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The valley night pipe was built & lit up for the Showcase Showdown Feb 23 – 24. This was the second time Showcase Snowboard Shop put on the Pipe Style event. The valley super pipe was built to be part pipe & part slopestyle.

The top of the pipe featured hips into pipe walls followed by C boxes & into the final 3 pack of rails @ the finish. The rails included the down flat down rail, box to down box & the double barrel rail. All rails were supplied from the Parks. Riders were boosting huge on the hips & pipe walls & pulled off their best tricks on the C boxes & finish rails. It appeared that the course flowed better than last season with the C boxes helping to maintain momentum into the finish rail set ups.

The last hits on the finish rails were real crowd pleasers although the pipe roll out decks were packed with spectators top to bottom. With $25,000 in prize money to be won, the top riders were present & upping the ante each run.

Chris Wimbles stepped up & claimed 1^st place & $10,000! 2^nd went to Jacob Koia & third to Clint Allen. On the ladies side, Pilar Petersen won 1^st, Sarah Conrad took 2^nd & 3^rd place was awarded to Stephanie Just.

Congrats to Showcase for another successful event & props to the Events staff, Park Groomers & Park staff ensuring the event ran successfully from prep time to tear down!

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Published by whistlerblackcomb: 12:01 PM

Up to 80cm in WHISTLER Forecast

Friday, February 23, 2007

The parks are getting blanketed again, and the big mountain terrain is getting prime…

With 3 months left in a winter season that extends to June 3, Whistler Blackcomb surpassed its annual average snowfall before the end of February. As of February 20, the resort had received 1026 centimetres or 404 inches of snowfall this year, with the annual average sitting at 1,006 centimetres or 396 inches. Now days later it’s already up at 1041cms or 410 inches, and to top it off… there’s up to 80 cm’s (32 inches) in the forecast for this week!

Record breaking snowfall in November, solid snowfall throughout December and January, and currently tracking to be the second snowiest year on record by the end of February, Whistler locals are enjoying an epic season. February has seen more sunny skies in the earlier part of the month, until deep winter returned to the resort this past weekend, and it doesn’t look like it’s ready to quit any time soon.

Here’s the forecast… http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/forecast/index.htm

Enjoy. Again.

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Published by whistlerblackcomb: 11:11 AM

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