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Oh nice!!!!!

Ya save the epic days for when I’m back at home!!!!! 

Best day of the season for me by far, even though I only got 1 super awesome run down whistler bowl to VD areas. Demoed an Endeavor BOD and an Octorocker (Jeremy’s) later in the afternoon.

Pics please, skip!!!!!

Today was defs one of the best days of the season for me. Got up early, went up peak chair and hit up christmas trees and boarded some of the deepest powder i’ve ever been in. Amazing day on the slopes

Only 5 days left till i have to go home :(

@mizu: Sorry mizuu, no pics ahaha.. too busy having fun

@skip:

Haha, I didn’t bring my camera actually.

Rider’s Blog: Day 42

(This blog post is from yesterday).

I really need a day like this. Woke up to 22cm of new snow overnight. Michelle woke me up early and I was down at Creekside before the lifts opened. Being a busy weekend, the lift lines were bad right from the start, but I hustled my way through the Creekside Gondola line fairly efficiently (only got told off once haha).

Went up Red Chair and while the alpine was still going to be shut for a while, I bombed a run through the trees to Emerald Chair, as I figured that’s where the line would be the smallest at the current time. The run was pretty sweet, lots of pow everywhere. Emerald Chair line wasn’t too bad, although by the time I got to the front, it was backed up considerably and I decided not to ride down to Emerald or Red again.

Finney being the awesome dude he is, shot me a text saying the t-bars had opened. I went straight over but couldn’t be bothered waiting in line. i then looked over to Peak Chair and there were only a few people in line. That’s all I wanted to ride anyway and I was more than happy to wait in line listening to music. So I got in line, third chiar from the front, and waited for about an hour. I was so stoked to be right up the front on such a busy day, the time actually flew. By the time the chair opened, the line was huge!

Finally the chair opened and I was literally the first person down Whistler Bowl. It was such a surreal feeling being in Whistler bowl, fresh powder everywhere, looking back and not seeing one person in sight. Shale Slope looked a bit wind blown, so I decided to keep going over the backside. I kept going along the ridge and dropped down into the bowl just below VD trees. Again I was the first person down there. Just an awesome run.

Bumped into Paul Morgan at Red Chair lineup and we decided to go up Peak and hit Million Dollar Ridge. Great call. The snow was deep and untouched. Paul is such a ripper also. You might recognise the name from the high level riding articles on Boardworld. He is a trainer here in Whistler. Anyway, riding with Paul always brings awesome lines and pushes me to ride my best. Awesome run and I was sweating hard by the bottom. My GoPro battery ran out somewhere near the top of this run but I think I got some usable footage.

From there I caught up with Skip aka Rico outside the Roundhouse. We swapped boards for a run and rode down to Red. The lift lines had died down considerably by now. We went back up to Peak and did a sweet run through Bagel Bowl, which runs next to West bowl. We found some really nice snow and rode back down to Red. Went back up and rode down to Garb. I realised my legs weren’t going to last much longer, so I went up Garb and rode home. Got home at 2:30pm after riding without a break. Truly a sick day on the mountain! Hopefully I’ll get an edit together in the coming days.

All photos taken with the GoPro.

Is it on?

My happy place

Just chillin’ in line at Peak

Line getting bigger

Yep

And bigger

sight man long lines .....

That was before the lift opened. Peak Chair line moves pretty quickly.

haha I know the lifty and the guy in the yellow pants/black jacket combo in the peak line up.

stoked you finally had a killer pow day Jeremy

yeah sad i missed the whis pow… but stoked we are all getting it

shredding the gnar

sweeet.. where is this?

that was in the terrain garden a few days ago, my mate bought a disposable camera so the photo quality is pretty bad