2004 Ripzone Invitational Superpipe Final

Whistler, British Columbia, April 19, 2004

2004 Ripzone Invitational Superpipe Champ Crispin Lipscomb.
Portrait and action photo by Patrick Lennox Wright.

Crispin Lipscomb set the pipe on fire with huge airs and could have walked away as the champion on his first run. Jan Michaelis and Justin Lamoureux, however, weren't going to let Lipscomb take an easy victory. They pushed Crispin to go even bigger, and in the end it was his monstrous run, including a Cab 720, Alley-oop 540, huge straight airs and a Crippler 900 that clinched the win.

2004 Ripzone Invitational Superhit Champ Guy Deschenes.
Portrait and action photo by Patrick Lennox Wright.

SuperHit winner Guy Deschenes went from a big Cab 720, and then unbuckled his back boot in the transition before launching a front side one-foot straight air 10 feet out of the pipe.

Hannah Teter (left) had to settle for second place, while veteran Tricia Byrnes (right) took the win.
Photos by Patrick Lennox Wright.

The Women's Superpipe Final was a closely contested melee between Sarah Conrad, Hannah Teter and Tricia Byrnes. From Conrad's amplitude, to Teter's effortless spinning and Byrnes' complex combinations, the women's Ripzone Superpipe Final was an action-packed line-up of girls going big.

USA riders Byrnes and Teter finished first and second, with Canada's Conrad taking third. Byrnes' winning run included a front 540 to a front 360 lean, then into a fakie 540 before finishing with a big switch straight hit. "The pipe is in amazing condition and was calling me to just go for it," said Byrnes.