then it came time to head to the premiere so we had designated drives drive us there and we waltzed in. There was a photo area with props and such and a photographer taking photos. Two huge screen's a DJ and a Bar. Red wrist band means you can watch the movie, Blue wrist band means you can drink. THEN we ran around said hi laughed a lot and on the way back from the washroom kicked christmas trees and i found this photo of santa on my phone. ha-ha oh man! Heres some photos... so you can bask in how much fun we had last night!