Early Backcountry Days

We had a great day with riders Chris Rasman, Dave Short, JF + Vince Fortin and photographer John Scarth. Jumps, pillowlines, and powfields were shredded in abundance. Here are a few snaps we took along today's excellent journey in Whistler's beautiful backcountry!

Early morning calltime

Fresh morning tracks

Dave Short & Chris Rasman

Beautiful blue skies

Look who we ran into - the PARTY SNAKES !!

John Scarth(SBCSnow) - Making it happen

Spring Grouse Shoot Day 2...

Day two of our Grouse Session started a bit slow with everyone pretty beat up from yesterdays jump session.  After numerous coffees and a few Bob Marley tracks we got down to business once again.

Tadej Valentan landed a pretty amazing trick off this rail, what was even more amazing was how flat he landed.

Next blog coming to you from Europe...

Spring Grouse Shoot Day 1...

Day one of our Spring Session at Grouse Mountain turned out to be another amazing experience.  We almost had our entire crew out for this session plus a ton of friends that we invited to join this stress free super fun session.  Some of the other invitees were Mikey Rencz, Eero Niemela, Wiley T, Beau Bishop, Barry Hartman even currently injured Chris Dufficy joined us for some good times.

Thanks again to Jeff Silcock, Chuck @ PYP and the entire Grouse Staff  in helping make this years session another great success.

Big shout out to Phil Tifo for providing us with some behind the scenes photos.

Powder in April !?

Look at all this snow we've been getting in the Whistler backcountry, and it's almost the FIRST of April!!! NO - this is NOT an april fools joke. So here's some pics to prove it!

Rob

Behind the scenes of the Showdown Over the city...

So we just finished shooting the Quiksilver Showdown over the city last Fri and Sat. The conditions made it difficult to keep our gear dry but when the finals kicked in Saturday afternoon the skies parted and some pretty sick footage was captured. Seb Toots did not disappoint and stomped his signature trick the "tootsie roll" to ride away from the comp with 10gs. 

We will be releasing the Showdown video within 2 weeks so keep checkin back to see how the event unfolded.

PS We went up Sunday with a few Alterna riders plus friends and Murphys law it was completely blue byrd. Some pretty amazing stuff went down and will blog that shoot tomorrow. 

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Hello my name is Vera and I am the new kid on the blog :)

here is a funny story from my second day out with the Alterna- Crew (which was today):

While JF and Vince were building this jump, Rob and I went scouting for some more natural spots. We pinned it across the lake, where another film crew was doing their thing. We checked out another zone but the snow there was super crappy. So we raced back across the lake, next to each other, and last time I checked we were going about 75 mph - and that's when my belt blew. Right on front of that other film crew. Of course Rob took off. (He actually went to talk shit on me to JF and Vince because he thought I had ditched him to go talk to those other boys.)

So here I am, out on the lake, torn apart belt pieces all over me, my sled, and the snow, and some curious boys waiting to see what happens next. It was so quiet, I could hear their thoughts "That's why you don't bring girls out here, man"

The ending is kinda boring. I threw on my spare belt (it actually required a little more force than that), waved my greasy fingers HELLO to those boys, and then took off back to Rob, JF, Vince, and Julien....