{"id":2454077,"date":"2020-02-03T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/dont-miss-dew-tour-the-winter-sports-super-bowl\/"},"modified":"2020-02-03T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:48:00","slug":"summits-olivero-dont-miss-dew-tour-which-heads-to-copper-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/summits-olivero-dont-miss-dew-tour-which-heads-to-copper-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit\u2019s Olivero: Don\u2019t miss Dew Tour, which heads to Copper this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.0618556701031\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-320289-44\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Olivero-SDN-020420-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Olivero-SDN-020420-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Bryce Kanights \/ Dew Tour | Scotty James of Australia spots his landing transitioning into the modified superpipe at Dew Tour in December 2018 at Breckenridge Ski Resort.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Scotty James of Australia spots his landing transitioning into the modified superpipe at Dew Tour in December 2018 at Breckenridge Ski Resort.<\/strong><br \/>Bryce Kanights \/ Dew Tour<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/Olivero-SDN-020420-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Scotty James of Australia spots his landing transitioning into the modified superpipe at Dew Tour in December 2018 at Breckenridge Ski Resort.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/dont-miss-dew-tour-the-winter-sports-super-bowl\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/dont-miss-dew-tour-the-winter-sports-super-bowl\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">With its new date later in the season, this year\u2019s Dew Tour at Copper Mountain Resort will be an event full of storylines of redemption and validation rather than start-of-the-season declarations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This week\u2019s Dew Tour won\u2019t be a launching point as the first major competition of the season, as the event was in years past in December at Breckenridge Ski Resort. In the wake of last month\u2019s X Games Aspen and last week\u2019s Land Rover U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain in California, Dew Tour will be a follow-up opportunity for names like American snowboarders Chris Corning and Danny Davis and Austrian star Anna Gasser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Then there are other athletes \u2014 like defending Dew Tour champions Scotty James of Australia (snowboard modified superpipe), Alex Ferreira of Aspen (ski modified superpipe) and Estonian teen phenom Kelly Sildaru (ski slopestyle) \u2014 who will look to cement the fact that they are the best athletes in their respective disciplines after each also won gold in the same events two weeks ago in Aspen. On the snowboard side, a Dew Tour podium for boundary-pushing riders like Gasser and Silverthorne\u2019s Corning would propel them with confidence into the final major snowboarding event of the season: the Burton U.S. Open later this month at Vail Mountain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As for the skiers, elite competitors like halfpipe stars Cassie Sharpe of Canada and Aaron Blunck of Crested Butte are no doubt eager to try to tame Woodward Copper\u2019s first modified superpipe \u2014 the Dew Tour\u2019s crown jewel this year at Copper\u2019s Center Village \u2014 in order to show that the X Games 2020 ski superpipe champs Sildaru and Ferreira have some competition for the title of \u201cbest halfpipe skier in the world.\u201d Both Sharpe and Blunck got back on the right track with wins in the Mammoth superpipe this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At 9 a.m. Sunday, it\u2019ll be fascinating to see the two Coloradans Blunck and Ferreira dual it out once again for the title of world\u2019s best pipe skier. Or, would it be the title of best \u201cpipestyle\u201d skier? That term is the phrase two-time reigning Olympic men\u2019s freeski halfpipe gold medalist David Wise used to describe the modified superpipe at last winter\u2019s Dew Tour in Breckenridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Wise, a four-time X Games Aspen gold medalist, said in December 2018 that halfpipe skiing and snowboarding had become \u201ca little bit stagnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe are staring at what could be the end of our sport,\u201d Wise said in Breckenridge last year. \u201cBut if we start making these courses fun and making the general public want to get in there and ride it and have fun, then that\u2019s going to give the sport a lot more longevity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Dew Tour had taken notice, hence the 2018 modified pipe. The X Games and Burton Open followed suit, with X Games changing its competition and scoring format while adding a \u201csuperpipe session\u201d for men\u2019s snowboarders. The Burton Open this year will have a modified pipe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This week\u2019s modified pipe at Copper might just be the best course yet to challenge skiers and riders in the pipestyle spirit. With mirrored transition and slopestyle-like features constructed above 300 feet of the 22-foot-tall Woodward Copper superpipe, it\u2019ll be a captivating setting to see halfpipe stars like Blunck, Ferreira and Mammoth Mountain women\u2019s snowboard halfpipe champion Maddie Mastro of California lace together inventive lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But then there are other athletes who typically compete in slopestyle and big air, including American women\u2019s snowboard legend Jamie Anderson and Norwegian multitime X Games medalist Birk Ruud, who are slated to drop into the modified pipe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Out of the pipe, the slopestyle course over in Woodward Copper\u2019s Central Park might host the most competitive contest this week: men\u2019s snowboard slopestyle. At Friday\u2019s qualifying round at 9:15 a.m., Silverthorne local Red Gerard will look to make it through to Saturday\u2019s final at 10:45 a.m. after spending a week in the backcountry of Japan post bronze-medal win at X Games Aspen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Canadian star Mark McMorris will be motivated to return to the slopestyle podium after not succeeding in the new format in Aspen. A host of other capable fan favorites \u2014 from X Games champ Darcy Sharpe, to his fellow Canadian star X Games big air champ Max Parrot, to rising Americans Judd Henkes and Luke Winkelmann \u2014 will vie for Dew Tour glory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And then there\u2019s the streetstyle course. Hosted in Gerard\u2019s new Red\u2019s Backyard rail garden adjacent to the superpipe in Center Village, Dew Tour is expanding its streetstyle competitions. The course will be open to the public Sunday after stylish riders like Darcy Sharpe, Brandon Davis, Zak Hale and local Colorado Never Summer rider Dylan Alito hit the course as Saturday\u2019s nightcap under the lights at 6:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Whatever competition you are most excited about, come to the free event at Copper to see Summit County\u2019s ski and snowboard Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:aolivero@summitdaily.com\">aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/dont-miss-dew-tour-the-winter-sports-super-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotty James of Australia spots his landing transitioning into the modified superpipe at Dew Tour in December 2018 at Breckenridge Ski Resort.Bryce Kanights \/ Dew Tour Show CaptionsHide Captions With its new date later in the season, this year\u2019s Dew Tour at Copper Mountain Resort will be an event full of storylines of redemption and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 17:42:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}