The final World Cup Halfpipe of the season is here!
Hosted at a windy Mammoth Califonia.
The weather held off proceedings for an hour and plagued riders throughout the final.
The men’s field was missing two big names, Alex Ferreira and Noah Bowman, due to injuries.
Let’s get to the highlights!
The wind picked up before Hannah Faulhaber’s run, with big gusts going across the pipe.
She dropped-in in a weather window opening with her signature, stylish blunt air straight into a left 9.
The full run is awarded 90.25.
Amy Fraser had some shuffles so her first run score held.
Faulhaber and Atkin were undone by the wild weather on the left wall of the pipe.
Rachel Karker scored 91.75 to take second but didn’t ski as cleanly as she is known for.
This run looked set to challenge first and would come down to her final throw of the dice.
Her opening 87.25 would remain her best run of the day.
Hannah would tidy things up, going a little bigger but only adding a point to her score.
These improvements were worth 92.75 to put her in second behind Kexin who dropped next.
She would finish in third, behind Zoe in second and Kexin in 1st.
The bar was set.
Tristan Feinberg lit things up with a dope and big run; switch 7 to back-to-back dub 12s.
This was a really sick run to watch, deservedly earning 85.
Finlay Melville Ives went down on his second of his opening dub 12s.
Aaron Blunck put down a very modest run by his standards but put a 72.75 on the board.
Brendan Mackay put together a difficult run, holding little back.
Opening with a switch left 5 to switch right 7 combo and closing with a right-to-left dub 12 combo.
Longino didn’t improve.
Improving on his first run score by 3 points.
Tristan Feinburg went huge on a dub 14 attempt but couldn’t hold on to it.
He would score in the 50s and want to really put it down in the final run.
He closed out the run with a right-to-left dub 12 combo that was massive.
90.25 bumped Brendad into 2nd.
Current leader David Wise went down early in this run.
Finlay clipped the coping in his last run, stunting his possible score.
The youngster has a bright future in the ditch though, looking very promising amongst veterans of the sport.
This was enough for 93.00.
Meaning Birk and Brendan had bumped David Wise into 3rd.
Birk would take his first career Crystal Globe.
