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Castle Mountain Held its first ever Freeride World Tour Qualifier, and first senior freeride event ever for that matter on March 7-10 2013. Riders from all over North America showed up to test their skills in the hopes of achieving points for the Freeride World Tour. Judging was based on the new FWT structure, with the first day on Graven Stafel Mt 2391m in an area called the Chutes, on Murphy’s Law and Harvey’s Dream. The snow pack was shallow and a crust remained on the South facing slope throughout the day causing some spectacular crashes.

Day two was held on Haig Mt 2610 on the north facing ridges end called Lightning. The venue had been closed for some time Prior to the competition and the snow in our inspection run was magnificent. Jesse Montandon and Jacob Boyd both had hard core crashes into trees in their runs but came out with concussions. Matt Francisty’s run took home 1st place after an impressive Hugo-esque stomp session of largest features on the venue. Julie Thomas took home the title holding onto first place from day one with an impressive run, and Aleta Corbett threw down gaining the highest score of the day with a fluid high scoring run.

The after party was highlighted with Shred Kelly, a Kootenay BC band that helped keep us partying into all hours of the night. They also sang me happy birthday which was really inspiring. So with such inspiration we organized an after party in the Faction house condo. Nothing makes you feel more like a gangsta than champagne, dancing and dub step.

Thank you Rossignol for helping power my competitive career.

Special thanks to all the organizers, Meagan Klassen and Kat Kornern especially, for their hard work.

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Check Out The Visual Imagery

Above is a video put together of the competition by Castle Mt

Click here to visit Dan Evans Photography of the event.

The Shred Kelly webpage
http://shredkelly.com/home/

and finally a video from my Gopro ;
http://youtu.be/XeBAD-k8JLE

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Castle FreeSki Senior Competition 2013 Results

World FreeSki Qualifier Women Final Results

Bib/Name	Nation	Combined Score	Average Score
42 Julie Thomas	CAN	428	142.67
53 Aleta Corbett	CAN	391	130.33
58 Ashley Benbenick	CAN	388	129.33
50 Kylie Sivell	CAN	381	127.00
23 Becca Hyde	GBR	374	124.67
31 Chelsea Sullivan	CAN	329	109.67
51 Jessica Earle	USA	328	109.33
16 Meagan Klassen		319	106.33
7 Tess Woods	USA	312	104.00
27 Laura Silva	CAN	311	103.67
10 Monica Purington	USA	296	98.67
69 Sarah Freeman		231	77.00
17 Jessie Reines	USA	171	57.00

World FreeSki Qualifier Men’s Final Results

Bib/Name	Nation	Combined Score	Average Score
22 Matt Francisty	CAN	483	161.00
35 Caleb Brown	CAN	479	159.67
44 Ian Borgeron		461	153.67
12 Steve Wood	USA	420	140.00
21 Scot Chrisman	USA	417	139.00
36 Todd Mansfield	CAN	415	138.33
14 Forrest Jillson		414	138.00
8 Spencer Romanchuk	CAN	400	133.33
70 Chris Shafer	USA	398	132.67
29 Adam Siltanen	CAN	394	131.33
62 Caleb Mullen	USA	378	126.00
3 Scottie Williams	USA	374	124.67
38 Justin O’Leary	USA	368	122.67
55 Jonathon Vinet	CAN	358	119.33
40 Iwan Williams		339	113.00
1 Aaron Darrow	USA	331	110.33
34 Jamie Dice	CAN	313	104.33
68 Jacob Boyd	CAN	264	88.00
19 Jan Langmann		257	85.67
2 Carter McMillan		243	81.00
6 Tristan Droppert	USA	242	80.67
Neil Williman		209	69.67
28 Jon Whelan	CAN	198	66.00
61 Jesse Montandon		193	64.33
37 Conrad Yarmoloy	CAN	172	57.33