Ling nails front flip to win slopestyle series

The Night Riders Park Series concluded

Feb. 25 with a slopestyle competition in the Fishbowl terrain park

at Whitefish Mountain Resort. The slopestyle format allowed skiers

and riders to demonstrate skills on various park features. Despite

frigid temperatures, 35 competitors showed up for what the event

department called “the fastest slopestyle contest ever put on.”

As the final event in the series,

skiers and riders were competing for both individual event and

series wins. There was tight competition in the snowboard men’s

open division, with Chance Ling and CJ Page finishing with only one

point between them.

Ling took home the slopestyle and

series win with a front flip off the propane tank feature. Both

Ling and Page are WMR freestyle team alumni.

Other Slopestyle event winners were

James Heil, grom ski 8-12; Casey Ling, grom snowboard 8-12; Marley

Rodwick, ladies ski; Pascal Jessat, men amateur ski; Cole Maxwell,

men amateur snowboard; and Kirby Sutherland, open ski.

Series champs were Wyatt Coe, grom Ski

8-12; Hunter Lamoureux, grom snowboard 8-12; Marley Rodwick, ladies

ski; Aimee Bartell, ladies snowboard; Matthew Hensley, men amateur

ski; Kyle Thomsen, men amateur snowboard; and Dustin Moran, open

ski. Coe, Lamoureux, Rodwick and Tomsen are all WMR freestyle team

athletes.