The snow season ended last Sunday 18th here at Grandvalira, and at our snowparks, the action was on until the last minute. There were loads of riders still motivated and no one wanted the season to end at all. Thank you all for shredding it till the end!

It was also the last day of the Pro-Tec Coliflor Freestyle Academy, where they had a picnic, snowpark games and presents. Thank you as well!

And a big Thank you to all of you who enjoyed the season here with us at Freestyle Grandvalira. See you next season! Cheers!.

Here are some more photos of the Grandvalira Total Fight Masters of Freestyle 2010, of saturday (snowboard finals), by Andrea Bielsa. Thank you Andrea!!!

The Grandvalira Xavi park at Grau Roig sector, will reamin open until the end of the season (18 of april).

You’ll find there the following features:

-1 easy kicker

-2 flat boxes

-1 flat-down box

-1 down rail

-3 picnic tables.

Enjoy the last days of the season!

Check out Tyler Chorlton’s update on his trip to Alaska. Here’s what he says:

After trying to deal with the lack of snow in Europe Fichtl, Arthur, Carlos and I made the 26 hour journey to Anchorage AK, to hook up with Pasha for a 3 week sled trip to find winter snow again.
But our excitement had to be suppressed for 2 days because as usual our luggage didn’t make our flight… then got lost…
But eventually the airline company sorted it’s shit out, 4am delivery i had to stay awake for… they arrived! Then at 7am the next morning it was time to boost!
We drove a couple of hours to the north with the Russian/Alaskan dude of all dudes Sergey who hooked us up big time!
When we unloaded the sleds the view of the mountains was insane!
After a half hour sled ride of showing our sled skills to the Sergey (yeah right!) we found our first spot. Shit was amazing! Thank you AK! And thank you Sergey for the shuttling!
Session over we decided to scope out further into the valley, we were sledding over some enormous slides that had come down some days before and the place made you feel very small.
When you spot a feature in AK you realize once you get up close that its about 5 times bigger than you previously thought and that if you hit it you’d probably die or even worse…
The end of the day was approaching fast and to save a 2 to 3 hour drive back to Anchorage we stayed in a Lodge close by.
Next morning, sore as a bitch we unloaded the sleds once again. On the way in we spotted a zone we had missed the previous day sessioned that instead to going deeper into the valley and feeling like micro-ants…
Some shots in the bag for everyone, stoked, time to head back to the city to recover while the bad weather passes over and dumps its dump.
Stay tuned for part 2 and more Pirates blogs @ www.pirate-movie-production.com

TC.

Still a few days left before the end of the season at Grandvalira (18 of april), and freestyle is still alive at the GV park El Tarter. After the great Total Fight 2010, the park has been modified so that there’s features for everyone:

Boxes: large 6m flat, flat 8m, flat-down x2, down 8m, C box, flat 6m.

Rails: Stairway, down 9m.

Kickers: 3 initiation kickers, 13m Kicker, 14m Kicker + 8m Kicker, 12m kicker, 10m kicker, Big air 20m, transfer-step-up 19m.

Wallride.

21 features until the end of the season. ! Come and enjoy the spring happy riding!

The pick of the crop of freeskiers have once again joined forces for the sixth edition of the Grandvalira Total Fight Masters of Freestyle, southern Europe’s most exciting Freestyle event. All the skiers showed off their incredible skill on the el Tarter snowpark slopestyle, but it was the Finnish rider, Pekka Hysalo, who grabbed the crown with an incredible double cork 12 farmute on the big air, followed by a unnatural 7 tail and finished off with a switch 9 farmute, making him the undisputed winner of the competition.

Spirits were high amongst the crowds of locals and ski fanatics who made their way up to the park after a heavy night of partying to the sounds of the Nasty Monday’s DJ duo the night before. The spectators cheered and showed their unwavering support to the riders hailing from countries such as Finland, Austria, Andorra, and Spain. Hysalo was accompanied on the podium by fellow fin Oskari Raitanen in second place and local Spaniard Paco Benguerel in third place.

Final classification Total Fight 2010 Ski

1. Pekka HYSALO

2. Oskari HAITANEN-ATOMIC

3. Paco BENGUEREL-AMPLID

4. Tobias GRATZ

5. Scotty JORDAN-FAE

6. Marcos PARRERA

7. Flo WEISER-VOLKL

8. Albert MARTINEZ

foto Miguel Rubio

foto Miguel Rubio

foto Miguel Rubio

foto Miguel Rubio

foto Miguel Rubio

foto Miguel Rubio

foto Miguel Rubio

foto Miguel Rubio

foto Miguel Rubio