Men's and women's ski superpipe finals were all time this year at Winter X 15. Check out Newschoolers' recap of all the extreme activity.

Words by Jeff Schmuck

Photos by John Vandervalk

Winter X Games 15 continued this evening with one of the most exciting events of the year in competitive skiing...Men's Ski Superpipe Finals, where eight of the best pipe skiers in the world waged war in a battle for the ages.

This year's event began a touch earlier than in years past, with the beginning of the big show taking place in the late afternoon as opposed to prime time, but when it came time for the third and final run, the bright lights of Buttermilk came on, sending the capacity crowd into a frenzy.

Taking eighth tonight was 2009 X Games gold medalist Xavier Bertoni, who despite giving it his all had trouble on each of his runs, while the very promising David Wise landed just ahead of the French skiing superstar in seventh after experiencing some troubles of his own, despite launching some of the most stratospheric airs of the evening with textbook trickery and double cork 12's.

Get on over to Newschoolers for the full recap and the women's results. Do it friends!