The sixth annual West Coast Invitational at Mammoth Mountain, featuring the Village nighttime Rail Jam and Fiesta de la Pipa, takes place May 4th-6th. What started six years ago as a pro demo has blown up into a fiesta grande, complete with extreme snowmobile demos, live hip-hop concerts and snowboarding’s best pipe and rail riders competing for $20,000, all taking place over the course of one weekend. “It is really turning into a complete festival weekend,” says Oren Tanzer, Mammoth’s Director of Youth Action Sports. “It’s the same thing WCI has always been – on steroids.”
The party fires up on Friday, May 4th at the second annual Vans Fiesta de la Pipa at the Mammoth Super Pipe. This is not like other pipe contests – it’s a three-hour jam, judged by the riders themselves, in a freshly-built, 18-foot Zaugg-cut pipe lined with boxes, rails, unique jibs and piñatas. Despite the relaxed competition format the winners go home big-time with $10,000.
New this year, Mammoth and Red Bull will bring freestyle snowmobile demos on the snow in front of the Main Lodge sundeck. Red Bull riders will throw backflips over the 55-foot ramp to snow landing and the 75-foot snow takeoff to snow landing in two shows each day.
On Saturday afternoon there’s live music in front of Lakanuki. Then the festividades continue for the main event. Mammoth Unbound and Red Bull are partnering to bring a gigante feature to the Village at Mammoth – a triple line built on three stories of scaffolding. After night falls, watch from all new stadium seating as a select list of pros hurl themselves on features including a down box with ledges, a 35-foot single 2-inch-round down rail and a 37-foot down-flat-down single rail. After negotiating this double line of features they will proceed to an 8-foot tall, 24-foot wide wall ride. The winner takes home $10,000 cash. A live concert at Canyon Lodge follows at 9:30pm.
The Mammoth Mountain Unbound Terrain Parks is an industry leader in innovation and quality with three parks, three pipes, 50 jibs and 50 jumps on eight runs and over 75 acres of California’s favorite mountain resort. Using state-of-the-art equipment to provide a progressive environment for all levels, from beginners to a team of 13 professional athletes, the Unbound earns consistent ratings among the top parks of the world. For more information on the Unbound and Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.
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