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An even bigger Big Air, even more ‘air time’ and even more in store on Friday! Visitors are in for big installation and program changes at freestyle.ch 2008, as the world’s biggest and best snowboarders, free skiers, FMX pilots and skateboarders step up to the challenge from September 26 – 28 at Zurich’s Landiwiese. mehr

Dear summerskier, dear friends

Enclosed you find some news of the summerski area:
Summer Freestyle in Saas-Fee In a short while it is time again for Saas-Fee to open its gates for the summer season. The park crew is working almost non-stop the last few weeks to be able to finish up before the opening this weekend. At the moment the snow conditions are not too bad, but the climate is already very hot & the snow very soft, which makes it quite hard to shape as we want. But the parkteam is not giving up! For the opening the goals are to have a working superpipe, at least one of the kickerlines open & some rail obstacles. From there the parkcrew will try to expand more & more for everyday till all things are placed properly.
Superpipe New for this summer is that we are grooming the superpipe the whole season through with the Swissmade Pipetool from Zaugg. The advantages are: an even bigger pipe with longer radius. But be aware! Especially pipe shredders! That the pipe will close when the park staff consider the snow conditions are to soft!!
Summerski opening Fot the summerski opening from the 5th of July, the cable car company offers the skipasses on Saturday the 5th and Sunday the 6th for the half price. This means 50% off on the day ski passes. Also is Swiss Ski presenting his new ski dress of the national team. More info: www.saas-fee.ch
Saas-Fee Ride On Saturday the 19th of July the first summer freeskievent takes place in the Saas-Fee freestylepark. This event is organised by Warren Smith. More info under: www.saasfeeride.com
Girliecamps Already this weekend the girliecamps starts again in Saas-Fee. Active freestylegirls are shredding our Rails and kickers in the summer park. More information and inscription under: www.girliecamps.com
Icegrotto Sass-Fee In the biggest icegrotto of the world you can see now a new exhibition with pictures of the old Saas-Fee, rescues from a crevasse and much more. More information under: www.saas-fee.ch

Best Regards from Saas-Fee

Prisca Baur Marketing / Events Saas-Fee Bergbahnen AG CH-3906 Saas-Fee Tel. +41 27 958 11 13 Fax +41 27 958 11 01 baur.prisca@saas-fee.ch www.saas-fee.ch/freestyle www.saas-fee.ch/glacierbike www.saas-fee.ch/bergbahnen
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Hi, all 3 parks are ready to shred until 4th of May. After this date the Roxy Glacier Park will be open until 2nd of June. The Roxy Glacier Park got a small change as we won?t offer a Quarterpipe, instead of it we have a step up and a "regular" hip. The pics are all from the Roxy Glacier Park. For more info check out snowpark.kitzsteinhorn.at. We want to thank everyone for another great winter season, we wish you all a great spring time and hopefully we?ll see us in Kitzsteinhorn one day. Mellow & shapecrew HP, Rippo & Tom mehr

Yesterday i came back from California, where i spent a great week in Mammoth Mtn. The Roxy Chicken Jam was hold there too. You ´d be very stoked to ride those parks & pipes ( Unbound Park, South Park, etc)  there. The park crew around Oren Tanzer did a great job regarding park design and its daily maintenance. The rails/boxes/jumps were all in a superb conditions. I have seen only one obstacle which  i didn´t like to ride- the big hip in the South Park. More info go to http://unbound.mammothmountain.com/

With the same lift ticket you also can visit June Mtn, which has another 2 parks to offer!

So enjoy my pictures. I also have attached a follow cam run from myself in the Unbound Park. Thxs Bernd for filming my run, which i did in the Unbound Park. It´s not a good run, but a funny one....

