HCSC Session Giveaway Contest!! - Event Date: Jan/01/2010 - Mar/21/2010

Wow awesome contest guys. I'm gonna have to find some people to take some pics and vids of me. Will face plants get me in?

sick i'll be posting stuff up all this winter. i need to dust off the old camera and start working on stuff

Sierra User Name:

Zagfan5

Home Resort:

Mt Spokane, WA

Years Snowboarding:

5

Average number of days Snowboarding each year:

60-70

Favorite Snowboard Setup: (Board & Binding)

Current setup is sierra crew (oh 10) and some old ltd poncho villa burton missions that i will ride till they break or are no longer rideable.

favorite setup of all time i have ridden was the mission poncho bindings, and my (09) palmer andy finch (r.i.p.)

Favorite Snowboard Trick:

Frontside nose butter

Your Best Experience Snowboarding:

By far my best experience was when i came down to Tahoe last season for bruizzapalooza. just hanging with everyone and having a good time was great, but the cherry on top was waking up sunday morning to all that pow. literally speechless hearing them do the avy blasts and seeing how a big time resort really works(me being from a smaller mountain)

What makes you most want to go to HCSC this Summer:

I feel like I'm on the brink of really breaking out and pushing my skills to the next level and i would really benefit from the coaching and progression that goes on at hood during the summer.

Why should you win the HCSC Summer Camp Session:

I hate to pull the whole "i'm a poor college student" but honestly i am. I saved up all spring last year to drive to hood last summer with a few buddies and shred for a day and it was one of the best days of riding in my life. everyone was throwing down, it was super warm out and we were riding, in the summer!  i'm working 2 jobs right now to put myself though college (bellman at a hotel and snowboard instructor) and i dont have a whole lot of wiggle room as far as "unnecessary" expenses go, so i know if i do go back to hood this upcoming summer it would just be for a day or two like last summer. Theres no way i could ever afford to go to camp at hood until i'm out of college unless it was covered by someone else.

What is your biggest snowboard goal/dream: 

My biggest snowboard/life goal right now is to get my degree in ski resort operations and management (Transferring up to Nelson, BC in August to start that degree) and own a ski resort of my own.

as far as just snowboard goals go, my goal every season is to get a minimum of 50 days of shredding, as well as just enjoying every single day on the hil. Whether its a park day, a pow day, or just a day were mobbin around the whole mountain with our crew, Just make it all fun.

Contest Entry Info:
Be thorough in your entry information. You only need to submit the entry info in your first thread post.


Sierra User Name:
Loveski



Home Resort:

Holiday Valley



Years Snowboarding:

11



Average number of days Snowboarding each year:

70-80ish



Favorite Snowboard Setup: (Board & Binding)

This year I would havee to say my Stepchild Jibstick 153 with Union Forces



Favorite Snowboard Trick:

I love any kind of jibbing, and who doesn't love a big back one?


Your Best Experience Snowboarding:

I don't know about my whole life, but this year my best and worst experience happened at the same time. I was riding with a bunch of friends having a great time. I felt my phone vibrating and I figured I would answer it after I hit this last rail. Well, I got the cleanest back lip on a single bar urban rail and was stoked and then I checked my phone..It was my grandma calling telling me that my mom had just had a seizure and to get back to the house as soon as possible. When we got to the hospital and all the tests were done we were told that her already uncurable cancer had spread to her brain. That was about five days ago and I'm still sitting in the hospital.


What makes you most want to go to HCSC this Summer:

I have wanted to go to high cascade for the past three years, and I think I've watched all the hcsc edits,it just seems so fun. I don't think I will ever get the chance to experience it, unless I were to be lucky enough to win something like this.


Why should you win the HCSC Summer Camp Session:

I think I should win this because I have had to endure so much in just my short 16 year life. There have been so many challenges with the thing that I value the most, which is family. At three years old my mom (who is byfar my best friend) was diagnosed with breast cancer. Ten years later, when I was 13, it metastisized to her bone. Now it is in her brain.
The second most thing I value is snowboarding. It's beyond me how people can ever get sick of snowboarding. I live in the east so if it's 10 below and a sheet of ice out there, you bet I'll be out there and there is no other place I'd rather be.


