Orage Pros + Powder Tour: Mount St. Louis

Words and photos: Jeff King

On Saturday, February 24th, one of Ontario's best parks hosted the Orage Pros and Powder tour at Mount St. Louis Moonstone. Great weather along with an awesome park setup greeted the crowd of young skiers made up almost entirely of NS members. Despite the facts that Orage's shipment of prizes and gear failed to make it into the country and TJ Schiller had to stay at home to take care of an ankle injury sustained only a few days earlier, tour organizer, operator, MC, and one-man army Cody Lynge was determined to make sure everyone had a great time. Orage pro Craig Coker also somehow managed to make it across the border for his first visit to the great white north. As the lone pro for the day, he was on a mission to make sure everyone in attendance was as stoked as he was to be skiing.


Craig Coker (far Left) along with the Righteous Riders crew posed with some fresh t-shirts before things got rolling.

With some free shwag to give away, Cody got on the mic to announce a couple of sessions throughout the day to determine the winners of Orage jackets and Anon goggles. In between contests Craig was making sure he met everyone in attendence while participating in the ongoing trains that were consistently lapping the park.




The rail jam went down on a 45 foot long flat bar at the bottom of the park. A tough rail to clean to the end and much harder if you chose to spin on. The half-hour session produced many valiant attempts and near misses but the rail was thankfully only two feet off the snow, so everyone skied away intact. In the end, one of the few people in attendance even capable of growing facial hair used his rail experience to make a switch lip 270 stick and put his order in with Orage for a new jacket.



During lunch, Craig Coker made a stop at the bank of MSLM, withdrawing some five-dollar bills to hand out and keep the stoke fires burning. Due to some shipping issues this particular stop of the Pros and Powder tour was a little more grassroots than planned so some prizes needed to be improvised, so Craig Coker heroically put down the plastic and made it happen. The second session of the day went down midway through the park on the unique butter pad step-down jump. Cody and Craig took their judging positions on the dfd rail while the paparazzi assembled around the deck of the jump. The contest quickly evolved into a most unique trick contest with weird grabs, team jumps, high fives, and spread eagles galore. The pictures can say more than I can from this point on so I'll let them do the talking. Sandy Boville won the session and a new Orage jacket of his choice.









Now for more photos from the rest of the day. Thanks to Cody Lynge from Orage and Craig Coker for making it a great day. As Craig said, "It's pretty hard not to keep people stoked on a day like this."