This past weekend was no different.
The weekend is like no other and the competition itself carries a very special vibe to it.
This year, Newschoolers upped the ante by hosting a gathering in the reason terrain park.
Here’s what went down over the course of the weekend.
Saturday morning was a bit of a mess to say the least.
Before qualifiers, the morning was spent mobbing through the Reason Terrain Park, kids were absolutely shredding.
Nicky Hartmann, the new NS intern and dope skier on the come up absolutely tore that park apart.
Here’s an insta-edit I filmed of him throughout the day.
After watching practice for a bit, the crew broke for lunch and then the madness commenced.
The set up for R2R this year was absolutely insane.
Everybody was having fun and trying some whacky stuff on this year’s set up.
There were smiles and good vibes all around.
Who could blame them?
The sun was shining, the temps were warm and the setup was clean as hell.
We all met back up in Reason and shit went down.
Tall T Dan would be mighty proud.
To win them, you had to be the fastest on the hill.
A foot race to the bottom of reason and back up.
With a crowd almost 3 times as large as last year the stoke was at an all time high.
I witnessed some of the gnarliest tricks I have ever seen.
There were lots of new faces in finals and it’s cool to see that.
Sawyer Sellingham was lacing some unique tricks on the wall ride feature.
I think he summed up the night perfectly in this quote I got from him after the contest.
“It was pretty intimidating skiing with some of the best in the game.
The atmosphere was dope though a lot of really stoked kids.
This was my first r2r and I had a great time.
But at the end of the day Christian Franchino stood on top of the podium in first place.
The entire day the girls were killing it.
In finals it was Miranda Holson who came in 3rd with consistent rail tricks the entire day.
Personally, I was rooting for her to win it all.
She killed it the entire night.
In all, the weekend was an absolute blast.
These people, who were strangers to me then, are some of my closest friends now.
The destination was Killington Vermont, Rails 2 Riches.
Just one year on, things were a bit different though.
A lot has happened in the last year and I couldn’t be more grateful.
Newschoolers is a special thing.
This website brings people together from all around the world to enjoy the same silly thing.
This website can do so much for you.
I want people to see that and take a chance to make the trip to wherever we are.
There is another NS meetup in Loon the last weekend of February, get there.
