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Both Ski Halfpipe and Ski Slopestyle are confirmed as Olympic medal events at the Sochi Games in 2014, and it’s looking increasingly likely that a Colorado local — sixteen-year-old Aspenite Torin Yater-Wallace — could win them both. He won SuperPipe gold in the Winter X Games event in Tignes, France, last month, landed the first-ever switch 1800 in his Slopestyle run at the final stop of the U.S. Grand Prix, also in March, and went three-for-three with podium finishes this year on the Winter Dew Tour, including a SuperPipe win at the Pantech Invitational in Killington, Vermont. But the Olympics are still a couple of years off, and, as the video below shows, for the moment Yater-Wallace is just stoked to be back on his home mountain at Buttermilk, getting some last licks in on the terrain park before closing day this Sunday.
Airport–>Buttermilk from Torin Wallace on Vimeo.
Buttermilk’s closing weekend festivities start on Saturday with — believe it — Bacon Appreciation Day, and conclude on Sunday with a rail jam competition in the Buttermilk Rail Garden and sets by DJ Naka G and DJ Z Trip as the Red Bull Tour Bus comes through to bid the season adieu.
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