Trice, Wiig and Kass take top honors at the Icer air big air jump! That is a pretty heavy crew of guys they got to show up. To understand this event you have to first know that last year it happened in the streets of San Francisco. Since SF is a beautiful city and I like snowboarding, I really wanted to see it last year. Unfortunately SF is full of whiners and the citizens complained about having the event tie up the streets so it was banned from the street. This year it was held in AT&T park, the home of Barry Bonds and the Giants.

Tara from Ride Snowboards and Tara Dakides hanging out in the infield of the San Francisco Giants ballpark. Tara Dakides did not enter the event which is a good thing because I think they cancelled the girl’s event, more on that later. Tara said “That jump looks sketchy; maybe if I drink enough beer I would hit it”

Some representatives from Heavenly resort claiming they blow the most snow

Mason Aguirre was saying how good New Zealand was this year and how he may compete a little less and film more, good for Mason, reaping the rewards from his hard work and successful snowboard career, that kid deserves it

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Leanne Pelosi and Hana Beaman hanging ou

Can not wait to see Louie Vito enter a pipe contest this season

- BJ Leines

Here is an overview of the gap they had to clear, it was pretty high up there. The whole thing seemed kind of sketchy. There was a kink in the run in ramp that threw everybody off balance. The landing ramp seemed a little narrow and so on. Of course guys like Travis Rice and Andreas Wiig made it look easy which is what happens when you get that good, everything looks easy

- Danny Kass on this single warm up jump “I jumped once so I think I qualified for the finals”

Ladytron was one of the bands that played. Pretty sure you have heard there song “Destroy Everything” on the radio

The women had some issues with the jump. The men barely cleared it and since women weigh about 75% as much as men, the gals had issue gaining enough momentum. One of the girls slid off the side, fortunately, near the bottom. This girl did come close to clearing it and went “into the drink” luckily she was alright. The women’s event kind of ended after that

Tony Hawk did a brief demo – 540. The crowd went ape shit when he took to the ramp

Jamie Anderson is a serious ripper from Tahoe. She was in the women’s contest and  she did not know if the women’s contest was going on. After that no more women went so let’s assume they called

- Sketchy D and a cotton candy vendor

 Tony Hawk with a Japan Air

Jurassic 5 was good and the crowd was really into it

Overview from the nose bleed seats. Danny Kass and Mason Aguirre were sitting way up here during J-5, probably staying away from the crowds and pain in the ass reporters

Here is Travis Rice’s wining trick – backside rodeo 7, trust me that was huge for this jump

Louie Vito

I was sitting in a “VIP” section where they gave away free Sparks which is a malt beverage that is 7% alcohol but all revved up like Red Bull. There were lots of single girls all hopped up on it and down on the field it looks like some people, like this guy, were enjoying Sparks as well

Andy Finch – Syringe flip

Wyatt Caldwell – back 7

Jusso Laivisto from Scandanavia – back 3

Danny Kass took three jumps, one in the qualifiers and two in the event, he got third place for three jumps - back 7

Trice had already won with his first trick so this back 7 was for the fans

Andreas Wiig took second which comes as no surprise, he can man up and hit anything – back 5