Loon Last Call
Loon mountain hosted the east coast classic event "Eastern boarder Last Call" for the 14 time. This event is defiantly the favorite event all east coast riders. The competition was a whos who of east coast riders featuring all the big names in the east. The course made by the legendary  loon mountain park staff took the event set up to the next level. The course features a mini pipe only comparable to the summer pipe to pipe set up at Mount Hood. The mini pipe had a up flat lift tower poll, and a the "High Cascade" rail on the other side of the pipe. Also the Last Call classic big air feature this year was the 80 foot step down jump, the riders stepped up there game on this jump throwing down a one footed indie grab, double back flip, and what would a jump session be with out a back double 1080. Lastly the hart and sole of the Last Call event the wall ride section. This year the park staffed skipped out on having features on top of the quaterpipe wall to bring all the attention to brand new loon wall ride. Tyler Lheruex winning the Big air section and the wall ride section left with competition with a pocketful of cash and the first place spot.

I Ride Park City: Episode Six | TransWorld SNOWboarding

I Ride Park City: Episode Six | TransWorld SNOWboarding

Transworld posted the latest I Ride Park City edit, a series from the best riders riding park cities all time terrain park. This Weeks edit featured some all time riders,  Chris Beresford, Sean Black, Shane Wright, Alex Sherman, and everyone's favorite Sam Taxwood showed up to throw down in the park. All the riders riding in T shirts, sweat shirts, and sunglasses shows the great spring time conditions that have been present the last few days in park city. The almost brand new "six king terrain park" featuring XL sized features including a quadruple jump line with jumps from 30 - 85 ft. One of the most memorable tricks from the edit was Nick Julius's back double 10 on the 85 footer. Also Sam Taxwood showing off his skills in all aspects of the park, killing it on the rails jumps and pipe. Taxwood took the ender with a disaster Front 270 on the Down flat down flat down rail. nothing new about a crazy edit from the " I Ride Park City" Series 

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Snow Center Supports Boarding for Brest Cancer (B4BC)
Snow Center blog has started supporting  B4BC for the fight against breast cancer!  Many of you most likely already know about B4BC, but this is a great organization that aims to eliminate breast cancer deaths and in present and future generations by giving young generation the tools and knowledge to prevent themselves from getting cancer. B4BC encourages young people in the action sport industry to get early detection of cancer, and  live a healthy active life style for the best method of cancer prevention. B4BC hosts music festiveness, fundraisers, and the famous Snow Blind date auction with the Xgames professional lady riders. We look forward to a long future of supporting this great cause and are thrilled to join the fight against cancer.

Vail Burton U.S Open
The final stop of the Burton open series kicked off last Wednesday. The Best snowboarders in the world meet at Vail Resort, CO to battle it out for the number one spot in snowboarding half pipe and slope style events.  This stop of the last and championship stop bring a much higher level of compaction.  Men's Slope style semi- finals took place the first day of the event, with a stacked list of competitors qualifying for finals on Friday March first. One of the biggest surprises in qualifiers was 14 year old Japanese rider Yuki Kadono qualifying third with a impressive score of 83.88. With no surprise in the top spot of qualifiers was Torstein Horgmo finding himself in the top spot, a position he is very used to by now. Horgmo just getting off the European open and placing first, took his runs with a lot of confidence finishing with the top score of 87.93. Stay tuned for updates on Finals of the event taking place today at 10:30 ( Central Time)      

The Red Bull Ultra Natural back country slope style event took place this past weekend on the steep back country slope of Baldface lodge British Colombia. This being the second time Red Bull puts on this event the riders came into the competition  with confidence towards the course, witch brought the level of competition up a notch apposed to standers set from last years competition. Fifteen of the worlds top back country riders were personally invited to battle on the course for first place and the title of "Years best back country Rider". Founder of the event and highly respected rider Travis Rice was quoted saying "weather and natural forces dictate when we ride, and while conditions were not ideal...". Rice would know best with his years if experience in the game. Clearly from what Rice has to say the weather was a big issue with the event. So the podium finishers along with having the score to get them their, were also adapting to the weather conditions better then other riders. Bryan Fox first time rider in the "Ultra Natural" series finished in third place with a solid score of 75.4, above him another veteran of the sport Nicolas Muller coming in second place with a score of 76.4. Bryan Fox getting into the event with the wild card spot was a real surprise he ended up on the podium.  Gigi Ruf with one of the best back country runs of all time finished in the top spot. Ruf run consisted of him landing all of his tricks with ease and sending one jump to a huge 125 ft. Ruf received a score 82.6 for the win over the 16 best back country riders in the world.

The Burton European Open has been taking place for the past week in Laax Switzerland for the past week. The slope style final rapped up today after a full week of vigorous competing.  Laax mountain set up a unique  course three rail features three jumps and a small half pipe at the end of the course, the creativity of course lead the the riders coming out with very high scoring runs. Sebastien Toutant a Team Canada rider came out on the podium with third place and a cash prize of $4,000, Toutant finished hit run with a score of 90. Beating Fellow Canadian Team Rider, Mark McMorris placed only 4 points ahead of Toutant with a 94, McMorris walked away from the competition with a cash prize of $6,000. Finally, the favorite to win Torstein Horgmo placed first at the top of the podium with a perfect run of a 100. On the Jump line Horgmo walked away from the competition with a huge cash prize of $10,000 and is now the top ranked slope style snowboarder in the world. Horgmo recently winning first in U.S Xgames Big Air event, makes it no surprise he could bring his jumping skills to the course in Laax.