I brought the biggest mountain EVER to Philadelphia!!

While I was President of the Temple University Snowboard Club, we had a solid 2 weeks of non-stop action packed snowboarding for 2 weeks.

1/28/10- 2/11/10 were probably the best 2 weeks I've experienced in my 4 years with TUSC and it was all under my Presidency. In no way am touting my own horn as everything kind of fell into place after a lot of hard work (from me and the officers) and dedication in bringing the mountain to Philadelphia.  Let me break it down for you...

So on Thursday, January 28th we had the 2nd annual Bell Tower Rail Jam:
For a full recap on this event please see the Bringing the Mountain to the Streets of Philly post!!!


TUSC 2nd Annual Rail Jam at the Bell Tower from Temple U Snowboard Club on Vimeo.

As soon as the rail jam was finished we hustled to bring all the snow from the event to the jib park or Project J (short for Jib) within a few hours of tear down. The school's maintenance crew helped us load up the snow into our rental Budget trucks, but we had to work fast because we were paying the maintenance crew by the hour (limited budget). Here is the result of our hard work:


Ima Betta Jibba TUSC from Temple U Snowboard Club on Vimeo.

We also used this video for TUSC's submission to Rome's Ima Betta Jibba Contest. This video was filmed Friday, Jan 29th - Jan 31st, edited Jan 31st and submitted next day on the deadline: February 1, 2010.

So we waited...

And on Friday, February 5th I got a call from Ron at Rome Snowboards in the AM letting me know that we had made TOP 3!! I was so pumped and called all of the officers. Being the tricksters they are, Rome released all of the videos submissions throughout the day on Facebook. The were realeased based on what place they landed, leaving us sweating bullets ALL DAY since the first place team was last. They finally released our video as the winner at 5PM (we ended up beating kids from Vermont, Utah, Colorado, California, and Washington).  After finding out I got another call from Ron who wanted to discuss the details of their visit. So we're talking and I'm thinking they will probably come down end of February, maybe early March, but he mentions the team is leaving for Japan so they want to head down Tuesday, February 9th and film!! Here is link to their Philly Trip Blog Post: YEAHHHH!!! And here is the video they made from their visit (we had a LOT of fun):


Rome comes to Philly!!! from Temple U Snowboard Club on Vimeo.

Rome ends up getting into Philly late Tuesday night as they drove down in the heavy storm that hit Philly, school ends up getting canceled Wednesday and Thursday. Please keep in mind that Temple has never closed in something like 62 years!!! I still find it hilarious to this day that Rome showed up and they close the university down the 2 days they're in Philly... EPIC!!!

-Kev