The Friday Night Jib Fights made its first stop at Brighton resort this Friday night. Skiers and snowboarders in both open and pro divisions came up to session the rails that the park crew put up for the event. The down flat down box, the down flat down fat rail, and the down fat rail were groomed up and ready to be sessioned. The event was the fourth of nine stops in the series that also includes Park City Mountain Resort and Snowbasin Resort. A finals event will be held in Park City on March the 30th.
Results for the first Brighton Stop are:
Mens Open Board: 1st Treyson Allen 2nd Jacob Baker 3rd Taylor Barrett
Mens Ams Board: 1st Makalu Arnold 2nd Sevastian Vincent 3rd Jayden Naylor
Womens Board: 1st Hailee Mattingley 2nd Taelor Mattingley 3rd Brooke Broderick
Mens Open Ski: 1st Trever Akimoto 2nd William Collier 3rd Alex Buller
Mens Am Ski: 1st CJ Bode 2nd Armon Aarabi 3rd PJ Baymiller
Womens Ski: 1st Veronica Kelly 2nd Marley Rodwick
Group shot at the top of Majestic before the ladies run
Saturday Brighton played host to Utah’s Ladies Shred Day event. Ladies Shred Day is a grassroots event that began in 2008 in the mid-west and has since spread across not only North America but into Europe as well. Its a gathering for ladies run by ladies to promote a sense of comraderie and friendship through snowboarding. The ladies met in the morning and lessons were given to those that needed them and the rest of the ladies spent the day riding the mountain, making friends, and learning new tricks. At the end of the day they gathered for raffles and give away and no one left empty handed. If you missed out this season keep you eyes open for next years event once again in January. You can keep up with the Ladies of Ladies Shred Day and see the pictures the ladies took through out the day on their Facebook Page.
Words Daniel Photo Meghan
Lindsay and Jenn at the booth showing off the goods
Meeting at the top of Majestic for the Ladies shred run
SLUG magazine was at Brighton this past Saturday presenting their annual SLUG GAMES, this years theme being Dawn of the Shred. DJ Matty Mo was on the scene providing beats for all the contestants along with pretty much everybody on the hill as the set up was right underneath Majestic Lift. As always SLUG fronted the bill for all contestants registration and created a unique feature for the event, being a tombstone bonk box, which i heard might be staying on the hill for a little bit.
For More Info and Photos Visit:
www.slugmag.com
along with next month issue of SLUG!!
Mens Open Snowboarding:
1st- Brady Larson
2nd- Dillon Geunther
3rd- Jeff McGrath
On a rare cold and snowy Saturday StepChild came to Brighton as part of their Child Support rail jam tour. The park crew worked up a course on Thursday which comprised of the new triple drop round bar, the new down flat down fat round rail, and the down fat round rail. Milosport and Blindside got things tarted right with a round of bugers, hotdogs, chips, and drinks for everyone. Through out the day there were multiple challenges going on. There was an award for best rider on each feature, as well as overall achievers, shredder of the day and special for Brighton the E-Man challenge. The E-man challenge was inspired by Stepchild am E-Man who was ollieing from the flat onto the second and third tier of the drop down feature and was simply a best trick contest for an ollie from the flat onto the drop feature. There was a jam style format from which Stepchild ams and child support members, including Brighton locals Parker Worthen and Brandon Hobush, selected a crew of ten riders for a final jam in which the days top three riders were chosen.
Winners were….
E-Man challenge .. Stefan with 50/50 3 out winning Ashbury shades
Best overall rider down rail .. David Faircloth
Best overall rider down flat down .. Will Ermish
Best overall rider drop down rail .. Everest Arnold
Each won a product voucher from 32
Overall for the day
Third .. David
Second .. Pat
First.. Erik
Each won a prize pack of Neff, Stepchild, and Ashbury goods and Erik also went home with a Stepchild FTW snowboard
Second place winner Pat also took home a Stepchild FTW for being most enthusiastic rider of the day… way to come out and shred it Pat
Special thanks to the park crew for putting in the work to get the course up and event sponsors Stepchild, Ashbury, Neff, Blindside, and Milosport.
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Photos by Jesse Anderson
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Top view of the new Step down rail
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Back 3 off of the flat to the down
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Back one on the down flat down
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Will throwing a three off the flat to the down
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The crowd made a run way for the finals to the down flat down, back lip
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Parker Worthen Pressing through some things
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Going for a nose press
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Blindsides main man Mo grilling everybody some free food, and it was good
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People who decided who got some boards for the day
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Bank Robber and former Brighton Digger Brandon Hobush
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Everest's mean face
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Everest's mean 270 to the down
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Winner and long hair legend Erik Nielsen showing his lazy style
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This is Erik Nielsen fueling up on a burger with chips i believe.
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Eman was killing the last two sections without a lip at all, straight flat ground, here he is showing this other shredder what to do
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Both features getting hit at the same time
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Back Lip on the down bar feature
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Gallery photos by Meghan Kirk
Back Lip on the down bar feature
Both features getting hit at the same time
Eman was killing the last two sections without a lip at all, straight flat ground, here he is showing this other shredder what to do
This is Erik Nielsen fueling up on a burger with chips i believe.
Winner and long hair legend Erik Nielsen showing his lazy style
Everest’s mean 270 to the down
Everest’s mean face
Bank Robber and former Brighton Digger Brandon Hobush
People who decided who got some boards for the day
Blindsides main man Mo grilling everybody some free food, and it was good
Going for a nose press
Parker Worthen Pressing through some things
The crowd made a run way for the finals to the down flat down, back lip
Here is a Sneak Peak of the Rail setup for the StepChild BBQ event going on up here at Brighton tomorrow, they will also be left up after for advanced riders to shred.
