Fresh Fridays are back and will be better than ever for the 2011-12 season. These events show ATP’s dedication to constantly changing and evolving park setups. On select friday nights throughout the season, the ATP crew will construct an entirely new setup that has never been seen before in our parks. Fresh Fridays are fun, laid back jam sessions on these new setups and as always, they are completely free to enter with purchase of a ski ticket.

Format
Fresh Fridays, will sport a low-key, relaxed jam session format, where riders can hit the new setup as many times as they want, in any order they want, just like a normal day of riding with friends. Registration will be from 5:00-6:30 at the registration desk on the Upper Level of the Lodge. The shred sesh will last from 7:00 – 8:00, with the awards taking place nearby the setup immediately after the jam ends. Oh, and don’t worry, ATP will leave the new setup out all weekend long for everyone to ride!

Judging
The judging for Fresh Fridays will be unlike any other competition. No more first, second, or third place. We will be awarding prizes to certain standouts throughout the session. Whether you are a super tech rider, a style master, or simply out for the fun of it, we want everyone to participate, have fun and get a chance to win some great prizes.

Stay tuned to www.appterrainpark.com for updated information as this event draws closer.

This is the 3rd year for wRECklESS Rail Jam and it is going to be better than ever! If you like zombie hands, tomb stones, Cash prizes, gnarly rails, lots of free product, and tons of shred…ding then dont miss out.

CASH PRIZE!!! All entry dollars from contestants will go straight into the pot for the winners of the event! Plus Recess is throwing in an additional $400 to beast up that total prize!

Over $1000 up for grabs!!!

Beginner – Intermediate – Advanced – Ladies Snowboard & Ski Categories

ATP will be hooking up another amazing set up for this one! It will go down as jam format with something to ride on all levels!

$15 Entry
Registration – 9am – 11am
Event Starts at 12pm

Your not going to want to miss this one! Spectators are welcome! Free spectator passes will be available and you will be able to participate in the HUGE RAFFLE that will be going down thanks to all of our sponsors! Sponsors will be on hill and hanging out during the event!

CAPITA – UNION – SPY – ANALOG – SKULLCANDY – NEFF – DC – AIRBLASTER – APP TERRAIN PARK – RECESS – All making it happen!

Must be at least 18 years old to sign up or have a parent/guardian sign for you!

www.RECESSRIDESHOP.com

www.APPTERRAINPARK.com

Categories:
The Shred for the Cup series is for everyone, no matter your ability level. Skiers and Snowboarders are judged separately, and the categories for both include:

Beginner:
-No Sandbagging
-Can hit smaller flat rails and boxes
-Can hit small table tops
 
Intermediate:
 -No Sandbagging
 -Comfortable doing variety of tricks on smaller rails and boxes
-Can hit some kinked/curved rails and boxes
-Can hit smaller and medium sized tabletops
 -Can do a variety of grabs or small rotations (180′s, 360′s)
 
Advanced:
 -Comfortable doing variety of tricks on all rails and boxes
 -Comfortable spinning and grabbing on all size jumps (180′s, 360′s, 540′s, 720′s, etc…)
If in questioning your ability placement you find yourself in the middle of 2 categories, ATP encourages you to compete in the higher category and try to push yourself to a new level.

The Shred for the Cup series also offers Ski and Snowboard categories for Women who want to get out and ride.
 
The Cup:
In addition to each individual event winners, points will be tallied throughout the events to decide the entire series winners in each category. The series winners in each division will receive the coveted “Cup”, not to mention bragging rights for the next season!

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That’s right ladies; ATP bringing back this event series just for you!

On Saturday night, January 7, ATP will construct a terrain park area with features specifically designed for learning and progression that will be open to ladies only. We want women of all ages and abilities, both ski and snowboard, to get together and ride in a laid-back environment among friends.

The session will begin at 7pm, with a flexible, open format of whatever you girls would like to see. If you just want to make laps through the girls-only park, sounds great! If you are starting out and want to learn how to slide your first box, or how to hit a jump properly, ATP will be staffing select Trick Tip Advisors who will be happy to help you progress. Once the session has come to an end, we have lots of prizes which will be raffled off among all participants. Best of all, the event is Free with the purchase of a ski ticket!

Screamer Athlete Meg Pugh will be coming back to ATP the weekend of February 25 & 26 to support Ladies Park Night and the Shred for the Cup Slopestyle Finals.

During her career as a snowboarder, Meg has won Quarterpipe Championships, highest airs, placed 3rd in the World Superpipe Championships, competed in the X-games (3 times),5th place at the Vans Cup, started up a successful resort snowboard team, coached summer camps, as well as designed and produced pro-model products.

Meg’s passion and knowledge of snowboarding helped to take the Rail Jam and LPN events to the next level last year, and this season will be no different. “I am really excited about coming back for the all-women’s park event at Appalachian Ski Mtn.!” said Pugh. “I can’t wait to check out all the new features and pump up the local ladies!”

