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Photo from Team Summit Team Summit skicross up-and-comer Walker Robinson made an undefeated statement this season on the Rocky Mountain circuit. The 14-year-old won each competition he entered, earning him a national championship in a year when the annual USA Snowboard and Freeski Association didn’t host an event in response to COVID-19. His winning streak culminated with a skicross victory last weekend at Copper Mountain Resort while racing against some of the nation’s best competitors his age from the Rocky Mountain region, Maine and California. “Walker is a competitor who wants to wi...

  Local athlete and coach Kate Chapman Zander led a group of several Summit locals who shined at this season’s virtual Rise and Shine Rando ski mountaineering race series at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. To comply with event regulations, individual skiers logged into the Strava application and recorded their times while being tracked on the course. Skiers had four days to complete each course for the four races, with two each in January and February. In the Jan. 12-15 race that featured two top-to-bottom laps — 3,240 vertical feet of elevation gain and 6.25 miles in total — the top men’s ...

Photo by Matt Voegtle Frisco snowboarder Ellie Weiler battled through snowy conditions on Thursday, March 4, to capture the Revolution Tour Copper Mountain and overall Rev Tour women’s snowboard slopestyle championship. The accomplishment capped a comeback two years in the making for the Team Summit rider who’s recovered from a torn ACL and medial meniscus. With an 85.25 on the Woodward Copper slopestyle course Thursday, Weiler secured her first Rev Tour gold medal after previously medaling twice at Rev Tours two years ago. “It obviously means a ton to me,” Weiler said Friday. “I t...

Photo by Kenna Keenan Team Summit skier Jenna Riccomini bounced back from a difficult slopestyle final Tuesday, March 2, to take silver at Wednesday’s Revolution Tour halfpipe competition at Copper Mountain Resort. Riccomini earned the silver-medal score of 85.00 — just 0.25 points behind gold medalist Riley Jacobs — despite a broken left thumb. The finish earned her the overall Revolution Tour women’s halfpipe freeski tour championship after a bronze in halfpipe at a tour stop in Aspen last week. A broken hand might not seem like a huge deal, but when balancing in the halfpipe, Ricco...

The Aspen Times Chris Corning hits the second jump on the slopestyle course during a practice session at the 2021 X Games Aspen at Buttermilk on Jan. 28. Photo by Kelsey Brunner / The Aspen Times ASPEN — Chris Corning is becoming Mr. Consistent, and that could bode well for the Colorado snowboarder as the next Olympic cycle gets going in only a matter of weeks with the upcoming world championships and Grand Prix in Aspen. “This is definitely the most consistent snowboarding I’ve been doing in a long time when it comes to competing, so I’m pretty stoked on that,” Corning said. “An...