Get Into the Zone...The Freeride Zone

For Immediate Release
Mount Sunapee Resort
2006-2007 Winter Season
Contact: Bruce McCloy (603) 763-3500
bmccloy@mtsunapee.com

Newbury, NH – Mount Sunapee’s commitment to snowboarding and freeriding over the past eight seasons has made Mount Sunapee a favorite in the snowboard and freeride communities.  Mount Sunapee offers an assortment of terrain parks and events that excite and inspire.

The Freeride Zone is the grand-daddy of the terrain parks at Mount Sunapee.  Located on two parallel trails, Jet Stream and Pipeline, and serviced by its own triple chair, the Freeride Zone offers almost a mile of pipes, jumps, spines, rails, boxes and hits.  The “Zone” features a 400 foot half pipe with 13 foot walls and a giant quarter pipe.  There are up to 30 other features at any given time in the Freeride Zone.  The “Zone” also hosts an array of events, sessions and jams throughout the season. 

What makes Mount Sunapee welcoming and fun is that the snowboarding and freeriding venues take on the personality of the Park Crew.  The Park Crew create and run the events, get in the grooming machines and build the elements, ski and ride with park visitors and even create the Parks and Pipes pages on the Mount Sunapee web site.  They live and breath snowboarding and freeriding at Mount Sunapee from opening day until closing day.

In addition to the Freeride Zone there are other parks around the mountain.  The “Beginner Park” located on Calypso trail on Mount Sunapee’s South Peak is one of the most popular parks on the mountain.  Designed for “wannabe” park riders and skiers, this venue features bumps, rollers and berms.  To keep things fresh, other parks are built around the mountain from time to time.

Mount Sunapee serves up a calendar of events that gives snowboarders and freeriders the opportunity to participate in a number of local as well as regional events.  There are USASA sanctioned events and popular local events including the Snickers N’ Kickers Slopestyle Competition, Clash of the Titans Rail and Quarter Pipe Competition and All Fools’ Rail Jam.

For more information on snowboarding and freeriding at Mount Sunapee visit mountsunapee.com.