The sky was sunny, the snow was soft, and what ese is there to do besides take sunny park laps? Today I took a few laps with Brighton digger Nick Justet who knew exactly what he wanted to shoot on and what tricks to lie down.

r: nick jsutet p: meghan kirk

A few more photos from today:

The SLUG Games – Dawn of the Shred – hits Brighton January 14th on a course customized for all living dead skiers and snowboarders. Tombstone jibs, coffin boxes and toxic waste barrels will decorate the course. DJ Matty Mo will be there spinning the most epic of shred jams, and with any luck Bruce Campbell will show up to save us from the undead.

Registration starts at 10 a.m., entry is free. All you need is your skis or board, a lift pass, and your zombie apocalypse survival kit. Are you ready?

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

Some of Brighton’s park crew (Everest Arnold, Sam Wittke, Tim Kronenberg, Treyson Allen, Jeff McGrath and Chris Frost) showing off.

So I know we’re all bummed on the lack of snow mother nature has provided us with. There’s nothing wrong with sunny park laps all day, but we just want pow. But since we don’t have any snow Sky Seabrook and I went out to find the natural features before they are buried. Or, let’s hope they’ll be buried soon. Look for this kid in an upcoming ad in Arcade for S4.

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.

Join us on January 7th for the StepChild Child Support Rail Jam.

Event Format: Rail Jam. (plan to hike)

Fee: Free to enter (must have a lift ticket or season pass)

For more info contact MILO 801-487-8600 or BLINDSIDE 801-412-9200

Gnu’s first annual Greenhorn Games went off with a bang yesterday at Brighton. Heres a quick little recap from the event. For a complete write up check out the previous post.

The other day I had the pleasure of taking a few laps with Chris Shields. Normally you can find this kid on the other side of the lens (http://cshields.tumblr.com/) or behind the 1′s and 2′s but that day he decided to set down the camera and share what he has to offer on the other side of the camera.