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There used to be a sticker that would pop up every year at the US Open that read, “Don’t Piss off the Locals”. Well, Monday at the World Quarters those locals that the stickers were talking about came out to party and cheer on the World Quarters as only rowdy Vermonters can. When the idea began kicking around of reviving the infamous World Quarters, people started groaning things like: “No ski area will host it”, “No one can build it”, “Will anyone even show up?” The crew at Timber Ridge answered all of those questions this past Monday as the World Quarters came back with a bang.

With a little help from the Rome SDS, Red Bull, and Snowboarder Magazine, Chris Waker and Timber Ridge crew pulled off one of the funnest snowboard events to ever go down in the Stratton area of Vermont. Timber Ridge, a privately-owned, abandoned ski area became the scene for all that was wicked in Vermont. Calling on former US Open pipe builder “Lyle” to help shape the monstrous pile of snow that Waker had amassed for the event, shredders from all over were met with quite possibly the biggest privately built quarter pipe in Vermont.

The World Quarters returned as a riotous answer to the mundane contest circuit of late. No lame sponsors, no TV timeouts, there wasn’t even really any judging and there certainly wasn’t any pre-planned “poaching”. Poach this quarter pipe and you were seriously taking your life into your hands. Dubbing it a “sixth star” TTR event Snowboarder Magazine editor Pat Bridges started the day off by planting the wood log placed on top of the beast. From there on out the day went off, defending Quarterpipe champion Scotty Lago arrived on the scene and blasted some of the biggest airs of the day, and appeared to be the early favorite, but after a misfortunate fight with the flat bottom, Scotty was helped to the side and suddenly it was anyone’s game.

Full story at additional pictures at:  Romesnowboards.com