Vans Invitational Rail Jam

Yale Cousino had what it takes and beat out a pretty heavy crew in Portland Oregon just this last Saturday August 17th. Whoa, wait a snowboard contest in the summer, what gives? This rail jam was actually part of the Dew Action Sports Tour, a mini X-Games type event. The event is based around Skateboarding, Moto X, and BMX. For this, the third stop, they threw in a Snowboard rail jam as well. This thing went down where the Portland Trailblazers play, in downtown Portland, not up at Mt. Hood like you would think. They brought in chunks of ice from a glacier in Canada, ground it up, and voila, snow.

Overall the event was fun, in addition to the sports you could watch, there were all sorts of activities for the fans: bike jumps, bands, hot chicks, and free stuff were just the beginning. As far as the snowboarding goes, it was summer and it was sick to see snowboarding in August. The atmosphere was low key, it seemed like most of the riders were stoked to see eachother in the middle of the summer and hang out in fancy hotels at the expense of their sponsors. For example, Eddie Wall was up so late the night before the contest that he slept until 6 p.m. the night of the contest. Pretty much everyone in the contest ended up at the Hilton at 3 a.m. Saturday night making mischief and good times. Were these guys pulling mad tail? Not really. The party was pretty much all dudes … the life of a snowboard pro. Anyway, the Dew Tour has more stops around the country but this was the only stop with a snow event.

Results

1. Yale Cousino

2. Eddie Wall

3. Colin Langlois

4. Mike Casanova

5. Chris Rotax

6. Pat Milbery

7. Doran Laybourn

8. Darrell Mathes

9. Aaron Bittner

10. Brett Butcher

source: http://www.transworldsnowboarding.com/snow/competition/article/0,13009,1097117,00.html

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