" The journey began meeting up with riders Kirby Kostuk and Brad Gauley, our goal was to reach North Bay and essentially devour everything in true Capita fashion. The drive was made easy by the fact that Ontario has no trace of snow on the ground or in the forecast… so that was nice, but shitty at the same time. After a quick little scare of running out of gas, we made it to the contest eager to stretch our legs and ride. With the crisp November air and the generator powering up to light the 20 foot down box, things were ready to get started. Being the annual North Bay Christmas walk, there were about 10,000 people on the downtown strip and a large amount of them watching the contest. There were two heats of riders and 3 snowboarders and 2 skiers made it through to the finals out of those heats. Riders were getting used to the box at the beginning but near the end better and better tricks were being landed. Brad landed a couple perfectly smooth front blunt same way 270s, Kirby had a solid 5050 front 3 out and a wild stalefish to 5050. Unfortunately I wasn't successful at swaying the other 2 judges minds into putting Brad and Kirby through but everyone still had a good time on this particular Friday night in North Bay, Ontario. We came, we saw and we devoured! Fun as always with good people. Thanks goes out to Cheapskates snowboard shop for putting on a great contest which is only getting better every year, and of course Captia, Union and Coal."
Not a bad turnout for a pre-seaon rail jam!!! Barry and crew at Cheapskates have also been running another comp, Snow Wars for over 20 years, making it the longest running contest in Ontario. No small feat, considering some shops don't last this long, let alone a contest. So save the date - Feb 4 at Laurentian in North Bay and be part of history.
