Sunapee's Last Call
by Brooke Geery
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On Sunday, March 25th, Sunapee NH held what was hailed as a "drunken debauchery" called Last Call. The recipe was as follows: throw together a few jumps; prop a box up with 2x4's next to the halfpipe; and build a wall looking thing at the bottom of the halfpipe and call it a quaterpipe. Then tell the kids that live at the Blue Lodge that there will be free beer, offer $500 for first place and you have it, an end-of-the-year east coast contest.
But wait, this isn't Waterville Valley, and there is an open-container law because Sunapee lies on a State Park. So, get rid of the beer, except for Matt Gormley and Tim Karpinski sneaking them in the woods. Then get rid of anyone's desire to hit a jump, or a quarterpipe for that matter, and it becomes a session on the box.
And that's what it was, at least for the little while I was there for. They did eventually coerce some people to hit a super rock star kicker, and I think Nick Francke won that. Brian Barb ripped off skateboarding the most successfully, winning the box competition. I'm not really sure who won the quarterpipe portion, but it may or may not have been John Chomo. Finally, in the slowest halfpipe in history contest, the winner was Michael Birch.
So that's it. The best part of the contest was my joke which involved someone asking me what the hell I was doing there, and me replying, "I heard this was going to be sick, so I flew back for it." This was especially funny because the real quarterpipe contest and the US Open were the week before.
| Photos: (Top) I don't know who this is, but he is not only grabbing, upside and in the air, but he is riding the quarterpipe at Sunapee, an all around amazing photo. (Bottom) Scotchi Arnold wishes he had wheels and trucks on the bottom of his snowboard. I took both these photos, yea me! |
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