TransAM Park City - The Finals

We brought the 2013 TransAM tour to a close this past Saturday in Park City, where spring conditions were in full-effect for park laps. The nine-stop amateur tour kicked off at Waterville Valley back in January, making its rounds in the east before migrating west and closing out at PCMR. Zumiez flew out the winners from each stop to come throw down at our home mountain for the best gal and guy to claim reign as the 2013 Transworld Snowboarding TransAM Contest winners. Some serious talent made their way to the finals to showcase their skills and rep their home mountains in some of the most progressive park builds to date.

View from the bottom of the skate inspired course.
Photo: @RobMathis

The “traffic jam” portion of the contest lived up to its name.

We kicked off the weekend with the 18 riders on Friday in PC on a giant group date filled with fine dining, intellectual conversation and an Anti-Flag concert.

The crew rallied Saturday morning amped on their trip and ready to compete. Once the PC qualifiers were chosen it was on to the final showdown where each hometown rep pulled out the stops. Park City took us back in time with one of the most fun setups the tour has ever seen. The course was modeled after an old school snake run, skate bowl loaded with snow features including our signature Cassette.  Non-competitors were poaching runs throughout the day and an all out session broke loose as soon as the contest completed.

Photos: @RobMathis

All of the finalists getting together for one last meeting before the carnage began.

AJ Lawson sending a nice backside air over the hip.

Coming back to defend his Championship title from last year was Cody Lee.

The Skullfather, Rick Alden getting a nice instagram of the action.

Our boy Mamba sending a nice backie off the pole jam to the flat bottom of the bowl.

The Skullcandy Cassette feature gettin' worked.

Skullcandy shred team member Justin Bennee was on hand to help judge the event.

Mariah Dugan bringing home the overall championship for the second season in a row

There must have been some sort of theme, Utah local Cody Lee also bringing home his second overall title in two years.

Stoked pose. We closed out the weekend ripping around Park City Mountain with all of the finalists and our dude Justin Bennee.

Guys
1st Cody Lee
2nd Oliver Dixon
3rd AJ Lawson

Gals
1st Mariah Dugan
2nd Lilly Callabresse
3rd Theresa Kewley

Pint Sized Ripper: Red Gerard

Zumiez Best Trick: Jeff Hopkins 270 off the pole jam.
Worst Crash: Chris Eck

Muscle Milk Standout Rider: Yasir Finkelstahl

Winners were awarded a pair of our newest headphone, the Crusher and the overall Guy’s winner won a trip to compete at the Ride Shakedown in Montreal on April 5th & 6th. Following the award ceremony we hosted another show with one of our favorite bands, Alkaline Trio. Competitors and the Skullcandy crew had a banger night celebrating the comp and enjoying the show. Check out photos below.

Big ups to our other TransWorld Snowboarding TransAm Sponsors: 
Ride Snowboards, Anon Optics, Coal Headwear, High Cascade Snowboard Camp, Muscle Milk, Wend Waxworks, Sanuk, and Giro. It was a helluva ride, stoked for next season!