Events: July 2008 Archives

The AST just announced dates for the innaugural winter Dew Tour. Why do you care? Well for starters the 1.5 million dollars in podium dough is going to attract the biggest names in the sport of skiing including Red Bull's Simon Dumont and...wait for it...Tanner Hall. Yes, Tanner is saying he'll ski the Superpipe portion of the tour at every stop. Last season Simon dominated nearly every Superpipe event he entered except for the Winter X Men's Superpipe--the only Superpipe competition Tanner entered last season. Both Red Bull rider are on top of the sport and finally spectators will get the head-to-head, multi-stop forum they've been wishing for to see who will best the other to dominate the sport.

From the AST: NEW YORK - July 14, 2008 - The AST, the umbrella brand and organization of today's most prestigious action sports events, today announced the host resorts and dates for the three stops of the inaugural AST Winter Dew Tour. The Winter Tour, which will feature freeskiing and snowboarding disciplines for both men and women, kicks off at Breckenridge Ski Resort in Breckenridge, Colo., Dec. 18-21, 2008 continues at Mount Snow Resort in West Dover, Vt., Jan. 8-11, 2009 and concludes at Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort in Lake Tahoe, Calif., Feb. 19-22, 2009.

All the preparation and all the practice came down to one day, really. CP flew an A-Star fitted with a Tyler mount down from Seattle. Based on thoughts from credible sources, this was the first time Mt. Hood had ever seen a helicopter used for ski or snowboard shoot.

It's difficult to fathom what needs to go on for a heli shoot to be a success. The chaos is nearly indescribable. We sat on the in-run up by the skiers while the Red Bull Skiing team manager Pete did his best to relay commands from CP over the roar of the rotors sitting in the shotgun seat. Those little Motorola radios provided little more fidelity than indecipherable bursts of muddled shouting. Nevertheless as the heli dropped low over the top of the in run, and our gloves skipped away across the glacier like bunnies across a field, order somehow manifested itself from madness and the shoot was a resounding success.

See all 25 shots from the massive gallery of the final action shoot for Tanner Hall's film, "The Massive!"