Bear Mountain, California, was the place to be this past Saturday for the premier kickoff to the winter season. The annual Hot Dawgs and Hand Rails event, which boasted a prize purse of over $15,000, went off at the So-Cal shred spot with hundreds of people in attendance. Snowboarder magazine’s roving editor, Tom Monterosso, was among those on the scene and was impressed, saying, “This year’s Hot Dawgs and Hand Rails boasted a field that was stacked with talent, maybe more so than any year in recent memory. After all, if there’s one thing that I’ve learned after half a decade of lapping Bear, it’s that when they put on an event, the talent is never sparse.”

Click the photo above to see the action captured in Instagrams and head to Snowboarder mag for a full recap and video.