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Dew Tour Mt. Snow
Posted by Steve Herrick on February 6th 2010
The last leg of the Dew Tour wrapped up today in Mount Snow, Vermont. Unfortunately, the warm spell that hit the East coast last week didn’t spare the mountains of southern VT, and the subsequent deep freeze made for tricky conditions for the course shapers. After a last minute rebuild of the slopestyle course on Friday, the competition went off. Although the jumps were notably smaller than previous tour stops, it didn’t stop competitors from throwing down the big crowd pleasing tricks that has made the Dew Tour a fan favorite.
Luke Van Valin was pure gold on the mic all weekend.
McRae Williams showing how it's done on the slope course.
At the end of the day, three guys who were no strangers to the podium came out on top. Sammy Carlson’s fluid style and poked out grabs secured him a 3rd place finish. Andreas Hatveit took second with his deep bag of tricks and stomped landings on his switch 10s. Hot off his recent slaying of the X-Games, at the end of the day it was Bobby Brown who took home first with his huge double cork 12 with a tenacious grab that put him on top of yet another podium. That kid is good.
The half pipe was apparently also victim to the recent lousy weather, and its lack in size and variable transitions made for interesting conditions for competitors. It actually made for an interesting contest to see how competitors dealt with the less-than-ideal conditions.
Banks can deal with the less than ideal conditions
While amplitude was significantly lower than previous stops, competitors still threw down some pretty big tricks in front of what was undoubtedly the largest crowd the Dew Tour has seen in 2010. Xavier Bertoni must have used some secret French ski wax, because he had no trouble consistently boosting 12+ feet out of the pipe, and giving him a solid 4th place finish.
Xavier Bertoni is big in Europe. Like David Hasslehoff.
In 3rd place was Mr. Justin Dorey, whose style permeated through each hit that he took. After scoring a solid 93 points on his first run, it looked like Tucker Perkins had the comp in the bag from the get go. His huge airs, perfect grabs, and a big double flip on his first hit made it clear why he is one of the top pipe skiers in the game today. Simon Dumont came out charging and in typical fashion linked big 15’ airs with lofty doubles, 9’s and his textbook cork 10 to finish out the run. Sitting comfortably in 2nd place for the entirety of the competition, Simon was able to up the ante on his last run, going consistently bigger than anybody else in the comp and finished out the day with the victory.
Large Marge sendin' it.
As the tour wrapped up and points were tallied, the overall tour champions were announced following the pipe competition. Third place overall went to our Haute Savoie homeboy Xavier Bertoni. While Xav never walked away with a gold medal, his sheer consistency and technical prowess is a true testament to how damn nasty he really is. If you ever get the chance to watch Xav practice, you’ll notice that he doesn’t take warm up runs. He literally will drop in first run of the day, and throw the same run he’ll throw in competition 6 hours later.
Props to Xavier for taking 3rd in the overall Dew Tour.
Second place went to Simon Dumont, who is always a huge crowd please. The overall Dew Tour Champion was young Kiwi Jossi Wells. Jossi consistently combined raw talent, super fluid style, and a little Kiwi attitude to give him the well deserved title of Dew Cup champion. Cheers mate!
Photos: Felix Rioux
Luke Van Valin was pure gold on the mic all weekend.
McRae Williams showing how it's done on the slope course.
At the end of the day, three guys who were no strangers to the podium came out on top. Sammy Carlson’s fluid style and poked out grabs secured him a 3rd place finish. Andreas Hatveit took second with his deep bag of tricks and stomped landings on his switch 10s. Hot off his recent slaying of the X-Games, at the end of the day it was Bobby Brown who took home first with his huge double cork 12 with a tenacious grab that put him on top of yet another podium. That kid is good.
The half pipe was apparently also victim to the recent lousy weather, and its lack in size and variable transitions made for interesting conditions for competitors. It actually made for an interesting contest to see how competitors dealt with the less-than-ideal conditions.
Banks can deal with the less than ideal conditions
While amplitude was significantly lower than previous stops, competitors still threw down some pretty big tricks in front of what was undoubtedly the largest crowd the Dew Tour has seen in 2010. Xavier Bertoni must have used some secret French ski wax, because he had no trouble consistently boosting 12+ feet out of the pipe, and giving him a solid 4th place finish.
Xavier Bertoni is big in Europe. Like David Hasslehoff.
In 3rd place was Mr. Justin Dorey, whose style permeated through each hit that he took. After scoring a solid 93 points on his first run, it looked like Tucker Perkins had the comp in the bag from the get go. His huge airs, perfect grabs, and a big double flip on his first hit made it clear why he is one of the top pipe skiers in the game today. Simon Dumont came out charging and in typical fashion linked big 15’ airs with lofty doubles, 9’s and his textbook cork 10 to finish out the run. Sitting comfortably in 2nd place for the entirety of the competition, Simon was able to up the ante on his last run, going consistently bigger than anybody else in the comp and finished out the day with the victory.
Large Marge sendin' it.As the tour wrapped up and points were tallied, the overall tour champions were announced following the pipe competition. Third place overall went to our Haute Savoie homeboy Xavier Bertoni. While Xav never walked away with a gold medal, his sheer consistency and technical prowess is a true testament to how damn nasty he really is. If you ever get the chance to watch Xav practice, you’ll notice that he doesn’t take warm up runs. He literally will drop in first run of the day, and throw the same run he’ll throw in competition 6 hours later.
Props to Xavier for taking 3rd in the overall Dew Tour.Second place went to Simon Dumont, who is always a huge crowd please. The overall Dew Tour Champion was young Kiwi Jossi Wells. Jossi consistently combined raw talent, super fluid style, and a little Kiwi attitude to give him the well deserved title of Dew Cup champion. Cheers mate!
Photos: Felix Rioux
