From all across the United States, 32 regions have gathered at the 23rd Annual USASA National Championships of Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing at Copper Mountain. Over 1,600 competitors are taking part in the largest snowboard and ski event of the world. For the first time, USASA will be breaking up competitors for skiing and snowboarding events to allow for growth. The Catskill Mountain Series has qualified competitors in all five disciplines (slopestyle, halfpipe, boardercross, slalom, and giant slalom) and we wish everyone luck that they can showcase their best talents in the next few days. Check out some pictures from the Opening Ceremonies last night right here!

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Check out the Catskill Mountain Series final Halfpipe competition of the 2009/2010 season. We saw excellent runs all across the age categories and the Hunter Mountain park staff provided us with a pipe that was in great shape and fun to ride. There were a few battles to be fought to determine first place qualifiers and we saw some great amplitude as well as rotation skills. This event completes the CMS freestyle events and we wish our National qualifiers good luck at Copper Mountain in early April.

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Last weekend's events went smooth once again , despite the sub zero temperatures and it already being our CMS Slopestyle finals. We had a busy day at Belleayre Mountain on Saturday with a Slalom race in the morning and a Slopestyle competition in the afternoon. And on Sunday at Catamount some competitors really had to step it up if they wanted to end up as the first place qualifiers for Nationals in the Slopestyle division. All in all, we had a great time and are looking forward to the first BoarderX/SkierX this coming Saturday at Windham Mountain. See you there!

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The first Slopestyle event of the season took place in Hunter Mountain’s Park Avenue terrain park. Mike Valez and his park crew (local Bozwreck crew) built a jump line that consisted of a flat box, to a medium table jump, to an option of flat box or a flat down rail or a corrugated pipe/log jam, to a large table (with a smaller option), to an even larger jump (also with a smaller option), to the NIKE 6.0 car (a multi option box feature). These six features made a wide variety of runs possible and over 75 athletes showed up in -4 degree weather.