What is your biggest snowboard goal/dream:

No matter what it is I do in life, I just want to support my love of snowboarding. If I could ride as much as I do now for the rest of my life, I think it would be complete.



My friends and will be making edits so I'll be sure to post them here.

haha bru

so i'll start things off here with a few snaps of a preseason crushed ice run in session we had in october

Originally posted by CLEE1013 WTF u holding that pipe on icebox???

LMAO

yeah it was insanely sketchy. the pipe is just sitting on the cooler. so your had to balance and be right in the middle or the pipe would start to roll left or right.

nonetheless a good time

cool interview, pretty rad that they have 3 parks. sounds like its super fun

Sierra User Name:

airjesse123

Home Resort:
 and

Years Snowboarding:

Average number of days Snowboarding each year:

 to

Favorite Snowboard Setup: (Board & Binding)

2008 Burton Un..Inc ICS and 2009 Burton Cartel EST

Favorite Snowboard Trick:

Boxslide

Your Best Experience Snowboarding:

This would be last year at Kirkwood. The snow was stacked high and the lift lines were short. Untracked powder was all over the hill and there was plenty of terrain for my friend and I to stomp on.

What makes you most want to go to HCSC this Summer:

We all know the snow season is all too short. I feel like at this point in my snowboarding career, I am either going to get really good this year or just keep on keepin on. I really want to do the former. The ability to get some snow days in this summer will allow me to keep at my goals and get better. Also, I think Oregon is a beautiful place and being able to see it snow covered in the summer would be fantastic!

Why should you win the HCSC Summer Camp Session:

This June I end my undergraduate career and leave to start my life in the real world. I would love to have one last hurrah before I set off on my career or start grad school. 

What is your biggest snowboard goal/dream:

This summer: attend an HCSC session and work on my snowboard skills
This season: get the confidence to get bigger air, do grabs and spins
Next season: get the confidence (and the protection) to to more and bigger terrain park features
Sometime: get the confidence in myself to bomb mountains and keep up with anyone

he is some pictures

im not entering, and i dont deserve something like this nearly as much as that eager kid out there who just wants to snowboard and progress and has a great attitude about it, probably younger and still in school before their first job.. or someone who doesnt get lots of great riding during their season and cant afford to travel or move... so on and so forth.

i just like the survey right now.



Home Resort:

eaglecrest, ak... home of lando!

Years Snowboarding:

this is my 12th season.

Average number of days Snowboarding each year:

for the past few years, about 60-70

Favorite Snowboard Setup: (Board & Binding)

for all around riding, theres yet to be a more fitting and natural feeling board for me than the 2010 capita indoor fk 158.. and ive had at least one pair of union forces every year since year two.. ive yet to find a binding that fits my style/preferences better.  for pow, i think ill always have a burton fish with s-rocker in my quiver, also with forces or force SLs, and something like a capita charlie slasher or burton malolo, 20mm taper with rocker on the nose.

Favorite Snowboard Trick:

riding like nicolas muller.. pow ollies, slashes, and big back 180 japans, all in the most natural, beautiful terrain.

Your Best Experience Snowboarding:

a deep pow day riding solo during the season optimistic was filmed (07).. nicolas mullers whole first part in that movie with the bluegrass music is filmed at my home mountain eaglecrest.. riding my burton malolo doing what i now call "the malolo run."  in a nutshell, a handful of awesome natural features packed into a killer line, riding just like nicolas.  that day honestly changed my life.  that is the experience that stands out more than any other.. the way i felt is indescribable, beyond just riding a snowboard.

What makes you most want to go to HCSC this Summer:

im not actually entering, but going there would be a killer fun time.  just watch the airblaster movie "august" to see why.  it would also be a totally different type of lifestyle day.. fun in the sun in the slushy parks hangin with the bros, hiking little features.. as opposed to being in the mountains/backcountry riding pow and smiling from all the face shots with your bros.

Why should you win the HCSC Summer Camp Session:

i shouldnt.

