In conjunction with the LG FIS World Cup Park Royal South hosted the LG Mountain Festival on their rooftop parking, complete with sponsor booths, bikini and lingerie shows and of course snowboarding with the City Rail Jam. As with most rail jams there always seems to be a few guys who you wonder how they even got into the event as you cringe upon their ride up and usually flail or catch down the rail but there were for sure some stand out rail riders like Jed Anderson, Harrison Grey, and Cory Gallon. For the ladies only 3 were given the opportunity to compete, Molly Milligan, Jess Kimura, and Breanna Strangeland.  After all the slush settled Jed Anderson and Jess Kimura emerged triumphant.

CITY RAIL RESULTS:
MEN
    1.    JED ANDERSON
    2.    JESMOND DUBEAU
    3.    CORY GALLON
WOMEN
    1.    JESS KIMURA
    2.    BREANNA STRANGELAND

Jess Kimura sliding her way into 1st place

Red Bull sponsored the event and had this car as their display stand for Travis Rice's video, That's It That's All

Breanna wasn't even sure if she'd be able to get in the event when she came down from Whistler but she was obviously ready for it taken 2nd place!

Another strong female contender Molly Milligan

Young and old were there to check out what these wacky snowboarders were doing even SBC's Sara Tollestrup got in the mix!

Breanna locking in to a back lip

It's always good to see TJ but I think he should have done the event, he would have taken out all the young bucks!

Jess was all smiles even before she knew she'd won!

The Inaugural Burton Canadian Open Premiered this weekend in Calgary at Canada Olympic Park.  An international field of competitors went up against a good mix of local talent in both the pipe and slopestyle events. With awesome weather, sun, and a perfect pipe and slopestyle course I witnessed some of the best competition riding for both male and female riders this year.  Good times were had riding, hanging and chilling at the event all week.  Every event and finals was impressive but the female slopestyle finals blew me away. Girls were stomping 720’s, Cab 540’s, switch B/S 540’s, combo rail tricks it was very impressive!  

Hanging with the ladies all week was a good time for sure. Check out my Canadian Open Photo Gallery!

Spencer started off the week with a live interview with Breakfast Television

Spencer O'Brien and Mercedes Nicoll

Raewyn Reid, Leanne Pelosi, and Bev V having a good time in the sun!

Local rippers Breanna Strangeland and Brooke Voigt

Suisse Tina Ramholt in Slopestyle qualifiers

55 year old contest fixture Donna Vano drops in for the pipe qualifiers

Alex Duckworth was going huge in the pipe and stomped a solid 720 in her finals run

Dominic Vallee looked smooth in the semi's but just missed out making it to finals

Mercedes Nicoll and Stacey Burke

Sarah Conrad looking solid as she makes her way down to 2nd place

Jeff Batchelor took 3rd in a Canadians sweep of the podium in Men's Pipe finals 

Lately Jed's been best known for his rail dominance but he proved he can ride anything taking 1st place in Men's pipe

Sarah Conrad and Mercedes Nicoll

Stacey Burke and Roberta Rodger

 Sarka Pancochova was going off all week whether it was huge in the pipe or backside Rodeo's in slope!

TJ was looking smooth in the pipe and in the new Bond Outerwear

Bev V doesn't need any kind of artificial energy this girl is always on fire!

Breanna was so happy to be in the finals she did a little dance before her run!

Jenna Blasman used to be a camper at MGT now she's competing against her coaches Spencer O'Brien and Leanne Pelosi

Spencer O'Brien, Silvia Mittermuller, Bev V, Raewyn Reid, Breanna Strangeland, Leanne Pelosi, and Taryn Cowling

Silvia waxing up before the finals

Taryn Cowling and Alex Duckworth both made it through to the slopestyle semi's

Tricia Burns from GO211 was super stoked on Spencer's Switch B/S 540 in the finals

Women's Slopestyle Podium 1st Silvia Mittermuller, 2nd Megan Ginter, 3rd Mary Sallah 

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Between my travels to Idaho with ThirtyTwo, Aspen for X-Games and SIA in Vegas I managed to fit in a day of  Catboarding at Powder Mountain with Simon Chamberlain, his brothers Andre and Matt and ThirtyTwo/Stepchild Am Joe Sexton all to be filmed by the Fuel TV Crew for Simon's upcoming First Hand.  The clouds hung low and the visibility was pretty minimal at first but as the morning progressed pockets of sun began to emerge and we could actually see and enjoy all the fresh powder! Although there was a lot of set up and stop and go for the filming it was an epic day with friends and cool to see how tight Simon is with his brothers and teammate.  Thanks Jory and Jeff for letting me tag along and thanks Powder Mountain for having amazing terrain and great guides Nick and Shaymus. Look for Simon's First Hand to air on Fuel TV in March 2009.

Jory, Jeff, and Tyler getting the shot

Our cat driver was a girl, Momma taking charge!

Joe Sexton busted out a Stepchild Fish for the day and was super stoked!

The crew, Andre, Matt, Simon, and Joe

Joe and Simon are more then just teammates, they're total bros! Pssst.........check out all the snow caked on the trees!

The sun came out and it was beautiful! Joe, Simon, and Roberta

Matt and Jory, end of the day stoke!

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