Ride Utah Blog

Some great Salt Lake City jibbing here.

Here’s some footage from the Intelligent Design contest at PCMR.  Music is by Salt Lake’s own Tolchock Trio.  Check them out on TolchockTrio.net.

Also, here is some much better footage prepared by Park City Television.

Today I went to the Intelligent Design contest at Park City Mountain Resort.  I got bored of the standard half-pipe contest a while ago, so, when I heard about this combo contest I decided to go check it out.  The Park City crew did a fantastic job of transforming the park for this one of a kind contest.  Basically, the course started with a big air jump, into a gap jump to a hip, then a couple of rails that led into the superpipe, which was freshly adorned with some jibs on the deck and then finally at the base of the pipe there was a 25 foot quaterpipe.  It was a lot of fun watching these guys mix it up and put together a real run.  Here are a few pics and I’ll have a video together in the next couple days.

The Big Air Jump

Shaun White Spinning to win

The Gap to Hip

Guess who won?

1 Shaun White $20,000
2 Charles Reid 90.00 $10,000
3 Luke Mitrani $6,000
4 Gjermund Braaten $5,000
5 Wyatt Caldwell $3,000
6 Joe Eddy $2,000
7 Sage Kotsenburg $1,000
8 Tim Humphreys $1,000
9 Sebastien Toutant $1,000
10 Louie Vito $1,000
11 Jack Mitrani
12 Madison Ellsworth
13 Scotty Arnold
14 Alex Sherman
15 Nick Russell
16 Aaron Bittner
17 Derek Johnson

Check out this great video from Justin Olsen at the Canyons featuring the “Respect” Terrain Park.

Upper and Lower Respect Terrain Parks at The Canyons Ski Resort are open! Local riders and Canyons team athletes talk about this years set up in the park, and what has been going on. Steve Duke and the park staff are building features designed to help you step it up. The challenge has been issued.. bring it.

Via YoBeat.com

L1 at brighton from wille on Vimeo.

Well the parks are up and running at the resorts and everyone is having a good old time hucking, bonking, and sliding all the goodies that the crews have built. But, you might need a refresher course in the Smart Style program of Terrain Park safety and ettiquette.  Watch this video about how to behave in the park:

http://www.terrainparksafety.org/press.asp

Snowboarders in Exile continues.

All Quiet on the Western Front:

Watch this video that our sister blog did with Jared Winkler, the Terrain Park Director at Brighton.