Who could say no to this opportunity?
Not a bad place to be working.
Of course, that’s not to say that it was all fun and games.
But this feature definitely topped all that have come before.
Left: Schneestern boss Dirk Scheumann doin' work.
Right: our enthusiastic South Tyrolean head shaper Bernie.
This is how those clean vertical walls get cut.
Austrian snowcat operators have a unique way of decorating the cabins of their machines.
(Photo, sadly, edited for content.)
Whenever one of the team would ask, “How much deeper do we have to dig here?”
the answer invariably came back: “Til you hit the ground!”
Finally, after a week of work, the beast was ready for the beauties.
Bernie touches up the kicker.
This shot provides a little bit of scale… don’t slip!
I nicknamed these tunnels underneath the kicker “the Fallopian tubes.”
The shooting week went by in a blur.
Sadly, the night shoot got fogged out.
But the girls still sent it on the jib features.
Philo Bair on the down rail.
Nico Zacek gets the crowd hyped up.
Katie Summerhayes drops in as Lisa Zimmermann and Philo Bair watch on.
Lisa dropping in…
…to a thug-life misty 7 japan.
Philo Bair 540s for the crowd.
Meanwhile, Maude Raymond keeps it real with a smooth switch 720 blunt.
Slovakian sweetheart Zuzi Stromkova and her stylin' rodeo 7.
Anais Caradeux with a clean 360 blunt.
But she still wasn’t fast enough for Zuzi, who gave her a good dousing.
Big Air Results
1.
Lisa Zimmermann (Germany)
2.
Zuzi Stromkova (Slovakia)
3.
Camillia Berra (Switzerland)
4.
Maude Raymond (Canada)
5.
Silvia Bertagna (Italy)
6.
Katie Summerhayes (Great Britain)
7.
Dania Assaly (Canada)
8.
Dania Assaly brought her guitar and performed a beautiful song in honor of Sarah Burke.
That’s a wrap on the 2013 Nine Queens - thanks for reading!
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