Vail Mountain said Monday it will host the 31st annual competition
late next February and early March, after years of the championships being held
at Stratton Mountain in Vermont.
Skiing and
snowboarding are now the official state sports of Vermont, thanks to some schoolchildren in Swanton. Governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill
into law today that was proposed by a group of fifth and sixth graders.
Enni
Rukajarvi of Finland has won the women’s slopestyle competition at the
U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships at soggy Stratton Mountain in Vermont.
Vermont
will be the center of the snowboarding universe for the next ten days.
As VPR’s Nina Keck reports, back-to-back competitions
will bring the best snowboarders in the world to Killington and Stratton Mountain.