Dew Tour Day 2: Coverage from Copper Mountain Resort
Women's ski modified superpipe postponed to Saturday due to extreme weather conditions
Editor’s note: Due to heavy snow and windy conditions at Copper Mountain Resort, the Dew Tour announced its women’s ski modified superpipe final, originally scheduled for 10 a.m., will be postponed to Saturday, Feb. 8. The men’s and women’s adaptive slalom snowboard final is still currently scheduled for 12:30 p.m., though Dew Tour won’t be conducting a live stream due to the extreme weather conditions. This story will be updated with live coverage results and any other schedule changes throughout the day.
COPPER MOUNTAIN – Despite the deepest powder day yet — by far — this year in Summit County, the show must go on at the Dew Tour at Copper Mountain Resort.
With more heavy snow and high winds forecasted throughout Friday, Dew Tour has already postponed its women’s ski modified superpipe final originally scheduled for 10 a.m. It also canceled practice for slopestyle and modified superpipe earlier Friday morning.
For Saturday’s competition, Estonian teen phenom Kelly Sildaru is the unquestioned queen of women’s freeskiing, dominant in both the halfpipe and slopestyle courses.
That makes it that much more interesting to see what she might have in store for Dew Tour’s modified superpipe, which many athletes refer to as “pipestyle” over traditional halfpipe.
FRIDAY’S COVERAGE
Dew Tour stars ride pow Friday on ‘possibly the deepest day I’ve ever ridden on a resort’
Red Gerard’s journey continues with Burton backcountry film, love-hate relationship with contests
Adaptive snowboarders ride ‘gently’ to tame powder-filled banked slalom course
‘Joy,’ featuring Red Gerard, wins Snowboarder Magazine Movie of the Year award
But after Sildaru narrowly edged Canada’s Cassie Sharpe at X Games, the prideful and high-flying Canadian surely will have all the motivation to capture a Dew Tour championship.
For Friday, many Summit County locals will brave the conditions to ride down Dew Tour’s banked slalom course in the annual Dew Tour adaptive banked slalom event at 12:30 p.m.
Pyeongchang Paralympic gold medalist Mike Minor is just one of a group of Summit locals in contention for the podium.
FRIDAY DEW TOUR RESULTS
Men’s Adaptive Banked Slalom
1. Owen Pick, 1:06.02
2. Matti Suur-Hamari, 1:07.58
3. Keith Gabel, 1:07.86
Women’s Adaptive Banked Slalom
1. Lisa Bunschoten, 1:14.11
2. Brittani Coury, 1:17.85
3. Peggy Martin, 1:28.51
On a truly bottomless powder day at Copper Mountain Resort, 20 of the world’s best adaptive snowboarders dropped into the banked slalom competition.
In the men’s competition, Owen Pick of England negotiated the gusty winds and powdery banked-slalom turns best, crossing the finish line with a time of 1:06:02. That was more than a 1 1/2 seconds faster than the next rider, Matti Suur-Hamari of Finland (1:07.58). The top U.S. rider on the day was Keith Gabel of Aspen, who finished about one-third of a second behind Suur-Hamari.
In the women’s competition, Dutch snowboarder Lisa Bunschoten won with a time of 1:14.11, ahead of Durango native Brittani Coury, who was the top U.S. female rider on the day with a time of 1:17.85. Peggy Martin of Illinois finished third with a time of 1:28.51.
Dew Tour postponed all other Friday events.
Antonio Olivero / aolivero@summitdaily.com
DEW TOUR COVERAGE
Event-by-event results from Thursday
Tribute to Jake Burton Carpenter at heart of team challenge
Weather concerns cancel qualifiers, adjust Dew Tour competition schedule
DEW TOUR PREVIEWS
Who to watch this year at Dew Tour, plus our podium predictions
Olivero: Storylines aplenty at Summit County’s winter sports Super Bowl at Copper Mountain
Red Gerard nominated for Snowboarder Magazine Rider of the Year award
Dew Tour unveils slopestyle, streetstyle courses for Copper Mountain
Woodward Copper releases renderings of new Dew Tour modified superpipe
Dew Tour to feature first-ever Snowboarder Magazine awards Thursday, Feb. 6
Copper Dew Tour to host Newschoolers.com 20th anniversary award show Friday, Feb. 7
THE ROAD TO COPPER
Olivero: X Games Aspen competition format an experiment in scoring
Red Gerard wins bronze in slopestyle, first X Games Aspen medal
Taylor Gold wins gold in new competition at X Games Aspen superpipe
Aspen’s Ferreira repeats as X Games ski superpipe champion in showdown with Blunck
Scotty James bests Yuto Totsuka to win third X Games Aspen gold in superpipe
Red Gerard qualifies to X Games final in challenging snowboard slopestyle elimination
Jamie Anderson holds off Laurie Blouin in slopestyle for 17th career X Games podium
ildaru wins first X Games ski superpipe gold over Rachael Karker, Cassie Sharpe
Spaniard Queralt Castellet wins first X Games gold, celebrates grandmother Yaya’s 85th birthday
Breckenridge resident Taylor Gold podiums at Laax superpipe final
Watch: Red Gerard finishes as runner-up at Laax Open slopestyle final
Colorado kids celebrate opening of free Red’s Backyard terrain park at Copper Mountain
Scotty James bests Yuto Totsuka in weather-affected Copper Grand Prix snowboard final
Americans Blunck, Wise tame powder-filled Copper pipe to go 1-2 in Grand Prix ski finals
Red Gerard brings a ‘you get out what you put in’ mentality into new backcountry, contest season
Woodward Copper, Red Gerard honor late Jake Burton Carpenter with memorial lap
Olivero: Red Gerard takes us behind the scenes of the journey to film ‘Joy’
Copper Mountain Resort to host Dew Tour next two winters
Dew Tour won’t return to Breckenridge Ski Resort
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