JibLab Update

We're super excited for the start of the season and all the awesome events scheduled to take place at the park this year, including the return of the TransWorld Snowboarding TransAm. The crew at JibLab has been busy designing event setups and will introduce a new feature at each event.

In the meantime, we caught up with Jon to see what's good in the land of rails and boxes. Not too much needed to be said, as sparks were flying, paint was drying and rails and boxes were making their way into the beds of pickup trucks and moving to South.

Grinding burrs.

Welding angles.

Stacking features.

Bringing back the Red Bull wall ride and all your favorite features.

Check back throughout the season for the latest event updates, photos and videos.

2012 Events Calendar
Saturday, January 7th - The 3rd Rail Jam
Saturday, January 21st - TransWorld Snowboarding TransAm
Saturday, January 28th - Volcom Peanut Butter & Rail Jam
Sunday, January 29th - Snowboarder Magazine Super Pass
Saturday - Sunday, February 11th - 12th - USASA Mid-Atlantic Series
Saturday, February 18th - Red Bull Butter Cup
Saturday, February 25th - K2 Pretty in Pink Girls Jam

Early Season Street Session

^Say that 10x fast.

South Lodge manager and in-house photographer Homer Horowitz took to the streets with some of the Creek locals to reap the benefits of Mother Nature’s early gift.

TJ Santana

Matt Behre

Tom Weiss

We hope the early snowfall is an indicator of amazing riding weather to come this season. Forecasters are calling for another La Nina weather pattern, which could bring epic snowfalls to the Northeast. We can't wait. This year is going to rock!

Get ready for winter and purchase your Season Pass or Triple Play NOW!

The Countdown Has Begun!

The Creek office has a fever. Snow fever. Warning: the edit below is infectious.



With all the new resort additions and improvements, this year promises to be epic. So, don't miss a minute, purchase your season pass today and save $100. PLUS, all season passes purchased before November 4th come pre-loaded with a "Bring a Buddy" mid-week plus lift ticket.

"Adventures with Chris" & Vans Flow Trash Visit Mountain Creek

NJ Skate's Chris Nieratko and members of the Vans Flow Trash skate team visited the Red Bull Skate Bowl and Mountain Creek Waterpark to shoot a webisode of "Adventures with Chris."

These "poor" kids picked the hottest day to skate the bowl.

Join Us at "The Art of Flight" World Premiere

We're partnering with Red Bull for their World Premiere of the much-anticipated "The Art of Flight" snowboarding film on September 7th at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. On premiere night, the first 1,500 people through the doors receive a lift ticket voucher.

Tickets can be purchased at Paragon Sports in NYC.

Red Bull Manny Mania Qualifier Returns to Hoboken Skate Park

Our friends over at Red Bull are looking for skilled skaters to compete in this year's Manny Mania Qualifier at the Hoboken Skate Park in Hoboken, NJ on June 25th. Registration opens at 1:00 PM and the event kicks off at 2:00 PM. The first place finisher will receive $1,000 and an expenses-paid trip to the National Finals in LA July 9th. Additional prize packs will be awarded to the top three skaters.

Don't Worry, You're in Good Hands

At Mountain Creek we pride ourselves on the reputation of our terrain parks. We've been applauded for our terrain park features and designs; and now, we can add park safety to our growing list of badges with the National Ski Areas Association's (NSAA) award for "Best Terrain Park Safety Program."

The NSAA Safety Awards are given out annually to those resorts that have done an outstanding job of educating employees and guests about skiing and snowboarding responsibly. Our terrain park safety initiatives include: the requirement of all park visitors to complete a Park Pass safety program and quiz, dedicated learn-to freestyle terrain and instruction, constant terrain and feature monitoring and a strict helmet policy for all employees and guests taking freestyle lessons.

Click here to see a complete list of the 2010/11 NSAA Safety Award winners.

Jersey Faithful at USASA National Championships

We may have put a killer season to bed, but 15 of our local heroes have been invited to continue their winter in Copper, Colorado at the USASA National Championships. Congratulations to:

JT Bingler

Alexa Cerra

Stephen Cerra

Brian Hopper

Scotty Hopper

Lauren Longfeld

Christopher Longo

Mike Mainero

Sean Neary

Gina Perrelli

Sam Perrelli

Brandon Schmidt

Nick Sisco

Chris Solomini

Bryan Watson


Best of luck! Check out the schedule of events at usasa.org.

