Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival Day 2 - Orage Masters Event
Apr 15th 2008BriceSports & The Soap Box & Travel
What do a bunch of techy, blogger type guys do on a Friday night in one of the best nightlife infused ski and snowboard resorts in Canada? If you answered go out and get hammered and party the night away, you are incorrect! Try more along the lines of staying home until the wee hours of the night trying to get on the internet to blog about our day in Whistler. Sounds fun eh?
That is exactly what we pretty much did on Friday evening. After the Seasons movie premier, we hit the grocery store to get some food and five guys with five separate laptops sat around a kitchen table, reviewing our 1000’s of photos taken that day, talking guy smack, and of course having a contest on who could emitting the worst smelling air and make the most interesting animal grunts till the wee hours.
Saturday was super fun and interesting day for me. I went to check out the Orage Masters Event on Blackcomb Mountain in the afternoon. What is the Orage event? It is an event of 8 teams of four skiers that are competing for the ultimate big air bragging rights.
This event is not like your usual traditional ski event; far from it for that matter. Dubbed the “Anti-Comp”, the Orage Masters is one part slope-style, one part free for all, and one part masquerade party. There were teams dressed up as Vikings, Pirates, Bikers and all sorts of other interesting costumes throwing down some serious tricks and serious air on a custom built slope course; Definitely a super fun event for spectators to watch and better yet a great event for a photographer to shoot.
My press pass pretty much enabled me to get right onto the course to take photos. I would have to say the jumps here where massive and the athletes that were literally launching themselves into the atmosphere and pulling some crazy tricks in the air frigging crazy. Here are just a few shots of the course and the big big air.
Top of the Course
Picture of the Course from the top
Picture 1/2 way down course
Biggest Jump on the Course
Tricks and Big Air Photos!
Want to see more? More photos soon when I figure out the link.
Still don’t believe the photos? Check out the video:
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Orage Masters at the 2008 Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival | Stephen Fung DOT NET on 15 Apr 2008 at 9:08 pm #
[...] to wake up for. During our visit to the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival, we sent “Bricer” up the mountain to check out the Orage Masters [...]
Leo Chiang DOT COM » Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival 2008 - Day 3 on 16 Apr 2008 at 8:50 am #
[...] can check out some more videos and photos over at Stephen’s, Ed’s, Michael’s and Brice’s sites. We checked out the Brave Art exhibit, that featured a lot of local and independent [...]