Just saw a tweet about this pop up in my Twitter stream and had to put up a quick post about it.
According to a blog entry in the Denver Post and Shaun White’s Wikipedia entry, Red Bull has built a private training pipe in the Silverton Ski Resort backcountry area. Check it out in this photo, follow the red arrow – not a bad view from this pipe, eh?!
Sounds like Red Bull must be doing ok during the current economic slump, since they just supposedly plopped down a cool half million dollars to build the pipe. Anyone else think that this could be one of Red Bull’s odder expenditures?!
Photo Credit: mattlanning
Edit: 2/23/09
Weird timing, but just got an email from a buddy who took this photo at Silverton this past weekend – thanks Ted! Also, click the image to see it full size, you can pick out a snowcat and the helicopter in flight.
It was a busy Saturday at the office this past weekend, actually I wasn’t really in the office, but I was busy helping out with the Visa Freestyle International World Cup freestyle competition the Eagle Superpipe. It was a skier event with both ladies and men and it went great (even with having to be at work by 7:00am), the crowds were awesome and best of all, I got to watch a good chunk of the competition. This was great because typically, when we have a big event, it seems like I spend most of my time running around. Although, I did have to sneak away from the men’s final early in order to shoot over to our accounting office and pick up the prize checks. Which is not as simple as it sounds because, with an international competition, there are all sorts of different withholding requirements. And once I got the checks we needed to make sure that we got a filled out W-9 form for each and every check – definitely an interesting process! In any case the winners were all very gracious and we got filled out W-9s from everyone.
