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News: The North Face Park And News: The North Face Park And Pipe Open Series Kicks Off At Copper Mountain

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Salt Lake City, Utah — The first stop of the 2013 The North Face Park and Pipe Open Series (PPOS) kicks off with an exciting halfpipe competition at Copper Mountain, Colo. on Dec. 8-9, 2012. The North Face PPOS allows top-level professionals and up-and-coming freeskiing athletes the opportunity to advance in the competition circuit at all four stops throughout the 2013 tour.

“The North Face Park and Pipe Open Series is very important for North American freeskiing athletes,” said Steele Spence, PPOS series head judge. “The series is a stepping stone for athletes hoping to progress to the top level of competition. The events are very well organized with a full panel of Association of Freeskiing Professionals (AFP) certified judges and courses at world-class resorts.”

The first stop at Copper Mountain will be the first AFP sanctioned event in the United States for the 2013 competition season. In addition, the Copper Mountain event will be an International Ski Federation (FIS) sanctioned NORAM CUP event with athletes earning FIS points.

“FIS is excited to be able to integrate The North Face Park and Pipe Open Series events in Copper Mountain, CO and Northstar, CA into the 2012-13 FIS Freestyle NORAM NORAM CUP,” said Konrad X Rotermund, FIS Freestyle Continental Cup Coordinator-Americas. “These events will provide a great opportunity for athletes to get their needed FIS points to be part of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games qualification process and/or earn the opportunity to be the NORAM CUP Champion. Recognizing schedules are very full in North America, it is great to be able to cooperate with the already established PPOS events to give the athletes multiple avenues to meet their competitive goals in a single event.”

Halfpipe skiing will make its Olympic debut in 2014 at the Sochi, Russia Winter Games. The PPOS will work in conjunction with the AFP to ensure professional competition judging in accordance with AFP standards and criteria. Judging is based on overall impression, including content, difficulty of run, style and use of park or pipe.

“I am excited to be a part of the The North Face Park and Pipe Open Series at Copper Mountain,” said The North Face Athlete Mike Riddle. “The best athletes in the world are all converging at the resort this early season to get dialed in for the coming season. The event will see a very skilled field showing-off the tricks they have practiced all summer.”

The North Face Park and Pipe Open Series at Copper Mountain begins on Friday, Dec. 7 with athlete registration. The competition kicks off on Saturday, Dec. 8 with practice and qualifiers in the Main Vein Superpipe, and concludes on Sunday, Dec. 9 with finals. Coinciding with The North Face Park and Pipe Open Series, Copper Mountain’s celebrates its 40th Anniversary Dec. 7-9. Specials throughout the weekend include $40 lift tickets, $40 Woodward Intro Sessions, $40 Ski & Ride School Lessons, $40 rentals for two, and many more.

The U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding athletes will also gather at Copper Mountain on Saturday, Dec. 8 for the annual U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding team naming event at 2:45 p.m. followed by a free concert by the Neil Diamond cover band, Super Diamond at 3 p.m. in Burning Stones Plaza. Enter to win a private meet and greet with America’s snowboarding and freeskiing Olympic hopefuls at www.facebook/CopperMtn or www.facebook/US-Freeskiing.

The field is absolutely stacked for the Copper Mountain pipe event. Twenty-four women and 65 men will be taking on Copper’s 22-foot superpipe seeking not only the PPOS event win, but AFP and FIS points. With names including Tanner Hall, Rosalind Groenewoud, Justin Dorey, Maddie Bowman, and the Wells brothers all in attendance, it is going to be an all out battle for the title.

Full athlete list:

Women

Aerts     Katrien
Austin     Zyre
Bowman     Maddie
Caradeux     Anais
Drew     Annalisa
Faivre     Virginie
Groenewoud     Rosalind
Gunning     Shannon
Gunning     Megan
Hansen     Keltie
Haupt     Hannah
Jaeger     Mirjam
Krass     Julia
Kuzma     Janina
Marine     Tripier mondancin
Ragettli     Nina
Saori     Suzuki
Satoh     Maiko
Sharp     Kimmy
Sharpe     Cassandra
Simpkins     Emily
Terada     Shuri
VanLaanen     Angeli
Vicenti     Anna


