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Best Northeast freeriders will be at Magic 3/2. Should be crazy with the new snow and Black Lift running! Something you have to see! Wondering if Powbumps is entering?
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Blanton, you'd love this. It's shredding a trail while trying to be stylie. After doing Mad River's last week, the competition this year is really tough! A bunch of mountains have teams focusing on the STEFT tour now and the level of skiing has gone off.
Since we're on the topic, anyone have any vids or pics of the features on Black Line? I've never skied it before and I searched, but haven't found anything good. Trying to get some intel for this weekend. One of the problems I'm having with these events is trying to memorize a trail while only skiing it twice the morning of. A video from the black chair would be sweet.
IIRC it went down past the ledges and ended above the last steep section. Thats if they can pull it off on Black Magic otherwise it will be on redline like last year which was conspicuously closed on today's snow report. Lots of excellent skiers. Definitely more Pro than our homegrown event used to be.How far is the run? Just a few sections or do they go way down the slope?
Are there a lot of amateurs there or are the competitors pretty pro?
Blanton, you'd love this. It's shredding a trail while trying to be stylie. After doing Mad River's last week, the competition this year is really tough! A bunch of mountains have teams focusing on the STEFT tour now and the level of skiing has gone off.
Since we're on the topic, anyone have any vids or pics of the features on Black Line? I've never skied it before and I searched, but haven't found anything good. Trying to get some intel for this weekend. One of the problems I'm having with these events is trying to memorize a trail while only skiing it twice the morning of. A video from the black chair would be sweet.
Look at Magic trip reports from a couple of years back. You should find some decent video of both red and black. Also I recall some video of the event online too. The biggest feature on black is that there are 3 succesive drops right at the start then below that are some smaller features to air off. When you get to the wide flatter section, there's some small features skiers right to jump from. If its redline and they start on witch, theres a 5 footer or so skiers right as you enter that you can see from the lift. Then theres a rock that should be covered skiers left you can launch from which will lead to the big rock face where an air is possible depending on cover followed by another say 4 footer. Then its pretty steep and narrow with bumps. The last air is a rock on skiers right above tower 12 which is good for backflips and the like. Have fun and good luck!
Blanton, you'd love this. It's shredding a trail while trying to be stylie. After doing Mad River's last week, the competition this year is really tough! A bunch of mountains have teams focusing on the STEFT tour now and the level of skiing has gone off.
Umm people are doing back flips in this contest? I think that pretty much answers the question as to how competitive it will be.
I don't think that is the case any more, that was the point moguler6 was making. These events started as individual mountain events, but they are now part of an east coast swing of a national freeskiing competition brand. From what I've read these past two years, these events frequently sell out before the day of the event and doing walk up is not feasible for many of these events.The STEFT events are not really "pro-ish". They are at MRG, Magic, Sugarbush and Jay and for most of the competitions a high percentage of participants are there because it's their home mountain.