 Morse here. It is natural selection day one just outside of Nelson, BC. The second stop of a three-stop tour, masterminded by Travis Rice with the help of Liam Griffin and a whole mess of other people, but we're just in the staging area right now unloading all the sleds, getting all the trucks parked. There's probably about 27, 30 people. Everybody's got sleds. Everybody's flying around and I mean it's classic day one chaos. You're just trying to figure it out so it's crazy. We got here up here in the first convoy so we had to separate all the trucks because it's obviously active logging road so you need a radio so we had to separate and we were in the first one so we had to unload my sled, get all set up. I'm ready to go but we're kind of watching everybody else unload and it's really fun to just be the peanut gallery, you know. Getting inside the competitor's hands. Where is Shawn White? Okay let's say I'm not a big math guy but let's jump into the numbers here. Visibility about a 2 out of 10. Vibes 12 out of 10 so that evens out to about 8. I'm not good at math as I mentioned off the start. What I'm trying to do right now is we've got a bunch of pictures and you can kind of see some cliffs and some benches above us so I'm just trying to line up where those benches are in regards to the photos. Kind of like blind mice right now we're feeling our way around but you know what this is day one, this is hour three. We're moving a lot of people so it's going to be kind of slow so it's actually an advantage to the riders because we get more time to look at this features and more time to figure out what we really want to do so yeah the clouds aren't great but in the words of Mark Solar it's all about the community here. But this is going to be kind of the first home base right here. You'll be shredding lines from the ridge quite a bit above their back down to here and our goal today is to just familiarize everybody with what's going on. We'll get a line or two maybe three I don't know how much we're going to be able to see so we'll just try to keep it tight and see what we can see as we go around and feel the snow out. A lot of beautiful machines sitting here. Abilance safety all done, we're shooting some portraits we're just going to do in the housekeeping you know get all that housekeeping done and we're going to move up a little bit because there's three kind of sections here and the clouds are rising a little bit you get a better look at the cliffs and kind of the features that you want to ride. Big, big face, lots to do. A lot of talking, a lot of chatting, a lot of hanging. That's just big shoots you know. I was telling Bo and Chris it's just kind of like like it's going to a buffet and never have never tried any of the food so you don't know what to put on your plate like there's so many options and everything looks a certain way here and then you're like over there and you're like oh that looks cool so he's just like very overwhelming but you want to know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna pull down that tree right there. Okay I'm gonna go get the clip. Okay go get that clip though. There's like three areas where you can do your line or whatever this is the this is the last one this one's called Huckleberry so we're gonna go take a look at it and as the day has gone on obviously the clouds have lifted a little bit so you can look at everything. This is the one I'm leaning towards doing my line. Looker's right on the big rock is there like a diagonal shoot that we can't kind of see? Can you see the shoot from your angle? Okay. There's all sorts of options in here you've got like this cliff and then all these pillows down in the main bowl so I think this is kind of the spot most of us are getting pretty hyped up. Day one wrapped up kind of broken into three different groups got into different cats looked at different terrain and now we're just kind of discussing what everybody's seeing looking at photos and stuff like that I don't think anybody's super confident in what they want to do but that's why you have tomorrow or another scope day I think and then he's got to find that find that line and just do it over and over again to really really hammer at home. It'd be interesting to see how many people do the same thing because there's like those like that's beautiful thing about it is the good features are going to get hit you now so we'll see. It's day two. Natural selection. A lot of chatter a lot of locker room talk out here as everybody's gearing up their ponies. Obviously I'm on the Skadoop expert turbo 7x it's the best but yeah we're gonna have fun we're gonna go up to choose our lines see what we're gonna do for the rest of the week because I think tomorrow and the next day are the best weather days so try and get everything dialed get where the filmers are gonna be because it's a lot of learning and a lot of being adaptable. So I think what we're talking about want to discuss this you know listen to you guys we're gonna do a line down this way and a line down this way so you can get some eyes also so the camera crews can get some eyes on the slope figure out camera angles and then Liam is gonna give you a staff of independence and you plug that in at the top of your line and then we're gonna kind of know where we're gonna want to set up camera crews for that kind of stuff and then if we can we could start trying to shoot some stuff this afternoon and then we'll be all set up for tomorrow to roll in and just kind of start hammering first thing in the morning. Just had a riders meeting now we're getting a little bit more freedom we're granted a little bit more access we're gonna sled up the cat trail track I'm gonna call it cat trail from now on and then we're gonna go look at this face because yesterday we were supposed to look at it I don't think anybody was really confident with what they saw and that was because we're moving around in cats so I think we're gonna get on the sleds we're gonna be able to stop when we want take a look at what we want and then we'll have a much better idea to get these lines dialed so an ambitious plan yes but hey shoot for the stars and you may fall among the moon I said that wrong we'll see you later we're just kind of taking a look at the lines and this is the best we've seen it honestly like this is the most confident I'm like oh okay I know exactly where I am like there's a bench right there so we're slowly educating ourselves I feel like now you're up here you see all the stuff yeah when you're looking from the side you're like we can kind of see the there's a dead tree up there and there's kind of like a landing rolling down it so I'm gonna actually use I'm a little bit outside of the like the cat track and pump that probably put like a couple bricks on that and build a jump into that that landing or something of that nature because I think I'm gonna try and air that there's a little tag in there they're gonna come into this section here so we're kind of like right in the middle of the course and I think this there's a couple little step-downs here but it's gonna be really interesting because this is like the big section then the middle section is here and then that bottom section with features is here so you could get stuck just traversing the whole time it's me really interesting to see if somebody can just like go fast you know because it's like one two and three we'll see how that plays out but I'm excited I mean this is gonna be so sick we're finally on course get to walk around a little bit and maybe pass some things down and tomorrow is Chuck Vest staff sir thank you sir I present to you there we go all right thank you Liam got my flag nice a flag for flag I had to go pink match the jacket I was in Mikey's rider if he was gonna do this event he said one thing oh well one thing and one thing only pink no fish curry we're gonna go put in our big staffs to tell everybody where we're dropping in I'm potting mine right here we're gonna air off of this little hip into the landing and then try and take something on over there but faster than that I'll do a couple checks tomorrow I think it'll give me a better idea your boy put in work and your boy is Ben Webb Ben Webb the man behind the lens me and him y'all this will take off up a little gap jump hopefully the landing is good and this will set up the rest of my line but yeah it works you know this is the hardest part is when you're so nervous about something like you just want it to go good and I don't know we try to already put everything we had into it so hopefully it works you know that's a good really good scope day and super needed honestly I don't think anybody at the Saturday knew what they're doing and after today everybody's kind of like we're good to go here we go this is the day I think this is gonna be the day of the days it's supposed to bake out after today which means the Sun's gonna kind of ruin the snow so we we have to run the contest today we're gonna do the lines today and see how this thing plays out there'll be one hero after this we'll see