Men

Allen     Christian
Atkinson     Kris
Bijasson     Nicolas
Blanchi     Antoine
Blunck     Aaron
Bowman     Lukas
Bowman     Noah
Carr     Gage
Cheshire     Rowan
Crook     Peter
Culver     Riley
Cummings     Jaek
D’Artois     Simon
DeLong     Kyle
Dorey     Justin
Ferreira     Alexander
Gorham     Cottie
Hall     Tanner
Iliano     Frederick
Jefferies     Collin
Karker     Austin
Kish     Brian
Lauper     Nils
Leeds     Broby
LeHouillier     Carson
Leonard     John
Lerjen     Yannic
MacKay     Aaron
MacKay     Brendan
Malone     Ryan
Mann     Billy
Margetts     Matthew
Maxwell     Ben
Mousseau     Zak
Narita     Grim
Northey     Garett
Oland     Tyson
Olenick     Peter
P’ng     Matthew
Peterson     Tyler
Pollet-Villard     Joffrey
Riddle     Mike
Rosenberger     Nick
Rosenblum     Daniel
Schumacher     Mike
Seaton     Taylor
Sheehan     Lyndon
Sheridan     Cas
Shibabuki     Takanori
Smaine     Kyle
Speight     Peter
Straight     Geoff
Taylor     Robert
Terada     Kiyoshi
Tierney     Andrew
Tsuda     Kentaro
Visser     Hunter
Webb     James
Wells     Byron
Wells     Beau-James
Wells     Jackson
Wells     Josse
Wilson     Taylor
Wilson     Mitchell
Wood     Walter
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News: 2nd Annual Colorado Demo News: 2nd Annual Colorado Demo Days At Copper Mountain, Nov. 17-18

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Copper Mountain Resort hosts the 2nd Annual Colorado Demo Days this weekend, Saturday and Sunday. All ski and snowboard brands are Colorado based giving guests the one stop shop to test the best that Colorado has to offer. Guests have the chance to test out next season’s products from over 10 ski and snowboard companies from around the state. Local and regional reps will be on hand to answer all questions about the newest technologies to hit the snow. Guests will have 72 acres of skiing and riding to test new gear including Lower Bouncer Park for your jibbing pleasure.

Colorado Demo Days kicks off Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. and wraps up at 4 p.m., both Saturday and Sunday. KSMT radio will be live in Center Village Saturday from 12-2 p.m. giving away a Unity Snowboard. Make sure to stick around for après, Coors Light and Liberty Skis will be giving away a pair of skis at an après party on Saturday at Endo’s.

Colorado Demo Days is free and open to the public with a valid Copper season pass or a daily lift ticket. Don’t forget to bring your most recent equipment as many companies will need to use your bindings and boots for demos. Snowboard and ski brands include Icelantic Skis, Unity Snowboards, Never Summer Snowboards, Liberty Skis, Rocky Mountain Underground, Meier Skis, Bomber Industries, Fortitude Skis, Donek Snowboards, and Mountain Billy Snowboards.

Can’t wait for a Snow Day? No need to cool your jets, book your vacation right now and save up to 60 percent, book now at www.CopperColorado.com.

Flip, spin, jump and receive 50 percent off Woodward at Copper’s private terrain park sessions! Valid for full or half day sessions through December 13.

Visit CopperColorado.com for terrain updates, snow reports, lodging steals, event details, and more. Stay in the loop all year long at www.facebook.com/CopperMtn or @CopperMtn on Twitter.
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Plans For New Indoor Action Sp Plans For New Indoor Action Sports Training Facility In Crested Butte

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The Crested Butte training facility will be similar to the one at Woodward Copper, pictured above.

Plans are in the works for the construction of an action sports facility in Crested Butte, Colorado. Writer Ed Dujardin of The West Elk Project, an online action sports community out of Crested Butte, caught up with Doug Hudson, the man spearheading the project called the "Crested Butte Air Port."

Ed Dujardin: What’s the plan for the facility? What features will you include?

Doug Hudson: The Crested Butte Air Port will be a 100' x 200' x 35’ building stacked with features for skiing, snowboarding, biking, and skateboarding all year round. We want to create a facility where people can practice and perfect their talents in all the action sports that our valley has to offer.

Facility features will include:

- Ski, snowboard, bike and skateboard jumps into foam pits
- A freeride area with bowls and features including six flush-to-floor trampolines
- Cross-country mountain bike trails
- A lounge area and arcade

The plans pictured are not concrete. For example, there will be no platform between trampolines and the foam pit, thus increasing the size of the foam pit and allowing people to jump in from the trampolines. We are also looking at other ways to make the pit bigger.

The Crested Butte Air Port will be open seven days a week year-round, with hours to be determined. Rates are also undecided. However, we have decided on a deal for locals who want to commit themselves long-term. Basically, everyone who buys a season pass on opening day can buy a season pass for 1/2-price for the rest of their natural lives so long as they purchase a season pass every year. People will be able to purchase both seasonal passes and annual passes.

