It really is on

Winter is completely and utterly officially here, it feels like it hasn’t stopped snowing for three weeks, the stats haven’t come out yet but I can’t think of any day in that period that we didn’t at least get a dusting and we have had a bunch of 30 cm days and loads of 15cm days. This is my favourite when it tops itself up by 10 or 20 cm a day, it is not enough to get to much hype but it never really gets tracked during the day and then it gets loaded again at night. I can’t lie to you it is ridiculously fun and this season has reminded me why I love snowboarding so much.

The parks are also the best they have ever been and it is still very early days park wise so I am sure we will see some big improvements as well. Already the park on Blackcomb seems completely built compared with previous seasons. The intermediate park has stepup jumps this year which make it safer and the landings stay smoother longer. The higher level park already has a two four jump lines. Either the full size right line, a 30 foot step up to 30 foot step down, rolling into a nice long raised up box into a 40 ft kicker into a 45ft kicker, finishing up with a choice of down rails. The left line is gnarly, the last two jumps are 50 ft then 55 ft and you get to start with the shack jump which is so fun. I’ll leave you all with a link to Scott Stevens’ part from Think Thank’s “Thanks Brain” which is the most original shred section I have seen all year, well Gigi Ruff’s parts are always epic but still. Anyway thanks to crapneto for this, I saw the clip on their site and got all excited.

Any way here is the link