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| Quick shot with the go-pro on Mystery |
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Lazy Sunday in the Best City on Earth
Whistler was a bit of a bust this Saturday with the weather. Chilled out in Van on Sunday to hit up Cream-mour. The Sun poked out but the temperatures stayed low, should have brought my skates. On the plus side, an afternoon with friends in the sunshine isn't bad, hopefully tomorrow brings better snow.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Chronic-whatkles of Gnarnia
Well I have been pretty gosh darn lazy and haven't been filming, updating or doing much other than skiing with a smile lately. But here is what went down since my last update.
After a festive Christmas at home I was lucky enough to ski in Jasper for a solid week, and the rocky mountains were well, rocky... That John Denver wasn't full of shit man. Not much snow, and the park was icy as hell. Well actually, I always picture hell to be more on fire, but you get the drift. I guess icy skiing is better than no skiing.
After the rock slalom in Jasper, I headed back to the wonderful DC, where I played kid again. Living Vancouver has truly made me appreciate how lucky I have been to grow up with winter at my house and having a place in the country to play with. Had a solid few days setting up jumps and jibs in my backyard, I may be in my 20's,but I'm going to play forever.
After pretending to be 14 again, I hoped on plane back to the beautiful Van City. Skiing was fun up north but there was a serious lack of snow and maintained parks, which convienitly Whistler has both! So far things have been super chill at school so skiing has been a plentiful, gotta love being in Uni full-time and skiing 5 days a week.
Anyone who skis and has attended UBC can tell you there is mad metal everywhere but rarely is there the snow to slide those beautiful rails. Vancouver was blessed with some snow for a short 24hrs, Paolo Aranoff, Christian Slotboom and myself set out hit up a nice down rail at the Chan center. Probably not the smartest location.... UBC security showed up quickly, and were surprisingly chill about things. Nice to see that people can be cool with us having fun knowing that its not harming anyone. We spent a good 1.5 hours making an in-run, jump and landing, got all strapped in and ready to slide and the police showed up. The guy was super confused to what we were doing and a little less understanding. But oh well, next time.
I guess since urban was a no go, the mountains are a good second option. Pierre Millien and myself went up to hit up Mt. Seymour yesterday to play in the Nike 6.0 park and although the features were nothing huge, light was shit and snow was slow still got some fun shots.
After a festive Christmas at home I was lucky enough to ski in Jasper for a solid week, and the rocky mountains were well, rocky... That John Denver wasn't full of shit man. Not much snow, and the park was icy as hell. Well actually, I always picture hell to be more on fire, but you get the drift. I guess icy skiing is better than no skiing.
After the rock slalom in Jasper, I headed back to the wonderful DC, where I played kid again. Living Vancouver has truly made me appreciate how lucky I have been to grow up with winter at my house and having a place in the country to play with. Had a solid few days setting up jumps and jibs in my backyard, I may be in my 20's,but I'm going to play forever.
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| Nothing that impressive, but just showing the fun I have at home. |
After pretending to be 14 again, I hoped on plane back to the beautiful Van City. Skiing was fun up north but there was a serious lack of snow and maintained parks, which convienitly Whistler has both! So far things have been super chill at school so skiing has been a plentiful, gotta love being in Uni full-time and skiing 5 days a week.
Anyone who skis and has attended UBC can tell you there is mad metal everywhere but rarely is there the snow to slide those beautiful rails. Vancouver was blessed with some snow for a short 24hrs, Paolo Aranoff, Christian Slotboom and myself set out hit up a nice down rail at the Chan center. Probably not the smartest location.... UBC security showed up quickly, and were surprisingly chill about things. Nice to see that people can be cool with us having fun knowing that its not harming anyone. We spent a good 1.5 hours making an in-run, jump and landing, got all strapped in and ready to slide and the police showed up. The guy was super confused to what we were doing and a little less understanding. But oh well, next time.
I guess since urban was a no go, the mountains are a good second option. Pierre Millien and myself went up to hit up Mt. Seymour yesterday to play in the Nike 6.0 park and although the features were nothing huge, light was shit and snow was slow still got some fun shots.
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| Grabbing some lunch at Seymour. Photo Cred Pierre Millien |
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| Gorilla steeze really has a new meaning Photo Cred: Pierre Millien |
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