evo Team | Megan Ginter at Xgames 13 Aspen

X games Day 1

So… after a long day of airporting yesterday, we ( my parents and I ) got diverted into Denver instead of Grand Junction.. which was fine but we ended up having to wait forever for our bags, that came in on a different flights. Our condo is super nice right on slope side at Snowmass. Unfortunately I got some sort of food poisoning or something and started puking last night on our drive up and kept going all the way through this afternoon no fun.. plus today was super nice so I missed a day of practice… bummer.. o well.

Course looks huge from below.. didn’t get to actually go on the hill and inspect it but tomorrow will be my first day riding those kickers so hopefully everything goes smoothly…

X Games Day 2

After a sketchy morning and lot of nerves I made it through my first day on course… Practice went fairly smoothly, no knuckles. The bottom jump is the only one with an optional small side, I tried the smaller left side first was okay, actually took it pretty deep. Last run of practice I tried the big side and went even deep. I swear I thought I was going to hit the crane camera thing. It was pretty wild. Not really sure on how I feel things will go, but I feel a lot better than I did this morning so…we’ll see tomorrow…

X Games Day 3

Yesterday went surprisingly better than I would have thought. Started my day off a little rough , I just spaced and forgot the first jump was cut after and slipped to fall 15 -20 ft to flat. Practice went ok, and as much as I thought I liked the last jump the least it actually ended up being pretty fun. I got a couple back 5s over it in practice. Speed seemed like it was going to be slow but held out pretty consistently for me, besides the poor visibility in the fog, conditions were actually pretty good. I qualified for finals in 3rd place. Pretty stoked with that. Hopefully I can hold my podium spot today.. I would really like to be up there. Well… we’ll see how today goes…

X Games Finals

So after everything I am stoked to leave Aspen with a bronze metal. I was stoked to get to stand on the podium. The morning started off sketchy and definitely wasn’t very motivating to see all the skier girls getting taken out on the course right before we were suppose to go. Fresh snow made the course a lot slower and the freezing rain the was falling and fog really didn’t help the visibility. By the time we got to our practice we were already running late so we had to bang out a few laps really quick. Mine went pretty well, my speed stayed pretty consistent besides the last two jumps. The channel was super fast and it was hard with how close together the were to check off enough speed in between. And the last jump was pretty slow because no one had been hitting it. I sprung off some back fives but hit the knuckle about three times so I was a little weary I would even have speed to get it around. In my runs everything went pretty smoothly. My first run was my winning run. Pretty basic but I wanted to stay steady and strong without risking much,.. 50/50 down the street rail, gap to the down, straight air off the cannon box a couple back threes ( i know i’m lame for doing two of the same trick in my runs but shit, its better than a straight air and thats just how it goes) into back five and I tried for a some back sevens, but just didnt get them around right. All in all I am stoked with how everything went and I’m proud to say I got 3rd place and X Games 13.