Ride on

Mellow

Can you imagine something better than riding a perfect park and Mathieu Crepel cheering you up? Yes, you are right: Mathieu Crepel was kind of the „star guest“ at the finals of the Snowpark Tour 2008! But one after another, first the action: After the last qualification of this year´s Snowpark Tour took place at the Kitzsteinhorn on Friday, Saturday saw the best riders of the 10 different stops to compete in the finals. It was a blue bird sky, the snow was fresh and the DC Central Park perfectly shaped. As a new dump was predicted for Sunday, the organizers decided to hold the complete finals on Saturday. “Due to the tight schedule, we demanded a great deal of the riders – but in the end, everyone was stoked”, Bernd Gutwenger from organizers Mellow Constructions reported. “As we had at least one good-weather day and a high level at every tour stop and at the finals, it was the best Snowpark Tour ever!“

Patrik Huber defending his title. (Photo: Lorenz Holder)

During a four-hour jam session, the riders had the opportunity to show their skills in the varied DC Central Park. First, they entered a line with a straight box, a huge A-frame box, a jib tree, an elephant down rail and several kickers before they changed to the kicker line including an A-frame and a flat down box, a step down kicker with three take-offs, two more big kickers and a wallride. Lots of possibilities to show creativity! The judges looked for the overall impression including style, creativity and execution of the tricks.

One of the female rookies going down the jib line. (Photo: Merlin Schönthier.)

Last year’s champion Patrik Huber from Warth was crowned the “most impressiverider” again – the 24-year-old’s backflip and switch backflip variations were unbeatable. “Especially his easy style was very convincing”, Bernd Gutwenger said. Patrik Huber won a wild card for the TTR event Nanshan Open 2009 in China. “It’s very attractive to go to China”, the Austrian was thrilled. “For sure I wanted to try to defend my title”, he stated as the reason why he took part in the Snowpark Tour again. “I’m stoked I won again. It was a fine park, nice weather – perfect conditions!” 22-year-old Swiss Matthias Vogt came in second and showed the best trick of the day, a backside 720 Japan. Thomas Coldabella from Stans (SUI) took third.

At the team battle, the Swiss team from Gran Masta Park Adelboden secured a tight victory over last year’s champions from Lech (AUT). The riders from Real Park Flumserberg (SUI) came in third.

At the female snowboarders’, the Swiss took a triple victory: Elena Könz from Vna was first in front of last year’s champion Anais Cettou from Mortiers and Nora Hodel from Gunten. Elena Könz now has the opportunity to show her skills at the 6-star TTR event Roxy Chicken Jam 2008. “This victory means a lot to me”, Elena said. “Last year I was second and it was my goal to win now though I didn’t really expect it. Now I’m really happy for sure!”

But one guy was probably the luckiest of all: 16 years old Thomas Feurstein. As the youngest rider, he became 10th in the main ranking but with a very smooth style and some really good jib tricks in his pocket, he won the Onboard Award for the Best Rookie and nobody but Mathieu Crepel himself, snowboard double world champion, handed him over his prizes: A sash and a limited edition 686/ Onboard jacket. Fortunately the winner´s kiss came from Onboard girl Anna…

From left to right: Most impressive rider Patrik Huber, Best Rookie Thomas Feurstein and third Thomas Coldebella. (Photo: Merlin Schönthier)

“It was a good park and I saw great riding – you could see that the riders really had fun”, Mathieu said. “The jam session format is perfect to show your best riding, especially for riders who have not yet done so many contests. I was surprised to see such good riding and such a good park. The event was bigger than I expected!”

We all are already looking forward to next year´s Snowpark Tour!

See you next year!

For more information see www.snowparktour.com

Results Snowpark Tour 2008

Snowboard – Boys
1st Patrik Huber (24), Warth/ AUT
2 Matthias Vogt (22), Freiburg/ SUI
3 Thomas Coldebella (21), Stans/ SUI
4 Killian Wiget (23), Rickenbach/ SUI
5 Clemens Jezler (19), Bern/ SUI

Snowboard – Girls
1 Elena Könz (20), Vna/ SUI
2 Anais Cettou (22), Motiers/ SUI
3 Nora Hodel (24), Gunten/ SUI

