Mt. Sima saw a fresh layer of powder and Yukoners going home with a handful of medals Wednesday.

Yukon's snowboard team took home two golds, a silver and a bronze, while Josie Storey won the alpine team's only medal yesterday in dual slalom.

The snowboard team has been racking up medals all week.

Adam Waddington won gold in Wednesday's half-pipe event after taking home the bronze Monday in slopestyle.

His teammate, Tim Schirmer, won silver in both the half-pipe and slopestyle.

The team's coach, Katrina Couch, called Schirmer an incredibly snowboarder, considering his young age.

"Tim's 13. He's amazing. He's all natural talent,” she said.

Lara Bellon has taken home the top prize in all three snowboard events — half-pipe, slopestyle and banked slalom— this week.

Not bad results, considering the half-pipe at Mt. Sima was only built a few weeks ago. The team from Northwest Territories doesn't even have a half pipe. They train in a sand pit.

Waddington said the team only got "real” practice in the half pipe before competing.

He said although the team would have done better had they had more time to practice, he thought the team performed "great” anyway.

"My last run was the best,” Waddington said before receiving his medal. "I was super relaxed and everything went smoothly.”

Schirmer agreed.

"Me too. I felt nice and relaxed and was in the zone.”

Both athletes said they had no idea how they would perform in today's border cross race, their last event of the games, due to the "contact and high possibility of crashing.”

Waddington said he snowboards for all the "cliché” reasons.

"It's just awesome,” he said. "You feel free; you feel like you're flying.”

Bellon said she was expecting a lot more competition at this year's Games. The 17-year-old did, though, say there a few athletes who are pushing her.

"I like it, it's making me step up my game and try harder,” said Bellon.

Bellon started snowboarding when her family moved to Dawson for one year and she needed something to keep her busy.

I begged my parents to let me snowboard,” she said. " I started there and never stopped.”

Bellon started training in the half pipe at the Calgary Olympic Park during weekend trips to Alberta.

The pipe built at My. Sima was very last minute, she said.

"It was just as new to us the other competitors.”

Bellon has been snowboarding for three years and hopes to do the sport professionally one day.

Fourteen-year-old Haylie Grant won bronze in yesterday's event and silver in slopestyle. She also happens to be the coach's younger half- sister.

Grant said she performed her personal best yesterday. She admitted sometimes she gets scared of some of the tricks she attempts in the half-pipe, but knows she can't hurt herself "really badly”.

Couch, who competed in two Arctic Games and one Canada Games before moving into coaching, said her team is lucky to train at Mt. Sima.

"Of course we have our own difficulties and weather is always a challenge,” she continued. "But our park is pretty much the nicest I've seen in a very long time.

W'e've got the hal-pipe up and open. We've got a border cross track — we've got everything we need.”

Couch said she's ecstatic with her athletes results.

"With freestyle, that was the most medals team Yukon has walked away with in one event in any Arctic Winter Games, and today we did it again. We have a really young team and a really talented team this year.”