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It was another sunny week up here at Brighton Resort, which for most means sunny park laps. The wall ride is now set up at the bottom of the Majestic park, and the Candyland park was set up last week as well. Come on up!

The Gatorade Free Flow Tour made its third stop in as many years at Brighton Resort this weekend. If you are unfamiliar with the Free Flow Tour here is a synopsis of its mission via the Free Flow homepage…

The Winter Gatorade Free Flow Tour is the official amateur series of the Winter Dew Tour. In its third season, the Winter Gatorade Free Flow Tour will search the country’s premier mountains, giving top ams the once-in-a-lifetime chance to go from “Flow to Pro”.

The goal is to find top am talent from across the country while giving the snowboarders and freeskiers of all abilities the opportunity to have fun while competing in a contest.

The 2011/12 Tour consists of 8 regional events across 8 mountain resorts in the U.S., featuring snowboarding (slopestyle and superpipe) and freeski (slopestyle and superpipe). The winner of each regional event earns a trip to compete in the Winter Gatorade Free Flow Tour Finals held in conjunction with the Winter Dew Tour’s Toyota Championships. The champions in the six disciplines of the Winter Gatorade Free Flow Tour Finals earn a spot to compete against the pros at the first stop of the 2012/2013 Winter Dew Tour.

Gatorade’s partnership with the Free Flow Tour began in 2009, and with its presence comes added commitment to uplift amateur snowboarders and freeskiers and provide an extended platform to grow action sports.

Todays action was located in the My-O-My park which means the jumps took center stage. In addition to the double jump line the park crew installed a double barrel down rail at the top and then a riders choice between the Gatorade pyramid rail and the round bar w/ ledge box for a total of four hits per run. Good job to all of todays participants and thank you to the park crew, Gatorade, Alli Sports and co-sponsor Chipotle.
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(Photos By: Jesse Anderson)

Corking over the first jump while spotting the sweet spot

1 Josh Glen Park City, Ut.
2 Grant Giller Evergreen, Co.
3 Dan Waltermire Castle Rock, Co.
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Snow Podium

Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle

1 Kirra Kotsenburg Park City, Ut.
2 Hailee Mattingley Sandy, Ut.
3 Elise Borellii Park City, Ut.
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Womens Podium

Men’s Skiing Slopestyle

1 Andy Partridge Park City, Utah
2 Erik Lukkari Spring Lake, Mi
3 Charlie Leveroni Jackson, Wy
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Ski Podium

Boardslide to 270 out

Hunter Bernstein Misty off of the Gatorade feature

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Kirra K. Backside spinning into first. She threw a three and five i believe on the first one

Everest Arnold on the drop in rail

Coaches coaching

Ski Coaches coaching

Cork 7 over the last jump

Big Gatorade bottle at the bottom of the course, spinning a cork over the first jump

Tucking Cork to make the spin and sweet spot, as Sal would say......

Jesse Gouveia kicks off a series of trick tip videos by teaching you how to Backside 180 onto a down rail.

Brought to you by Brighton Resort.

Film/Edit: Connor Brown

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The My O My park now has a quarter pipe and jumps! The park crew have been working hard to keep the candyland and majestic parks fresh. Time to go get your Peeps Park Pass!

I went to Denver last week to attend the Snowboard Tradeshow, SIA. There buyers and media were shown next years product from all of the major snow companies. I thought Brighton readers might like to see a bit of product from some of our park sponsors so heres some select 2013 goods from Lib Tech, Airblaster, Stepchild, Electric and 32.

Lib Techs Burtner's Box Scratcher with a zombie theme for next season

Next seasons Skate Banana moves toward a more traditional Lib Tech artsy graphic

The T. Rice line up

The Street Recession .. a pure urban weapon made without metal edges so its catch free on wood or metal. NOT recommended for on hill shredding

L to R Jib Stick (comes in slim or wide), Latchkey, and PowSucks

Airblaster goggles and legbags for 2013

Electric/Volcom collab

Pat Moore's "Beer Goggles"

Chris Grenier's signature 32 boot

Kooley's signature 32 boot

Scotty Stevens' signature 32 boot

JP Walker signature 32

Thanks to all these companies for their sponsorship of Brighton’s Terrain Parks

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