Sorry for the delay in posting the photos from the Joe’s Boardshop Rail Jam. The event was a huge success and everybody that attended walked away with a ton of free swag. There was even a showing by the pro Salomon Snowboard team during the event. I would like to give a big “Thank You” to AJ Miller for the photos from the event. UPDATE: Click the link below for the results.
Don’t forget to head out to Saint Paul today (Tuesday Nov. 24th) for the Joe’s Boardshop sale and rail jam. There will be a $15 entry fee if you wish to ride in the jam, but of course it’s free to watch. Also the Salomon pro team will be stopping by for a little meet and greet. The team visiting Minnesota will including Chris Grenier, Jed Andersen, and many others. The rail starts at 6pm but show up early for good deals in the shop.
Wild Mountain announced today that they will be closing for the rest of the week due to poor snow conditions. So far they have been the only resort to open in Minnesota and the weather hasn’t been very friendly to other resorts to try and catch up. Most resorts were open at this time last year, yet they keep pushing their opening dates back this year due to warm temperatures. Hopefully we will see the temperature drop after Thanksgiving as the weather forecasters predict. I don’t know about everybody else, but it has been pretty depressing for me to watch places out west such as Mount Baker open their season with powder days. Let’s all hope for colder weather so we can start the season we’ve been waiting for all summer long. In the meantime, make sure you stop by Joe’s Boardshop tomorrow night for a rail jam and an appearance by the Salomon pro team.
If you haven’t made it out to Wild Mountain yet for a little early season fun on the 50 foot wide patch of snow, you probably should. Check out all the fun you are missing by watching this video brought to you by SeekJoy Productions. Click the read more link below to watch the video.
Wild Mountain has now been open for 3 days, but other resorts are doing their best to catch up. I was at Wild last night and I must say I was impressed with the snow conditions for how little time they had to blow the white gold. Across the river in Wisconsin, Trollhaugen has been making snow whenever possible but hasn’t officially given an opening day yet. Down in the south, Welch Village has started making a little bit of snow and has set November 27th as their tentative opening day. Also near the Twin Cities, Afton Alps has also begun blowing snow but hasn’t predicted an opening date. It looks like there is a series of warm weather headed our way, but let’s hope that doesn’t last long so we can have more places to ride.
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