I have to admit I did most of my Grenade Games watching via the web from my house in North Vancouver. The SBC crew, Scott, Gerhardt, and John were doing  good job documenting all the events and nightly parties. Looked like everyone was having a lot of fun, some maybe a bit too much!  Either way things were getting loose up at Whistler for the annual Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival and I had to go up there even if only for the past two events.

I made it up in time to check out the pipe jam finals on Friday and got to chill in the sun watching the event with all my favorite ladies. That night I went with Mercedes Nicoll and Meghann O’Brien to the Schick Fashion Exposed. In the Foyer of the Conference Center was an State of the Art was on display with work from various artists and photographers like Scott Serfas, Scott, Pommier, Inkspoon, Megan Majewski and Laura Javor. As well Westbeach had a photo display with archival photos from the past 30 years and I was pretty surprised to see a photo of myself in the display! It was a portrait taken by Dano back in 1997 at Mt Seymour. I remember the day too we were up there shooting the Seymour QP on Peak 1, such a fun day!  The Fashion show was amazing!  Nikita, Helly Hanson, Burton, Westbeach, Bench showed all their next year’s outerwear and apparel, Aaron Chang showed his swimwear collection, and We3 the Designer Exposed winners showcased their very tight and very girly apparel collection. I can’t forget to mention the breakdancers, who put on an amazing display of moves and talent to get the crowd going as well as a musical interlude by a guy who was not only talented at signing and playing the guitar but would mix in his amazing saxophone skills.

The Grande Finale for the Grenade Games was what would normally be a Big Air at Telus but being Grenade it was different then big airs in the past. With a choice of either a big air jump or step up that led to either a stair rail set up or stump bonk it gave the riders a chance to get creative. We watched the practice Saturday afternoon from just outside Sushi Village where you had a good view of the whole set up but opted to go to the Monster Party at GLC for the finals that evening for the free food, drinks and most of all you could watch it from indoors since it was still super chilly at night. Only thing was with so many people it was hard to watch the actual contest and you went from one high five to the next. Oh well it was fun and I know I can check out the highlight video online!

Check out my photos from the weekend!

Natalie Gough and Breanna Stangeland were ripping around on Snowlerblades at the pipe finals

Yum veggie burgers with Mercedes Nicoll

Pretty obvious why Sammy Luebke won highest air

Hana Beaman and Roberta Rodger enjoying the sun

Bev V likes to have a good time and a Kokanee by noon is always a bonus!

Double trouble Mercedes Nicoll and Gabi Viteri

Mercedes arrived to the Schick Fashion Show in style!

Happy Art!

Roberta Rodger from the Westbeach photo display circa 1997 

Boob chicks to get the crowd warmed up for the shot

Nikita Outerwear

Nikita Apparel

Helly Hanson Outerwear

Helly Hanson Apparel

30 Years of Westbeach

Retro looks from Westbeach

Westbeach's current collection

That's right Bench is launching outerwear

Aaron Chang swimwear collection

We3

Grand Finale Set up

JP Walker getting interviewed for the Canadian Heritage video

Crispin Cannon and JP Walker watching the Finale inside GLC

SBC's Scott Birke and Westbeach's Racheal Brick

Priscilla, Valerie, and Tenaya enjoying the free Monster