Momentum Session 4

Words & photos by Jeff Schmuck

Now that COC has closed up shop for the summer and Momentum is in the midst of their fifth and final session with Adult Week, it's time for our last update on the biggest ski-only summer camp in the world.


As always, we begin with the campers and their coaches, who unlike those who attended the previous three sessions had a day or two of murky weather to deal with, but it didn't stop them from participating in one of the most entertaining and impromptu jump sessions of the entire summer, complete with enough laid out backflips and front flips to make the late and great Shane McConkey proud.


Even the diggers put down their salt bags and shovels to get in on the act, helmed by their fearless leader Mike Shaw, who along with his hard working crew deserve much love and respect for constructing and maintaining Momentum's best lane ever.


Aside from the one-day fog session, it was once again bluebird and beautiful all week long at Momentum, and with many of the coaches and all of the campers not old enough to vote or drink gearing up to head home for the summer, much like we touched on in our final COC update, the theme of the week was one last hurrah...


And in an effort to wrap things up with a bang, here's a look at some incredible photography from Momentum's epic night shoot that went down during the previous session, courtesy of Momentum staff photographer Raffaella Dice and Exposure camper Luke Smart (who also happens to be the son of Momentum Founder John Smart)...



That's all for this summer from Momentum! Stay tuned for their Session 4 edit, and once again, on behalf of everyone who had the pleasure of being in Whistler, thanks to all of the campers who came out for the best summer ever, along with the diggers, coaches and the rest of Momentum's hard working staff!