A Big Birthday Jam & A Storm Brews

Despite the weather the groms and bros turned out for the K2 21st Birthday Jam at Snowpark Saturday night, with 52 guys and 12 girls getting their jib on. After nealry getting blown back down the valley we moved the daytime demo setup from the base of the chair up next to the woolshed where we were nice and close to the bar..... anyway, 5pm rolled around and Big Si gave the crew a briefing and we were up the chair ready to Jam. Some killer tricks were stomped all over the rail features, with standout riding from Base team riders Mack James and Tim Herbert, my fav being Tim stripping while sliding the long box. In the end it was all about the prizes for most of the crew, with $7000 to give away everyone got something cool, Leon Mckay took home the K2 WWW, winning thru the rounds of rock,paper,scissors. After the prize giving the dj's hit the decks and we partied on till the wee hours. All in all a bloody good night and a great comp, big thanks to K2, Session and Smith for all the swag and Big Si for organizing everything, we'll definitely be back next year.
And in case you haven't seen the weather there's a kick ass low coming our way, which should mean some fresh snow on the hills tomorrow.
catch ya on the hill
matt

K2 Snowboards 21st Birthday Jam

K2 Snowboards is celebrating 21 years of making shredtastic snowboarding gear this year. To celebrate K2 are holding a night time jam comp under lights at snowpark this Sat 19th from 5pm. The event will be a loose jam format with bomb loads of prizes and product giveaways. The event is free to enter and open to all age groups, abilities and genders.

Event and Event After party theme: Old School Sweaters... come dressed in your favourite old school sweater and be in to win wicked prizes.
There will be special evening rates for all competitors without a season pass = $20 Adults, $12 youth. Event and after party is free. Snowpark is open exclusively for this event, registration is from 3pm in woolshed, competition starts at 5 pm.

I will be up at the park all day with the K2 demo fleet so come on up and try and some of the new boards on offer this year, and yes there will be WWW Rocker's available to try. After the comp their will be a sick after party with some killer dj's and drink specials, so bring an old school sweater and get on down.

Matt

Night Riding Cancelled

Hey Crew,
Night Riding at SnowPark has been canceled for tonight. Strong wind gusts have the lift on hold already and the weather is coming in, more snow on the way. Don't forget the quarterpipe comp tomorrow night.
peace
M

it's all about sweet 50-50's

Tell ya what, it was the first night riding session of the season, and seeing as i'm still doing 50-50's over flat down rails, small 15' kickers, and battleships i wasn't gonna start my season off by hitting the jib line at Snowpark. Instead, i settled for some bailey's hot chocolates and warmer temps inside the woolshed. Thing is i dont reckon i was settling at all. While my mates did indulge in the jib line and really enjoyed, I had a pretty sweet time inside.

So far its been about 1.5 wks since the season has started here in Wanaka, and i still haven't been up to go riding. I attempted this past weekend to go to the Remarkables. Drove up to QT on friday night and woke up nice and early, dancin around in my thermals while i got ready to go... straight back to bed - closed day.

Here's the thing. i was super amped to go to Remarks, but not so much for Coronet Peak. My last impression of the Peak was of the solid ice run (note that it was run - singular), i did where i tried my best not to turn cos i shuddered everytime i heard that scrapy ice against board noise it was making.

Personally now i'm just hangin out for more snow. I mean the winter isn't going anywhere, and while i might not have been the first one to hit the mt's this season, by all means, its only just started, so i've got heaps to look forward too.

Maybe i'll practice landing on my feet coming out the pipe for the New Electric Quarter Pipe Comp on this week end at Snowpark, or else try bombin down the mt, chinese downhill style, to get ready to look for the Yetti up at Remarks on the Stash grand opening day.

Either way i don't need to practice my sweet 50-50's this season, i've perfected it!

Amy

Just in Time

Ahh, so stoked, as is everyone in Wanaka I'd say, especially the mountain staff. Snow has been falling steadily all day on the hills today, so after the wee dump on Monday we're now looking good for getting to shred some snow on the weekend. Check out our webcams for the view.

chur
Matt

Ahh the white stuff

Hey Team, the peaks were coated in some beautiful snow this morning, even Mt Roy had a good dusting. Snow Park have got their guns blasting again as you can see in this pic. Hopefully we'll see some lifts running this weekend ;-) fingers crossed.
peace
m

More Snow?

Well, maybe, MetVuw is saying there will be wet stuff, whether it's frozen or not is another story. Snowpark has moved their opening day from today to next Wednesday, marketing manager Claire said they want to have good coverage and all the features ready to roll when the peeps hit the first lift of the season. Wiggum have got their Friday the 13th Halloween party at Red Rock, tonight should be a ripper, get on down if you're going to be in town, i know a pile of the Base crew will be there causing trouble.
Have good weekend all

matt