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It’s a record setting event—the first winter tour for the huge Dew/Alli empire, the first exhibition for women freeskiers, and unlike the one-week, one-stop X Games, there are three stops in the Winter Dew, where repeat winners can total up huge prizes to rival the heavy money X Games. In addition, women winners in snowboard pipe and slopestyle will get paid the same as the men.

Shaun White got his loot for winning Saturday’s snowboard slopestyle contest, while nearly unknown Canadian rider Spencer O’Brien had the run of her life and ruled women’s snowboard slopestyle, scoring seven points higher than her closest competition.

But gasps of awe and screams of joy went to Breck local Bobby Brown, who won freeski slopestyle with ever bigger tricks as he rode his run, most of them switch, including a switch misty 1080—upside down and twisting—to a switch double rodeo 900 from the top of one jump, and spinning like a gyroscope off the others.

The show continued Saturday night under bright lights, when freeskier Tanner Hall shook off all the rest to land the first 1080 of his career—at the bottom of the superpipe. He went on with back to back nines, and tricked all the way to the bottom.

While there are lots of women who go big on boards, there are not yet enough women freeskiers who throw down well enough to contest for the best at the Winter Dew, so while there are women freeskiing pipe and slopestyle exhibitions, they’re not yet part of the official contests.

Sunday’s finals were bluebird all the way, after a week of qualifying and contests where the snow never stopped. “Today was the first day it didn’t snow, but we still had great competitions the whole time. In the open qualifiers, there were close to 250 athletes,” said Chris Prybylo, the Dew’s Vice President of Events.

The wrap up was total pipe, and Gretchen Bleiler continued her domination, with halfpipe amplitude rarely seen in women riders. Danny Davis won superpipe.

Prybylo said, “We didn’t have any double winners; nobody won more than one event. Shaun White won slopestyle and finished second in superpipe. I think everyone competed really well every day.”

He went on to rave about newcomer Bobby Brown. “He’s only 17, and I think he’s going to be a great athlete. He had an incredible run Saturday. All of these guys are competing for the Dew Cup. No one has the most points yet because it’s the first event. They are also competing for an overall bonus purse that will be awarded at the finals.”

When Prybylo was asked if hearty partying was underway, he hedged a bit, then diplomatically said, “they were in a contest, they wrapped it up. I think everyone’s going to enjoy themselves tonight.”

The Winter Dew Tour stops next at Mt. Snow Resort in Dover, Vt. on Jan. 8-11, then to the season finals at Northstar-at-Tahoe in Lake Tahoe, Ca., on Feb. 19-22. Each stop will have the Dew’s signature “Village,” concerts, bands and dancing in the streets.

For more about the contest, check out the Winter Dew Tour website.

Here are the podium results of all the events:

Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle Finals
1. Shaun White, Carlsbad, Calif. 95.17.
2. Mikkel Bang, Norway, 92.33.
3. Janne Korpi, Finland, 86.17.

Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle Finals
1. Spencer O’Brien, Canada, 85.00.
2. Jenny Jones, Great Britain, 77.33.
3. Bev Vuilleumier, South Lake Tahoe, Calif., 74.17.

Men’s Freeski Slopestyle Finals
1. Bobby Brown, Breckenridge, Colo., 90.50.
2. Josiah Wells, New Zealand, 89.50.
3. Henrik Harlaut, Sweden, 85.67.

Men’s Freeski Superpipe Finals
1. Tanner Hall, Kalispell, Mont., 90.75.
2. Justin Dorey, Canada, 85.50.
3. Duncan Adams, Breckenridge, Colo., 81.00.

Men’s Snowboard Superpipe Finals
1. Danny Davis – 94.75
2. Shaun White – 93.50
3. Scotty Lago – 90.00

Women’s Snowboard Superpipe Finals
1. Gretchen Bleiler – 90.25
2. Kelly Clark – 86.75
3. Elena Hight – 82.00

“The Daily Habit” In Summit County, CO

Me — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:48:55 +0000

In conjunction with Oakley’ Week, Fuel TV’s “The Daily Habit” will look a bit different for a few days as they will temporarily relocate to downtown Breckenridge and Copper Mountain, Colorado. This will be the first time the hit show will not be shot in Los Angeles, rather in front of a real mountain backdrop.

