Beaman and Horgmo Get Shred Nasty at the 2007 Abominable Snow Jam Quarterpipe
We find ourselves back up at Hood for the fourth annual Burton Abominable Snow Jam this week, and along with all the air-fives and smooth bro jobs going around, there is some stellar summer riding to behold as well.
Tuesday, for example, was a quarterpipe contest on a 30’ behemoth of a wall, which was built between 5pm Monday, and 7am Tuesday. Some white winter magic I suppose.
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Regardless, this event has procured some of the most amazing riders in years past, and this was no exception. Norway, Finland, Canada, Marsania, Japan, The Hamp Shire, Sweden; they all sent out cavalcades of their finest infantry.
The jam format allowed men and women to ride side-by-side for a good chunk of time, and display their finesse in an unbiased arena. There were supposedly a lot of girls there, but there were only a handful that stepped above and beyond the call of doody. Hana Beaman, not a stranger to handing out ass whoopings, achoo Chyna achoo, was doing huge methods, and mickeys with big melon … grabs. Gretchen Bleiler was there and doing consistently well, but for some reason didn’t even make top 5. Hm. Contests. Leslie Glenn, current counselor at High Cascade took an afternoon off to slay some obese transition. Fifth place. Kelly Clark went huge, and finally was granted with some acknowledgment with a 2008 Polaris snowmobile. Highest air and 3rd place. Wicked. Yuki Furihata did some bitchin’ mctwists, and got a number two and rolex. Not a number 2 on a rolex.
For the men, the usuals were killing it: Peter Line (again!) Pat Moore, Dustin Craven, Kevin Pearce, Jake Blauvelt, Mason Aguirre, Louie Vito, Scotty Lago, Jack Mitrani, blah blah blah. Standouts were: Pat Moore’s MICKtwists (A mctwist, with a revert to fakie before he lands. And there were some fools trying to do it, but looked like poor imitators), Torstein had more diversity in his riding than a San Francisco touch football league. He is assuredly in the running for the car. He hasn’t even hit his most lethal event yet, which is slopestyle. Oh yeah, he won today too. Jack was Jacking it up and off the charts, but didn’t land his biggest bigguns. Scotty Lago did an alley oop 7 truck driver that was crazy. Rolex worthy actually. Kevin Pearce and Mason Aguirre, Frends at the hip/podium took 2nd and 3rd, making sure to keep their shit different and cool. The Japanese always make their presence known at this event, and Fumiyuki Murakami was the lucky elected to point it from who knows where to get the highest air and 2008 polaris for dudes. Unfortunately, there were no Marc Andre Tarts this year. He got so destroyed, it’s still worth talking about.
The peanut gallery was just as banger as the riding, and probably could have brought any victim to tears. So, here’s to those who do, and those who laugh. We look forward to much more doing in the days to come. Congratulations to all those who made it through the QP. We look forward to the halfpipe! XO
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