The Park Crew has built up all the jumps on the slopestyle course in preparation for the event, adding a few feet of height to the bottom jumps and a complete rebuild on the 30 foot jump in the middle of the park. We were able to get in a new rail feature as well. The down flat box got paired up with the down flat down box to create a quad kink box. You wouldn’t even know that it is two boxes, because they're paired up so well. Check out the pictures below.

With just over a month left in the season make sure you put the Rockstar Energy Terrain Park on your list of things to session before the season ends. Check out the latest video edit high 'N' SLOW featuring Kieran Nikula and Derek White. Props to Andrew Paul for shooting and Kieran Nikula for putting this short together.

See you in the park.

Toby Ianson   
Terrain Park Supervisor

For more information on the Shredidential Election '10 Slopestyle, click here.

2010 Garden Results

Grom Board (12 and Under)
1st: Corey Weiss
2nd: Jeremy Sale
3rd: Nathan Harvey

Women's Open Board
1st: Zuzy Rocka
2nd: Kristina Adams
3rd: Meg Wallace

Women's Open Ski
1st: Kelsey Martin
2nd: Jenna Anderson
3rd: Erin Hrycan

Junior Ski (13 to 16 years)
1st: Jarred Martin
2nd: Quin Hill
3rd: Brandyn Evans

Junior Board (13 to 16 years)
1st: Stefan Gagnier
2nd: Aiden Turtle
3rd: Cole Avromavic

Men's Open Ski
1st: Parker Blackstock
2nd: Derek White
3rd: Blade Cleaver

Men's Open Board
1st: Tyler Clark
2nd: Gordie Lehane
3rd: Matt Berger

Best Trick Ski: Blade Cleaver
Best Trick Snowboard: Tyler Clarke

PLUS! Geremy Guido's video is crushing it on snowboardcanada.com's Am-Bedded.

The park is on the verge of completion with the entrance moved right to the top of the park. With all the man made snow we were able to blow at the start of the season, nothing has being compromised in the building process. The experience of the cat drivers and the park crew is really starting to show.

In the upper section of the park you will find two lofty 20’ jumps that are great for learning new tricks on. Just beside the 20 footers are the two C boxes linking into the 14’ cannon rail with a 15’ gap off the end of it to an endless landing. The slope style course starts after that with two 30’ down bars beside each other, one low and flat, the other high and round. The 24’ flat bar and the big 10’x 24’ flat down rail are set up on the next roll, dropping riders into the 35’ jump with a big wide take off. After the jump the 'dub' kink and the 40’ down box are set up to drop riders into the big jump line at the bottom of the park. The wall ride was also put in at the bottom of the lower rail section. We set it up on a bit of an angle so we could put a side take off on it. As you can see in the pictures it didn’t take long for the local riders to adjust to the new angles.

We also received our new rails from Rockstar Energy built by legendary rail builder Darrin Schmitz at Snow Park Solutions. An 8’x 8’ kink box and a 12’ flat box were purchased for the green park and a 30’ flat bar and a 16’ flat box were purchased for the black park. All of which have been put in the snow except for the 16’ flat box. Check back next week to see what we do with this simple feature.

See you in the park.

Toby Ianson                    
Terrain Park Supervisor

The blue park has eight rail features and counting at this time. With the huge variety of features in this area, it will take some time for the rail slayers to dial in this area of the park.

The jump line is looking larger than ever before, which is crazy, because it is only December. I guess when you’re given more snow than you ever had before the right thing to do is build big jumps with big landings and wide decks. That’s right these jumps are big in every way. Don’t worry though, we had enough snow to build side car take offs, so you can work up to the big line. The small jump line is 35 feet to 45 feet, and the big jump line is 60 feet to 60 feet. That’s right, one 60 foot jump to another 60 foot jump. Not many resorts are serving up treats like that for Christmas.

The green park was also completely rebuilt in preparation for the high traffic it sees over the holidays. With five beginner rails to play on and two small jumps to get you started, this area is all about progression.

The park crew will get busy again in the next few weeks, and finish the terrain park build. We have a lot of snow sitting in the park from the snow guns just waiting to be pushed into something rad and amazing.

Toby Ianson         
Terrain Park Supervisor

2009 Block Party Contest Results

Women’s Open Ski
1st: Emma Whitman
2nd: Kiah Allen
3rd: Kelsey Martin

Women’s Open Snowboard
1st: Zuzy Karczewska
2nd: Ashley Sinclair
3rd: Meare Miller

Junior Ski
1st: Jared Martin
2nd: Stu Sykes
3rd: Daniel Freeze

Junior Snowboard
1st: Stefan Gagnier-Ruckert
2nd: Dylan Hinks
3rd: Jason Weiss

Open Ski
1st: Kieran Nikula
2nd: Derek White
3rd: Parker Blackstock

Open Snowboard
1st: Gord Emery
2nd: Tyler Clark
3rd: Geremy Guido

With the cold temperatures over the past week, the snow making team has been able to kill it. The dirt decks we put in last year are almost non-existent, as the snow piles up on them from the snow guns. With more snow to play with then ever before, you can be sure that there are a lot of ideas brewing for some creative features. The snowmaking efforts will come to an end in the next few days, and the park crew along with the snow cats will be going full tilt on the building process early next week.

Please remember that the park is a closed run during the building process, so please stay out of the park while we are working on it during the next few weeks. The rail set up that we have on the Platter Area will remain open while we build the rest of the park. This area of the park will be open for Saturday and Sunday extended play hours till 7:00pm starting this weekend. Daily extended play hours start Saturday, December 18.

I had the pleasure of taking a few park laps with Oronge team rider Stefan Gagnier on Sunday while it was nice and sunny. Check out the photos of Stefan slaying the park, and the snowmaking progress in the main park.

Stay tuned as we build the park.

Toby Ianson
Terrain Park Supervisor

The Park Crew got busy this past Thursday building five rail features, and a fun 15 foot jump, all of which are now open to session. The rail line starts with a nice 16 foot mellow down rail, and then splits to either a 20 foot flat box, or a 16 foot corrugated culvert on flat. After these features there is a flat down box, and a 16 foot flat box paired with another 20 foot box that is set as a flat to drop down box. Finishing the park lane off is the 15 foot jump. You can expect the rest of the Terrain Park to be near completion by mid December if we're able to keep the snow guns blowing, and the Park Crew keeps up the present pace.

As this is the first update for the season, I also want to let you know what is new in the park for this season. Rockstar Energy is now the official title sponsor of the Sun Peaks Terrain Park. Rockstar Energy will be funding park expansion and improvements this year, and for years to come. The Blue Bird Day Fund has also come through again with more rail donations. This year they purchased a 20 foot flat box, and a 16 foot flat rail for the park. This brings their total donations to the Sun Peak Terrain Park well over $10,000. We have also added two 16 foot corrugated culverts, and a piece of sewage pipe to our fleet of rails bringing the number of rail features to thirty.

Our first park event of the season will be a rail jam called the Block Party held on the night of Saturday, December 12, for both skiers and snowboarders. For more information on the Block Party, click here.

See you in the park.

Toby Ianson 
Terrain Park Supervisor