Look for Oakley’s world class snowboarders including Olympic gold medalist, “The Flying Tomato” Shaun White, National Geographic Adventure’s “Adventurer of the Year” Gretchen Bleiler, two-time Olympic silver medalist Danny Kass, seven time X Games gold medalist Tanner Hall and many more to be featured in one-on-one interviews on Breckenridge’s Blue River Plaza, as well as on-hill shred sessions at Copper Mountain.

“FUEL TV is really excited about our upcoming partnership with Oakley,” says Scott Paridon, FUEL TV VP of Production and Development. “We look forward to featuring its world class athletes on ‘The Daily Habit’ in a completely new location. These shows will take FUEL TV to a whole new level and provide viewers with a fun and unique experience.”

Oakley / FUEL TV Presence at Breckenridge Resort:
Breckenridge “Blue River Plaza” Filming: Open To Public

* Schedule Subject To Change *

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
· 2pm to 3pm: Jake Blauvelt
· 3pm to 4pm: Seth Morrison

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
· 1pm to 3pm: Shaun White
· 3pm to 5pm: Gretchen Bleiler

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
· 10am to 12pm: Eero Ettala
· 12pm to 1pm: Danny Kass
· 1pm to 2pm: Tanner Hall and Simon Dumont

The airdates of Oakley Week on FUEL TV’s “The Daily Habit” will be January 12 – 16, 2009, make sure to check it out on Comcast channel 409 in Summit County, CO.

Winter Dew Tour To Kick Off December 18th

Me — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:42:11 +0000

With the long, extensive, and hectic Summer Dew Tour just behind us, the athletes in winter clothing are gearing up for the 2008 Winter Dew Tour set to kick off on December 18th in Breckenridge, Colorado. Announced today were some of the world’s best snowboarders and freestyle skiers who will be competing for the Dew Cup and a piece of that $1.5 million prize purse waiting for them at the end of the three-stop series.

The all star roster reads like the who’s who of the modern freeski and snowboard movement, highlighted by multiple X Games and Olympic medalists including snowboard athletes Shaun White, Hannah Teter, Andreas Wiig, Travis Rice and Gretchen Bleiler. Freeskiing superstars Tanner Hall, Sarah Burke and Simon Dumont will join the snowboarders on the impressive roster of athletes.

“I’m thrilled for the start of the Winter Dew Tour this December,” said Dumont. “This is just what we need to give skiing the exposure it deserves. We’ll have live TV coverage and the resorts chosen are some of the best in the world.”

“I feel like the Dew Tour is gonna be huge and I’m really looking forward to riding on the entire series this year,” said Teter. “The roster of athletes that will be competing on the Winter Dew Tour is sick. It’ll be a fun battle to see who comes away with Dew Cup at the end of the season.”

The roster of snowboard and freeski athletes includes the following notables:

Snowboard Superpipe
· Shaun White
· Mason Aguirre
· Trevor Jacob
· Hannah Teter
· Gretchen Bleiler
· Kelly Clark
· Torah Bright

Snowboard Slopestyle
· Travis Rice
· Andreas Wiig
· Danny Kass
· Kevin Pearce
· Jamie Anderson
· Hana Beaman
· Torah Bright

Freeski Superpipe
· Tanner Hall
· Simon Dumont
· Peter Olenick
· Colby West
· Jossi Wells

Freeski Slopestyle
· Andreas Hatveit
· Jossi Wells
· Matt Walker
· Charles Gagnier
· Jon Olsson

Freeski Women
· Sarah Burke
· Jen Hudak
· Kristi Leskinen

The complete list of Winter Dew Tour competitors will be released on Monday, Nov. 24.

Similar to the Dew Tour’s summer competition structure, the Winter Dew Tour will be based on a cumulative points system as the top snow athletes battle it out for a piece of the $1.5 million prize purse and the chance to take home the Dew Cup at the conclusion of the season in February.

The complete 2008/09 Winter Dew Tour schedule is as follows:

Event                           Date                             Location
Stop 1                          Dec. 18-21, 2008           Breckenridge, Colo.—Breckenridge Ski Resort
Stop 2                          Jan. 8-11, 2009              West Dover, Vt.—Mount Snow Resort
Stop 3                          Feb. 19-22, 2009           Lake Tahoe, Calif.—Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort