Today, it actually cleared up and stopped snowing, but it was windy all day. Riders started practicing the pipe for the first time during the event at around 11 when the wind died down a little. The comp started at about noon. The results will be announced during the show tomorrow night.

photos from left to right: 1 - lots of riders, 2 - practice, 3 - Leslie Glenn, 4 - Michelle Zeller, 5 - Summer Fenton, 6 - Michelle Zeller, 7 - Leslie Glenn

Today ended up being like yesterday, but with more wind. Qualifying and practice got postponed, so hopefully they can happen tomorrow... Here's some shots from my phone of all the snow

Yesterday was the first day of the Roxy Chicken Jam at Mammoth, a full day for riders to practice the pipe and slopestyle course. But, the weather decided otherwise. When I arrived at the Mammoth airport the day before, it was partly cloudy and almost warm (though, it had been snowing a lot the past few days). Wednesday morning, I woke up to it snowing with a few inches on the ground. As I scraped wax off my board outside, it started coming down more and more.

I made it up to the mountain at 10. Only a few girls were practicing the course, before it closed early. If they could even get speed for the jumps with all the new snow, they wouldn't have been able to see them. I ended up going riding with two girls I met on my flight to Mammoth (Kelly Etsell from Roxy and Audrey Guillemette from DC) and two others. As we got on one chair, a lifty said the visibility was pretty much 0 at the top of it. He was right... we couldn't see too well dropping in. I couldn't believe how deep it was. It was dumping so much, any tracked out sections in the trees became nearly untracked in 10 minutes. I shot the last four photos with my phone, so the quality is a bit lower than with my Canon.

Hopefully events go as planned today. I've been hearing it'll be like yesterday was...

For the past 2 days, I've been shooting the Roxy Chicken Jam at mammoth. I put up a few shots up as a preview. I edited them on my laptop so the processing could be 'off'. When I get home later this week, I'll have a full post and get the full gallery up.

10.03.26-27 - Roxy Chicken Jam preview

I finally got my shots up from the Olympic Qualifiers at Mammoth I shot two weeks ago.