There's only one
thing that's better than sleeping in past noon on the weekend, and that's going
snowboarding during the summer months.
When I got the call about going up to Whistler and riding the
Blackcomb glacier, I must admit, I definitely planned my weekend around
it. Since I was already heading up
there, I decided to make it interesting and run an article with the Canada's
hottest rookie shredder Jess Kimura. With a full season of filming under her belt and a list of sponsors a
mile long (32 boots, Electric goggles, CAPiTA snowboards, Union bindings, The
Circle boardshop and Volcom outerwear), Jess deserves everything that she has
coming to her. Take a look below to learn a little more about a typical summertime
"day on the hill" with Jess Kimura.
The plan was simple:
wake up at 6:45 am, make it to whistler by 9:00, wake up Jess at 9:30, get on
the hill by 11:00 am. Notice how
many texts it took to get Jess out of bed?
After giving Jess a
fake guilt trip to get her out of bed, she showed up within minutes. Perfect. Next we headed over to meet up with Fabia and the rest of
the Camp of Champs people to get a few park passes. Let me just say this: Camp
of Champs has the best park on the glacier, hands down.
In preparation for the
long chairlift ride up the mountain, Jess made the executive decision to stop
at the farmers market for some fresh fruit!
A little early for
the lift to open. That's no problem, we got fruit!
Get your tan on,
chairlift style.
Jess Kimura: 15% blue
steel, 20% teen magazine, 65% smiles!
After taking a few
warm up laps, Jess decided that it was necessary to head straight for the 50-foot
tabletop.
Sunny days filled
with hiking sure makes for some good exercise. This is the point where I
realize I can't keep up with her, and I accept the truth: she's the athlete and
I'm the writer.
Lots of people
complain about hitting hips frontside.
Not Jess, check the style on this one!
After a bit of lunch,
Jess heads back to work on filming her part filming for Nuu Life Cinema's Sixes and Sevens, due out this fall.
With the jumps out of
the way, there's nothing like a little mini-pipe invert action to end out a
great day of shredding on the glacier.
Now for the one hour
boring ride down to the village. Jess keeps it all smiles on the journey
downward.
After all is said and
done, Jess hasn't stopped smiling all day. I think that I actually feel younger from spending the day
shredding along side her. Thanks Jess!
All photos: Brian Caissie
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