Congrats to Greg Watts for winning the 2009 Crankworx Slopestyle!!!  Not much to say other than that. I liked it better that last year as far as the layout of the course. New stunts, and seeing more new riders…..

Geoff Gulevich

Darren Berrecloth

Greg Watts

the crowd at the slopestyle finals

Brandon Semenuk

Brandon Semenuk

Good times. Thanks for Clinton and J of Project529 for the hookup.

As every year since its inception, I made the trek to Whistler, BC for the 2009 Crankworx Bike Festival. The whole festival is spread out 10 days, but this year I only hit the last 4 days, but was able to get some nice shots of the Giant Slalom and the world-famous Slopestyle competition. Last year,  most of my time on-course was hiding in whatever shade I could find, this year was similar, but hiding from rain instead of the sun. I will never complain about the heat and dust at a bike photo shoot, the alternative truly sucks. Luckily by race time the weather was actually, hmmmm… not bad.

Crankworx Giant Slalom

JS Therrien and Shawn Palmer

Kyle Strait and Dominik Gspan

Emmeline Ragot and Leana Gerrard

Michal Prokop railin'

Chase Schmidt

Jill Kintner

More photos of the 2009 Crankworx Giant Slalom HERE

Anyway, despite the weather, I got some good shots. Dealing with weather, crowds, un-ideal locations can suck, but what are you gunna do. I need to learn this and remember that everyone else out there is dealing with the same conditions and we are in pretty much the same boat.