Five weeks of running Gromfest competitions on the best summer terrain North America has ever seen was a blast, but now it's over.  As the summer comes to a close there's only one thought in my head...only 3 months until the snowboard season starts!

 

  While we wait for that though it would be good to recognize those kids and teens that dominated this weekly competition.  They had to have all the skills...rails, jumps, pipes...there was no feature that wouldn't be used.  If you want to ride for a living nowadays you have to be well-rounded and that's exactly what Gromfest tested.

 

  Each of the 1st Place winners and Coaches Choice candidates will automatically get to advance to to the finals next summer at Whistler.  As for those that took 2nd and 3rd?  We hope that they'll consider competing in a Gromfest comp this winter or submitting an audition tape (see www.gromfest.org for more details).

 

  While we wait for the snow to fall however here are the winners of the Great Northwest Gromfest Summer Preliminaries 2006...

 

 

Coaches Choice - David O'Rourke-DiGioia