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10 DEC 2000
Lucas Kane, MountainZone.com Correspondent
Every which way was up when the sun finally burst and the women stacked up for
the big air finals. Leah Wagner wasn't messin' around either...unlike the rest of the
women, she went to the wall on her first of two hits and threw a double grab front
flip to take first today. Leanne Pelosi came out early too, and bust she did...into a
barrel roll.
A few heats later, Leslee Olson strapped in and threw all of it
down. She pointed for the lip and kicked a rodeo seven, came
down, caught her toe edge and slammed hard. The crash
gave her arm a bit of a twitch (no joke) as she lay on the
landing. It was so bad she was vocal about her pain. It made
me cringe and was a big scare when she didn't get up
which sent patrol flocking, but luckily she slid with just a
concussion. Damn girl may you heal quick!
Inverted, upside down and just plain smooth summed the
ladies session. Priscilla Levac took 2nd and Juanita Platz followed big, flipping
frontward on her first hit to take 3rd, and the last of the women's crowns.
Team Morrow represented next when the men lined up and stormed the kicker
through a slight snowfall riders Josh Dirksen and Todd Richards took 1st and 2nd,
respectively. TR spun nine but Dirksen emptied everyone's pockets with a switch
backside nine. Marc Frank-Montoya is da man, too...big 3rd on his plate today
Kindly enough, the pipe and the big air were stacked side-by-side, so pipe quals
were easy to peep, too. The right wall's looking better and the amplitude has
begun.
DJ Smokey kept it loud, but Tone Loc was pretty quiet in the booth. He took the mic
for just a sec, gave the crowd a scratchy, "Wild Thang," and kicked back. He's due to
get down in just a few hours...be there, please.
Down at the lodge, they were shaking it for shades. Some random booth was giving
away goggles for spinning the hoola-hoop, lasagna was on the menu, the lift lines
were huge and the slopes were packed. Duck off groomed runs and the dusted
stumps will make you drop your pants to check for blood...no really, it happened!
Then my homey got T-boned just four feet from my line...CRUNCH. Sounded like a car
wreck, but they both walked away good and dizzy.
We found a rail up the trail from the condo...gotta go. Pipe hits tomorrow...
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