A sign of a job well done: Liam Griffin being carried off the helipad at Selkirk Tangiers, just outside Revelstoke, BC, by Travis Rice, Sage Kotsenburg, Nils Mindnich and Jared Elston.Photo: Colin Wiseman

Liam Griffin hasn’t been sleeping much. He’s on his 19^th consecutive day as the Chief Operations Officer of Natural Selection Tour at Revelstoke Mountain Resort, BC. Earlier today, he and his crew pulled off a successful heli-based finals day, despite a dicey snowpack. All went smoothly. He’s the good kind of tired.

If you want a measure of success, many of the riders, the best backcountry riders in the world mind you, claimed they had their best runs of the year today. At the end of it all, Liam took the last flight back to the staging area and was chaired off the heli pad by Travis Rice, Jared Elston and Sage Kotsenburg. Hand the man his flowers, please.

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