Kirkwood turns into temporary private slopestyle run

As the chairlifts at Kirkwood Mountain Resort came to a halt this past spring, the Snow Park Technologies snowcats were powering up.

For 20 days, an SPT crew of seven logged 1,200 hours building the slopestyle course of Bobby Brown’s dreams. Three years ago the Denver-based professional skier was asking friends, “What’s next for slopestyle skiing?” The result is Red Bull Megaslope, a 2,750-foot long course that incorporates six epic features winding across the natural terrain of the mountain.

From start to finish, the course featured:

1) A 24-foot single barrel down rail on either side of an eight-foot-wide stair positioned on a downhill angle;

2) A 65-foot table with a five-foot step down, built on the high side of the mountain utilizing the natural terrain aligned through a small opening between two groups of trees;

3) Gap to 24-foot-long up-box with a gap off to another 24-foot flat-box;

4) A cannon to wall ride feature which started with a 24-foot up-box towards the 32-foot-long perforated metal wall-ride with a transition of about six-feet in between;

5) A 100-foot step over jump with the takeoff coming out of a gully across the natural fall line with the landing ramp pushed over the edge of the gully;

6) The last feature on the course was an 80-foot hybrid table with steeper takeoff and landing angles.

For three days during a seven-day weather window in April, Matchstick Productions filmed Brown’s domination of the course. The video was released this week.