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by Tom Johnson

Eastern Boarder’s 10th Annual Last Call popped off March 24 at Loon Mountain in lovely New Hampshire. Ten years ago, the event started at Sunapee in the halfpipe and has since seen days at Ragged, with the legendary double rainbow rail, and has moved to Loon in the past few years, where Jay, Norton, and the crew have brilliant minds when it comes to building snowboard parks. It has since come to be a legendary East Coast event with people coming from all across the Nation to throw down with the hopes of walking away with some cash.

The contest started with the channel gap, dudes and ladies were throwing down as NH Dirt Greg Maxwell threw the first double backflip, followed by Nick Julius, Brandon Reis, and Shane Fortier, along with the rest of the Flow crew. Despite the treacherous wind and the hard-as-hell takeoff, dudes were throwing down. Chas Guldemond came in with a solid alley-oop backside 180 method across the channel, Chelone Miller with a solid back 7 truck driver over the gap and dudes like Graham Hoffman putting down solid back 5s, 14 year old Jack Herald sending a frontside 1080, Tim Humphries with a cab 5, Brandon Reis with a backside 900, and Nick Julius pulling in the best trick with a back rodeo 7. The ladies were also hucking, with Kassandra Dolan sticking a solid fs 180, Laura Rogowski, Mary Rand, and Michaela Aaronson coming in super solid with strong grabs and good style.

The second part of the contest was put on in the rhythm section found in the channel. Skate-style hits were set up with rails, boxes, and a quick jump line. Forest Bailey, Ben Ross, Shane Fortier, Mike Ravelson, Shawn Murphy, and the rhythm section champ Dylan Dragotta were putting down tricks one after one, getting solid lines over the Neff wallride, the creeper rail/rainbow wood rain feature, and the pole jam or transition hit on the way out. Tricks that stood out where the countless backflips, Shane Fortier’s backside rodeo, Mike Ravelson’s frontflips and a one footed line, Forest Bailey’s front 180 switch press 180 out, Luke Haddock’s Back270 boardslide, and Shaun Murphy’s endless slaughter of the course. The win went to Dylan Dragotta with style for miles and skateboard like flow, coming in with a stalefish over the wall, to a backside nosepress front 180 on the creeper, to a pole jam switch back 3 out of the course, getting through the tough course effortless.

The third and final portion of the contest was held on a HUGE 24 foot quarter pipe alongside an 18-foot quarter with a tree set up to stall as a sub-box type feature. Chas Guldemond (even though he wasn’t in the contest) was throwing down, with 14-foot McTwists. NHD Greg Maxwell did not fall far behind with huge McTwists and a couple of andrechts. Mike Ravelson had a solid andrecht to fakie, and Shane Fortier proved once again that he knows how to snowboard. Huge McTwists and an even more massive Michaelchuk sealed the deal for Shane on the quarterpipe feature. The ladies charged at the wall getting airs both ways, and the carnage occurred as Loon Snowboard Park Builder Tom Peplinski took the liberty of landing on Mary Rand.

Results

Men’s Channel Gap – Nick Julius BS 7 Rodeo

Men’s Rhythm Section – Dylan Dragotta

Men’s Quarterpipe – Shane Fortier – HUGE Michaelchuk

Men’s Badass Award – Greg Maxwell for sending the first double backflip of the day

Men’s Overall

Shane Fortier - Shaun Murphy
Jeremy Thompson

Women’s Hardest Charger Award

Michaela Aaronson

Women’s Overall

Mary Rand
Kassandra Dolan
Laura Rogowski