Saturday January 30th 2010. The Gatorade Free Flow Tour chose Brighton Resort as Utah’s resort to host one of the most important contests for up-and-coming riders and skiers. The Gatorade Free Flow Tour is the Official Amateur Series of the Dew Tour. In its first winter season, the Winter Gatorade Free Flow Tour will search the country’s premier mountains giving top Ams the once in a lifetime chance to “Flow to Pro”. The goal is to find top talent from across the country while giving skiers and snowboarders of all abilities the opportunity to have fun while competing in a contest.

Gatorade Free Flow Tour @ Brighton 1/30/2010 from Cole Taylor on Vimeo.

Freeski Slopestyle – 31

Rank Name Age Hometown

1 Ryan Wyble 20 Park City, UT

2 Aiden Sheahan 17 Aspen/ Snowmass

3 Brad Bulzan 16 Shardon, OH / Alpine Valley

4 Matt Hefferman 19 Cleveland, OH / Mad River

5 Lucas Evans 19 Beaver Creek, CO

Junior Jam – SKI – 7

Rank Name Age Hometown

1 Cass Sheridan 13 Vail, CO

2 Griffin Rasmussen 13 Sandy, UT

3 Jonah Elston 12 Helena, MT

Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle – 45

Rank Name Age Hometown

1 Scott Moline 16 Phelps, WI

2 Everest Arnold 19 Brighton, UT

3 Griffen Seibert 17 Park City, UT

4 Parker Duke 20 Boise, ID

5 Todd Kirby 20 Stillwater, MN

Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle – 8

Rank Name Age Hometown

1 Jessika Jenson 18 Rigby, ID

2 Nikki Wilhoite 17 SLC, UT

3 Erica Vikander 19 SLC, UT

Junior Jam – SNB – 14 riders

Rank Name Age Hometown

1 Gabe McGoverns 13 Park City, UT

2 Taelor Mattingley 10 Sandy, UT

3 Matt Grant 10 Park City, UT

Dear friends,
First off, I wanted to thank everyone who came out and participated. We had so much fun hanging out and shredding. We had a great turn out this year. Everyone was solid right from the beginning. Some of the highlights were, Skier C.J. Bodey, killing it with a 630 off the pole jam. The Defending Champion Everest Arnold was throwing down all sorts of technical spins onto the features, and stomping hand plants on the dog house box. It was a close call between all finalists. The first place overall Skier, Walter Shearon won by throwing down tricks like K-FED’s on the fire cracker rail and 360 nose drag on the sphere. The first place overall boarder was Brandon Hoebush. He destroyed the course by doing 50-50 backflip off the pole jam, hand plants in the pipe, and even M.J.’s on the boxes. The overall girl category winner, Victoria Ashley demonstrated her skills by boosting big air back 180’s off the pole jam, and back lips on the hitching post. I would like to thank all of the sponsors who helped out with this event. Slug Mag, Savai Snowboards, Skull Candy, Fuel TV, Surface for hooking up awesome prizes, KAB Rails, Red Bull for keeping us amped, Thirty Two, Pow, Neff, Etnies, Smith, and Brighton Resort. Also, a special thanks to Jared Winkler and The Truth Terrain Park Crew for all their hard work to make this event happen. If it wasn’t for you guys (the participants) and the sponsors this event wouldn’t be such a huge success. I enjoyed watching and cheering along with everyone who kill it through out the day. Satch is real excited to be able to put this on. We do it for the sport and we hope everyone had as much fun as we did.

Sincerely,

Erin Young
Owner
Satch LLC

Satch Jib Pipe Comp 2010 from Cole Taylor on Vimeo.

Last Friday night we kicked off the first park event of the season. The Best Trick night ridding rail jam. The set up consisted of 3 different rails. With awards going to ski and snowboard divisions, best bail and best one time hammer. There were all kinds of nasty tricks being thrown down, spins on, spins off & spins in the middle. You name it, it was attempted. Some of Brighton’s up and coming pros were on hand to ride with the young rippers (Alex Andrews, Brandon Hammid, Jonna Owen, Dylan Thompson and Brandon Hobush to name a few.) With lots of love from the parks sponsors everyone walked away with a small prize. Big thanks to The TRUTH, THIRTYTWO, ETNIES, SURFACE, KAB, AIRBLASTER, NEFF, POW, SMITH, SKULLCANDY & BRIGHTON.
RESULTS

MENS SNOWBOARD
1st Taylor Barrett
2nd Brandon Hobush
3rd Will Ermish

MENS SKI
1st Leu Zuberski
2nd Trevor Akimoto
3rd Walter Shearon

Best one time hammer: Rex Gordon Cab 270 on the DFD.
Best Bail: Austin Roderick
Big Progression: Deli girl Nikki

Best Trick Contest. Brighton, Utah. 12/18/09 from Cole Taylor on Vimeo.

Check out the full Photobooth session from the Bikini Bash Ski-A-Thong! (You know you want to)

http://www.davebrewerphotobooth.com/brighton

See you next year.

Love, Dave Brewer Photo.

SKTV video of the Jazz Jam on March 7th..

The 801 vs. 435 contest went off in Brighton this past weekend. The weather was perfect for a little park session with the crew. Although they were outnumbered, the 435 group was victorious and won the point battle with great skiing from dudes like Kevin Malone, Chance Wilson, Jeff Kiesel, Alex Rogers and more. The 801 group was made up of skiers such as, Eric Balken, Cody Prows, Xan Mitkus, Adam Henry, Ian Wade, Shayne Metos, Paul Braunstein, Walter Shearon to name a few.

ThirtyTwo Day Video

March 7th, 2009. Brighton Resort, UT.
Enjoy this contest footage after taking a couple warm-up laps with Cameron Pierce and the Fuel TV Gorilla!

Brighton Resort Presents “Jazz Jam” from Justin Turkowski on Vimeo.

Hey all, Check out the story and full photo gallery from the first ever Utah Jazz Jam @ Brighton on www.snowboarder.com

For a direct link to the story, click here http://www.snowboarder.com/blogs/blog/20090309/first_ever_utah_jazz_jam_at_brighton_utah-489.html

(Be sure to read the read the story cuz I think I’m funny. Also don’t forget to click on the small photo towards the end of the post for the FULL PHOTO GALLERY)

All Photos and Words by davebrewerphoto.com (be sure to read the read the story cuz I think Im funny.