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North Face Masters Crystal Mountain 2010 – Snowboard Photos – Finals

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Charlie Hoch Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News

Congrats go out to Crystal Mountain local Forrest Burki and Shannan Yates from Snowbird for taking the Sword at the 2010 North Face Masters of Snowboarding contest at Crystal Mountain.

Shannan charged down the Silver King venue in poor visibilty, threw down 3 clean airs and showed the crowd shes used to riding deep snow. Crystal Local Forrest Burki was riding hard all weekend and showed his hometown skills and experience floating thru the pow and cranking power turns.

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Ralph Backstrom Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News
Ralph Backstrom Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News
Ralph Backstrom Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News
Ralph Backstrom Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News
Ralph Backstrom Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News
Ralph Backstrom Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News
Ralph Backstrom Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News

The mountain snow report this morning reported 4″ of fresh snow, once on top of the mountain conditions road much more like 12-14″ of fresh pow. Overhead turns were a common site while people entered the “White Room” all the way down to the base of the resort. Riding in the Pacific Northwest is so much fun, we were soaking wet and would continue to go for lap after lap. You can hit everything, the snow sticks to the coolest features and there’s natural terrain for miles and miles..

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Ralph Backstrom Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News
Charlie Hoch Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News
Charlie Hoch Crystal Mountain Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News

One of the most solid runs of the day was thrown down by Wolf Creek Colorado local Charlie Hoch. Charlie flew down the mountain cranking huge powder turns and showing he is comfortable in the steep and deep. Looking forward to seeing what he does in the future.

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Jim O’Connor in the Whiteroom Snowboarding at Crystal Mountain | Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News

Another great week riding with some of the nicest and most motivated free-riders in the world. Looking forward to doing it all again at Kirkwood.

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Mike Hardaker Snowboarding at Crystal Mountain, WA | Photo Mountain Weekly News

End of the day I asked someone to shoot a couple pics of me, nice to be on the OTHER SIDE…

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