This year's Winter X Games Europe was fortunate enough to have pro rider, filmmaker, comedian, and all around legend Eddie Wall as a judge. While in Tignes, Wall also documented his top five favorite moments from the event-- an impressive feat in itself. How does one narrow a trip to the French Alps to just five great things things? Find out in Eddie's video documentation below.

The 2012 Oakley Progression Sessions will make its fourth and final stop at Loon Mountain, New Hampshire this weekend, March 24-25. The campers will be coached by pro riders Gretchen Bleiler, Ellery Hollingsworth, Kristi Leskinen, and Silvia Mittermuller the entire weekend.

Loon is a prime mountain for ending the Progression Session season. Known for consistently building one of the best parks in the U.S., it's a top venue for Snowboarder Magazine's notorious Superpark event, making it a leader of progression within the resort world.

Similar to many mountains, Loon offers parks or terrain that are suitable for all riding levels. They've recently expanded their parks, adding a brand new medium park dubbed "Dropline." In addition, they have four more parks open, ranging from small to large features. Is anyone frothing at the mouth yet?

Loon Mountain's immaculate parks also garner some of the East Coast's finest events, including Eastern Boarder's Last Call, Hard Day's Night, and Street Cred. And rumor is, Loon is also home to the best breakfast sandwich on the planet, the Egg McLoon, and really, who can deny a delicious breakfast sando?

Between the coaching and the cuisine, the last stop of the Oakley Progression Sessions is sure to leave a lasting impression on the girls participating. Click HERE for more info on the Loon session and its schedule.

Photo courtesy of Loon Mountain

Words: Mary Walsh
Photos: Westenbarger

The Oakley Progression Sessions crew woke up at Mammoth Sunday morning, surprisingly chipper after a long Saturday riding powder and a solid St. Patrick's Day celebration during early evening apres. At eight am sharp, all of the OPS snowboarders and skiers bounded into the meeting room, raring to attack the trails of Mammoth and learn new tricks. Unfortunately, the weather had plans of its own, but poor visibility and high winds were not enough to deter the energy of all of the women. After a solid yoga warm up, jackets were donned, gloves were pulled on, and facemasks were adjusted--it was time to head out to the hill.
"The weather didn't hold any of the girls back," said Oakley pro skateboarder and OPS snowboard coach, Lauren Perkins. "They still charged, they didn't give up, and that's one of the most inspiring things to me."The morning plan was to ride over to the OPS private park, which was situated near Canyon Lodge. Coaches and participants weren't exactly sure what the status of the parks in that area would be--main mountain was intimidatingly windy and snowy, making Forest Trail Park fairly inhospitable, so it was with fingers crossed that the crew headed up Chair 1 to check out the other part of the resort.Luck (and a hardworking Mammoth Unbound staff) was on the side of the Oakley ladies. As the girls made their way down to the OPS park, spots of blue sky began to emerge; the dreadful weather at main mountain disappeared behind rows of trees and it was a completely different world at the top of the OPS jumpline. The riders and skiers were already enjoying slashing powder and learning laybacks and other sweet trailside tricks, so as the weather opened up, the already big smiles broadened even more.
"It was really great to be able to share my home mountain with all of the girls at this stop of OPS," said Kristi Leskinen, who lives just down the road from the resort. "Because of the weather, we got to explore so many different parts of the mountain than if we had just been taking park laps. I got to be part tour guide, part coach. It was so much fun, and Mammoth Unbound built us a fantastic private park, which was the perfect place to find sunny weather on Sunday."The OPS park definitely was amazing. A slew of rails and boxes, a double line of cheesewedges perfect for learning, and for the first time in OPS history, a private halfpipe. Everything was set up in such a way that riders could take a run in the pipe with Dom, session the rails with Chanelle, Helene, and Marie, and hit jumps with Kristi all in the span of a half an hour. Talk about an epicenter for progression--women were learning tricks left and right with the help from the OPS coaches."I loved it," said Autumn, a returning OPS lady who attended the weekend at Northstar last year. "I don't care, windy days, snow, whatever, OPS is the place to go."As the lifts came to a stop for the day, the OPS crew celebrated their accomplishments at the awards ceremony. Laughs, high fives, and hugs were shared as coaches and riders recounted highlights from the weekend. The ladies of OPS: Mammoth braved some gnarly conditions and came out on top."We had a sick time," said Marie-France Roy. "My favorite part of the weekend was riding pow with the girls, just seeing how stoked they were, even though it was blazing wind the whole time. I don't know, we just made it happen and I didn't see one bit of negativity the whole time. It was really, really sick. Lots of new tricks were learned and lots of new friendships."Oakley Progression Sessions wraps up the 2012 season at Loon Mountain, New Hampshire for Droppin' In next weekend.

A common trend among the snowboard film industry is the tendency to provide an inside look into the making of a movie. Rome Snowboards created a video blog showing different occurrences and tricks while making The Shred Remains, Teton Gravity Research and Jeremy Jones released edits entitled Further Unplugged to hype up Further--you get the drift.

Volcom has taken similar route in supporting their latest snowboard project, IP2. They are releasing a "Clip of the Day" that showcases their current team on the road, shooting for IP2, throwing down hammers, and giving a little insight on what goes into making a Volcom movie. Here is the latest clip featuring Zac Marben and Curtis Ciszek in Jackson Hole:

Have you ever wanted to ride on the back of Terje Haakonsen or John Jackson as they embark on one of the biggest big mountain lines you've ever witnessed? Yes, we're aware of how creepy that might be but with the abundance of point-of-view edits, that's what it feels like to watch.

Red Bull and Travis Rice's Supernatural event took place in British Columbia in early February of this year and it's fair to say that it blew minds. For the event, the world's best freeride snowboarders gathered before a playground of features on the steep slopes at Baldface Lodge.

Among the riders were none other than legend Terje Haakonsen and one of the modern day heroes of shredding, John Jackson. Magical, isn't it? Terje, who paved the way for the future of snowboarding riding alongside John J, who is smashing the boundaries of what can be done in the sport. We can't make this stuff up.

Competitors were given one freeride day during the event, and the majority of them grabbed whatever POV camera they had, strapping it to their helmets, and shouting, "dropping!" almost immediately. Thank the heavens for that, because now we can ride their backs through the ambitious terrain of Baldface. Check out their Contour footage below and look out for the footage in it's entirety, airing March 31 on NBC at 10 a.m. PST.