Screamer, (Meg’s hat sponsor) is teaming up with Appalachian Ski Mtn., the Alpine Ski Shop & App Terrain Park to put on a weekend full of rad shred events – so don’t miss out!

Meg Pugh

As everyone knows, the weather is the biggest factor that affects anyone’s experience riding on the mountain. It seems that our events have had an interesting relationship with the weather in the past years, and although the Big Air went off without a hitch earlier in January, the SFTC Rail Jam wasn’t going to get by so easily. The one night ATP plans to host a SFTC event just happened to be the coldest and windiest evening of the year by far. An entire park that was carefully planned and setup with several features offering lots of possibilities for riders to link unique lines together all of a sudden became a tundra with blizzard like conditions and wind gusts that would stop riders in their tracks in the middle of the slope. ATP saw the forecast, knew what was ahead for the night, and tried everything to make the competition as legit as it could be. A snowcat was left in the park to groom out the setup as best as possible, because it was known that the single digit temps and 60+ mph winds would leave Appaljack as windblown and firm as an ice skating rink. The plan was to dust the park with some fresh man-made snow a couple hours before the event then groom it out. Snowmaking was attempted, using the word “attempted” because the majority of the snow probably ended up in Lenior somewhere. The park was groomed out anyway and opened for practice around 6pm, much to the anticipation of all the riders.

A view of the course… The Stairset was less than 50 feet past this logo, and the flags for the flat box are barely seen in the left of this photo.

This Dub Down Rail was on the second tier of features, unfortunately the wind wouldn’t allow ATP to use the whole course.

This is what is great about all of ATP’s riders/competitors. One of the most intense nights ever at ASM to be outside in the elements, and over 80 competitors left the comfort of their warm houses to shred rails with us. If that isn’t dedication – we don’t know what is. Volcom & Electric didn’t let the weather stop them from hanging and helping out tons w/ the event – hooking all competitors up with custom pressed hats at registration, grilling out hotdogs during the event, and awarding winners from the event with tons of Electric & Volcom gear, along with Recess Ride Shop, Burton & Red Bull.

Just a little bit windy

The original format planned for the Rail Jam was going to be individual runs for all riders, so that each rider’s consistency and ability to link a top to bottom run would play more of a factor than in a Jam format. However, what do you do when a rider gets blown up the hill and can’t hit the second feature anymore? It was agreed on by all judges and riders to have 3 jam sessions for all ability categories, all going down on the top tier of features, including a 20’ Flat Box, 24’ Shotgun Rail, and 21’ Down Flat Rail with ATP’s new stairset in between the 2 rails.

TJ Kern / Front Board on the Shotgun Rail

All sessions went off as expected; needless to say all categories were going for it like they meant it! Too many combos to name on the flat box for beginners, 450’s on to the shotgun rail, one-footed front boards, tech tricks on the down flat rail for the intermediates and advanced; it was like a pleasant sunny rail session in the park – except that riders weren’t sure if they could even have enough speed to hit the rails until they were riding off the takeoff. The jam sessions lasted until riders could no longer feel their hands and feet, which was around 25 minutes per division. This was plenty to see who the standouts were – check below for complete final results from the Jam. Top 5 in each category were designated, the remainder of competitors tied for 6th place, and received the same 200 points to go towards their series points. The order of competitors after 5th place is simply based on registration, not riding.

Kris Jones

Thanks again to the riders who made this thing happen, without a doubt this will be a SFTC Rail Jam to remember. A good story to tell anyone who is complaining about the weather in any way! Big ups to Recess Ride Shop for their help as always, along with Volcom & Electric, Burton, Red Bull, and all of our contributing event sponsors. ATP is looking forward to the Slopestyle Finals coming up Sunday, February 26. Series points will be added and posted in a new thread asap – keep track of your points and see if you have a chance at winning the series!

Men’s Advanced Snowboard Podium: 1st -Kris Jones, 2nd -Bret Kline, 3rd – Bill Splawn

Recap photos courtesy of Chad Roffey – thanks!

Its here boys & girls… Check all the insanity thrown down for the Red Bull ThingamaJIB!

Filmed by: Dominic Sansotta, Quint Noble, Taylor Patterson, Jake Sutton

Edit by: Dominic Sansotta / SoutheastSnow

During her career as a snowboarder, Meg has won Quarterpipe Championships, highest airs, placed 3rd in the World Superpipe Championships, competed in the X-games (3 times),5th place at the Vans Cup, started up a successful resort snowboard team, coached summer camps, as well as designed and produced pro-model products.

Meg’s passion and knowledge of snowboarding helped to take the Rail Jam and LPN events to the next level last year, and this season will be no different. “I am really excited about coming back for the all-women’s park event at Appalachian Ski Mtn.!” said Pugh. “I can’t wait to check out all the new features and pump up the local ladies!”

Screamer, (Meg’s hat sponsor) is teaming up with Appalachian Ski Mtn. & App Terrain Park to put on a weekend full of rad shred events – so don’t miss out!