groundhog day

we are still unlucky with the weather and the conditions. the terrain would be so sick. also we really like the mellow baker style. i definately have to get back here, when its better conditions. met jake and his girlfriend today together with greg martin from friday and went shredding the resort a bit.

we wanted to hike a big face in the afternoon, as it seemed to be sunny up there. unfortunately, the bad weather kept moving in. but before calling it a day, we shaped a little tranny into the snow walls of a parking lot and sani and mu were having a nice session there.

ended up shooting there for a couple of hours, getting some nice shots in the end.

some first shots... finally...

the bad weather keeps us in a viscious loop here. its really hard to keep the patience with poring rain and clouds every day. snow conditions are far from being perfect, but could be worse. at least, we have a solid base here.

hard for good action shots though. otherwise, baker is a really cool place to go. very laid back, hippie style, good pricing everywhere and a sick terrain. i can only imagine, how sick it must be here with good conditions.

well, we have to deal with the conditions, so we went up today anyways and tried to find some stuff. after a small hike, we found a nice gully to put some pow turns in. visibility was quite good so we went for it.

later in the day, we found another nice ravine with some nice pipe style hits on the sides. this day kind of brought our motivation back. never give up...

baker... and the rain...

leaving whistler, we headed past vancouver yesterday and had a quick glimpse on cypress bowl, the venue for the olympic halfpipe contest. what can I say, it's looking desastrous. 10 degrees and pouring rain. there's literally no snow left in the resort and I am seriously wondering, how they gonna hold a proper pipe contest there in 2 weeks.

went shopping a bit in vancouver downtown and then drove down to glacier, which is gonna be our home for the next week.
we were lucky to get the very last b&b room in 'town', so sani, mu, christian and I will be squeezing in a super small but cozy room for the next 2 days.


the weather sucks here as well, went up to the resort and then decided to call it a day and drove down to bellingham for some serious crack smoking...


hope, we'll be back in glacier by 8 to watch xgames slopestyle and big air. go, grilo!

powder mountain

first real shooting day was due today for the cat story and once again, powder mountain presented itself from its best possible side: pow and bluebird! we started early to be on the cat at 8:30 already. after the usual pieps procedure, we could finally hit the first run.

i was able to fix the broken backpack for the gopro and tried to film some ego-cams during the day. the big mount is a bit too unhandy and the tubes twisted a bit, so i had to switch to the first angle again. i'll try to get some aluminium tubes though to fix it properly.

made a small demo clip though to show the new angle in motion:

it was a real fun day. not as productive as it could have been, but really nice to ride! thanks powder mountain & fabia for hooking us up!

here's another video that ken filmed throughout the day (courtesy of powder mountain). thanks, ken!!!

Pleasure Magazine at Powder Mountain Catskiing from Powder Mountain Heliskiing & Cat on Vimeo.

first days, first tracks...

we spent the first two days of our trip in the resort, to get some riding before the real deal starts at powder mountain tomorrow. whistler got really good snow this season. solid base an some fresh from the past storm. quite ideal to adjust the bones and the gear for shooting pow again.

this morning surprised us with quite some rarity for BC: sunshine! we took the chance and went all the way up to ride 'peak to creek'. its always funny to see all the pow hunters taking first tracks down the face of peak chair, throwing themselves down every cliff they can find. the waiting people cheering from the chairlift base station.

i tried some new angle with sani (see below). the construction broke after the first run, but the angle looks insane and i gonna fix it for the day at powder mountain tomorrow. its gonna be sick!

we just took a quick one and went straight on towards 'peak to creek' to get some shots. along with us today was leo, the filmer of 'camp of champions'.

it felt sooo good to finally rides some pow again!

later in the day, leo was filming a 'game of suck' with sani and mu in the small park at whistler, mulimu of course riding everything with his fish, including all kinds of switch (in this case fakie) tricks.

weather for powder mountain tomorrow looks insane! seems we are lucky this time!

finally there

after some exhausting 24 hours travel, we finally hit ground at fabias house in whistler. the slalom team, that had been checking in with us in munich (and that had already cost us more than an hour waiting) had been going exactly our route, wich added up some more delays until our final destination. i just don't get it, why you would wanna bring the whole equip (including the gates!!!) on the plane. 5 guys, 5 tons of luggage. no kidding!


whistler is already in full grip of the games, lots of barricades and road blocs, including random security controls.

mu is already with us (häy män häy) and sani will be joining us in the morning. plan for our first day is whistler and blackcomb mountain. getting the feet on the board again and shooting some urgent stuff for our ispo booth ;)
hope, it's all working out.
SHREEED!!!

lucky again

yes, we made it and are on board already. check in was smooth as can be. seems, the canadian slalom team checked in before us, so the girls at the counter were maybe reliefed to see our 'small' luggage.

no extra costs an excellent seating (at least for the first flight to toronto). christian surely would deserve a solid beating, for asking, wether the (massively overweight) boardbags would still have to be scaled or not. thanks for the shocker, dummy! :D




had some final european breaky (for ridiculous 25 bucks) and are now off to toronto, where we gonna meet stephan 'mulimu' maurer...