SHOWBOAT SHOWDOWN WINNERS!
Congratulations to the winners of the Showboat Showdown Slopestyle Event at Snowbasin, held on Sunday, April 11th. Shown above are the first place winners:
- K.C. Russell – Snowboard
- Sydnie Pappas – Women/Ski
- Bryan Bond – Men/Ski
Great action and unbelievable local talent! Thank you to everyone that participated in the event including our judges and especially our sponsors: DC, Monster, Alpine Sports, Saolomon, Blindside, Dimond Peak, Canyon Sports, Nidecker, 4front and Snowbasin. The event was a great way to wrap-up the season. We hope that everyone enjoyed the park expansion, new features, and of course the fantastic pipe at Snowbasin this year. There is still a week left to hit the pipe!
Tags: contest, FREESKIER, slopestyle, snowboard, winners
April 12th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
heck yeah!! love to see that all three are local talents
April 13th, 2010 at 4:03 am
BASIN has the talent and now they have the park / pipe hope the park + pipe will always be a part of this great resort .
April 14th, 2010 at 7:39 am
The video of the event is up on the Snowbasin Facebook page.
April 15th, 2010 at 8:19 am
Sorry to dash your hopes mentioned above, but not everyone enjoyed the park expansion & pipe this year. Primarily the placement. Hopefully, a location less disruptive to the flow of traffic on the hill can be found if you decide to build a pipe next year.
April 18th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
hoot let me guess your THAT guy huh?
April 18th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
The placement was for the dew tour it was not part of the park expantion . Also there are many other ways to get down the resort. Things change. Live with it. School hill and showboat were under utilized before this season.
April 19th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
@ Hoot:
seriously? you have 12 other ways to get down to the plaza, you HAVE to have showboat and school hill too? parks are the present and future of ski resorts all around the world. it’s only a matter of time before old timer skier’s like you are the minority.
maybe someone can answer me this, why is it that skiers(the older crowd) like to come into the park, with their children, and not only make turns down the landings of the jumps(thus ruining them) but get in the way causing extreme danger to yourselves, children, and others?
we can co-exist. just please let us have our fun, and stay away from it(the parks/pipe). you don’t see us trying to ruin your mogules and complaining about how “in the way they are”
April 21st, 2010 at 1:29 am
Hey guys, nice job perpetuating your stereotype! You missed the point entirely in your magnificent jumps to unfounded conclusions but thanks for the amusement. When you get a knee taken out at the bottom of the pipe by an old timer blasting out of the cattle chute detour, then come back and read the post again.
It’s the placement, not the mere existence. Hey, I don’t care, have a pipe! Even a better one (I hear the pros dogged this one). Maybe with a rope tow. Or a chair. Or a gondola. Or free Red Bull for the lowest trousers. Don’t be bashful, put in your request. There’s no telling how much coin Snowbasin is willing to flush down this pipe dream. My hope, and the point of the original post, is that they can find or build a place that is better for both pipe heads and non-pipe heads alike.
mj – I am, how sweet of you to notice. See you at the next meeting.
joe – Many other ways to get down? So a run is a run, right? Remember that axiom if they do not build a pipe next year. There are many other natural half pipes on the resort. Things change. Live with it. By the way, are your utilization analyses available to the public?
Rick – Seriously? You have 3 other pipes and 3 other parks, you HAVE to have showboat and school hill too?
So parks are the present and future. I guess that makes you the new “main stream” now. Love the irony. Funny to hear you whine about the new minority ruining the park and complaining about how “in the way they are”. Hey, we can co-exist. Just please let us have our fun, and stay away from us (in the parks/pipe). You are right, I do not see you trying to ruin the moguls. In your defense, you do appear to be in there by accident and ruining them unintentionally.
There is a simple answer to your question: they do it to annoy you. Is it working?
Have a lovely summer!
April 21st, 2010 at 3:45 am
The great crew at BASIN did a well thought out job with the terrain park the placement was fine it was no problem going around . I heard hundreds of skiers and boarders comment on how fun the pipe was . For the 100 that loved the park about 1 or 2 hated it mostly because it was different and might draw a NEW crowd . IT WILL people love it and I AM GLAD THE DEW TOUR WILL CONTINUE TO COME TO SNOWBASIN …
April 21st, 2010 at 4:41 am
hoot – the terrain park represents a few acres while you have thousands of acres to ski on. I love the park, everyone I know loves the park. I saw little kids going down the pipe and older people going down the pipe. They all liked it. It’s a loud, but very much minority that doesn’t like the park because it’s something they can’t do and will attract people they don’t know.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:01 am
HOOT or COOT ? go BIG or go HOME !
April 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Coot… you mean like old coot? Like a mean spirited old man? HA! That’s great! It even rhymes. Nice job, you nailed it! However I can’t figure out how ‘go BIG or go HOME’ applies to a discussion of feature placement, but it sure is fun to say.
CJ – There might even be other reasons.
skier – Thank you! Although I disagree with you on some issues, I am glad that somebody presented an opinion relative to the actual point.
OK guys, go BIG or go HOME! That was fun.
Your pal, COOT (get it? it rhymes with HOOT!)
April 23rd, 2010 at 3:32 pm
This isn’t a battle of bashing each other. Plenty of people ride the pipe and park just as plenty of people ride various terrain at Snowbasin. This season’s terrain park placement seemed to revolve greatly around the Dew Tour. Why take down a world class pipe after the event is over? Same with the Showboat terrain park… Did it work? I believe yes. Do they continue to put a park on Showboat and pipe on School Hill when the Dew Tour goes away? Probably not. The non terrain park riding group of individuals seem to have complaints about any park location; taking up to much of Coyote Bowl, having to go around the park to get to powder hound bowl when the park was on Porky, kids flying off rails into a crowd of people trying to take their skis off at the bottom of needles…etc. Complaints like such will always exist and instigators like Hoot and Rick will continue to make the park riders and non park riders butt heads(not to be confused with buttheads). All I can say is great season Snowbasin, from the lifty that loaded my skis and the bus boy that took away my soup to skiing a perfectly groomed run and cruising down the half pipe. I hope they take all of this years improvements and run with them, making the resort even better for all of us every year. That is my opinion of what the “actual point” is.