On saturday Grouse Mountain hosted the Quicksilver Showdown over the City, a snowboarding slope style contest with some of the Nation's best riders. Mother nature didn't disappoint with blue bird skies and temperatures above zero on the mountain. With conditions like this and a world class event to watch it was a no brainer to head up for the day. Emily and I met Pietra at the bus stop and we took transit up to the mountain. We did some runs while practice was going on for the event.
Pietra jazzed to shred.
Even with the event going on, the main park was still open and it was in fine condition.
Enjoying the View of Vancouver, Vancouver Island from the top of Grouse.
After some runs it was time to eat. The event had a mid ski run beer garden and BBQ set up right next to the second jump of the slope style course. While we ate we watched qualifying and saw some really really good snowboarding, and some really good bails. While at lunch I spotted Craig McMorris who I had met in the summer at wakeboard Nationals. Craig was in the event had a solid run and qualified for the finals. It was really great to see him in action. There was a break in the action before finals so Pietra and I did some more runs.
View from the Chairlift
View from the Chairlift
Beer Garden.
We returned to the beer garden to watch finals, there was ten riders with two runs each with their best run counting. Craig had an awesome first run, my favorite of the day but I might be a bit biased. Again there was some amazing boarding, and amazing crashes as everyone was going for the win. When it was all said and done Craig got third and we had an amazing day on the mountain. Big congrats to Craig, it was awesome to see him in action, and I hope next year's event is just as good.
Craig on the podium
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