Bear Valley Rail Jam 2010 - The Video

Bear Valley hold their third rail jam contest April 10. The park was setup just in front of the Sun room. It was composed of one hand rail, one canon box, one C box and one tap tank.

Benoit Rouchy won the snowboard under 15 category. He was the defending champion. He was challenged by Moke Taylor who won the best trick of the day with a 360 nose tap.

James Young won the ski under 15 category. Sean Finnegan won the ski 16 and above.

Thomas Costa won the snowboard 16 and above. Kevin Warren the defending champion decided to judge the contest this year.

Jessica Lawrence won the women snowboard category.

Music by the Sonic Youth, song "Ca plane pour moi", a remix of the original song by Plastic Bertrand released in 1977.

Bear Valley Rail Jam 2010

Bear Valley hold their third rail jam contest April 10. The park was setup just in front of the Sun room. It was composed of one hand rail, one canon box, one C box and one tap tank.

Benoit Rouchy won the snowboard under 15 category. He was the defending champion. He was challenged by Moke Taylor who won the best trick of the day with a 360 nose tap.

James Young won the ski under 15 category. Sean Finnegan won the ski 16 and above.

Thomas Costa won the snowboard 16 and above. Kevin Warren the defending champion decided to judge the contest this year.

Jessica Lawrence won the women snowboard category.

Travis Jeitz

Jackson Heath

Lucas Rouchy

Tyler Doyle

Mathieu Lavoie

Chris Johnson

Sean Finnegan

Benoit Rouchy

Chris Johnson

Ziggy Sonner Dower

Katie Cushman

Jackson Head

James Young

Katie Cushman

Kirkwood Spring Session

Kirkwood was your destination today. Benoit and Lucas checked out the parks. Overall, we had a great day but the half pipe looked quite small and weak.

Benoit FS board slide

Lucas 50-50 the dinosaur

Benoit FS air

Lucas plain air

Benoit tapping the huge tire

Bear Valley April Pow Pow

Bear Valley has received a few feet of snow during the first week of April. On Tuesday, the Grizzly (aka Lower Mountain) opened just after the storm with more than one foot of untracked powder.

Lucas and Benoit Rouchy, the last winners of the BV Village Jib Jam, showed their skills with a very different type of terrain.

Music from Floating Vibes, song Surfer Blood.

Bear Valley Village Jib Jam Contest

Bear Valley Village Jib Jam first every contest was organized by Mike Schimke. The competitors were asked to do the tricks called by the judges (Tyler Skivington). And like the game of skate, the skiers and snowboarders will get a letter called when the trick was not executed correctly. Once they have collected the 3 letters Jib, they were eliminated.

Check the uninvited dog collecting 2 letters.

Music by the Vampire Weekend, song A-punk.

They had running a few categories, ski under 12, ski above 18, snowboard under 18 and above.

Ski under 12:
- First place Lucas Rouchy
- Second place Tyle
- Third place Riley Doyle

Ski above 18:
- First place James Young
- Second place Josh Turley
- Third place Matt Greenley

Snowboard under 18:
- First place Benoit Rouchy
- Second place Tyler Doyle
- Third place Austin Jones

Snowboard above 18:
- First place Kevin Warren
- Second place Thomas Costa
- Third place Travis Jeitz

Women Snowboard:
- First place Whitney Bourassa
- Second place Mel Rynd