by Glenn Pike

The 4th Annual Hosting of the popular Salomon Extreme Freeride Championships by Taos Ski Valley was a sell-out. A maximum of 130 skiers signed up for the event, some from as far away as Europe.

Thursday's qualifying runs were completed, but the runs scheduled for Friday were cancelled due to weather and Saturday's finals were moved to the West Basin.

Friday's qualifying rounds were combined with the Finals on Saturday and were completed but incoming weather and increasing high winds shut down the lifts reducing the Finals to the top 5 qualifiers.

2008 video finals are still online.

We hope you enjoyed the event. Your comments are appreciated and help enable us to improve future live video viewing experiences of Taos Ski Valley events.