Adventure Bardsley

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Chamberlin Rail Jam 2013

Skiers ready to drop into course - 2 options for rails.

This years Chamberlin Rail Jam was insane.

The venue was moved to Caras Park which made it more accessible for the weekend long event.

Chamberlin set up scaffolding downtown and trucked in rails from Lost Trail Ski area. The snow was brought in and packed down on wood boards from the ice skating rink. Riders had to climb stairs to ride rails and be careful to not go off the edge.

It was gnarly!

Alex dropping off Scaffolding

Riders came to compete from all over Montana. The big prize was $250 for 1st place.

Alex and his buddies were the young dudes competing against 20-30yr olds for the top 3 in skiing and snowboarding. Needless to say, none of the IRD4T crew made it too finals. But they stomped the course with style all day Friday.

I RIDE FOR TANNER was set up too!

Kathy organized us selling Swag and Big Sky Beer. Big Sky Brewery donated profits from the event to the park and we made over $3,000 for the Tanner Olson Memorial BMX Bike Park.

High FIVE!

Alex working a front Flip off the backboard

Alex and David Steele Representing Phar North (David won 1st place for Skiers!)

Alex dropping it - Photo by Clara Murray

Number 63 - Representing Phar North - Photo Clara Murray

Alex working the Curve

End of Ski Sesh - everyone stoked!

Alex and competitor rocking the rails - Photo by Chamberlin

Alex - Photo by Clara Murray

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

ColdSmoke Freeride Competition at Lost Trail Powder Mountain

Alex dropping out of Chute to send it on cliff.

People often ask, "What is Freeride?"

Well it can get tricky to explain, but basically it is

ALL MOUNTAIN skiing or boarding.

Cliffs, Chutes, Drops, Powder, Trees, Jumps, ect.....

For this contest, the course was an entire Cliff Face.

Riders (skiers and snowboarders) have the option to choose the sickest line possible. In this comp, the riders were granted just 2 runs. The best line was judged. And none of the riders were able to ski course before the competition because the cliff area had been closed off for a week to accumulate inches for contest.

So your first run was blind. I didn't know what the landing was coming out of Chute to drop onto a jump. Will it kick me 10 or 20 ft? How is the landing? Does the lip buck? Eek!

You want to stomp it hard and ski with max speed and style - but it is little scary hitting a cliff area without any prior experience of the obstacles The best bet is to scope your landings from below and try to design a strong line to take without hurting yourself!

So what are the judges judging?

Is your line hard?

Did you slide instead of turn?

Did you pole plant?

Did you Send-it when you hit the jump or were you tenitive?

Did you have style or steeze while stomping it?

Did you back-slap or butt-slap when landing your jump?

Did you wreck?

Did you Straight Air or do a Trick on the jump?

Did you invert or spin?

How much Air did you get?

This can be intimating!

ColdSmoke Free Ride Course - pick your Chute, Cliff or Pillow-line. http://www.losttrail.com/

Jen in super deep!

Alex Charging it

Big Air Alex

Jen trying to ski aggressive

Alex dropping out of Chute on Cliff Face.

Jen coming out of Chute in deep POW!

Friday, February 22, 2013

Jen and Mary's quest for Alaska

My friend Mary and I are on a Quest!

I picked Mary to do this quest with me because she is one of my favorite people on the planet!
Honestly I always have a ball with her either skiing or mountain biking. And it is re-assuring that she has tons of safety experience as an EMT when she worked for St Patricks emergency room team prior to becoming a nurse. This girl has SERIOUS skills!
Another cool thing is that I am lucky enough to be related to her! She married my second cousin Dan Poole!
Cool Beans!

Anyway, we are on a quest....! YES!

A QUEST FOR ALASKA!

Yep, you heard heard right, we entered a Women's Video Ski Edit contest. The two lucky women winners get to go on an all-expenses paid trip to Tailgate Alaska!!!!! HOT DOG!

Dream come true? You have no idea!
The SHE JUMPS Organization will be facilitating the weekends skiing in Alaska!!!!!

The coolest thing is that we would come home with more skills to work with the next generation of Female studs. Right now the teenage girls I ski with are killing it - I am so excited all the girl rippers to come of age, they have so many awesome PRO WOMEN SkIIERs that support them. Here are just a few websites that inspire;

http://www.shejumps.org/

Girls Do Ski website

http://www.femalewolfpack.com/

Videos will be judged by an expert panel along with our peers. Two Runner Up prizes as well as a People's Choice Award will be announced along with the winners.
The contest deadline on February 28th, 2013!

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - Will you Vote for us?

Click on this link to vote; Video Contest!

We hope you vote - !!!!!!

Also, we have noticed that mobile phones have difficulty with this website to vote, but home computers rock it.

THANK YOU!!!!