It's summer, which in snowboard terms means a bunch of dumb rail jams in inappropriately warm places. Hey, we even had one in Portland this weekend! There were meth heads and hoochies, all celebrating the championships of the Cricket Campus Rail Jam. Really exciting. Check out the full story here, or hey, just watch the video. But honestly, even Todd Richards announcing couldn't mid inner city snowboard seem that awesome.

Any who, we just wrote that so we could make this video from the Mt. Baker Banked Slalom seem timely. You see, the Banked Slalom is one of the greatest snowboard events and the antithesis of a summer rail jam. Usually, it's all about riding powder, but since there was none this year, we could concentrate on filming (for the finals.) So enjoy and try to think about events like this when you think about snowboarding this summer, not rail jams!