Shaun White confirmed he is competing.
So did Steve Fisher, Andreas Wiig, Kelly Clark, Tanner Hall, Simon Dumont and more. Many, many more.
Network cameras will be rolling, competitive juices flowing, uncanny ability on display.
These all-stars of skiing and snowboarding have much to gain, given a $1.5 million total prize purse dangling for the taking, and professional pride on the line.
The third and final stop of the Winter Dew Tour — the Toyota Championship — began Thursday and continues to take flight in Northstar-at-Tahoe’s superpipe and terrain park through Sunday.
If the above tidbits don’t provide enough of a clue, it’s kind of a big deal… More info
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Olympic gold medalists Shaun White and Hannah Teter headline a list of the world’s best snowboarders and freeskiers as NBC Sports presents live coverage of the Toyota Championship from Northstar-at-Tahoe, in Truckee, Calif, the third and final stop on the Alli Winter Dew Tour.  The Winter Dew Cup and a $1.5 million purse, the largest in action sports history, are on the line as the world’s best winter action sports athletes compete for their sport’s only regular season crown. NBC Sports’ live coverage of Freestyle Skiing Slopestyle airs Saturday, 2:30 – 4 p.m. ET, and Snowboard Superpipe featuring White and Teter airs 3-6 p.m. ET on Sunday. USA Network will air late-night coverage of Snowboard Slopestyle Friday at 2 a.m. ET/PT and Freestyle Skiing Superpipe Saturday, at 1 a.m. ET/PT.
NBC’s Pat Parnell (play-by-play), Todd Richards (analyst), Luke Van Valin (freeskiing analyst), Tina Dixon and Tiffany Simons (reporters) call the action from Northstar-at-Tahoe…. More info
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Outdoor enthusiasts like Josh Manchester, Phillip M. Journey and Bucko Slabaugh don’t need to buy ski passes to have fun. Just give them a windy day, some snow, and they’re high as kites.
Not literally, though. That would be dangerous and call for swift action.
But the three do love kite skiing and sometimes do it at Montana State University. Manchester, of Great Falls, is a recent MSU graduate in microbiology. Journey, from Florida, is an MSU sophomore in construction engineering technology. Slabaugh, from Bozeman, is a first-year architecture student at MSU…Â More info
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FREESKIING has been credited with making skiing cool again — particularly among the junior set, which had been lured by the snowboard’s renegade appeal. Thanks to twin-tip skis, which are rounded and upturned on both ends, freeskiers can land on the snow facing forward or backward, making it possible to do the flashy jumps and daring tricks of the snowboard on ungroomed backcountry snow, as well as on the pipes and jumps of terrain parks.
Overall sales of skis are in decline but freeskis are “a very hot category right now,†said Kelly Davis, research director for the trade group SnowSports Industries America … More info