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A video posted by Ski or Die (@jacob_boyd) on Oct 19, 2016 at 9:50am PDT

Wrangle The Chute Qualifier Run

Wrangle the Chute 4* FWQ Qualifier Run from Jacob Boyd on Vimeo.

I've wanted to spin both ways in a comp run for a minute. Done and done. 

Skier- Jacob Boyd
Filmer - Dylan Siggers
Song - Rich Kidd - Can I Get A (Bom Bom)

SEASON EDIT COMING SOON....

Yesterday's Line

I like to scope lines by myself. If I'm in a group I get hyped about skiing well and trying new tricks because everyone else is, but the group situation rarely leads to weird little gullies and zones no one has been to. So on my lonesome the other day I got deep in the woods enough to find a pillow line I hadn't seen in years. I gave it a go the next day on camera but I straight lined off the side of it and the shot didn't work out. I hope I get a second chance at it.

This is a frame of me dropping in. It was a long way down if I slid off that first pillow.

Lately:

Today was so great. Waking up, I definitely wasn't feeling 100%. I hadn't gone to sleep until late and I was getting over a cold so my whole body ached. I showed up at the gondola at 7:30, a good 45 minutes before opening. After two deep laps lower on the mountain our group (the most core ski bums I know) went to peak chair to get first tracks in the alpine. Two and a half hours later, Peak chair cracked. A patroller had broken his leg triggering a slide and created a delay. This was a small inconvenience when thinking about what he was going through. We were on the third chair up, so when we approached the top nothing else mattered.

Our first descent was down the run the patroller had triggered the slide on. Nerves were high but after getting down to the tree line I had the deepest run of my life. The centre of each turn brought the snow up to my chest. If there were one feeling I wish I could recreate on demand, that might be it. After one deep run my mind switched back to the first thought I had waking up, which was to land a particular cliff.

My next run up peak was the beginning of a battle to land a drop called bomb tram. I've never not landed bomb tram and I've even landed a spin off of it. My first and second airs I went to fast and even though I landed centered I couldn't handle the compression and exploded into a tumble. After losing my shit and seeing stars after my second hit I briefly questioned my decision making. For whatever reason I went for a third, crept off the edge and cleaned it.

I let myself relax after that. I found a few fresh lines and puttered down home in the warm sun. I didn't get any shots or photos and no one may have seen me on my biggest line, but none of that matters because I landed the biggest cliff today and I'm the best skier on the mountain.

RIP Shane

Revy:

God damn! what a trip. Jon and I got lucky when we headed to the high and dry Kootenays while the temperatures rose on the coast and Whistler got rained on. We got a few clips and this cool photo sequence we shot on the last day.

The hardest part about this line was finding it. I had seen it from below on traverse coming back from a separate zone. I dispatched from the group and had to do two boot packs en route in hopes that I ended up on top of Jon who was shooting it. Despite me getting lost in every town we went to that trip, my sense of direction prevailed and I found it. Glad I did because the landing was tits deep and the shots came out great. Thanks Jon.

Insta Clip

I'm trying to gain followers on instagram. Just because I like attention, because I'm human. Follow me @jacob_boyd with more clips coming more often.

Butter three to slash the other day. Today it rains. @lemonstifflong w/ the shot. @prevailprevail w/ the verse #newschoolers #forthefew #stretchyourhead @factionskis @forlisewhistler

A video posted by Am Skier (@jacob_boyd) on Jan 27, 2016 at 9:03am PST

Ate it on a 180 in Khyber's yesterday. @jongeee with the shot. #forthefew #stretchyourhead #whistlerblackcomb #newschoolers

A video posted by Am Skier (@jacob_boyd) on Jan 20, 2016 at 2:45pm PST

TBT/ Future Thursday

Oh man! Trips, trick ideas and all sorts of plans are coming up. I have three scheduled trips this winter. I'll be going to Whitewater mid February as well as Crystal and Kicking Horse for some comps. Hopefully I can fit in some trips to go film with the sled in there as well (Revelstoke).

Tonight is the staff party for the bar where I work. It'll be fun but it won't be easy to not drink either. I'll be the only sober person there. It's one of those times that reinforces the feeling that I'm the only person in Whistler that doesn't drink. Responses to this are varied, sometimes supportive, usually I'm just questioned as if I'm slow or something.

Back to Whitewater. I've never been there and experienced bad conditions. I'm going with Jon Grierson and I'm really stoked on stacking footy. This is a picture of my trip there when I was 19 years old. We struck gold with snow and had 10-20 cm's everyday, good times.

Right three: No grab and a visibly wet bum.