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2010 so far

Winter’s in full swing here in the Great White North, and even though its currently pouring rain in most BC zones we’ve been blessed with an early start to the season and a substantial snowbase. We started shooting for our 2010 film by taking advantage of a brief period of snowfall that hit the lower mainland of Vancouver in December. We found an elbow-kink for Scott Sych and Barry Hartman to play with.

Scott Sych vs the Peoples Elbow. Scott takes it with a 5050 backside threesixty out.

On boxing day, rockstar Matt Margetts swaggered his way to Whistler after competing at the Dew Tour. We drove around inspecting some freshly erected urban stunts, but Margetts seemed distracted with the fact that it was dumping snow the whole time. I showed him some photos of a size-able road gap we scoped out a week earlier and he became drastically more excited about landing in powder than sliding thin metal railings into parking lots. We headed into the mountains…

The road gap. We we're really excited to shoot this... even more so when Margetts sent a couple corked 7s

yarr she's a big one eh?

Jeff Boake puts his snowmobile to work as he lines up this chute in the Whistler backcountry. It was so nice he did it twice

Jeff Boake eyeing out his line

braaaap!

With 3 of our athletes residing in Revelstoke for the winter we decided to leave the coast for some dry, interior pow and untapped urban features. Justin VDP and I Ioaded our sledmobiles and made like hippies and peace’d to Revy to meet up with Shayne Zwickel, Josh Bibby and Riley Leboe. Shayne (AKA The Schwank) had a long list of stunts to shoot, so we quickly got to work…

VDP rambles about Tonka trucks and Bobcats

Shayne and Justin VDP had a successful session on this CoryP set up. Big ups to Bob the Bobcat driver for building this for us

Shayne ate it really hard on this feature, but put it down later.

A couple locals showed us around a less travelled backcountry zone where we found a variety of pillow lines and step downs to party with. After a few laps Riley turned and asked me if the light was too grey to shoot a line. He pointed to a triple stager bigger than your grampa’s beer belly. “It’s never too grey to shoot something like that” I responded.

Riley Leboe skis the first two shelves....

... but he double ejected from his skis leaving him perched at the edge of the third stage. We'll be back for a rebate in March.

Bibby. The pirate of the mountains.

Bibby drops a double stager

Newbie filmer Charlie, (AKA Chuckles AKA Chunk the spunk munkey) has been floating around BC’s interior in search of urban step-downs, handrails and ledges with Max Hill, Joe & Cam Schuster and Scott Sych. Check out this bail Cam took a few days ago, he walked away from this one unscathed…

Cam Schuster with a kerSMASH!

Thanks to Sean, Eric and Jeff for the hospitality in Revy / Bryn Hughes for the road gap photos / and Antonio the Mechanic for kicking ass.