We at Garfinkels, partner of SNOWBOARD.COM are excited to announce to the snowboard world that we are sponsoring a Whistler snowboarding Icon, DAVE FORTIN of Gnarcore.
Many believe that Whistler is the mecca of the snowboard world, us at Garfs and Snowboard.com couldn't agree more. Dave and the Gnarcore crew have been ICONS of this town for a long, long time. Since Garfs is truly the scene, the spot, the 'IT' in Whistler it only seemed right that we give back to the snowboarding community that has made us what we are by jumping on board with a Whistler legend.
Dave will be sporting the 'DEVIL' at his upcoming comps and on the hill.
He has been killing it already, winning best trick and 2nd on the slopetyle at Sun Peaks. He will be Grouse this weekend then off to Quebec before the WSSF back home in Whistler!
LAST WEEK IN SUN PEAKS
Last weekend Dave Fortin, Ryan Hotchkiss and myself went down to sun
peaks
>for a slopestyle comp.
>the weekend went as follows.....
>
>
>
>7pm friday night, rent ball'n explorer and rip to kamloops
>
>at the base of sun peaks get pulled over by "the man" because the
truck
>smelled like weed. (damn snowboarders) we get, arrested, searched and
then
>released. the weed was safe and sound tucked away in my crotch.
>
>2am, arrive at sun peaks and seek accommodation. everything is really
>expensive. too expensive for us. we convince some sketchy hotel
employee to
>let us sleep in a room for a couple hours for 100 bucks cash. the
hotel
>belongs to non other than canadian ski legend Nancy Green !
>
>2:30am we "settle in" and catch the last bit of Back to the future 2
(what
>a treat!) before falling asleep.
>
>4am we are rudely awoken by sketchy and now remorseful hotel employee.
he
>is yelling and frantic. he tells us the computers are all messed up
and
>that his bosses are on their way in. he gives us back our money and
tells
>us to get out.
>
>alone and confused we stumble out into the night, we sleep in our
rental
>till 7am.
>
>7:30 tired, sore and red eyed we check in for the contest.
>
>8:30 am. we spot molly milligan and hordes of whislterites and say
hello
>
>(skip to the end of the day)
>
>4:30 i find dave at the bottom of the coarse hanging out with Nancy
Green..
>wow! i think. thee Nancy green. i keep asking her if she is really
Nancy
>Green. to which she happily replies," yes " to which i reply,
>"really?"..... wow
>
>again i think wow!
>
>5pm, Dave wins 2nd place and best trick for a rather large sw bs
rodeo.
>me and ryan.......do not win.
>
>5:10pm Dave declares that he will pay extra to keep the rental for
another
>day. tonight we party !
>we ask Nancy to come along but she say, "no, no i have to go home".
>whatever nancy.
>
>8pm By this time we are all so tired that we could fall asleep
standing
up.
>we decide that that the best coarse of action would be to get
absolutely
>trashed in order to fight off the sleep deprivation. we hook up with
some
>whistler homies and new ontario friends, dave puts the 10 % rule into
>effect and we start our night.
>
>
>12am we find Nancy Green at the bar completely shi*ttered. she keeps
>introducing Me to some aussi guys, again i ask her if she is really
nancy
>green, again she says yes. ok then
>
>1am chris dufficy rips my shirt off in an act of some weird wildcat
dance
>move. i'm not too impressed. i look around and duff is dancing in a
circle
>of dudes all shirtless. i feel naked and weird. a nice girl gives we a
>nomis hoodie.
>
>i go back to the hotel room and sleep it off.
>
>we wake up eat breakfast. The hotel got trashed by a bunch of idiots,
the
>front desk people try and pin it on dave. pssssha. i pay an extra 50
bucks
>for losing my room key. we leave town. we wait till we are passed the
>bottem of the hill were we got pulled over 2 nights before. roll one
up
and
>head home.
>
>the end.
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