competitions

The weather slowed down the Winter X Games 10 Skiing SuperPipe Women's competition, but it wasn't enough to slow down Grete Eliassen. With snow beating down on Buttermilk Mountain at Aspen/Snowmass, 10 finalists participated in a thirty minute jam session to determine the winner of Skiing SuperPipe Women's. For the second year in a row, Eliasson (Lillehammer, Norway) edged out Sarah Burke (Squamish, B.C., Canada) to secure the top spot on the podium. It is her second Winter X Games medal in two appearances. Eilassen started her run big, with a 15 foot mute grab on her first hit and then threw in big tricks including an alley-oop 540.

Mother Nature Plays Havoc With Skiing Slopestyle

It wasn't the event he planned on winning, but TJ Schiller will take the gold anyway. With snowfalls blanketing the Slopestyle course on Buttermilk Mountain at Aspen/Snowmass, the Skiing Slopestyle Final became Skiing Best Trick. Instead of riding the full course, all 20 competitors took two runs on its final jump, taking the best of two scores. Schiller (Vernon, BC, Canada) went big with a switch nose 1080 on his first jump, good enough for a 91.33 and the gold.

SUPERPIPE & BIG AIR FINAL RESULTS

As anticipated, the Jeep U.S. Freeskiing Open went out with a bang in Vail Colorado earlier this week with the men's and women's Halfpipe competition and the exciting nighttime Big Air invitational, coming on the heels of Friday's Slopestyle finals. The largest cash prize of the contest, $10,000, went to TJ Schiller of Vernon, BC for his first place finish in the nighttime Big Air invitational. BC boyz representin'. Schiller beat out last year's Slopestyle winner Charles Gagnier with a huge switch 1440 - the first ever seen at an official competition. Tanner Hall of Park City, UT took first in men's Halfpipe, claiming the $7,000 prize, while Sarah Burke of Whistler, B.C. placed first in the women's division carrying a $2,500 prize.