My Experience As A Wild Card On The Freeride World Tour at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort!

I was super humbled and excited when I got the call to be the Wild Card for the 2024 Freeride World Tour stop inKicking Horse. So I saddled up and made the journey from Whistler to Golden with Tenra.

I have been following the tour for a couple year now and I knew going into this that the level of riding has been insane but with the current snow conditions being dust on a serious icy crust I was a little hesitant on sending.

Through out the few days leading up to the event I was amazed by how welcoming everyone was on tour as they made me feel like part of their big family. With help from a few riders and staff I was able to switch from a filming mindset to a competing one. Not much changed but a little more pressure due to the competitive nature of events like these.
After doing the longest visual inspection I've ever done between 6-9 hours I had finally picked out a run I was stoked on with a few options sprinkled here and there. My plan went something like this. Out of the start ski down to the first little cliff band and hit the cliff off the nose with a little saftey grab, then two turns and 3 off the lip, as I approached it I saw a 3 wasn't gonna work very well so i straight aired it with a tree tap, then two more turns and a sketchy in run to a 360, now here is where i had 2 options either go right play it safe rip through the tree hit a little wind lip do a shifty over trees and down to the finish line or risk it for the biscuit and send it of the lilly padd to a 25 footer. I had 10 minutes to think about it while waiting in the start gate and i told myself F!$ck it I didn't come here to play it safe I cam here to compete and send it! So I did!

Then we had an epic after party with a few skiers on the FWT kicking things off with a set Andrew Pollard and Kendall Goodman before Ski Tour came on for the main event! What a way to end an epic week on the FWT!

Looking back on the event I wouldn't change a thing other then stomping my bottom air but I couldn't of known that the landing was gonna be a breakable crust with sugary faceted snow underneath so there isn't much I coulda done when I was bracing for a firm icy landing. Lesson learned. Respect The Send


0:00 Intro
0:38 Travel to Golden
1:20 Arriving to Golden, Athlete meeting and Bib Presentation
2:07 Visual Inspection
5:38 Morning Of Comp Day
6:45 Freeride World Tour Coverage Of My Run
11:59 Podium Ceremony's
13:46 Hiking Up To Look For My GoPro
14:35 POV Of My Run
16:17 End Of Day Recap
17:29 The After Party
18:08 Outro


Full Coverage of the Kicking Horse Pro FWT Event
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Salomon Gear I used during the event
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S/PRO ALPHA 130 Ski Boot
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Husk Prime Mips Helmet
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Strive 16 MN Bindings
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Sentry Prime Sigma Photochromatic
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Moon Patrol GTX Pants & Jacket
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