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Today was the last day of the Winter Dew Tour stop in Snow Basin, Utah. Today began at 8am with a short 1-hour practice before finals started. Everyone in finals was bringing their A game with very tech, stomped runs. Almost every athlete scoring in the 80’s or higher.

TJ was looking really good in the beginning of his first run but missed his pop on the switch double 900, landing on his head and side. The crash looked really bad and the medical staff were reluctant to even let him stand up. After clearing a neurological exam and tracking down a new helmet, TJ headed back to the top to do his second run. Although suffering from a concussion and a soar body, he managed to lay down the tricks he had planned for his first run and stomped it! The results for slope finals are as follows;

Tom Wallisch – 94.75
Andreas Hatveit – 93.63
Bobby Brown – 93.25
Sammy Carlson – 91.25
Jossi Wells – 87.38
Phil Casabon – 85.75
Elias Ambuhl – 84.25
Alexis Godbout – 84.20
Ian Cosco – 84.13
TJ Schiller – 84.00
Charles Gagnier – 83.00
McRae Williams – 81.00

Now that the second Dew Tour stop has finished up, TJ is going to be skiing at Park City for a few days shooting with Poorboyz, Chug, and Walker. Be sure to tune in for the updates about everything leading up to the X-Games.

Yesterday was the first day of practice for both slopestyle and halfpipe at the Snowbasin

Basin stop of the Winter Dew Tour. Slope practice began bright and early at 8:30 for the riders to have their first chance to inspect and take runs through the course. For the most part, the athletes were somewhat thrown off by the smaller features in comparison to the Breckenridge event. The course has a very tight layout consisting of two rail features up top straight into 3 jumps, and a final feature of either a canon box or a gap to a box in the back of a Toyota Tundra.

Although the course is much smaller than most of the athletes had anticipated, they seemed to be figuring it out by the end of the training session. There were barely any doubles being attempted in the course, although Jossi landed a couple smooth double 1260’s on the last jump.

Stay tuned for more news from each day of the Dew Tour in Snow Basin, Utah.