Editor’s note: Watch video coverage of Dew Tour competitions via the live-stream link above throughout the day, beginning with the men’s ski superpipe final at 9 a.m. As the day progresses, the live stream above will be updated with the latest contest. You can also find live stream links below. Contests may also be postponed or canceled due to Sunday’s latest batch of weather.
COPPER MOUNTAIN – With the world’s best freeskiers and snowboarders in town, Mother Nature can’t even hold herself back from hanging out at the Dew Tour all weekend at Copper Mountain Resort.
With Sunday’s latest batch of powder, Copper Mountain has now received just about three feet of fresh snow since Dew Tour began. That said, after some creative schedule adjustments Copper hosted all scheduled events for Dew Tour – sans a pair of qualifying rounds – through Saturday’s epic slate when Red Gerard won slopestyle gold in front of an adoring home crowd, Alex Hall had a day winning men’s ski streetstyle and finishing runner-up in slope and Miles Fallon dropped jaws to the packed-powder floors in men’s snowboard streetstyle.
As for Sunday, though, snow and gusty winds figure to potentially alter Dew Tour’s plans for the pair of men’s modified superpipe finals in the morning and especially the women’s slopestyle events in the afternoon. That said, check back here at our Summit Daily watch live post for everything you need to know about Sunday’s Dew Tour as developments progress:
As for Sunday’s events, the men’s freeski superpipe final is maybe the most loaded of finals at Dew Tour in terms of American talent, as there’s no shortage of potential U.S. podium placers.
Riding high on his dominant five-double-cork championship run at Mammoth Mountain last week, Crested Butte’s Aaron Blunck looked stylish as ever on the modified pipe at Copper Mountain during practice Wednesday. But the man who beat him at X Games last month and at Dew Tour last year, Alex Ferreira of Aspen, figures to have something to say about that No. 1 spot.
Other contenders to keep an eye on are twice-reigning Olympic halfpipe gold medalist and U.S. veteran David Wise, who is skiing well despite a broken femur in the offseason. Young Americans in the high-flying Birk Irving of Winter Park and the powerful Hunter Hess of Oregon also could steal the show, as could the return of New Zealand’s Nico Porteous.
As for men’s snowboard superpipe to follow, can anyone stop Scotty James? Maybe the modified superpipe can? After 10 consecutive wins in halfpipe events, including in the modified pipe at Breckenridge Ski Resort last year, it doesn’t seem likely the Australian star will be defeated.
Park crews remarked Wednesday how they could recognize James’ tracks on the modified course’s features based on where they were — signaling just how big he’s airing. That’s not a good sign for the rest of the competition.
But if anyone is to best him, Mammoth Grand Prix champ Yuto Totsuka is at the top of the list. A group of creative American riders, led by Danny Davis of Michigan and including Chase Josey of Idaho, Jake Pates of Eagle and Toby Miller of California, also will go for broke.
Out on the slopestyle course, Jamie Anderson will look for another win after her X Games Aspen medal last month is proof the 29-year-old is still at the top of her game.
With last year’s runner-up Julia Marino out due to injury, young American Hailey Langland also has the bag of tricks to tame this course no matter the weather. And then there’s Austrian star and defending Dew Tour champ Anna Gasser, who will look to make up for going home empty-handed from X Games.
And then for the final event of the weekend, despite a bruised knee Estonian teen phenom Kelly Sildaru will be the betting favorite Sunday on the slope course. Sildaru won this event in Aspen last month.
If there is anyone who might be able to knock off Sildaru on Sunday, it’s Sarah Hoefflin of Switzerland. The 2018 Olympic slopestyle gold medalist proved with her silver in Aspen last month that she’s ready if Sildaru leaves it for the taking.
SUNDAY’S LIVE STREAMS
Men’s ski modified superpipe final, 9 a.m.
Men’s snowboard modified superpipe final, 10:45 a.m.
Women’s snowboard slopestyle final, 12:30 p.m.
Women’s ski slopestyle final, 2 p.m.
DEW TOUR COVERAGE
Red Gerard wins Dew Tour slopestyle with best friend Brock Crouch by his side in second
3 feet in 2 days: It’s time to ride
Red Gerard’s journey continues with Burton backcountry film, love-hate relationship with contests
Dew Tour stars ride pow Friday on ‘possibly the deepest day I’ve ever ridden on a resort’
Adaptive snowboarders ride ‘gently’ to tame powder-filled banked slalom course
‘Joy,’ featuring Red Gerard, wins Snowboarder Magazine Movie of the Year award
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