Now is about the time for everybody to start getting real excited, because with Hot Dawgz and Handrails kicking off the year it will be soon be snowing before you know it. With typical Southern California weather sunny skies and a cool breeze made it ideal for the riders to strap back onto their boards and see how it feels for the first time in a while. As always Bear mixed things up with two different options for many of the worlds best rail riders to pick which run they wanted to take. On the riders left side you had a tricky kink/elbow rail that many riders had trouble with, but the ones that were making it through did some sick shit. Then you come in hot to a new feature bear has made with a box on the top of a uphill pyramid. That will be a blast this winter when it’s on hill. Your other options on the other side consisted of a 6 foot drop, to a granite skate style ledge. Going into more options after that. To the left a jump into a slanted wall ride. Or if you made a right at the fork you would get into a long C-rail. Then to finish it off one more feature at the end that could be hit on either side. Leave it to Bear Mountain to make the most wild pre season rail set-up ever.
As for the riding there were a lot of standout riders that might not have made it to the top three but they killed everything. Johnnie Paxson came out firing after just having the last part in MFM Technine’s “Hard To Earn” video on every feature the Bear park staff could put in front of him. Kyle Lopiccolo rode well after not seeing snow all summer hauling ass all over the place and going for in classic Lopiccolo style. Ryan Paul is a kid from Minnesota who was at Hood all summer and it showed this weekend turing the heads of the crowd on every feature, look out for that kid. Dylan Alito was busting allver the place in his summer rail jam attire opting to not wear pants while hiking around in the heat. Then there is Tahoe’s Brandon Cocard and Johnny Lazz who made it down to show the crowd some amazing moves. Making their way out from Vermont were Forest Bailey and Yale Cousino who were some of the only ones to make it through the curved kinked rail with front boards. Ted Borland, Cam Pierce, Chris Brewster, Brandon Hammond and more came out from Utah and rode impressive. Jed Anderson will blow your mind anytime you see him on a board. Rails, pipe, jumps, doesn’t matter. The list goes on and on.
So check all the photos and see what you might have missed from this season’s kickoff event from Big Bear. Thanks to Clayton Shoemaker, Brad Farmer, The Park Staff, riders, fans that came out, and everyone that made this event another great one at Bear Mountain.
Results:
1. Scott Vine
2. Jed Anderson
3. Zak Hale
4. Jake Kuzyk
5. Ryan Tarbell
Best Trick - Ted Borland
- The RV getting prime parking status. Makes the walk to the car for a beer break, maybe even a safety meeting, a lot easier
- Two different lines to pick your path of destruction
- With a little teamwork, this guys does not seem to have any problem getting his load of the white stuff out
- This is where kids as well as adults will do anything for some free product, and I mean anything
- Creepy Cyle getting kids psyched over at Electric
- More activities at the Electric tent
- Not only was Bridges announcing the contest with none other than Todd Richards, he was getting the shot all day too
- Keegan Vilaika
- Ryan Paul giving the kinked elbow rail a go
- Matty Mo was the first one to really start getting after the wall ride. Buttery frontside 270 in
- JP Walker judging the wall feature
- Brandon Hammond switch frontside 180 tailpress down the new ledge feature
- Johnnie Paxson slays everything in his path
- Johnnie getting wild, corked out back 540 into the wall
- Textbook frontboard with plenty of speed to launch off the end
- You know you see that sticker. Dylan Alito down for snowrev
- Dylan blasting a back 3 wallride in his best summer attire
- Ryan Tarbell getting some speed off the bomb drop
- Johnny Lazz gets into a switch nosepress for the mob of people
- Kyle Lopiccolo tweaking out a roast beef on the wall
- Kyle again, this time grabbing stalefish blasting way up the wall
- Lopiccolo backside 180 press, half cab out
- Kory Klouser watches Kyle fly off the end after a solid front board, then holding it till he stomps in the flat
- Jonah Owen made the trip down from Oregon to put down some of the best moves seen all day on the wall
- Bear loc Johnny Miller handles the long c-rail with a frontside boardslide
- Ben Rice turning it up a notch on the ledge, backside 270
- Riceman navigating thorugh the kink
- Forest Bailey frontboards the shit out of the turning kink rail
- Brandon Cocard is down
- One of the most wild moves done all day on this feature. Brandon sliding 50-50 up, then frontside 3 onto the corner of the lower section of the box.
- Ted Borland looking like he just smelled a fart
- Ted holding a very technical tailpress all the way through
- Bundy locking it in, then popping it out to the bank
- Bundy again, this time nosepressing through it
- Ted pretty much biting Jamie Lynn’s style right here. Not that there is anything wrong with that
- Bundy with sick moves on everything. Backside boardslide pretzel out
- Ben Bilocq fully locked onto the corner of the granite ledge
- Yale Cousino making his way from Vermont to be another one of the standout riders of the day
-Mayor of Bear Chris Bradshaw
- Louif Paradis frontside lipslides the C
- Videograss filmer, editor, and great dude. Justin Meyer
- The chosen one. Jed Anderson
- Jed is too good. As seen here, handling a textbook front lip through the kink/elbow coming off the end perfectly square
- Jed getting inverted on the wall. Backflip wall bash
- I don’t remember if Cam Pierce made it all the way to the end on this one, but a backlip through this things is pretty bonkers
- 2009 HDHR Winner Scott Vine gives the wallride a backside rodeo
- This dude getting some fresh stickers on his new board. Good Looking out
- It would not be Hot Dawgs and Handrails without a bunch of people getting hammered drunk on the sundeck
- This guy got a little too hammered and decided he needed to be a badass and fight. Welcome to the 909
- Notice the blood all over the wall. Don’t fuck with Big Bear cops
- Yeah Bundy, free drinks on you
- Scott Vine 1st, Jed Anderson 2nd, Zack Hale 3rd