Second Annual JLA Banked Slalom at Mammoth Mountain.
Eleven years ago snowboarding lost Jeff Anderson, one of its most passionate and influential riders. To honor Jeff’s memory and to give back to the community he cared so much about, last year his brother Billy created the JLA Banked Slalom at Mammoth Mountain. In an era of big air, slopestyle, and halfpipe contests that represent a seemingly unattainable level of riding for the average person, Billy wanted to put on an event that anyone from groms to some of the world’s best pros could take part in by bringing the act of riding back to it’s most basic form—simply turning. To Billy and his family it was … More