POW, powder skiing
POW SLICE

With the last of our cars rolling in an hour before the 7 am competition start and only one close call with an oncoming semi truck our team was assembled and ready for registration and inspection. 6 cms overnight wasn’t enough to fiddle our diddles but our pow starved diddles were ready to fiddle just about anything diddle fliddlingable… Ya know. To our surprise 6cms of cold smoke in Red Mountain acts like 30 and tends to hit you in the face. Repeatedly. We went coastal on that bitch.

Backies
Backies

To our gross disappointment, we remembered the purpose of this trip and the course inspection pulled our diddles out of the woods and onto Links Lane. The venue, which had been roped off and gathering a weeks worth of storm snow provided some of the best pow of the year. Inspecting turned into shredding as we systematically farmed all the pow on the venue much to the dismay of the other competitors. Turns out that’s not proper shrediquette…Woops.

inspection
inspection

With no good snow left on the venue we continued exploring Red’s endless trees stopping to take a few shots along the way.

Powder skiing

Poppers in the trees
Taylor Martin

In the evening, the riders met for an introductory meeting run by Rossland’s version of ‘The Dude’, Jeff, and his ‘right hand man’, Lief. The palpable tension of the riders was subdued by The Dude’s calming voice and reassuring speeches; “Competition… it’s like just a word, man. This whole thing, this vibe, its more of an event than anything else. man.” UBC Freeride rode The Dude’s high all the way home and promptly switched gears to nude and rude. Caribou’s flowed like wine and the team instinctively flocked to the drunk-jenga like salmon to the Cappa Strana.

UBC freeride team
What?
naked jenga
The craziest game of jenga you will ever play

The night rounded out nicely with your typical bearskin, man on man, photo shoot. With alarms set for 6 am, MOST OF US, were ready for qualifiers.

Man on bear skin rug
Man on Rug. UBC knows how to party

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