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Monday, January 10, 2005

Snow Lions

I've spent almost the entire past weekend on Mt. Bachelor, amidst temperatures around 16 degrees and driving snowfall. The occasion? The Chevrolet U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix, a rousing combination of daredevil acrobatics in the Half-pipe on Saturday, and dizzying speed demons in snowboardcross on Sunday.

A small selection of pics from Sunday's event can be found in this gallery, but the rest should be up tomorrow.

Here are a few of the best:

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Jayson Hale (27) and Francois Boivin (7) catch air on one of the SBX course's jumps.

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Swede Mattias Blomberg throws up his arms in victory as he narrowly beats out Montanan Michael Rosengren for first place and $10,000 in Sunday's snowboardcross finals of the Chevrolet U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix at Mt. Bachelor.

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Mattias Blomberg gets tackled by his joyous Swedish teammate at the finish line.

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