Last night Brighton celebrated its 75th birthday. There was a raffle/giveaways, ice sculpture, smores and fireworks! Plenty came to celebrate and cash in on the 2 for $75 deal the resort had going on. Between the beer, smores, and raffle everyone seemed to be in a good excited mood and the fireworks looked amazing through the light layer of fog that rolled in around 7:15.

A few leftover shots from the Brighton local kids. Say goodbye to this set up though, the snow is finally here and big changes (jumps?) are on the way!

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

For more information including dates and locations of future events hit up Friday Night Jib Fights on Facebook.

Words by Daniel with Photos by Jesse Anderson

Ski Open Contestant getting the shot.

Yellow Pants Skier on the Down flat Down feature

Snow open Down flat down

Spinning off the flat of the DFD front three off

Flexing a fifty through the kink

Skier Holding on, on the down bar

Women's skier on the Down, the girls showed up in some numbers and held it down

The down flat down box feature

Million dollar curls flowing out of the helmet as well as good flow through the DFD

The Night crowd and sponsors RAMP as well as some tough Marines came up to make this event happen

The winner, Treyson Allen. 270 out

Austin R. Disaster

Results:

Mens Open Snowboarding:
1st- Brady Larson
2nd- Dillon Geunther
3rd- Jeff McGrath

Best Trick:
Andrew Aldridge

Female Winners:
1st-Taylor Mattingly
2nd-Hailee Mattingly
3rd-Grace Mayernik

Heres an edit from Friday nights Nike Chosen rail jam on the steps of downtown’s Energy Solutions Arena. Kab rails, who supplies the features in our terrain park, was involved in creating a pretty sick set up. You will see lots of familiar Brighton locals in this edit by Chris Shields including former park crew members Brandon Hobush and Ted “Bundy” Borland. Winner of the jam was current park crew member Parker Worthen. Congrats Parker … now get up here and start digging the jibs out from all this snow!

Nike Chosen Rail Jam Highlights from Chris Shields on Vimeo.

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

Best Trick:
Andrew Aldridge

Female Winners:
1st-Taylor Mattingly
2nd-Hailee Mattingly
3rd-Grace Mayernik

Words and Photos Jesse Anderson

Back One tail tap on the tombstone

The open winners

Ski Open Podium

Youth Skiers Podim

Back Scratcher Tap?

Sliding the Step down Rail during warm ups

Shifty Tap over the tomb

Park Crew on hand to sweeten everything up during heats.

Jeff McGrath grabbing over the tomb

The female podium

View of the dancefloors on the side of the DropDown Rail.

Double Board on the left side feature by the 3rd place Open Snow

Brady Larson over the tombstone

Backy over

Back three over the rail onto the dance floor.

Some of the Salty’s boys were filming and I tagged along to get a few shots for the blog. Treyson Allen, Mark Rainery, and Tyler Morton killin’ it.

Rider: Tyler Morton

Rider: Mark Rainery

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?