Snowboard – team battle
1 Team Adelboden with Thomas Coldabella, Clemens Jezler, Phipu Hänni, Simon Abt
2 Team Lech with Patrik Huber, Thomas Feurstein, Sebastian Geiger and Chris Haslwanter
3 Team Flumserberg with Matthias Vogt, Dominic Eggerberger, Markus Mathis and Luca Hitz

On Saturday, the 29th of March, Nordpark invites you all to the traditional Parkclosing-Session. We will have a nice Jamsession over the kickers and on the quarterpipe. Inscription, drinks and barbecue are free for all competitors. Check http://www.skylinepark.at for further info... mehr

Normally this box should be open earlier in the DC Central Park. Anyway we have 2 more months to get a chance to ride this sweet and soooo huge A-Box.  I made some pics from some parts of the park, so you can imagine the potential this playground offers to you.See ya for a gunfire on the mother of all boxes! Shout outs go  to all our shapers HP, Rippo,Tom and of course the whole snowcat driverteam. Keep up the great work and you riders honor them  best with a visit  in the Kitzsteinhorn Mellow Park

For example this weekend 14-16th of March we will host the final of the Snowparktour 2008 and of course there is the great party in the castle. More info: www.snowparktour.com

mellow

Hi all, just want to let you know that the big A-Box 5m/5m/5m  long  and 3m wide will be ready to shred Monday afternoon. Also the step up - wave snowbox will be open for the 1st time. I can tell you that the park is sick to ride for everyone of you.

On 14 th of March you have a chance to qualify for the Snowparktour Final ( www.snowparktour.com), on the 15th we have a great party in the castle in Kaprun.
By the way the Railpark in Kaprun is not 100% open as some jibobstacles were removed by the strong storm last weekend, but the 3 parks in the mountain are all in a sweet condition :-)

Greets Mellow

Hello everyone, some news..
The snowparktour has left the valley & so did the sun for a while.. hopefully the cloudy sky will bring us some flakes as well !! but at least we have our freestyle park & some more events coming up for the future.. so the news
Fiat FreestyleTeam
Come & fight for a place in the Rookie camp! Do you wanna be a pro-snowboarder & you think you got the skills for it?
We are offering you the unique oppurtunity to join & ride in the same Team as; Nicolas Müller, Romain de Marchi & Anne-Flore Marxer... fiatfreestyleteam.ch/rookiecamp
Stylession.ch
To all Freeskiers, Snowboarders, Crews & Party-people!
29th & 30th of March in Saas-Fee
For the fifth anniversary of the STYLE SESSION in Saas-Fee, we have prepared something new & kind of special, we have made: A CREW-BATTLE
Presented with a Special Slope Style Set-Up 3 to 5 members per Crew Open for all Freeskiers & Snowboarders Men & women, in all ages Ridersvoting, No judges! The riders themselves gives out the stylepoints! The Style & the Overall impression from the Crew counts!... more info.. stylession.ch!

VS Tour - Halfpipe
On the 16th of March in Saas-Fee, the only Halfpipe competition on the VS-Tour takes place. We from the event-organization crew, "RIDENOW", would be more than happy to receive you at the Freestyle Park Morenia.
The event is open for all Freeskiers & Snowboarders. There are many cool prizes to win, offered from our sponsors. Many great thanks goes to our sponsors; NITRO, ESKIMOS, POPCORN & WILDONE and also to our partners; SnowboardValais & Saas-Fee. ridenow.ch
Snowparktour results
One thing is for sure. When the Snowpark Tour is on the road, then it is not only the sun wich is shining, also Freeskiers & Snowboarders are flying spectacular through the air.
At the weekend of the 1st & 2nd of March the last swiss Qualifikations-Event of the Snowpark Tour 2008 took place. & that in the perfectly shaped park from Freestyle Park Saas-Fee. 43 Young guns were still hungry to try to qualify for the "Grande Finale" in Austria snowparktour.com
that was the news for now.. cya in the park! saas-fee.ch/freestyle

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