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If you're in the Northeast, or even if you're not, there's still time and still no reason you shouldn't sign up to participate in The Dumont Cup on March 26-27 at Sunday River in Maine. It's a Pro/Am event, so all are welcome to come, shred, and try to get a piece of the $20K cash prize purse. Go get you some at DumontCup.comCheck out what went down last year!
There's not a whole lot to say about Red Bull skier Henrik Windstedt's win at the Nissan Freeride World Tour event at Squaw Valley today except...HOLY $H!T. The video below pretty much speaks for itself, be we'll throw in these tidbits as well: The event was on the rocks (no pun intended) due to extreme avalanche danger and eventually moved off the intended Tram Face to Silverado at Squaw Valley. Nevertheless, Henrik threw down a significant run and head judge Eric Seymour had this to say about it: "Henrik showed the most progressive run of the day, throwing a giant backflip off the start straight into a big 360. He skied very fast and smooth all the way to his final air a 45 footer, which he landed perfectly. He managed to mix both new school freestyle and big mountain skiing."
*Photo by D. Carlier
Simon Dumont capped off the 2010 Dew Tour with a win in Superpipe at Vermont's Mt. Snow resort on Saturday, wrapping up the Tour in second place overall.
Dumont's winning run included a right 900, a double flip, an alley-oop 720 and a switch 720 to finish almost three points clear of Tucker Perkins in second-place. The win put Simon just five points behind overall Tour winner Jossi Wells, making the chase for the year-end title a close one.
"It's been a long but fun season, and it was awesome to have
everything fall into place to get first at the final stop of the
season," said Dumont. "All of the freeskiers really came together to
put on a good show today."
Women's Slopestyle went down today under beautiful partly sunny skies at Butttermilk as Winter X Games 14 kicked off. Red Bull veteran Grete Eliassen, who is also a veteran of last year's slope podium, brought down three solid runs all of which included as nasty 900 on the big bottom jump and slide easily into the bronze medal spot just behind Keri Herman. Way out in front of the field with three 90-plus point runs was Red Bull Ski Team newcomer Kaya Turski. Kaya brought the heat on her last run with a 270 disaster, 450-off the canon, switch 900, 540 and switch 720 off the big bottom booter to give her a score of 96.66 and an 11-point lead on the competition.
All in all, not a bad afternoon as the Red Bull Ski Team nabs two of the first three medals award at WX14.
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C.R. Johnson gave us access to his helmet cam footage. Here's a nice little look into how a Linecatcher athlete picks through the course and figures out their line...
Considering all the variables working against an event like Red Bull Linecatcher, it's really amazing how well it went off yesterday. The Vars valley in France was hit with a meter of cold powder the day the athletes arrived in town. After a successful qualifying event, two french skiers were pulled into the elite field including Red Bull's own Sean Pettit, Richard Permin, Sven Kueenle, and Bene Mayr.
France's own Candide Thovex topped the field to take the title, while Sean Pettit stood aside him in second and C.R. Johnson took third. Check out the video below:
France's own Candide Thovex topped the field to take the title, while Sean Pettit stood aside him in second and C.R. Johnson took third. Check out the video below:
A couple weeks ago, our good friend and photog, Chip Kalback, was front row for all the action that went down at the first of three Dew Tour stops. Despite being the coldest place on the face of the earth, the Red Bull skiers kept it hot in Breckenfridge. Check out the full gallery!
