Nanaimo Bars

Looking back on our trip to Nanaimo i can't help but think back to a time when i lived in a city where it snows hard during the winter, the east coast cities are

 constantly getting dumped

 on and have more than enough snow to stomp through any urban stunt.  Since i moved out west to whistler, BC in 04 I have missed that aspect of winter where snowmobiles wander throughout the streets th

at no car could manage, people would stay home by the fire all day in fear of the treacherous conditions that haunt the roads, and 

police doing real police work, not worried about the petty crimes of urban snowboarding.  

This winter hasn't brought the best conditions for traditional riding in 

the alpine of the mountains but when a system got blown in from the south and blasted vancouver island with 3 ft of snow we the Voleurz crew consisting of Shayne Zwickle, Barry

 Hartman, Scott Sych and Myself  booked off our day to days and got straight to work.  Nanaimo is a city that is usually too mild for snow which means the spots are fairly untouched, thus making our smiles after landing tricks that much bigger.  Leaving with such short notice, all the photographers we knew had other engagements to tend to so we were mainly on a mission without photos, that is until Matt Mcloud stumbled upon one of our sessions. Not knowing his setup we weren't expecting much but when he showed up with a few remote flashes and a pocket wizard  we all looked at each other with joyous confused looks like "what are the f*in chances!" we went on through the trip with ease 

going from spot to spot no hassle everybody seemed to welcome the idea of street shredding,aside from the universities(an obvious heat score), even a Daily News Reporter came to take some photos and write a story.  Things all meshed so well. We hit so many spots in those 2.5 days and logged some amazing footage, it only seemed properly ironic to end the trip with a scene of us enjoying the taste of the infamous nanaimo bars.