Soo ended up driving down to Washington State early on a Sunday morning just as the first flakes of another Revelstoke dumpage began to fall. Twelve hours, two bags of jerky and one long interrogation at the border later we arrived at Crystal Mt to compete on stop three of the Freeride World Tour to be held in conjunction with the North Face Masters.
Monday morning dawned with a storm brewing which unfortunately wasn’t enough to cover to the rock solid rain crust that had formed all the way to the mountain tops! With one day before the finals the Tuesday was spent getting in touch with the challenging conditions and visually scoping lines on the finals venue, there was no inspection runs to be had so it all came down to reading the terrain from across the valley and flipping it around in your head to imagine how it looks from above.
Scoping 'The King'
Buddy Seb Grundin had made the trip down from Revelstoke also to compete, unfortunately after a solid run in the qualifiers he was denied entry into the finals for a minor washout! But he still had fun and came away with valuable competition experience. Shot bro big ups, look forward to see how you go at Kirkwood next month!
The finals day dawned bluebird, with one more chance to get the line visually sorted its hike on to get to the summit of The King for a drop in. Bit of visualising and mind tricks and time to drop in. The start gate dropped straight down into the gnarliest ice I ever seen in North America, control counts! Anyway my run didnt work out as planned so kept it in control and kept it fluid as much as possible. 
Ended up placing 20th out of 42 in the North Face Finals which ended up equating to 6th for the FWT stop. Feel I could definitely have done better personally, forever learning! Thanks Seb for hooking a bro up with your camber board you saved my ass there! haha.
After prizegiving Sandy and I jumped back in the truck for another 12 hours sitting down. Was kind of easy as snow fell and snowbanks grew larger as we neared home in the early hours of morning.
http://www.freerideworldtour.com/fwt11-snb-men.html Results
Home, they them there houses behind there somewhere!
A great experience and good learning curve seeing first hand how the worlds top freeriders get it done.
Cheers
Scotty
