After a weather day the clouds cleared enough for the top North Face Masters of Snowboarding qualifiers to rip down Crystal Mountain’s Silver King. Choosing from a plethora of 60-degree chutes, large cliffs and steep faces Crystal Mt local Forrest Burki put together a fluid, technical run to take the first place prize – a samurai sword and $3500. Maria deBari had a great technical line landing her in 2nd place just behind Shannon Yates.
The North Face Masters of Snowboarding will head to Kirkwood February 25-27 for the finals.
For more info on the freeride tour please visit www.thenorthfacemasters.com
Temple Cummins rides his C2 Power Banana into victory at the Legendary Mt Baker Banked Slalom! Antique camber racers walked away with serious Power Banana envy as Temple smoked passed them into first place. Temple had the fastest time on the course with a 1:43.08, and now has 4 wins total, just one behind Terje who has 5.
Photo: Annette Veihelmann
Other podium duct tape winners include, Cody Warble who placed first in Next Generation, Maria DeBari got 3rd in Pro Womens, and Max Warbington took 3rd in Younger Ams. Congratulations to all of the racers! Thanks to Mt Baker and the Crew there for 25 years of rad!
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By Annette Veihelmann
FINAL RESULTS: PRO MEN Temple Cummins-1st Place-1:43.08-GNU BILLY GOAT C2 POWER BANANA
Sky Risvold-6th Place-1:44.93-GNU BILLY GOAT MAGNE-TRACTION
Forest Bailey-28th Place-1:51.37-GNU RIDERS CHOICE C2 POWER BANANA
Nate Farrell-32th Place-1:51.72-GNU RIDERS CHOICE C2 POWER BANANA
Forrest Burki-33th Place-1:51.82-GNU BILLY GOAT C2 POWER BANANA
PRO WOMEN Maria DeBari-3rd Place-1:54.66-GNU B-PRO C2 POWER BANANA
Megan Pischke-5TH Place-1:58.63-GNU B-PRO C2 POWER BANANA
Barrett Christy Cummins-7th Place-1:59.93-GNU B-PRO C2 POWER BANANA
YOUNGER AMATEUR MEN Max Warbington-3rd Place-1:52.19-LIB TECH SKATE BANANA
NEXT GENERATION Cody Warble-1st Place-2:00.43-GNU DK MINI BANANA
Congratulations to Maria, she took first place in the Pro Women’s division at the Neil Edgeworth Banked Slalom up in Big White, BC on next years GNU B-Pro C2 Power Banana!
Birthday: August 29, 1986
Hometown: Glacier, WA
Home Mountain: Mt. Baker
Favorite Spot: in the mountains
Stance: regular
Years Riding: 10 or so
Sponsors: Gnu Snowboards
