Natural Selection – Jackson Hole – Update #2

By Transworld
Thu, Feb 14 2008 12:00 am | Comments

Mark Carter(2nd), Travis Rice(1st) and DCP(3rd) stoked at the Mangy Moose.

Travis Rice made the locs proud.

Sammy Luebke and Colin Langlois hyping Mark Carter up before his first run.

Romain said Nicolas inspired him to hit this transfer. Cork cab five into the bowl.

Bjorn went bigger than anyone else on this cliff. Backside seven.

Wolle Nyvelt almost didn't make a second run. He was taken out by the super flu that spread like the plague around Jackson. He told Salomon TM Java Fernandez he didn't think he had another run in him. Turns out he did and it was a winning one.

Kyle Clancy surfing the earth.

Sammy Luebke blasts a backside air on the hip the Nicolas M¿ller found first. Everyone seems to be hitting my hip now, said Nico smiling. That's good. Now there's a better track into it.

Sammy Luebke rode like a hell bat. Legendary shred/artist Mike Parillo was hyped on the kid and was overheard saying, Sammy, your run was punk. Says a lot coming from Mikey.

Mark Landvik built this transfer hip. He tried to hit it his first run, but the snow was too deep and he couldn¿t get the speed. Second run he pointed it and sent this front three.

David Benedek was the only guy to step to this walled-up white wave that closed out into a 25-foot drop. Didn¿t seem to phase him the least bit.

Travis and Zach Leach look on as Jackson¿s own Mark Carter drops into Casper Bowl.

Travis looking into the belly of the beast. Rice rode like a man possessed throughout the event and made good on his home court advantage.

Romain scrubbing some speed on his way into one of the hairiest pillow lines of the day.

Kyle Clancy spinning off a cliff drop that was quickly coined The Clancy/Thomas cliff because he and JJ put it up. No money booters at the Natural Selection. Jumps were named for the dudes who pioneered them. Proper.

Romain describes his run to the media. The rider¿s descriptions were also piped down to the announcer¿s booth so the hundred or so fans that gathered at the bottom of the bowl knew what to expect.

Signs of the times.

Bjorn Leines looking down his line. He rolled in, popped a half-cab into a 20-foot wide chute that was damn near 45 degrees and only had one exit point. He handled and rode away just like you¿d expect.

Bjorn Leines, Bryan Iguchi, Gigi Ruf, and Wolle Nyvelt hunkered down and discussing their options in Casper Bowl. Genius at work.

David Benedek checking the terrain on his digi-cam just before his first run of the day. Benedek decided to mount up Salomon¿s new Sick Stick powder board for the competition in Casper.

This is the tower the ski patrollers use to drop bombs into Casper Bowl for avalanche control. During the competition filmers and photog used the crow¿s nest to document the bombs the riders were dropping.

David Benedek and Wolle Nyvelt looking across Casper Bowl. Wolle went on to win the comp in Casper on Tuesday.

Colin Langlois blasting off one of the many entry cliffs at the top of Casper Bowl.

Nicolas Muller built this little lip on the top of Casper Bowl, hiked way up into the woods and came in hot to crack this ollie, transfer into the bowl, make one turn and then send a back three off a 20-foot cliff below.

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TAGS: Contest, freeriding, jackson hole, natural features, natural selection, Powder, Snowboarding, travis rice, wyoming

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