Saturday was the inaugural Roxy Powder Jam, an event brought on by the weather. Slopestyle was canceled due to less than ideal park conditions, so the backup plan they came up with to replace it was an event where teams of riders were to film anywhere inbounds on mammoth mountain with Go Pro cameras. The footage of whole teams (and individual riders) will be judged and winners will be announced April 11 with $15,000 to be split between them.

I ended up going with team 4. The riders of team 4 were Christy Prior, Danielle Brodrick, and Leslie Glenn. Seth Lee went along to help film with a Go Pro, doing lots of follow shots, while I took behind the scenes still shots of the riding and filming. We started by Main Lodge and worked our way over to Canyon lodge, first dropping a building gap in the trees and then getting some shots of natural gaps and drops with all the fresh powder. We stopped at Canyon for a bit to dry out the cameras and get some food. As we were heading out, we heard the lifts would be closing because the wind was getting so strong. They did close with exception of chair 8 (where a huge line quickly formed) and a chair lift up the bunny slope. We ended up taking the gondola to the village and then taking a bus back to Main Lodge.

At main lodge we built a jump with a gap over two wind lips above the athlete lounge. It was around 2:30 in the afternoon when we built it and the wind was getting worse, but we wanted to get some more Go Pro shots. My camera was getting covered in snow that wind was blowing across the direction of the jump. I had to keep cleaning off my viewfinder and lens. It was an effort to even stand, let alone build a small jump. By the time we finished it, visibility had gotten a lot worse. The riders had a hard time finding the lip to even aim for it and the wind wasn't making being in the air easy. They hit it a few times and called it.

The Trouble Andrew and La Roux show with the awards ceremony that would take place in the village was moved inside to Canyon Lodge because of the weather. Halfpipe was the only planned event that happened. Qualifiers and Finals were combined in one heat because the weather window was questionable. Kelly Marren took first in halfpipe winning the $15,000 purse
with Leslie Glenn in second and 10 year old Chloe Kim in third.