Keystone, Colorado Opening Week 2010 Photos

Keystone, Colorado Opening Week Photos

On November 5, 2010, in News, Videos, by admin

Wildcard visits Keystone, Colorado for opening week 2010

Keystone, Colorado

Article and video freeze frames by Jeremy Dubs

It started with an idea to have a video premier out in Colorado for our new movie “The Saturday Night Ride” and go out to shred some early season turns and jibs with the crew. We bought plane tickets a month early hoping the snowpack would be enough to shred in early November and right we were. Keystone resort opened on Nov 5th boasting 20+ inches of snowpack and a really decent amount of park features for this early in the season. The crew consisted of me (Principal Cinematographer), Nick Ennen (2nd angle Video and Pro Snowboarder), and pro riders Joe Bosler (Arbor & 686), Andy Stern (Burton), and Andy Bergin-Sperry (Lib Tech). On Friday we hit Keystone’s Adventure Park setup all day and shot an article for Snowboard Mag. That night we met up with various homies from Snowboard Mag, Casual Industrees and Mountain Militia and had an epic movie premier in downtown Breck at a club called 320 South and hosted by Breckenridge’s own MC Pump. The rest of the week we proceeded to conquer more and more of the features and they tried to conquer us as well with our fresh summer bodies trying to adapt back into the snowy conditions. Luckily we had great sunny weather most of the time, so we didn’t have to adapt to that until we had some fresh snowfall the day before we headed back to Washington.

Crew by Gondola

The Wildcard shrednecks (L to R) Nick Ennen, Andy Stern, Andy Bergin-Sperry, Joe Bosler

Andy Bergin-Sperry Keystone Slash

Andy Bergin-Sperry lays down some early season slashes of Keystone fluff.

Joe Bosler Kinked Rail Keystone

Joe Bosler switch noseslide through the kinks.

What did you think Colorado was going to be like before you left for the trip?
Fun. I’ve only been there once so i was stocked to go back.

What is different about Colorado from Washington State?
Hard to breathe. Everything is above alpine level so that is sick.

Who did you ride with and meet on the trip?
Some cool people from snowboard mag David/Jon/

Did the trip fulfill your expectations?
Ya I mean just to open a few hills like keystone and copper was a blast and the premier that snowboard mag threw went off.

What were your favorite moments of the trip?
Can’t remember those ones hahahaha. No it was all a good time.

Any cool tricks go down?
For sure some tippy taps and slippy doos. But ya everyone had some real good tricks.

What do you think about Keystone’s park right now?
Sick how many features they opened with and gotta love the gondola to access it.

Favorite feature in the Keystone park?
The crazy rainbow box it was pretty wild

Gondola vs Chairlift, what do you think about that?
Gondola.

How was the Snowboard Mag/Wildcard Premier Party?
def. a good time for sure.

Are you going to visit Colorado again?
def. when x games rolls around and some sia stuff.

Additional things you want to say in this article:
Thanks to everyone that came out and big thanks to the guys over at Mountain Miltia for housing us and being some good homies. Also to Snowboard Mag and Casual for makin it happen in CO.

Nick Ennen Wallride

Nick Ennen stalls out and spins over the wallride transfer feature. You can go over and get gnar or ride back down the wall. Nick and Andy Bergin-Sperry chose to air off the back to a small hard transition.

Nick Ennen Keystone

Nick on his trip:

“The difference between Colorado and and Washington is that in CO the elevation is between 9,000 to 14,000 ft and in WA you are between 3,000 to 6,000 in the ski areas. The snow in CO is a lot more dry vs in WA were have more of a wet dense snow pack. Both have their benefits. I have been to colorado early season before so I knew what to expect. Its high in the mountains, that means winter comes early. I was looking forward to be snowboarding and getting my jib on in early November. Riding in CO is more of a jibber’s paradise for park riders, while WA is more of a backcountry style riding. The two are so different but both have tons of bonuses.

We had Andy Stern, Andy Bergin-Sperry, Joe Bosler, Jeremy Dubs, as well as myself on the trip. We met up with a few other riders and crew on the trip. One of the riders that we met up with was Seth Hill. He showed us how it was done in CO. We also met up with Tawnya Schultz from Snowboard mag and she showed us around the mountain. Probably my favorite part of the trip was just getting to go rip around with the crew as well as an early start to the season.

My favorite features at Keystone were sliding the wall ride as well as the down flat down. Andy Stern threw down every other trick in the book at Keystone. Andy Bergin-Sperry put down a sick wall ride stall to 270 of the other side. Everyone threw down. Keystone’s park was sick. There were about 28 different features in the park which made it a very diverse park to get your jib on. The gondola is where it is at. Get a chance to meet and talk to locals for good info about the area.

I will be headed back to Colorado in January for SIA. Hope to see you there.”

Seth Hill Keystone Rail

We met Seth Hill up at Keystone and got some footy of him slaying the rails. He just graduated from Colorado University’s snowboard program and this is his year to shred tough. This freeze frame illustrates how excited everyone was to hit all the features and throw down for the first time this season.

Keystone Snowboard Park

Keystone set up numerous features including Wallrides, Skate bowls, and plenty of boxes and rails of all sorts. The crowd was loving it and we saw more spins than in Think Thank’s classic movie Thanks Brain.

Joe Bosler Rainbow Box

Joe Bosler noseslides the v-shaped box with sharp incline and decline transitions.

Andy Stern Slash

Andy Stern slashes out over Jackface trying to send enough snow down to open the run before taking some speed runs on Spring Dipper.

Andy Bergin-Sperry Switch Nosepress

Andy Bergin-Sperry switch nosepress spinning on the top funbox. Behind him are the closeout rail in red and the beginning of a moto jump line.

Andy BS on his trip:

“The Wildcard trip to Colorado was my second time to the state but first time I really got to shred the Rocky’s so I was pumped! The mountains in Washington were not open yet either so I was ready to find my winter legs again after a long summer full of snowboarding withdrawals. The mountains in Colorado were real fun, some sick jibs and park features with some nice long groomer runs to smash down even though I was not used to the damn speed patrol sitting around every corner. I didn’t really know what to expect with early season in Colorado, but this trip surpassed all my expectations and it was a great time to figure out how to snowboard again.

There was way too many awesome moments on the trip its hard to pick out a favorite but I’d say my favorite moments on the trip outside of simply getting on the snow was some of the epic dinners we cooked at Andy Stern’s timeshare! Joe Bosler cheffed up the most ridiculous pot of sauce for a pasta dinner, I didn’t even know what half the stuff that was in that practically overflowing pot of goodness because I am usually a meat and cheese type of guy.

The Keystone Park right now is pretty damn ill for how early in the season it is. Tons of rad jibs scattered through the park. I think my favorite trick that I saw go down was Nick Ennen hitting the wall ride hot and 270ing off the tip usually flying over at least one kid sitting at the end of the wall ride. It was near chaos riding through the park dogging all the other people riding through the park. But I had a blast ripping the keystone park all week, and it was one hell of a way to start the season off.

Thanks to Snowboard Mag the Wildcard premier for “The Saturday Night Ride” went off! Things got wild with some other sick shred videos, big ass pit-bull on stage with the rapper, and even a girl who couldn’t keep her shirt on for some reason. I cant wait to make it down to Colorado for SIA, hopefully with some snowmobiles so we can get nasty with some deep Colorado pow pow. Overall it was one crazy trip and I am stoked we made the journey…. Thanks Colorado!!”