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Sarah Burke RIP

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An Excerpt From Winter: Sarah Burke and Rory Bushfield

Let us dedicate this day to Sarah Burke, an inspiration to women, athletes and snow lovers all around the world.  This amazing female will be missed by sooo many.  My heart goes out to all her friends and family.  Let us be grateful for having had her be apart of our lives and sport.  While we shed tears in her memory, remember she would only want you to live yours to the fullest, as she did.

 

Burke, a pioneer in both women’s ski slopestyle and halfpipe, was a driving force behind the sport’s inclusion in the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia in 2014. Born in Midland, Ontario, Canada and living in Squamish, British Columbia, Burke was a four-time gold medalist at Winter X Games. She also won the 2001 U.S. Freeskiing Open in halfpipe and second place in slopestyle. She won the first ever world championship halfpipe event. She was awarded an ESPY in 2007 for Best Female Action Sports Athlete. She also had five World Cup victories on her resumé, including two earned last March at La Plagne, France. She won the 2005 world championships at Ruka, Finland, and finished fourth at the 2011 worlds at Park City.

Burke crashed Jan. 10 in Park City, Utah, while training in a halfpipe. The Olympic gold-medal hopeful and four-time Winter X Games champion tore one of the major arteries supplying blood to her brain and went into cardiac arrest.

She underwent surgery and spent nine days on life support at the University of Utah Hospital. But Burke had suffered irreversible brain damage after the fall because of lack of oxygen and blood to the brain.  She passed away Jan 19th 2012 (yesterday)

Check more on her story here

www.giveforward.com/sarahburke was organized by her agent, Michael Spencer and has marked a goal for $550,000. Her husband Rory Bushfield, a fellow skier from Alberta whom she married in 2010, is listed as the beneficiary.

As long as we live, she too shall live, for she is part of us, as we remember her.

We like to Party..

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Because you may as well spend the first day of a new year feeling like shit, with your friends.. These ones know how to party..

 

Happy New Year.  Hopeful you don't remember to much more of your night then i do.

If you want to see 400 skier fag party photos, click here

Thx for the party boys.

All I Can - Sherpas Video Premier Photos

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Sherpas Cinema premiered their award winning ski documentary, All.I.Can,  last night at the whistler conference center. I usually don't get to watch these premier movies when I'm working them. I usually end up packing up my gear and miss the first 20 minutes so I don't bother to spoil it by watch only half.  Somehow I managed to watch most of it last night, and I was more then impressed.  Creative, original, and interesting.  They use cutting edge filmmaking techniques to keep your visually stimulated throughout the entire movie.  My favorites are the static  shoots transitioning from green to snow, topped with a skier entering the frame doing some sort of awe.  Breathing glaciers, glowing plants, basically this movie uses time lapses that put the typical sunset shot to shame.  You can tell, alot of time was put into this video. Anywho,  I'm not much of a reviewer or a writer for that matter, but I recommend you check the video yourself. All I Can Teaser

Tennessee Three topped off the night with John Cash classics, and one Stevie Nicks jam! Mat the Alien shut her down while Speedman and Cosco almost kissed *blush*

Thanks for the terrific night boys!  Great to see some old  faces, some new faces  and the Calgary crew representing!

Riders:  Kye Petersen, Mark Abma, Eric Hjorleifson, JP Auclair, James Heim, Chris Rubens, Mike Douglas, Dana Flahr, Rory Bushfield, Ian McIntosh, Lynsey Dyer, Alexi Godbout, Matty Richard, Chad Sayers, Calum Pettit

Visit the Sherpas Cinema  site here, and support there hard work.