The Future

Pop by and take a few laps on next years CAPiTA boards and Union Bindings.

Tuesdays!

Tired of hitting up the same hilll week after week after week? Us too. Tuesday, nights we're jumping in the car and checkin out some different spots. Consider this your invitation to join us and go somewhere new.

Hellow Monday

Post trade show Monday and the tradeshow hangover is in full effect. And no, I'm not talking about the fun soda induced hangover, but the one caused by non-stop talking, hanging out with great people, lack of sleep, making remember when memories and cramming four days into what feels like one long day of awesomeness. Yep, Monday is definitely a reality check. With that said though, it was great to see everyone from shops to magazines to the passionate people behind the brands. Thanks everyone. And it was also a reminder that regardless of weather, economic conditions and trends there's a reason were all in this.

Kahuna's Mark Watson or Mythbusters Jamie doppleganger?

Minor fan out with Terry Kidwell at TWS Riders Poll.

All-O-Gistics!!! Descendents in Denver.

CAPiTA booth. Minds were blown

Ashbury Chalk Board Gallery

Mikey putting the finishing touches on the Holden booth.

Coal

Oh and Jess Kimura crushed the TWS Awards along with new Union pro Travis Rice. check it out here.

Wilfred Laurier Rail Jam

Ryan from Sanction Skate and Snow called us up to see if we wanted to come hang out at Wilfred Laurier University for an over the top no holds barred winner take all rail jam.....actually it was just a mellow comp on the portable Horseshoe Set up. Beav, Connor, Cam Veenstra and Ben Poechman showed up to get their awesome on. Here's Connor live, but really two days later from the event:

"The Day was freezing cold, and the set up everyone already knows all too well and it was held in a random parking lot where I'm assuming a bunch of people could not find it.

Cam actually did almost every trick possible on the horseshoe mobile set up and stomped them as clean as can be. Somehow due to a (insert random judging comment here, positive or negative its really up to you and your demeanor) Cam came third still winning lots of loot.

But the highlight of the day was when Cam found 20 dollars on the ground and took me and Beav for some Tim Hortons. Fun had by all who braved the cold and by those that braved the cold I mean the roving packs of university kids anti-freezing themselves with fun sodas"

Worst Case Scenario

Disclaimer: everyday is a day to go snowboarding and does not require any type of official designation.

Am I hating on World Snowboarding Day? No, not at all. But as stated above snowboarding shouldn't and isn't relegated to one day. Its something most of us try and do every chance we get and most have ditched work, school, people or whatever to go riding. There's just something about snowboarding. Best case scenario, the press and promo around World Snowboarding day reaches someone that never even thought about going snowboarding and they become as infected as you and I. Worst case scenario, it gives you an excuse to ditch work, school, people or whatever to get on snow.

Our friends at Horseshoe were holding some festivities so the choice of where to go was pretty easy. And since it was world snowboarding day and not world stand in tents day, everyone ended up riding, so half- hearted apologies to anyone who dropped by the empty tent. All photos by Connor Dudgeon.

Cam Veenstra - welcome aboard stalefish

Markk Goodall - welcome

Brad Gauley

Matt Bujok

and Matt Bujok

and again Matt Bujok

and finally Matt Bujok

Happy Hour Media and Mhg's Beaver

Geography Thug Markk Goodall

Markk Goodall

Cheap Skates Rail Jam

Connor and friends journeyed up to North Bay for pre-season rail jam, here's the details.

" 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.

Nord

Pickering New Liskeard North Bay Sudbury Parry Sound Huntsville Orilla Barrie Home. Thats what I did Monday to Wednesay this week. And yup I like this road trip. It's hard to quantify why exactly but it's probably a combination of the landscape, the people, local scenes and my inner which is more of an outer geography nerd.

Donkey Kicker at Cheapskates North Bay - Home of Ontario's longest running snowboard contest - Snow Wars Feb 4th

Snake Bite - French River

Lot of this

Hadar at Howey Bro's New Liskeard. Drop in Mark, Tim and Erin are always down for a visit.

Pinnacle in Sudbury - Always worth a stop to shoot the shit with Chad, Nick, Steve and Adrian

Duchesnay Falls North Bay - Get out of car. Hike

Tim and Mark's place

Tim and Mark's frozen Dirt Jumps

Kinda bummed there wasn't a Beaver on this Nickel

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High Cascade Session 6 X Video Grass

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Cale Zima Defending Awesome Three Tricks at a time

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Hadar Defending Awesome

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And hot camping action

Veghead x Dialogue

Neck of the Woods: Teaser from Neck of the Woods on Vimeo.

Teaser for Neck of the Woods with some shots of Matt Bujok, Brad Hesson, Kirby Kostuk, Ian Burdett, Zach Moorcroft and a slew of others.

Spring Migration

The spring migration has begun and I'm not talking about birds returning from Florida. Since riding in Ontario is done for the season, its the perfect time for those with the means (or charm for securing a couch)to take advantage of cheap spring passes and head to Whis till the cash runs out. Bradley Hesson's there right now, and so is Zach Moorcroft along with a bunch of others. What are you waiting for? Go.

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Friend and photog Connon Dudgeon shot this of Brad Hesson, go take a look and if you like it like it, if not....like it.