ED: How has the process been? Where has support come from?

DH: The process has been awesome so far. Support for the concept has come from everywhere. Obviously the most support has come from action sports athletes and their families. The CB South Property Owners Association has consistently expressed unanimous support for the project. There are multiple manufacturers that have expressed interest in exclusive sponsorship opportunities. The only obstacle we see on the horizon is securing the financing for the project.

ED: Why Crested Butte South [versus Crested Butte proper]? 

DH: We’re focusing on CB South for several reasons:

Most of the kids that live in the north valley live in CB South.

Land values in CB South are something closer to reasonable.

CB South is 20 minutes from Western State University and 20 minutes from Crested Butte Mountain Resort.

CB South is at the foot of Cement Creek Canyon, which features some of the rowdiest terrain in the Gunnison Valley.

The commercial district in CB South needs a stimulus and this will be it.

As of now, the plan is to start construction as soon as the frost thaws this spring, with hopes of opening during the summer of 2013.

ED: Similar facilities have proven to be a huge success in progressing a multitude of sports. We look forward to seeing the impact this has on our region.

To read more from Ed Dujardin visit The West Elk Project
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Woodward Tahoe Opens With Full Woodward Tahoe Opens With Full Snow Park

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The new Woodward Tahoe action sports camp opened Saturday, June 9, 2012, with a full snow park at Boreal Mountain Resort. Photo by Ryan Dunfee.

It’s June after the worst and warmest winter in Tahoe’s recent history. Golf courses down the street from the biggest resorts were open through January. Squaw Valley’s legendary Fingers weren’t even skiable until late February. Yet just twenty minutes away at the top of Donner Summit, petite Boreal Mountain Resort with 500 feet of vertical hosted the Grand Opening of the new Woodward Tahoe with a lift-serviced terrain park counting fifteen features, a fifty-foot money booter, an airbag, and a perfectly-shaped 22-foot superpipe. The gods, as the saying goes, must be crazy.

It appears that terrain park construction is steadily reaching the levels of inventiveness and trickery that go down in those same parks. Boreal’s marketing director Jon Slaughter said the idea came about three years ago when Boreal’s staff returned from their May vacations and saw a copious amount of snow still on the ground in the first week of June. Boreal’s base elevation is 7,200 feet — a full 1,000 feet higher than Squaw’s base, helping the snow last longer. That year saw the first public summer shred day, with a park as good as any that had been built that winter. The following summer, after historic snowfalls totaled 770 inches during the 2010-’11 winter, Boreal hosted a summer camp June 20-24, with jibs, a two-jump line, a bag jump, and an 18-foot pipe. That summer, Boreal was open to the top.

The Woodward Tahoe halfpipe at Boreal Mountain Resort. Photo by Ryan Dunfee.

In building a park for the inaugural summer snow camp of Woodward Tahoe, the newest branch of the growing franchise and featuring Woodward’s signature bunker stocked with foam pits and skate bowls and trampolines, the challenge was considerably greater.

Despite the resort being the only one in Tahoe to eek out enough snowfall in the spring to equal their season average — 400 inches in Boreal’s case — natural snow wouldn’t do it alone. So, with good snowmaking temps, Boreal turned the snow guns on well into March, quadrupling their average annual snowmaking output from ten million gallons to forty million. Then, as soon as the mountain closed in April, the park crew led by veteran Eric Rosenwald spent one hundred hours in the snowcats farming the snow all the way to the dirt, and pushing it all in between the walls of Boreal’s 22-foot in-ground superpipe. Once the pipe had been filled deep enough to make a flat walk from wall to wall, the crew let the snow glaze over and freeze, utilizing the protective pipe walls as something of an incubator.

Knowing that any cat work with the snow would accelerate the melting, Woodward Tahoe staff waited until last Monday — five days before Woodward Tahoe’s grand opening — to push the snow into an elaborate park. But after all that, doesn’t having a 22-foot superpipe, usually the most snow-intensive feature out there, seem a little optimistic?

“Our competition — Windells, High Cascade — they all have 22-foot superpipes,” Slaughter said. “So we had to have one.”

A skier at Woodward Tahoe slides a rail at Boreal. Photo by Danny Kern.

While the halfpipe is only expected to last for another two weeks before being taken down to supplement the snow on the rest of the park, Slaughter expects Woodward Tahoe skiers and snowboarders, as well as a couple pros such as the Inspired Media crew, will be shredding real snow through the first week of July. Slaughter hopes that their performance this summer, along with the brand-new training facilities at The Bunker, will entice the best athletes to make Woodward Tahoe their summer training grounds in the lead up to the 2014 Olympics.

