Two Summit-based snowboarders punched their tickets to finals on Day 3 of competition at the 2024 Laax Open in Switzerland on Friday, Jan. 19. Men’s snowboard slopestyle semi-final Silverthorne’s Red Gerard made his third-consecutive final.
After beginning the winter competition season on U.S. soil at Copper Mountain Resort last month, Summit County’s large swath of professional snowboarders and skiers returned from the holiday break and took to the slopes at.
Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team rider and Olympian Sean FitzSimons finished fifth in the first World Cup of the season, a big air event in Chur, Switzerland.
Ski and Snowboard Club Vail’s Brooklyn DePriest is one of four U.S. starters for the snowboard World Cup opener on Saturday in Chur, Switzerland. The 17-year-old will be joined by Fynn Bullock-Womble, Sean FitzSimons and.
On Tuesday afternoon U.S. Ski and Snowboard announced its roster of 54 athletes who have been nominated to represent the U.S. snowboard team in halfpipe, slopestyle, big air and snowboardcross for the 2023-24 winter season..