Sunday, March 15, 2009

tales from the east side

The Killington Grand Prix has come to an end and my two week working vaca on the east coast is over. It has been alot of fun working with the Killington park crew to create the slopestyle course. It has been even more fun watching Boreal locals dominate the competition this weekend! TSST(tahoe select snowboard team) pretty much cleaned house. For those that don't know, Boreal is home turf for TSST as they train several days a week in our pipe and park. So it probably didn't hurt at all that I was here to inject a little Boreal flavor into the Killington venue..nothing like traveling to an away game but still having home court advantage! TSST riders Mary Sallah and Allison Carroll took 1st and 2nd in the home away from home slopestyle today! Yesterday in the pipe, Kelly Marren took 6th while on the mens side the one and only Goldie took 1st and Ross Baker just missed the podium in 4th. It was so rad to watch our local riders just kill at such a high level comp on the opposite side of the country. But as fun as it has been working here at Killington, which by the way is a PWDR resort same as Boreal,Bachelor,Park City, I can't wait to get home to good old Boreal and finish out the season. A big huge thanks goes out to the Killington park crew for all their help these last two weeks, especially the park manager Rosey(yeah I have an east coast twin!) and K's head builder Corey...you guys rock. Oh, one other thing..Killington's Burton Stash park is amazing! Without a doubt, best Stash park period!

Killington Slopestyle with a bit of Boreal flavor.