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5 Days of Shred Poetry in the BC Interior

BC’s awesome, deep interior mountains have long been praised for having some of the most captivating scenery in the world. Anne-Flore Marxer was recently filming in the area and was clearly affected by the raw beauty of the region as she checks in with a bit of colourful poetry to sum up her five days there.

Day 1

We are sitting on an old school chairlift at Whitewater near Nelson, BC. It’s bouncing... the slope is still untracked. The fog is lifting and the sun starts appearing behind the evergreens. The snow builds up on the frozen trees, everything is white and crusty. It’s humid, and there are fresh tracks, pillows so cold and heartwarming. Runs in the trees all the way to the road and a hitchhike back to the lift. Small resort, two lifts.

This is how poetic the trip started. And the crew made it become funky and adventurous. Leanne Pelosi, Janna Meyen, Natasza Zurek and I are following Shandy Campos and Scott in the deepest of their mountains.

Day 2

Crazy way up the hill this morning, crossing avi passes. Huge avalanches. Danger zone. The sleds go down, Shandy saves us all. I’m on the radio... I’m so important with my radio! Next one! Sweet and mellow pillow lines. Nat let her sled go straight into a tree. Half of it just commits to suicide. The sled seems fine. Upper bowl, I spit my lungs in the death zone. Can’t see shit and scared as hell. Adrenaline I love you, best drug ever. Scott shreds down the line I was way too scared to do on his noboard! That’s the coolest thing by the way. Noboardng—love it!

Janna rips it on her sled, she jumps even! Shandy’s dog Randy runs faster than any of us on the sleds and hangs with us all day. Warm and sunny. Christy runs over that other dog. Bamboo or Meatball should we call it? The dog goes under the track of the sleds and gets spit out the other end. The dog seems to be used to it. We find sick cliffs and sweet pillow lines; the snow is epic! On the ride down a huge avalanche had crossed our track back, our only way out. We had to dig our way through tons of heavy snow. Happy day.

Day 3

On the third day we found a huge rock pillow field. Messy day, tired day. Janna is having enough fun for all of us! Huge airs out of that one sick rock pillow. Me hungry, me grumpy when hungry, me not friendly when grumpy. Sorry.

Day 4

Janna is a sledneck, she went TTT (to the top) on her sled high marking way better than any of the sled dudes. Scott pulls a Frontside 360 on that natural hit in the middle of his line on a Noboard! What?! All the girls are killing it! We all stomped our cliff lines first track! We are all done by noon and just have a good time. The dogs are here too, they are so cool. They just run all the way up the tracks and hang out with us all day. Lunar eclipse and family dinner, good times.

Day 5

Tired... sketchy avalanche area, no rooping for the first time, it’s really like surfing on snow. We are all quite tired, lucky that Natasza is hardworking for us all, and she didn’t die on that first try. We watch and sit in the sun. Move the sled into the sun little by little as the shadow gets us. Wet boots... Tired... back to our hobbit houses. Me tired, me even stop talking when tired. Good night. The weekend approaches and it’s time for us to rest before we keep on shooting. That was an epic week and certainly the most productive in a long time. Check next year’s Runway movie to see the footage.