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Friday Night Jib Fights Brighton

Daniel — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:50:19 +0000

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.

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Yellow Pants Skier on the Down flat Down feature

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Snow open Down flat down

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Spinning off the flat of the DFD front three off

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Flexing a fifty through the kink

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Skier Holding on, on the down bar

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

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The down flat down box feature

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

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

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The winner, Treyson Allen. 270 out

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Austin R. Disaster

SLUG games Dawn of the Shred Recap

Jesse — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:07:04 +0000

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

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The open winners

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Ski Open Podium

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Youth Skiers Podim

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Back Scratcher Tap?

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Sliding the Step down Rail during warm ups

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Shifty Tap over the tomb

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Park Crew on hand to sweeten everything up during heats.

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Jeff McGrath grabbing over the tomb

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The female podium

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

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

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Brady Larson over the tombstone

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Backy over

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Back three over the rail onto the dance floor.

Dawn of the shred Photos Continued

Meghan — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:05:14 +0000

Gallery by Meghan Kirk

StepChild Child Support Rail Jam

Daniel — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:10:57 +0000

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

Sneak Peak

Jesse — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:58:14 +0000

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

Park Crew Profiles… Meet Everest Arnold

Jesse — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:11:34 +0000

The Brighton Terrain Park Crew is a group of hard working guys that get up early and stay out late to make sure you have a great time in all five of our parks. We thought you would like to get to know a little bit of information about each of the guys so we will be putting up profiles over the course of the season. With a list of former park crew members that includes Jake Welch, Cam Pierce, Brandon Hobush, and Ted Borland many of these young up and comers are names you will eventually see beyond working on the crew. First up is all around good guy Everest Arnold, heres a few quick facts about Everest….

Brighton; Basic facts Name, Age, Years riding

Everest; Everest Arnold, 21 years old and riding for 16 years

Brighton; What’s your current set up

Everest; Niche Theme 153, Burton Cobra Shark, Thirtytwo TM-TWO Brighton Edition

Brighton; Who are your current sponsors

Everest; Niche Snowboards, Pow Gloves, Brighton Resort, Salty Peaks

Brighton; How long have you been on the Park Crew

Everest; This winter will be my 5th season

Brighton; How did you get on The Crew

Everest; I was born and raised at Brighton so I pretty much knew what I wanted to do for work

Brighton; What is the best thing about being on The Crew

Everest; It would have to be the designing and building of the entire park then being able to test it with a bunch of awesome co-working homies during the day!

Brighton; What are your favorite type of set-ups to build and ride

Everest; I really enjoy building things that are big and having big gaps and dozens of creative options for sweet ass lines!

Brighton; Thanks Everest now say all your thank you’s to the people that matter

Everest; Wanna thank my mom, dad, and all my friends. Brighton and Windells park crew friends that are bosses. Jared Winkler, Mouse, Chase Weaver, Ana van Pelt, Todd Robertson, John Kaiser, my girlfriend Jordan, and any one else I didn’t mention.

Words Daniel Photos Jesse

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Photo of the day 1/1/12

Meghan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:12:53 +0000

Photo of the Day Rider: Chris Frost

Milly and Great Western are now open!

Meghan — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:36:35 +0000

The mIlly and Great Western chairs are now open! Even if there is no snow get up there to check out the view! pray for snow? pray for snow. #prayforsnow.

Red Bull Butter Cup Recap [updated, more photos]

Jesse — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:07:50 +0000

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.

Gnu Greenhorn Games

Jesse — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:38:14 +0000

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

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photos below by Meghan Kirk: