Michigan Snowboarding is Over for Another Season

Well it looks like all the Michigan snowboarding resorts are officially closed. My son and I attended the Spring Board Meeting at Boyne Highlands on the weekend. It was a lot of fun. They had a rail jam on Saturday and a unique slopestyle competition on Sunday.

The rail jam was a lot of fun. There were a lot of great riders there showing off there sick tricks. As always Bryce did a great job of MC'ing the event. My son was having a lot of fun riding the rails and spinning off the jumps. I was doing the jumps but was not ready for some of the rails so I decided to ride the pipe for a while. It was great spring conditions so the snow was nice and soft which was nice if you fell.

Over Saturday night the park crew worked on the slope and had an interesting surprise for us on Sunday. They converted the pipe into a fun slopestyle type course. There was a small jump, then a jump that launched you onto the lip, you then had a slope to ride back into the pipe and do a big hit on one wall, and at the end there was another jump. There were many of the same riders on Sunday that were there on Saturday. They held a competition in this fun pipe where the people that made it to the finals had to put on a mini board and ride the pipe. It was very cool to watch and ride.

I tried capturing some of the fun on my camcorder while riding. However, I have not mastered pointing the camera at the right height while I ride to get a follow-cam effect so most of the video did not come out as expected. I will try to extract some good shots and share when I have some time.

Well now that snowboarding is done in Michigan I have started looking forward to planning our summer snowboard camp at Windells. Also we plan on taking up wakeboarding, which should be fun. I have only water skied in my life so I am looking forward to wakeboarding and trying some tricks on the water.

Enjoy,
Cool Dad