Arrived at Breck around noon to do some skiing and watch the Dew Tour superpipe and slopestyle semi finals.
Weather was pretty grey and snowy through out the day. Emily still had a great time.
The base area was a mad house! Reminded me of Beech on MLK weekend.
UNFORTUNATELY, due to major camera malfunction (lens system jammed and I had to take apart camera in bar during a break) superpipe pictures were not taken. Flame on. I'm going to Best Buy tomorrow for a non-cripple camera.
After the break, a few curse words, a beer, we returned to the base of the slope style to watch.
The scale of the jumps were impressive. These pics do not do it justice. Conditions were not ideal for the slopestyle as the fresh snow kept everybody pretty slow. Resulting in much of this...
Near the end the temp started dropping and the snow hardened up.
We started getting cold and headed to the bar.
While waiting for the gondola crowd to filter out we got to see some of the Snowboard Big Air warm ups. I still cant believe how high these guys were getting!
With fading light and a drained vanilla porter, my camera finally died. I know the shots are crappy, and the superpipe would have been awesome. I will go armed with a new, and better camera for the X-Games. Once we got home I opened up the camera to find a gear with a missing tooth and another cracked in half. This is a terminal condition but still not a bad for an 8yo camera. You had a good run little Canon.
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Dew Tour (pic heavy)
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ut_Twintip
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@Powdermonkey 283040 wrote:I was there! Great Time
PM me next time you head to a mountain. I'm usually game.
PM me next time you head to a mountain. I'm usually game.
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KneeDeep
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@ut_Twintip 283010 wrote:
The base area was a mad house! Reminded me of Beech on MLK weekend.
And this... is why I will never go to Breck again.
Looks like a fun time up there for the event, though. One of my friends shoots for a local magazine and came away with some good shots.
The base area was a mad house! Reminded me of Beech on MLK weekend.
And this... is why I will never go to Breck again.
Looks like a fun time up there for the event, though. One of my friends shoots for a local magazine and came away with some good shots.
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GrizzlyEnton
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dew tour should just let the riders loose on the mtn and just film that would be far more entertaining.
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ut_Twintip
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@GrizzlyEnton 283337 wrote:dew tour should just let the riders loose on the mtn and just film that would be far more entertaining.
With the limited terrain, that would be about as interesting to watch as one of the 30k church group GoPro videos on YouTube.
With the limited terrain, that would be about as interesting to watch as one of the 30k church group GoPro videos on YouTube.
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@ut_Twintip 283395 wrote:With the limited terrain, that would be about as interesting to watch as one of the 30k church group GoPro videos on YouTube.
i was trying to express that i get bored watching guys hit the same set up for 2 hours on TV, maybe dew tour and xgames can figure out that most people that watch these comps watch films too that make their little comp seem pretty boring.
i was trying to express that i get bored watching guys hit the same set up for 2 hours on TV, maybe dew tour and xgames can figure out that most people that watch these comps watch films too that make their little comp seem pretty boring.