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A wonderland for snow riders
Skiers and snowboarders can challenge their freeriding skills on kickers, berms, and rail features in four new Burton Stash Parks located at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
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Ski or snowboard off Amphitheater Traverse below Casper Bowl at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and you’re taken into a new kind of winter wonderland. After passing through a giant wooden arch, a six-foot tall wooden yeti—Shredi the Yeti—stands high on top of a group of rocks. Behind him is a freeskier and snowboarder paradise. Jumps, berms, and rails abound in this powdery playpen.
Called Campground, it’s one of four new Burton Stash Parks at the mountain resort.
“This is a playground,” says vice president of operations Tim Mason. “And [in the winter] there’s a bunch of kids out here on recess.”
Last winter, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort became just the third ski resort in the United States, and the only one in the Rocky Mountain region, to feature Burton Stash Parks. The other two are at California’s North Star at Tahoe and Killington in Vermont. They are, by most accounts, all the rage amongst snowboarders.
Unlike typical terrain parks filled with rails, halfpipes, and other features carved by snowcats and mechanical grooming machines, Stash Parks are built by hand, using only natural or recycled objects such as trees, stumps, logs, and rocks. The intention is to give riders a connection with all-mountain freeriding, and with nature. Burton Snowboards worked in conjunction with the resort to build four parks on the mountain. They are located on Eagle’s Rest, Togwotee Pass, Ashley Ridge, and below Casper Bowl.
The entire article can be read in the Winter 2012 issue of Jackson Hole Magazine.
