1.5 years ago Kevin Nichols and I walked up to Chads Gap on a clear but cold spring morning. We both hit it and I ended up landing a dub back. We both left that day overwhelmed by the fact that we had achieved one of our biggest goals in skiing. However, I’ve never really told the full story. And now that it has kinda resurfaced I figured this is as good a time as ever to tell it. The dirty secret is, while I did land the trick, I didn’t ride away. In fact, Chads was not hit and ran out clean once that day. But I’ve never told people this because I put all my energy and soul into hitting this jump that day and I still wasn’t good enough to ride away from it. I didn’t want people to say things like, “He didn’t ride it out so it doesn’t count”. This […]

It was 6:30 am and my friend Jonnie Merrill and I woke up to the sound of our alarms going off in Revelstoke BC. It was early January and we were meeting a group of guys at Golden Alpine Holidays at 9:30 in order to get a heli bump up to the Sunrise hut. We got up, eat a quick breakfast and headed out to the car to find about 10 cm’s had fallen overnight. Stoked on the week to come we brushed off the car and headed over Rogers Pass to catch the heli. We lost service coming over the pass but about an hour later as we reached the other side I got a text from the trip organizer, Jay Dash, “You close?”. We were about 3 minutes away. Then another text followed “You realize there was an hour time change from Revi”. Jonnie and I panicked, “We missed the heli?” Jonnie said. […]