Mountain Bikers & Snowboarders Celebrate End Of One Season And Start Of Another
“Last Chair, First Run,” is the newest Red Bull Media House production highlighting four different athletes from two different sports as they come together to celebrate the close of one season but the beginning of another.
Filmed at Snowshoe Mountain Resort in West Virginia, “Last Chair, First Run” features Red Bull mountain bike athletes Carson Storch and Jaxson Riddle, Red Bull snowboarder Luke Winkelmann and Sean Fitzsimons, all shredding down the 1,500-foot mountain side-by-side, and sometimes even over-under in the six-minute piece. While the snowboarders take their last chairlift ride of the season before all the snow melts, the mountain bikers grab their bikes and hop on the chairlift to take their first runs.
The courses, created with design input from the athletes themselves, both run parallel as well as intertwine throughout the top-to-bottom run. The jumps send one rider over another, offering plenty of airtime for the riders to show off, while the berms nearly touch in the middle allowing the athletes to fling mud and snow on each other, highlighting the crossover session. Together, it showcases Snowshoe’s versatility as a hub of wintersports before transitioning to summer, hosting events like the UCI World Cup Finals.
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