Blackcomb Mountain
Blackcomb’s halfpipe is in the midst of a transformation from 18 to a 22 footer. ASP started work on the pipe early this week and with over 100cm’s of new snow in the last ten days there is plenty of snow on hand to complete the build.
Terrain Park Whistler
Check out Whistler’s new Combi Box set up. Last week the box, in the Chipmonk Park, was set up as a 16ft down, 5ft flat, 24ft down. This week the pieces have been re-arranged into a sick 32ft down, 14ft flat box.
Snowcross North America Cup at Martock
Arena Snowparks has been in Nova Scotia this week building the Snowcross North America Cup track at Martock Ski Hill.
Vancouver 2010 all wrapped up
The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games are over. It had its challenges but in the end I think it will go down as one of the best ever.
Men's Olympic halfpipe in Transworld Snowboarding and NY Times
Well, the men's is over, Shaun White was victorious again with Olympic gold as you all have to know by now. We're onto the women's today, conditions are great again for the pipe and the ASP crew are happy with the way the pipe shaped up last night. Read the full story on the Men's at Transworld Snowboarding and here's what they had to say about Arena Snowparks.
Challenging snow conditions
Mother nature has a sense of humor. After battling for weeks in the rain to the build the pipe at Cypress Bowl, drier but not that cold weather conditions have turned the flat bottom of the pipe into sugar for the first two days of training.
Fine tuning the pipe
With three days to go until the start of halfpipe training at Cypress Bowl the ASP crew continues to shape the walls and dial in the start platform.
Arena Snowparks Halfpipe crew
ASP has assembled an elite team of pipe builders and shapers for the Winter Games. These guys have been working in some of the most challenging conditions possible to make the pipe at Cypress happen.
Half pipe shaping up and nearly finished
The Arena Snowparks crew has been putting in some long days to get the halfpipe ready for Olympic competition. Snow conditions have been soft which made for some good cutting on Friday and saw shaping crews cutting the vert line and re-setting form boards to contain the snow.
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