Erin Comstock @ Rockstar Energy Drink Snowboarding

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Armenia’s first snowboard contest!

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This is the Press Conference Amber and I did to demonstrate to The Armenians how to use a snowboard.

us with the Armenian Olympic committee

We went to several different schools to talk about snowboarding. This school here was the Institute of Physical Culture.

We went to the Kentron TV station to do a talk show called "Outline" It is the Larry King of Armenia. After this show and the press conferences everyone in Yerevan knew who we were. Pretty funny

By Friday we finally made it up to Tsaghkadzor the Mountain to teach kids to snowboard

I was in charge of building the 1st snowboard competition course ever in Armenia. I had to design the coarse in the Metric system and go in the cat the night before to tell the cat driver how to build rollers and jumps. This was not an easy task. The driver was an old stubborn man who did not want this contest to happen. But it was fun to design a course!

Amber and I got up at 7am the next morning to put in 2 hours of course maintenance. The night before brought lots of wind and snow. And the old crusty man would not groom the coarse the next day so Amber and I slipped it and rebuilt it. I was determined to make this the best contest the Armenians had ever seen!

The Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and Minister Artur Petrossian joined us for the contest! Everyone was so excited to see the enthusiasm that the leaders and competitors had towards snowboarding.

This was the awards ceremony. None of the competitors had ever seen a course like the one they road today.. They had smiles from ear to ear. And I felt like we accomplished our mission!

Vancouver to Armenia

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I started in the Roxy RV Bus in Denver and visited snowboard shops all the way up to Vancouver. It took about 5 days to make our way up. Then visited another 6 shops in Vancouver. Here is the bridge that connected North Vancouver to downtown.

Part of going to Vancouver was to watch Torah Bright win the Gold!!

Nobody could beat Torah’s score! She killed it!

I was home in Utah for a week before going on my next trip to Armenia…Amber and I were asked by the US Government Deptartment of State to be Sport Envoys/ Ambassadors in Armenia. Amber and I are the 1st Snowboarders to be sent to another Country and we are the 1st American athletes to come to Armenia as Sports Envoys. The goal of having us here is to educate the Armenians on the sport and to encourage them to have more of a passion to use their Amazing mountains around them!
Below are the photos of our journey to Armenia and our 1st day in Armenia….

: Our flight was 2 hours delayed leaving SLC. So we were re-routed turning our journey into 40hours. Our 1st stop was Paris. We had a 10 hour layover so we decided to tour the city.

: Here is the outside of the very famous Louvre Museum.

: Amber and I are about 30 hours into our travel!

: Our next layover was in Dubai! We took a taxi tour of the city to see all of the new architecture.

: We were also able to see the tallest building in the world Burj Khalifa in Downtown Dubai

: After our 40 hours of Travel we finally made it to Yerevan Armenia. Of course none of our luggage made it so we had to shop that night for business attire for our press conference meetings the next day and for our meeting with the Armenian Olympic committee.

: At the Olympic meeting

: This is a photo with Razmik Stepanyan who is the 1st Vice President of the Armenian National Olympic Committee. Mr Gagik Tsarukian who is the President of the NCOA and owner of the largest Cognac and beer Factory was not able to join us..

: Amber and I getting as close to the rings as we will ever get!

: After the meeting we met with a bunch of Middle school students to tell them about snowboarding. Then we autographed our postcard for them and believe it or not Amber and I are under there signing!

: Here is a reading room for the students in the school. Pretty cool throne!

: Then we met with a bunch of University students. They were all women except for 1. They did not like the idea of snowboarding because they thought it was to manly.. But they were surprised that Amber and I looked like women. Haha so we tried to tell them they can do both

: While Amber stayed and visited with Film students I drove an hour out of the city to Tsaghkadzor. This is the closest resort to Yerevan. I went there to check out the slopes and decide where to design their 1st ever Snowboard contest. They wanted me to design a boardcross course. It was quite funny and intense to tell them the measurements of the bumps, jumps and width of the run. They have never done anything like this before!!

: This is Tom he is the Public Affairs Officer at the Embassy. We both put skies on in our street clothes to look at the run for the contest.

: Finally at the end of the night Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch held a special party at the Embassy residence in our Honor and invited all of the other Top Armenian athletes to meet us. The main sports in Armenia are Arm wrestling. Wrestling, Boxing, weight lifting and Judo. In this photo this is one of the girls that is really excited to ride with us this friday for our beginner class.

Welcome to Finlandia

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I left to Helsinki Finland on the 1st of January to avoid celebrating my birthday on the 2nd of January. I was also frustrated with the lack of snow the US had to offer and noticed that Helsinki was receiving the most snow they had seen since 1973. I needed to get ready for the Chicken Jam in Austria and thought riding Talma (a resort in Finland about 55 meters vertical) would be the best choice.

When I arrived with Amber Stackhouse (Roxy Filmer) we where shocked at how much snow was really here. My opinion on getting ready for the Chicken Jam went down the toilet. I wanted to just shoot photos and get video shots. It was like a candy land out here! Heikki who is filming for Euro Gap 3 told me that I could come out with his crew and try to film. I was so stoked to have a crew to ride with! So here I go….. Oh and for the Roxy Chicken Jam, yeah I sucked!

Here are some of the spots I filmed at….