Family Tree showing you what’s up in the Nintendo Terrain Park and Highest Level parks on Blackcomb.
Now grab your brain bucket and huck some backflips off Kong!
Park Rider Sessions presented by TELUS will be hosting a Slopestyle JUMP JAM Sunday February 13. The competition is open to skiers and snowboarders of all ages.
The event is taking place in the rhythm jump section (right side) of the Habitat Terrain Park on Whistler mountain. Three jumps are spaced close together which gives you no room for error. These jumps are super fun. It’s jam format so take a short hike back to the top to get as many runs in as possible!
Helmets are mandatory. Mouth guards strongly recommended.
Pre-registration – $29 at Guest Relations
Registration – $35 in the Roundhouse the day of event until 10:30am
Inspection – 9:45am-10:30am
Training – 10:00am-11:15am
Rider’s Meeting – 11:30am
JUMP JAM – 11:45am start until approximately 2:00pm-2:30pm
Video & Awards – 4:00pm at 18below at Base 2
Here’s Family Tree‘s Josh Bauer hitting all three features with a bs rodeo to bs 360 taipan to method.
The Quiksilver quarterpipe has moved down the Nintendo Habitat Terrain Park, under Emerald chair. Instead of being set up as a spine, it’s set up as a single quarterpipe with a jump on the left. There’s a landing at the end, and on the back side of the feature for transfers. The possibilities are endless!
The feature was getting sessioned pretty hard today. Every one that hit it was stoked on the set up. And every one that bailed was fine because of the mild, spring-like conditions that are oh so perfect for park riding.
The following photos were shot today and include photos of WB Parks staff Neil Young bluntsliding the entire feature, Trevor Karle, Family Tree‘s Josh Bauer, skier Laurent Oliver Martin and another skier that was absolutely killing it!
I was able to catch up with Dane Degruyter before he left for SIA Snow Show in Denver from January 27-30. Here’s a new promo video he edited including GoPro shots from our day in the Nintendo Highest Level Park on Blackcomb.
Dane’s sponsors include:
Rossignol
TMC Freeriderz
Monster
Smith
Whis Park is off the hook right now! Ryan Kenny from Family Tree went up to the Habitat Terrain Park on Whistler mountain early last week with Jesse Millen.
This video will be in the 2nd Family Tree webisode. Here’s the sneak peek:
The 22 foot superpipe is ready in the Nintendo Terrain Park on Blackcomb and the Quiksilver spine is in the Habitat Terrain Park on Whistler. Stay tuned for some content of those features!
So how many of you hit up the Showcase King of the Rail and TELUS Park rider session last week? For those of you that were out of town for the holidays (like me), Brian Finestone, supervisor of the Nintendo Terrain Parks, hooked us up with photos of both events and Cam Batten with the video of King of the Rail.
King of the Rail – Darcy Sharpe
Queen of the Rail – Marie-Andree Racine
The skies were blue for the TELUS Park Rider Session and everybody was throwing down in the Highest Level Park on Blackcomb.
Winners:
Male Snowboard 17+ – Ryoki Ogawa
Male Ski 17+ – Brenden Reid
Male Snowboard 14-16 – Darcy Sharpe
Male Ski 14-16 – Jake Rouches
Male Snowboard 13 & Under – Sam Walser
Male Ski 13 & Under – Mitchell Wilson
Female Snowboard 17+ – Natalie Good
Female Ski 17+ – Cassandra Sharpe
See you guys at the next King of the Rail January 15th and Park Rider Session January 16.
Whistler Blackcomb has two contests in store this week.
King of the Rail presented by Showcase will be held at the base of Whistler, next to the Fitzsimmons chair. There are separate categories for snowboarders and skiers, male and female, and adult and youth.
Category winners will receive a percentage of the cash entry fees as a prize and all participants are entered in to win fantastic draw prizes from Showcase, Burton, Atomic, Nintendo, TELUS, DNA and more…
Registration is from 5-6pm at Showcase (Village location). Entry fee is $15.
King of the Rail - December 30, 2010
Park Rider Sessions presented by TELUS will be a slopestyle event in the Blackcomb nintendo Terrain Park on December 31. The competition is open to skiers and snowboarders, all ages welcome.
Helmets mandatory for all events. Mouth guards strongly recommended.
Pre-registration is also recommended. Click here for more information.
Park Rider Sessions - December 31, 2010
Steve Petrie and Lucas Ouellette of Arena Snowparks talk about building the new TELUS Staircase and give a sneak peek of the Quiksilver spine that will be going up in the Whistler Blackcomb nintendo Terrain Parks within the next few weeks. The hype is real!
The TELUS staircase went up in the Whistler Habitat Terrain Park this past weekend. Just in time for the Holidays! Since I wasn’t able to be there, friend Jordan MacDonald of Footyfiend shot the opening of the feature.
This thing is going to get sessioned so hard!
Happy Holidays from Terrace Bay, ON. I look forward to seeing you again soon Whistler!
I hit up Blackcomb’s Nintendo Terrain Park with skiers Mack Jones and Dane Degruyter over the weekend. We were hoping to shoot some jump sequences but guess what? It was snowing yet again!
Mack’s sponsors include:
4FRNT
ORAGE
KOMBI
GIRO
PLENTY SOUL
Here are some photos from the shoot:
Be sure to check out Mack and Dane in PYP‘s full-length video Too Much Fun:
All of that snow helped the Parks too. New features are being built daily in the Nintendo terrain parks. We spent a couple of sunny days over the weekend on Blackcomb. You can’t beat days like this with cruisy park laps and friends in the lift line.
With 80-110cm in the forecast over the next five days, you can be sure the Parks crew (including the volunteers that completed their training this week) will have lots of fresh ideas in store for you park rats.
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