Also some photos from the past day or so, sunny with plenty of features all over the mountain and something different every day.
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The New Rails in for the Event Tomorrow and after as well
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Tim Kronenberg testing out the new step down rail for tomorrow.
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Eric from Milosport riding the new down flat down.
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Cam Pierce first try first hit
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Tim Kronenberg checking out the down flat down too
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Some other photos from the past couple days
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Everest Back one Poke
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Everest spinning a three over the doghouse
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Eric poking
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Eric again on the doghouse hip
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Dave King threw out a method over
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Dave King
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Cam Pierce the design specialist (the camo print for the new pants)
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Just a casual back lip by Cam
This past weekend was the third annual Red Bull Butter Cup competition up at Brighton Resort. As always the style was upper level but so was the carnage. Park Crew members Chris Cloud, Parker Worthen, and Marty Siller served as judges for this years competition and they did not have an easy task. Brighton is proud to be chosen by Red Bull to not only kick off the 2011/2012 schedule but also to be the only venue in the Western U.S. We caught up with local Red Bull rep Jordan Schweitzer to get the low down on whats up…
” It’s our third year at Brighton doing the Butter Cup and its a super fun event where we generally get over one hundred entries. It’s for riders of all levels from amateurs through super good almost pros. There’s really something for everyone and good vibe not really about who wins but how much fun you have along the way”
Special thanks to Red Bull for not only allowing Brighton Resort to once again host this event but also for allowing us to keep the boxes. That’s right kids get your butter on all season long on these babies because they are ours now!
Words Daniel Cochrane Photos by Jesse Anderson
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And as you may or may not know a Special Olympics event was held at Brighton last Saturday.
Today Brighton hosted the Gnu Greenhorn Games. The Greenhorn games is an under 13 contest series sponsored by Gnu Snowboards that seeks to foster an atmosphere of friendship and camaraderie versus competition and the pressures that brings. This is the Greenhorn games fourth year and the first season that Gnu has taken the show on the road for tour stops across the U.S. Brighton was lucky enough to not only be one of the chosen few resorts on the Greenhorn Games tour but also to be the first stop outside of the normal venue of Summit at Snowqualmie. The ThinkThank crew, led by Jesse Burtner and including locals Ted Borland, Sean Black, and Brandon Hammid, were on hand to help “judge” the event and to serve as event emcees. The event was free to all participants and included lunch and t-shirts for all the kids and was a great time for all. After the awards and autograph signings I was able to catch up with Krush Kulesza of Snowboy Productions and Jesse Burtner of ThinkThank to get their take on how the games came to Brighton as well as the importance of the overall fun first, low pressure atmosphere of the event.
Brighton; So this is the first stop for the Gnu Greenhorn games tour, why Brighton?
Krush; Well it was the only choice for me. Even for someone like myself, this is the first time I’ve actually snowboarded in Utah, but everyone has known about the history of Brighton and how open they were and how much they’ve backed snowboarding . All my Bros that live in the area hang out here and the vibe was great and we got here and it was exactly what I was hoping for. It was rad this is THE spot.
Brighton; Tell us about the vibe of The Greenhorn Games, it’s a little different than most. There are so many contests and events now even for kids this young that are so high pressure and stress filled but The Greenhorn Games tries to get away from that. Can you tell us the mind-set behind that choice.
Krush; Yeah what we wanted to do with the Greenhorn Games is make something different. First off the idea is that at so many contests if you’re 6-12 or whatever you’re in there with the pro kids and there is just a lot of intimidation and anxiety stuff like that which could make people really uncomfortable with that experience. So what we wanted to do was take all of that out of it just make it about the kids, take “the rules” apart and just hang out. The whole idea is that the first thing we want is for kids to hang out and meet friends, and the second thing is if they can learn some new tricks that is killer and then we will hand out some awards. It’s more of an event not a contest I guess. So yeah it’s just real low key, we try to keep the soccer dad element out of it and just let the kids have fun hanging out together.
ThinkThank mastermind and Lib Tech Pro Snowboarder Jesse Burtner agrees and added.. ” Greenhorn Games is the raddest 13 and under contest ever. That’s the tag line and it’s pretty much true. It’s supersweet because you get a chance to create a sense of community at a young age for these guys. One of the best parts about it for me is to see them connecting with each other, like new friendships coming about. Or like how the kids will be hiking up and be like “you almost had that! You just have to land closer to your back foot. ” It’s just sick to be part of the future of all these scenes. Now that were doing it around the country we get to see it growing in all these different areas it’s great”
It was an amazing day to see these kids get out there and have a great time here at Brighton. Check out the pictures below from our Park Photographer Jesse Anderson and be sure to come back next season for another great time at the Gnu Greenhorn Games.
Write up by Daniel Cochrane with Slideshow Photos by Jesse Anderson
Today was the Milo demo day and the first of the seasons three Quad Wednesdays. We would like to thank all the vendors for coming out and letting us all test the product. Thanks to Electric, Niche, Arbor, Tech-Nine, Nitro, Flux, K2, 32, Vans, Capita, and of course Milosport. Also a special thanks to everyone that brought a toy for the USMC Toys for Tots drive, we hope you put your $20 lift ticket to good use! Remember next week’s Quad Wednesday will benefit The Road Home. Bring a coat, gloves, or pack of unopened socks and receive a $20 dollar day pass.
