The 2023 Snake-Run Rally took place on April 1-2 at Hoodoo Ski Area within the mountains of Central Oregon. The weekend consisted of banked slalom snowboard racing and pow driving with free refills into the night time and underneath lights. Now in its fourth 12 months, The Snake Run Rally has turn into a neighborhood’s favourite occasion. Jonny Sischo, Iain Smith, and Brian Zager began this grassroots banked slalom with founding ideas of group building and inclusivity.
While the 2022 occasion consisted of heat, sun-filled days and driving in t-shirts whereas avoiding the filth patches and rock spots introduced on by the quickly receding snowpack, the 2023 occasion was a completely totally different animal with a full-on powder weekend, snorkel-required. The snow began falling on Wednesday main as much as the occasion and didn’t subside till the solar peaked by way of the clouds late Sunday afternoon following the award ceremony as a caravan of comically snow-covered campers tried to excuse themselves from their frozen maintain.
The blizzardous circumstances made for some difficult course upkeep, but the builders delivered, and the course was quick and enjoyable. It required next-level board management as some sections of the course had been claiming riders all weekend. People raced by day, took pow hacks by night time, and cozied up by fires and in campers for a real winter parking zone campout that received’t quickly be forgotten.
Editor’s Note: JP Schlick is a author, videographer, and editor who helped create the video piece you see above.