Unicorns, Leprechauns, Griffins, and the Calgary Ski Community

I doubt it, I was at Sunshine twice this year. But I see that you know Annie and Brian. So in theory......

And I am game for any day and everyday for a night out or meet up. Let's enjoy this weather!

I'm in for the 13th
 
Ok, we'll call it the evening / night of the 13th then. Bulldogs at Julios followed by Retallack. I'll get the movie when they get it and try to find a screen for the projector.
 
It's like 20 bucks for the DVD, I don't mind, and apparently it's a SICK movie and I'd like to own it anyway. Fresh's fb page says they'll have it this weekend so I'll just head next door and nab a copy. Good living in Kensington.
 
Damn, kinda wishing I was back in the valley right bout now.

Oh well, I guess swimming in the Arctic and sliding on the permafrost will make due for the next month.

You guys have a good time eh!
 
calgary NW reporting in. I heard there was gonna be a meet-up. I am down to party with some fellow newschoolers. See you on the 13th.
 
ohhhh i wish the 13th was happening for me.

you should all hangout on the 13th, become bffs, and then have another hangout the week after!
 
The Calgary ski community gathers on weeknights from november through april, between the hours of 5 and 10 PM, at Canada Olympic Park hahaha.

Seriously wtf is with everyone hating on COP? Its like everyone is intimidated by each other, so whack. I try not to portray that vibe when I ride at COP, I usually go there by myself, see some people I know and start shredding with them. If I was still living in Calgary during the winter months I would be beyond stoked to ride with you all.

Sure there are a lot of crews, and there are some douchy kids at COP, but I've never had problems with people, usually everyone is fairly friendly. Maybe try going to COP earlier in the night, or on M/W/F? Freestyle teams generally train on tuesday/thursday, thats when the park gets overcrowded and annoying.

The community you're looking for is absolutely here, a large part of it revolves around ski teams and freestyle programs though. I have met literally all of my friends in Calgary through skiing. Just make sure you've got that COP pass haha.
 
youll meet a bunch of locals at cop if you can look past all the groms everywhere, a small bunch of us ride with the fernie team on weekends, a large bunch of us head to louise and sunshine on the weekend. id say your best bet at first is cop. welcome to cowtown man!
 
This is sick! Who are these guys? I figured there must be a lot of crews doing this kind of stuff I just hadn't seen any evidence of it until now. Hopefully they make an am flick this season.

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Search up 403 Media and Crabjam on facebook! I know they don't check regionals very often but if you're at COP they're always around, look for the crabjam logo on helmets haha.

We almost made a movie 2 years ago but a hard drive crash absolutely killed the potential, so much good footy too. Only shots that survived were the ones from the trailer because they got backed up somewhere else lol.
 
Well I went to Fresh this afternoon and they still don't have the movie in, so we're gonna have to postpone the viewing. However, I'm still down for some drinks on the patio at Julios if people are on board. 7's a good time, still sunny at that point.
 
Works for me. As with all NS meetups I will be wearing the standard attire of XXXL Saga outerwear with jiberish stickers all over it holding up a sign that says "I (heart) Tom Wallisch" so you guys should find me pretty easy.
 
The patio ain't that big. Plus rudager has my phone #. 7:00 it is. Nice night for a patio.
 
It's cooo, we wouldn't have even been able to join tables together any ways.

From the sounds of it, J.D is hoping to get the movie soon when it comes in, and we can have another get meet up
 
Well played JD. Great thread. I don't think you will ever be able to find Josh's appartment in Calgary...where everyone watches movies, talks shit, gets hammered, and then grows up to be pretty influencial in the industry. I have been trying to replace that for years. That was a pretty unique time and we were all younger.

But, thats not too say you can't have a tight community. Golden has an interesting community as well. Everyone is tight, but off the hill, no one talks skiing or hangs out for that specific reason. It is a given that we are all skiers and I guess that is why we live here, but people just hang out with others because they are people. Maybe not a bad thing. Anyways, to try and up the perceivable ski community here, I will be hosting 2-3 movie premiers, a ski swap, a rail jam, building a rail park in town and last but not least starting a charity relating to skiing. Starting off with many non threatening events and gatherings is a great start.

I think Freshtival needs to have some sort of trade show, displays, gathering area attached to it. There is all sorts of money to be made off hundreds of people milling around and it will only make it more social.
 
Damn Brian, did I ever tell you you're the best thing to hit Golden?

You make me want to come home. I might just come down for these events if you throw up the dates.

The thing about Golden, is it's much smaller, it's actually a ski town. We'd go ski, finish the day, and then all meet up later, I know the whole community atmosphere blew up after I left. Makes me feel sad that I missed out.

I've also noticed in Calgary, since it is a city many people decide to drive 1-2 hours to go skiing every day, people can get divided and not always have the tight knit feel towards other skiers since they might not have the opportunity to ski with one another everyday. Understand what I mean?

Along with the splitting of skiers between multiple mountains, people in Calgary (or at least COP) have crews. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with this, but from some crews I've seen, they aren't that open.

Where as back in Golden, we don't have these "crews", it's just everyone goes and skis with everyone. If some people don't want to ski with them, then so be it.

I guess in conclusion, Golden is a tighter knit community, and it has its reasons for becoming so. If we can get that kind of thinking to apply to the people in Calgary, it might become a stronger community.
 
Also people in golden are probably skiing almost everyday, even if its just for a few hours. But when you are up there every single day you see the same people, get to know them etc. Where as when you are driving 1-2 hours for a single day you might see the same people once or twice a month.
 
They're building up the dirt bases for the jumps with the extra dirt from the half pipe. I'm hoping one of them will be at least as big as sunshines jumps last year.
 
i hope that sunshine gets their act together earlier this year than last, they didnt have any good park stuff up till very late in the season, and the jumps were not good till late march, they better step it up this year
 
i know a couple of the senior staff are leaving/switching jobs so it will be interesting. but i know the supervisors supervisor will be on his ass to get shit done, so cross your fingers
 
Yeah, we lived together a few times. Once in Whistler this past spring in the Octogon. I know a lot of the other guys as well!
 
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