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NuuLife Cinema "Sixes and Sevens" Vancouver Premiere

Strain — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:12:00 +0000

Circle the date on your calender, NuuLife Cinema is bringing their “Sixes and Sevens” premiere tour to Vancouver on Thursday, October 29. 8pm @ the Bourbon – check the facebook event page for details. I’m in the video, which makes it pretty much the best snowboard video of all time, so I expect to see everyone I know there.

Still not convinced? Watch the teaser a couple more times:

“Sixes and Sevens” – Teaser #2 from NuuLife Cinema on Vimeo.

Still not convinced? read about the mayhem of the Whistler premiere on push.ca

See you there!

NuuLife Cinema "Sixes and Sevens" Teaser 2

Strain — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:26:00 +0000

Watch it now. Then share the love with everyone. Dropping this fall.

“Sixes and Sevens” – Teaser #2 from NuuLife Cinema on Vimeo.

Sun Days

Strain — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:47:00 +0000

Sunday has lived up to its name the past couple weeks, giving me plenty of opportunity to shoot photos and work on my increasingly well-defined goggle tan. Two weeks ago, (after the storm-of-the-season week came to a close), I spent the day out in Lakeside Bowl on Blackcomb with the NuuLife crew with the intent of staying out all day and shooting some pow shots at sunset…

John Swystun getting it done on both sides of the lens:

Read the full post for a story about how easy sledding is and a short whis park video from Eric Poulin:
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…Unfortunately, Dave Craig suffered an equipment malfunction on the landing of a step down and had his board double eject (wtf, I know) and take off ghost rider style down to the bottom of the bowl. With his board a 500 feet below us, we decided to bugger the sunset shooting and call it a day.

This…

…turned into this:

Is this why we’re supposed to wear leashes?

Fast forward a week to last Sunday – the weather was prime again so I took up an offer to head out on a sled trip into the Whistler area backcountry. I’ve always heard people say how much of a bitch sledding can be when you first start out, but I was not prepared for the beat-down my body was about to receive.

Making matters worse was the fact that I wasn’t actually sledding up to the zone – I was being towed, wakeboard style, into the alpine. I like to think my legs are in pretty good shape, but my arms? Please. I’m a photographer, not a longshoreman. Now I feel like Stretch Armstrong – and don’t even get me started on the roller coaster ride up to Tricouni…

Complaints aside, once we were up it was about as glorious as it gets. We had some rad laps in the trees to start out, then hit some mellow terrain in the alpine and built up a perfect huck-anything step over.

Eliel Hindert found a nice spine area in the trees to rip:

My prior sledding experience is almost exclusively ice fishing trips. Not today.

Andrew Narkewicz, double or nothing:

Gideon Baldridge plays backcountry chauffeur for Eliel:

When we arrived at the trailhead in the morning it was an absolute zoo, so Gideon got a little creative with his parking skills. It cost us when we got down; the snow he parked on had melted under the heat of the car and refrozen after the sun set, pretty much welding his Land Rover in place. It took a bunch of digging and a pull from Hockenstein (thanks buddy) before we were on our way back to the city… we rolled home 15 hours after we left in the morning, dead tired and super-stoked.

Meanwhile, back at Whistler, Eric Poulin did some filming and threw together a little edit of how he spent his sunny Sunday – check it out!

Last Sunday from Eric Poulin on Vimeo.

A week of winter, pt 4

Strain — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:38:00 +0000

Wednesday was essentially a write off day due to the shenanigans that went down on Tuesday night, but we managed to get in a couple good laps in the afternoon. I was stoked to be riding sans camera – ripping through the trees and pillows is always a little nerve wracking when the contents of your backpack are worth more than your car…

On Thursday we got up bright and early (leaving from Vancouver early) and cashed in some previously purchased fresh tracks tickets to get up the mountain an hour or so before the general public. Fresh tracks is great, especially if you’re really hungry – someone with a big stomach can easily get their money’s worth at the breakfast buffet in the Roundhouse…

As is the norm during any decent Whistler storm, the visibility off the back of the peak was atrocious – the only remedy is to head into the trees.

Jake Cohn makes some low-vis pow turns:

More words and photos in the full post:

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Eliel Hindert drops 20:

Pow stoke:

Theoretically, this was going to be a fun photo of Eliel, Taylor and Jake all charging through the snow at the same time. You can see Eliel’s ski, upside down, in the top right. Fail.

What’s that you say, Eliel? It’s deep?

Jake and Taylor try to coordinate their next move a little better:

Eric Poulin harvests some stump-pillow:

I got off the mountain at 5:45, soaking wet (I’m a sweaty beast) and dead tired. Back down to the city to dump photos, take a breather and see the lady before heading back up for the weekend…

NuuLife Cinema Company Presents: Sixes and Sevens

Strain — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:43:00 +0000

Since I posted last Sunday, over 6 feet of snow has dropped on the Whistler area… needless to say, it’s been an incredible (and busy!) week on the mountain. Now that the storm has passed, I’ve got short break to play catch-up before things get crazy again in a couple days – watch for a bunch of blog updates in the meantime.

I did a bunch of shooting and riding with the NuuLife Cinema crew last week, hiding in the trees during the storm, and up in the sunny alpine yesterday. I’ll have some photos up as I process them, but for now check out the first teaser for their 2009 release, “Sixes and Sevens”

NuuLife Cinema Company – “Sixes and Sevens” – Teaser #1 from john swystun on Vimeo.
(teaser is back up!)

NuuLife Cinema’s Dave Craig (and friends) filming in the trees on whistler: