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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 |