Tell us your great memory or memories of Sarah Burke.

joris.blanc

joris.blanc

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I thought that I would start a thread where any one that has a great story/memory about Sarah Burke could post it. If you just skied/met/talked/chatted/interacted with her post your story here. I want this to be a happy place, full of great memories :-)

And this is my story.

She was nominated for the ESPYs award back in 2010 and you could vote online for who you wanted everyday. So everyday for like a month I would go and vote for Sarah, one day she posted on her Facebook something like "Go vote for me", in the comment section I replied that I already voted for her for one month. Later that day I got a notification that she also commented on her status and this was the commentary :

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This made my day, maybe even my week.

I'm happy to have kept all my Facebook mail, it was a great surprise that brought up a good memory of her yesterday :)

Now it's your turn, I want to hear your story.

The only little is that I would like to avoid having 6 pages of just RIP/SIP Sarah.
 
too many to count, but teaching me and my friends on the ski team I was on how to do 360's was one of them. Also just getting to talk to her was really cool. She coached me once at momentum as well.

I was fortunate enough to be grow up in Ontario, and be of the age that my coaches were old enough to have known her for years. Some my coaches skied with her back when she was on the horseshoe team and stuff like that. They knew her well and any time we were training and she was around she would say hi. I feel even worse for them, who knew her so well. This has to hurt them even more than the rest of us
 
She was my coach up at Momentum the first year i was really getting into park. By far one of the the most down to earth people I have ever meet. Holy shit, I had a huge crush on her. I remember riding the T bar up with her after I had just land my first 360. She was so stoked!!

This really sucks ...
 
I never met her.

But I remember the first time i saw her. "Oh hey future wife of mine"

But even though i had never met her, I'd watched her grow from a novice to where she was. In x-games, edits, her wedding. I felt as if i knew her personally. It's weird and non of my friends get it, but when you're on newschoolers all the time like i am. You know everything that is happening in the ski community. EVERYTHING. and Well i don't know, i was on the verge of tears for hours. This is crazy, I thought to myself "no she's going to get better, it's going to be okay" Then today on my tumblr i saw "RIP" And i thought "What idiot thinks she's dead" And my worst fears were quickly realized.

I can't imagine how Rory is taking this...

 
Met her a few times! such a chill down to earth person. The most memorable time was at the twssf halfpipe in 07 she had just one and as she was leaving out of the exit gates and she gave me her bib and i got to talk to her for a bit. was so stoked! instant crush hahaha still have the bib hanging in my room! RIP Sarah
 
I fit her boots back in 2006... When I first measured her up, she was a solid 25. I asked her what shell size she normally skied in and she replied 23... I just laughed and gave her a high five. Such a badass chick. She was so super nice and always happy, never bummed on anything...

You will forever be missed, Sarah... I still can't believe this is real.
 
growing up in aspen the xgames were never really as special of an event as some people hold them to be. one of the first years the xgames was held in aspen Sarah did an autograph signing with one of the sponsors. since i looked up to and admired Sarah as well as so many other progressive riders before her i decided to stand in line and wait for her autograph. as it turned out i ended up being first in line to receive Sarah's autograph. This put the biggest smile on my face, as it would any seventh grader. as time went on my life started changing and college ended up getting in the way, long story short i ended up taking down all of my skiing posters to redesign my room. the one constant in the process was the poster that remained on my door from that one day at xgames, the poster of sarah burke. it is signed with the huge swooping Sarah on one line and Burke on the other. thinking about it now makes me understand how much Sarah meant to women's skiing and skiing in general. Sarah you will be forever missed and your poster will continue to hang on my door like it has for so many years. RIP you were, and continue to be a legend among the freeskiing community
 
Sarah and Bushy live about a block away from me in Squamish and I remember two years ago on my birthday, someone had lit the swing set on fire in the park across from my street. It grew suuuuper quickly and soon we had 3 or 4 firetrucks on our tiny little two-house street. Myself and a couple friends headed into the park where we watched the structure burn. She showed up a couple minutes later and I introduced myself and we talked for a little while and she ended up wishing me a happy birthday and it was so down to earth and cool and it was such a sick birthday present. I always see her driving around Squamish as well in her red Subaru and it's just so odd to think that she's gone now... I can't really wrap my head around it. I guess she's gone from this world, but she'll certainly live in our hearts and in our memories.
 
When I first attended Momentum 6 years ago, I was only 11 years old and came by myself. I remember getting there on the first day and being starstruck and overwhelmed. I signed up for basketball on the first day, for the sole reason to meet Sarah after being such a fan of hers so many years (and the massive crush I had on her). Instantly, we bonded. Being one of the youngest kids at the camp, she took me under her wing after that first day. I'll always have the memories of doing pushups for cans of Monster with Rory and Sarah in their room during video review. During the coaches sale that first year, Sarah came up to me and handed me one of her Monster hats. My first instinct was to ask how much, to which she replied, "Free". I will forever cherish this hat, as a token of the times I've had at Momentum with Sarah. Since that first year, I've kept coming back every summer. Between those summers, I changed a lot. I came back every year wondering if she would still remember me from when I was so young. Without fail, every year she did.
 
back in 2004 she was coaching this all girl camp but i knew a girl that was taking it. so me and a buddy went up to hang out.. now they had been giving some shitty rails.. so i went and "barrowed" a box and a rail and helped set them up.. and at that time i could not grind.. so i told her this and she was like. oh its easy.. and i tell you what she taught me how to get on a box and rail. i still suck at it.. and i remember being like OMG IT IS SARAH BURKE. and she was so way down to earth and just a stoaked person in general. so yes i can say that she played a small role in my skiing..
 
also. i then got to hang with her and some girls at the fireplaces at the big lodge at timberline. and we drank coco and swapped ski stories. and i can say rory was a lucky man to be married for the short time they were. she was just a great person. you could just tell.
 
I met her a few years back while I worked at the Corner Store at the base of Park City. She walked in and ordered some food and a PBR pounder. While getting her stuff I leaned over to one of my co workers, who was probably 40 something and said. "Hey, that's Sarah Burke." He blew up my spot and loudly repeated her name. I turned back, probably all red in the face and she smiled at me and introduced herself. We talked for probably no more than 30 seconds, but I will always remember how down to earth and friendly she was.

You will be missed Sarah. RIP.
 
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