It must be pretty difficult being strapped in at the top of the drop-in of an icy, slow halfpipe as loads of snow fall from the sky - blanketing the trees and peaks around you. While you should be imagining your run and hits, you're getting the itch to just dip out and take some tree runs - pretty much a shit situation to be in. However, the competitors at the Copper Grand Prix sucked it up, laid it out, and got it done at the first U.S contest of the season. Louie Vito, Luke Mitrani, & Scotty Lago being the top dogs for men's halfpipe while Kaitlyn Farrington, Kelly Clark, & Rana Okada took the top three spots for the ladies. SNOWBOARDER and Hana Beaman got a hold of the winners for a hot second and asked them about the conditions and how they felt about the contest. - Lindsay Fraka

Watch full video here...

Hana Beaman is no stranger to SNOWBOARDER Magazine's Guestbook. Check out what questions we had in store for her this time....HERE.

GrindTV Newswire, Mt. Hood, OR: (July 7, 2010) There are two ways to watch the action at this weekend's Annual Bonfire Pipe to Pipe snow and skate event-dust off those snowboard boots and leave the city heat for an unforgettable summer day on Mt. Hood, or watch the skate event live on Windell's web cams: http://windells.com/media/webcams/.

The Bonfire Pipe to Pipe is the best place to see up and coming riders and skaters. Soon the names of this year's Pipe to Pipe finalists will be as familiar as past participants Nick Dirks, Scott Stevens, Chad Otterstrom, Zac Marben, Desiree Melancon, Silas Baxter Neal, Hana Beaman, Chris Grenier, Jonas Michelot, Leanne Pelosi and many more.

DJ Tito Black will provide the jams courtesy of Skullcandy and free food will be flowing thanks to Bonfire and Windells. Scotty Arnold is announcing and Bode Merrill will be on hand as a Guest Judge.

All riders are encouraged to show up early to snag one of the 100 competitor jerseys for the snow event. Registration is free and available on a first come first served basis. All riders must purchase a Timberline Lift pass. Schedule details available on www.bonfiresnow.com

The skate event will take place in the new concrete park at Windell's and is sponsored by Creature, Independent Trucks and OJ wheels. Registration starts at 5pm at Windell's skate park.

Snow event sponsors include Windells Snowboard Camp, Bonfire Snowboarding, Gatorade, Salomon Snowboards, Skullcandy, Timberline, Dragon Goggles, Magical Go-Go, POM POM and the Art Institute of Portland.

Check the video from last year's event:

P: Snowboardermag.com

Southern California has always been pegged as a mecca for the ladies; really good looking ladies, ladies that think they're really good looking, fake as monopoly money ladies, sun kissed ladies, gold digging ladies, scantily clad ladies, care-free ocean loving ladies...it's pretty much endless.

However, these past couple weeks, so cal has been swarming with ladies who genuinely love the mountains, run goggle tans, kill it at snowboarding, and could straight up drop one of those other ladies on their ass. While the Roxy Chicken Jam concluded at Mammoth Mountain, Snowboarder Mag's Ms. Superpark 6 got underway at Snow Summit March 30th and will last for four debaucherous days.

This event is known for progressive features and creative, fearless riding by some of the most bad ass females in the business and by bad ass I mean: Hana Beaman, Bryn Valaika, Anne Flore Marxer, Janna Meyen Weatherby, Jenny Jones, Desiree Melancon, Raewyn Reid, Leanne Pelosi and Natazka Zurek. The park crew from Bear Mountain shwooped over to make sure the park was nothing less than gnarly for the girls to throw down on.

Basically these ladies are getting straight bat crazy at Snow Summit. Snowboarder Mag gives the full run down on what Day 1 had in store for them, they even made a little video recap.

Words: Jenna Klein

"Laid out for the ladies are two pristine hips, a generous sized channel gap, a step down and a downrail. Wasting no time, women hit the gas on the hip with little conscious thought about how far into the flats they were about to go. Blasting large and bruising parts was commonplace for a contingent of the crew, yet no one needed ski patrol to carry their carcass at the end of the day. Prevailing during the first hip session was Bryn Valaika and her unquestionably proper method's, Jess Kimura's tuck knee's and other fetching maneuvers by Laura Hadar, Hana Beaman, Anne Flore Marxer and Nirvana Ortanez. Also impressive was Desiree, who with wind in her absent locks continued to bring a bald beat-down to the hip for hours.

With the women getting comfortable, look for babes to push past their boundaries as the week goes on. We can't guarantee what kind of action lay ahead, but considering Jess Kimura pulled off some oversized alley-oop front 3's on the hip while in more physical pain than even imaginable, the future looks promising. Check back for more as the ladies let down their hair and let loose. Sans Desiree of course."

Check back with GrindTV for the latest and greatest from Ms. Superpark 6.

P: courtesy of ESPN.com

The first-ever Ride Shakedown on U.S. soil went down (check the video) this past weekend at Summit at Snoqualmie and it was a hit sans the dumping snow that began pretty much at the beginning of the three hour semi finals. Pretty sure mother nature didn't realize she was dealing with rail lovers instead of tree hugging, powder slashing hippies. Anyways, the riders trucked through it, all of them after the cold hard cash. Semi's ended at sun down and the finals kicked off under the night sky.

Matts Kulesik took first place for the little boys and hometown hero, Megan Ginter got the win for the ladies; something about competing on the hill she learned to snowboard on amped her up for the contest. Ya think?

Here are the rest of the details:

Men

1. Matts Kulesik
2. Manuel Diaz
3. E-man Anderson

Ladies

1. Megan Ginter
2. Hana Beaman
3. Megan Whiteside

Be sure to keep up with the next Ride Shakedown that's kicking off April 2nd.


P: ESPN.com