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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Snow Stock is ON!!

Yo Crew,
if you weren't already aware, Billabong are running the newly named Snowstock event at Snowpark starting tomorrow. This event is going to be huge, with a 3 star rated TTR(ticket to ride) Big Air so you're going to have some big names around looking to get points on the board for the TTR championship. There's also the Nixon Quarterpipe Throwdown and the Panasonic Night Fight Rail Jam, so it's shaping up to be a killer event, of course there's going to be plenty of music and partying going down as well, so get yourself up there.
chur
Matt

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

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

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