The good folks at Volcom give back to the little people and up and coming rippers by throwing the Peanut Butter and Rail Jam at various locations around the USA throughout the winter season. The PBRJ rolled through So Cal this weekend with a stop under the lights at Mt High. The PBRJ series gives riders around the USA to get their chance at stardom. You see pretty much anyone can enter and the top 5 from each group gets a pass to the PBRJ finals in mammoth in April. It is fun to see the kids going for gold and the snowboard moms and dads supporting them. Two hundred thirty one kids came out to vie for the 20 spots given away for the finals in Mammoth. The cold winds blew as the riders attacked the course which consisted of three zones. A down-flat-down bar, a long ass butter ledge thing and down bar were the three zones. Riders had to hit all three zones to score high. Some of the kids in the event still have a but of practicing to do but pretty much the top three of every event all have the potential to step it up in the snowboard world. At the very worst, everyone had fun and got free PBRJ sandwiches

Dust storm from the Santa Ana winds on the way to Mountain High. There was a truck flipped over on the way home

No start lists so sometimes it is hard to get all the names of everyone. If anyone knows the names of people I missed, e mail me at dirtrag(at)sprynet(dot)com. This guy works through a 50-50 nose slide on zone 1

Barbara Harrington scored Fifth place in the girl's class. With that 5th place Barbara wins a ticket to the PBRJ finals

at Mammoth in April

nose slide through the kink

 "Stop with the flashs - Peanut Butter and Rail Jam means free sandwiches, chips, soda and water. All Volcom events are free to the public

It is an am event and kids wanna have fun, you probably would not see Kevin Pearce doing this

Here is a look at Zone 2 which was a super long fun box thing to get buttery on

A few kids really stepped it up to gap the zone 1, Brendan Simmons dropped this big air to second place in the Open Division

Devin Allen - 3rd place in the 16 and over division

Kendra Langston lipslides through to win the girls division

Thanks to all the snowmakers out there, with out them, snowboarding in So Cal would be difficult

Ryan Frear won the 16 and over division with maneuvering like this nose press to back tail

Introducing the Acme 2000 giant snowmaker

Spencer Link pretty much kills it so no surprise he won the overall Open Division

231 kids waiting for the results

Spencer Link with a few hundo's and some sweet Volcom Numchuks

An overview of the arena at 9:45 pm, just before closing time Results 15 and under 1 Nick Rockwood 2 Levi Casserov 3 Christian Koppen 4 Kyle Nickell 5 Ritchie Conklin 16 and over 1 Ryan Frear 2 Preston Harper 3 Devin Allen 4 Evan Price 5 Jake Harrison Girls 1 Kendra Langston 2 Kaitlyn Elswich 3 Jamie Madrid 4 Nirvana Ortanez 5 Barbara Harrington Open 1 Spencer Link 2 Brendon Simmons 3 Geoff Isringhausen 4 Brandon Tromblur 5 Cory Whetstone Best Trick Spencer Link