I thought I would never have to ride that chute from 2017, but we are back to that line, with some upgrades, since we didn't quite get to fully finish out line last time. We lucked out with the some rain on Friday which made for some insane digging conditions on Saturday. Excited to get on the bike today for day one of practice as well as get some more digging done. All of us are smoked after 3 hard days of digging, but the end goal in site makes it all worth the effort.— Kyle Strait
I love Rampage more than any other sporting event on earth, and a large part of that is because of the building and all the run-up to the actual event. Thanks Kyle for doing these, as I'm eating them up, and when this one finished I thought to myself "What?...That was like 2 minutes!"
I don't know. Losing a new venue stinks but this is not a bad alternative at all. Even with more well built lines and features, calling this a slope contest is ignorant. Its still a big mountain freeride event with death-level consequences that deserves more respect than any other event.
The problem I have is with judging. Let’s be honest, a lot of the big mtn riders just don’t have the tricks that slope guys do. So a multi year venue with extra dig time equals- smoother landings, more tricks etc. hard to give points for a chute…. @scott-townes:
@graniteandrew: You severely underestimate riders like Andreau or Brage to come up with something insane and new. If you really care about freeride, you shouldn't care about the results. Every year multiple riders push the limit regardless of the judging criteria.