Hanging out in Canada is always fun, People are great, and the environment is amazing. Winter or summer the lush forests and great mountains provide a perfect setting for skiing and other activities. I was lucky to go on a dream road trip through bc in January and was equally excited to get to go back last week for the Red Bull cold rush contest. The comp was held at Retallack Cat skiing 2 hours from Nelson and was scheduled for three days with three different venue options.
The three categories of terrain were jumps, cliffs, and lines. The crew sculpted 6 different jumps of varying size all with powder landings for the first day and an amazing session went down. after each of us had our two judged runs we began sessioning the jumps, people were flying off the jumps like popcorn, Dane Tudor and I had a near collision when we both dropped in on two different jumps that had intersecting in-runs.
All the action was captured by Freeride entertainment’s film crew. Our two first hits were edited at the end of the day, and at night we all sat down, watched the footage and then judged each others runs. This was a difficult task, everyone had great runs, and our only judging guidlines were on a overall impression of each rider.
Day two was stormy so after some inspection of the next venue we went freeriding, ripping up Retallack’s steep tree runs that are heavily featured with pillows and airs everywhere. The next morning we awoke to patchy skies with big blue holes, and we mobilized quickly to get the “line” portion of the day underway. The mini golf zone had great snow, and was full of options. Everyone had sick runs, clouds came in and out and many holds were required before everyone got there two captured lines.
after a exciting morning we headed over to the last venue which was a heavily featured cliff zone with pillows and airs everywhere. we decide to wrap it up with one “comp” line and then took a few runs to cap off the day. we wrapped up the night with final judging, awards, and late night partying. Kye Petersen took the event and it was obvious to everyone before the results were even in that he was on top. Next to him on the podium was JP Auclair in second and myself in third. It was an amazing event, super fun session and I felt really lucky and honored to be a part of it. Many big thanks to Retallack and their crew, the Freeride Posse, and Red Bull for putting on the event. More photos and videos can be seen at newschoolers.com.
Red bull cold rush at Retallack lodge
Cold rush saftey breif
cold rush start gate
under the tent at the Red bull cold rush
getting some air durring the Jump session
dinner at Retallack lodge