Read More About Woodward Tahoe Here
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Woodward Tahoe skier slides rail at Boreal photo by Danny Kern
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The Halfpipe at Woodward Tahoe June 2012
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Woodward Tahoe Boreal Opening Day June 2012
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Daniel Tisi's Colorado Edit Daniel Tisi's Colorado Edit

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Rider: Daniel Tisi Filmed By: Jackson Tisi Daniel Tisi's trip to Colorado for USASA Nationals. We skied and filmed a lot. Enjoy! Filmed, edited, and produced by Jackson Tisi.
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New Woodward Training Facility New Woodward Training Facility: Tahoe, CA

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As with anything new and different, I’m usually a little skeptical until I find a reason not to be. So, when I heard there was a new Woodward facility going in up at Boreal Ski area on Donner Summit I wondered, how cool could it really be? I took a little trip up there last Saturday to check it out for myself. After about 5 seconds inside the 33,000 sq. foot facility any preconceived notions that I had of Woodward Tahoe were completely shattered.

The front entrance to Woodward Tahoe while still under construction, being blasted by a late season snowstorm.

Construction of Woodward Tahoe began last summer. The massive structure was built right next to Boreal’s base area and parking lot. I’d seen the hulking mass of the building under construction a number of times while driving by on I-80 but it never seemed that impressive from a distance. Pulling up to it the other day, however, I was blown away by its’ massive dimensions, and then I went inside.

A welding helmet awaits its’ use. Construction is moving along rapidly in preparation for opening in June.

Flanked by Shaydar Edelman, Boreal’s mountain manager, and John Slaughter, Boreal’s marketing manager, I stepped into the most impressive ramp park that I’ve ever seen, and it’s currently only about half finished. We met up with Nate Wessel, Woodward’s head park designer, and I got the grand tour.

Overlooking a fraction of the facility, objects are much larger than they appear.

Woodward Tahoe is the 6th Woodward facility in the world, with 4 others in the US, and one in China. The brand-new 6 million dollar facility is slated for completion by the first of June, 2012. The unique facility is known as the “Bunker” and was designed with ski and snowboard training in mind. “When I design a park I design it unique to its’ location to try and cater to the clientele and serve a purpose,” says Wessel, “I’m never going to do the same thing in a building, all of the newest ideas I have are in here.” The new Woodward facility will be a great complement to Boreal ski area. Known primarily for their park and pipe, Boreal consistently boasts the longest season in the Tahoe area.

Designer Nate Wessel talks me through his 3-dimensional plan of Woodward Tahoe.

When completed, Woodward Tahoe will be one of the premier indoor ski and snowboard training facilities in the world. They have recently partnered with Moment Skis and Burton Snowboards to create new models of wheeled skis and snowboards for use on the indoor ramps. “The ‘park’ skis and boards will be a constant progression,” says Wessel, “the current ones work great but we’ll be refining them as we go along.” Woodward Tahoe is the first facility built specifically to cater to the use of ‘park’ wheeled skis and boards.

Current wheeled skis made by 2x4. Woodward is collaborating with Moment and Burton for newer models.

The Bunker won’t only be for ski and snowboard training. The facility will also cater to skate, bmx, digital media, cheer, and tumbling training. “Everything we’re building here is for the skis and boards, but at the same time we’re trying to cater to everyone,” says Wessel, “It will all be useable for bmx and skate, or for air awareness training.” By incorporating multiple drop-in heights and adjustable angles (depending on your discipline) on their skatelite ramps with foam and resi-pit landings this facility will truly accommodate learning and progression no matter what you ride.

Woodward Tahoe’s one-of-a-kind tramp park includes multiple levels, angled redirect walls, 6 Olympic sized trampolines, a super-tramp, a 40 foot long tramp, and 2 foam pits. The super-tramp is one of two in the country, the other at Woodward Copper, and throws the user up to three times higher to practice bigger tricks. A full size gymnastics and cheer spring floor will be available for tumbling or parkour training. A street/flow course takes up the remaining floor space with features built into the underside of the drop-in and viewing platforms. A top-of-the-line digital media lounge takes up otherwise dead space beneath and above some of the ramps for people to hone their digital media skills, the perfect complement to the action going on inside Woodward Tahoe.

This summer, the Bunker opens for 9 weeks of summer camps starting June 10th, the first five weeks involve on-snow training just outside the door of the Bunker at Boreal. After camps are finished for the summer, the facility is open to the public starting August 17th and passes are on sale now, 2 hour drop-in sessions will also be available. To sign up for camps, to buy season passes, or for more information visit www.woodwardtahoe.com
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