10th Feb 2002
THE INAUGURAL NAKED HUCK FEST
A few beers, BBQ in the sun, meet
some people, listen
to top tunes, and chuck yourself off a few jumps
...
The Naked Huck Fest was born from a desire
to get all the people doing seasons in the Les Arcs
area together, chill out, have a laugh and generally
get to know each other.
Starting off cloudy, Friday morning (8th
Feb) looked like it might snow, but the sun broke through
by the afternoon, making for an awesome day ... Big
thanks to the guys from the Mont Blanc - esp Gordy for
building the jumps and to the chefs for sorting out
BBQ for the starving masses! Plus much obliged to Chris
Cracknell from Chillchalet for bringing his decks up
from Bourg and doing a solid 5 hour slopeside session
of top tunes.
All in all it was a great success - with
a massive turnout of spectators from Vallandry, Nancroix,
Bourg, and 1800, and over 50 competitors jumping for
prizes in the following catagories:
>> Best Overall Jump
>> Best Costume
>> Most Naked
>> Worst Crash
>> Most original
As hoped, the standard was pretty varied,
with a few serious entrants, but mostly people just
in it for a laugh ... and a snowball fight.
>> Best Overall Jump - went
jointly to Alex (staying in the Mont Blanc) for pulling
off a smooth back flip and landing it in a superman
costume, and to Gordy (Mont Blanc) for some nice 360s
and 540s on skis ...
>> Best Costume and Most Naked
(Joint prize) - went to Olly from Bourg - for turning
up in his full postman outfit (good effort for bringing
that away for the season!), and then doing his second
jump completely naked ...
>> Worst Crash - should really
have gone to the lad who thought he'd try a back flip
off the big kicker having never done any jumping before.
Unfortunately, he was forced to stand down from competition
after landing on his head and being bodybagged off the
mountain with a broken back. Fortunately he was
extremely lucky and out of hospital the next day with
a brace and lots of painkillers ... so not being around
to collect his prize, next best stack went to Rhod from
Planet Subzero for his spectacular somersault on landing!
>> Most original - goes to
Caz from the Mont Blanc for getting into the spirit
of the event, taking her top off and generally being
a good boarder.
The prizes were kindly donated by Tracker.
Cheers to everyone for turning up - we'll hopefully
run another Huck Fest again towards the end of the season.
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