What is your biggest snowboard goal/dream:
keep living the life for the rest of my life.  one of the things that malolo day did for me was really clicking it into my brain that all i needed was the simple things.. to make a simple living doing something i love, and being able to snowoboard real mountains with natural snow many days a year.

pictures, my friend isnt to good with the camra, first is about too nose press the butter box, the second is nosepressing it

I found it,he put it on youtube,

the URL is Vid

Kona20-30

^^  What petey pablito said... ask Jenn... he can use it!!

Sick board petey... I'm hopefully gonna demo a Evo-R and Premiere-R on Monday.

Damn abi, that is good stuff!

Sierra User Name: KMorrison

Home Resort: Killington Mountain, VT / Big Boulder, PA

Years Snowboarding: 1 and 1/2

Average number of days Snowboarding each year: 43 last season and 14 this season thus far

Favorite Snowboard Setup: (Board & Binding) Capita Stairmaster 152 w/ Union Forces

Favorite Snowboard Trick: Backside 540 Melon or Nose Press Tail Taps

Your Best Experience Snowboarding: Going on a trip with 2 of my good buddies to Salt Lake City and waking up on the last day to a foot and a half of fresh powder and just getting face shots all day long while scorpioning because we all refused to switch up our centered park stances.

What makes you most want to go to HCSC this Summer: My peers. Over the short time I've ridden, I've have the chance to share the lift and the mountain with a handful of amazingly talented individuals and it has inspired me to want to push myself beyond my current limits. I've woken up some days barely able to walk but I still can wear the biggest smile on my face knowing that I just did something I love so much with some of my favorite people.

Why should you win the HCSC Summer Camp Session: I know that as a 24 year old snowboarder I'm well beyond the possibility of going pro or making a career out of it. However, I've recently had a switch of careers, from a photo editing desk job with a large corporate entity to a non-profit program coordinator position with a significantly smaller organization, which has made me think even more about the future and as the result I think that I'd thoroughly enjoy serving the snowboard community as a freestyle coach. Being that my skills are currently limited, I feel it'd be necessary to develop my understanding of snowboard and its many technical aspects prior to taking on a position such as this..

What is your biggest snowboard goal/dream: My snowboarding dreams are actually very attainable...I know that I won't be able to do it necessarily right now but somewhere down the line I'd love to ride professional backcountry lines out in Europe. I have a large amount of family there that I've never met and I think it would be nothing more than magical to combine those two elements into one memorable experience.

So, Tahoe has been in the midst of an epic storm.  As the scared and the weak gathered their young and started their long journey by camel to safer grounds, Phil, Giftedhands, and Jigglypuff braved the elements, conquered waves of nature's bitter tears, and then found refuge in a hut where they shared stories of past victories over beer and hot chocolate.  Epic!! 

Awesome! I need to check the announcements more often

Sierra User Name: Signalsamm

Home Resort: Tyrol Basin    Mt. Horeb, WI

Years Snowboarding:
2. I started when I was 14

Average number of days Snowboarding each year:
45

Favorite Snowboard Setup: (Board & Binding)
2010 Burton blunt w/ burton freestyle bindings

Favorite Snowboard Trick:
backside rodeo.


Your Best Experience Snowboarding:
I always have fun with the friends that go boarding with me, but a couple weeks ago i got to attend a camp where Pat Milberry was coaching. I was able to meet him and he gave me a few tips. We hit a few jumps and rails and he gave me some good compliments.


What makes you most want to go to HCSC this Summer:
I love their videos. All the people seem to enjoy life and have fun. Their sense of humor and creativity inspire me to try new things. I love to skateboard and trampoline also. The competitions and dodgeball games are sick.


Why should you win the HCSC Summer Camp Session:
I live in a small, midwestern town in southern wisconsin, but we only have a few smaller hills here. I practice alot with homemade rails and jumps. I love the idea of getting the chance to see and ride real mountains. I would like to ride and train with the coaching teams there. I have a funny spirit and like to try lots of difficult tricks. I think I would fit in well and progress to become a better rider.                   

What is your biggest snowboard goal/dream:
I would love to continue to have fun riding and meet lots of other riders.
With a little help, I would like to progress far enough to get sponsored or become pro.
This might be the best chance I get.