Red Bull Weather Warriors by Jay Cagney

film/edit: jay cagney

USAIRBAG Demo

Red Bull Weather Warriors

Red Bull Super Hit

The closing weekend of Red Bull Super Hit went off under blue skies and warm temps at Mountain Creek in Vernon, New Jersey on Saturday, February 26th. Red Bull Super Hit marked the first-ever freeski event that has come to Mountain Creek from outside the mountain.

The group of skiers that showed up to compete ran the gamut from grom to rising local pro and hailed from NJ, PA, and VT. Mountain Creek built a signature feature for the day that featured a clear-walled Red Bull wallride on top of a large hip, enabling competitors to pick their line and hit the feature in a large variety of ways. The sunny skies and impressive trickery of the competitors drew the attention of everyone whether they were riding by on the trails or hanging out on the porch of the KINK bar.

After all of the backflips, huge spins, and creative rail jibbing that went down during the two 25-minute heats and 25-minute finals, it was Peter Engen who won the contest and walked away with a paid trip to compete in the Dumont Cup in March at Sunday River, Maine. Peter also won a pair of skis and a prize pack from the event sponsors. Second and third place won tons of prizes as well, and a Best Trick was awarded, earning another pair of skis. A product toss for competitors and spectators finished the event, with tons of smiles ending the picture perfect Mountain Creek day.

Check out some more photos from the Super Hit here. Credit Homer Horowitz.

Red Bull Super Hit & After Party

In a typical slopestyle or halfpipe event, competitors play it safe in order to assemble a top-to-bottom run, holding back on their biggest moves in favor of consistency.

At Red Bull Super Hit, skiers will throw everything they have into one hit, blasting their highest air or their most technical dream trick when they’re at their freshest and strongest.

After party follows the event at KINK. 21+ at 10pm.

run around sue

McAfee Ski and Snowboard Team winter break re-edit.
connor winton.

Snowboarder Mag Superpass

Excerpt from Pat Bridges, Snowboarder Magazine:

As much as we’d like to describe the first stop of the 2011 Superpass Superpark Qualifying Series as being a heated competition the seemingly sub arctic temps prohibit us from making any references that would lead readers to believe the conditions were the least bit hospitable. Wind would add to the contentious atmosphere and cause attrition to take place pre registration. Nonetheless dozens of New Jerseys finest jumpers arrived bright and early at Mountain Creek to partake in their chance at a Superpark invite as well as the heaps of prizes provided by Volcom, Capita, Electric, High Cascade Snowboard Camp and Bag Jump.

The terrain park staff at Mountain Creek went beyond the requisite triple line requirements which was requested to 25, 35, and 45 feet respectively. Rather than settle Mountain Creek stepped up and provided the Superpassers with a textbook 25 foot booter, complete with squared sides to a classic 35 foot step down gap. This gap was rad. Normal tricks looked three times as high and the perceived consequence afforded by the vertical cut uphill edge of the knuckle added drama to every attempt.

By showing skill, composure and creativity on each feature Brett Stewart set himself apart from the pack. This fall Brett Stewart will be joining snowboarding’s elite at Superpark.

Read the rest at Snowboarder Magazine.

Yakitty Yak

edit by joseph cheg (yakitty yak).

Butterrrrr Cup Recap

edit by nick dakota.

Frendly Feature Winner

It came down to 3 finalists chosen by Frends and secret ninjas at Creek. Our legion of 20,000+ Facebook fans voted, trash talked, voted some more... and trash talked even more than that. After the dust settled, Matt Nametko’s creative trapezoid ledge hybrid butterbox feature was named the winner and will debut on the slopes this season. Congrats, Matt. And thanks to everyone else you submitted an entry. Can't wait to shred the new feature.

Red Bull Butter Cup is Coming

red bull butter cup coming to mountain creek on saturday, january 15th.

Mountain Creek Holiday Week

edit by jay cagney.

Frends... It's time to pick a winner.

Creek and Frends sifted through all the entries from the awesome to the absurd to narrow it down to 3 Finalists.

Finalist 1: Tom Buchtman, "Kink Butter box, Kink Creeper, High Kink box, Down Creeper with Stairs"

Finalist 2: Lauran Barinsky, "My Frends House"

Finalist 3: Matt Nametko, "battleship box, pyramid bank, and butter boxes"

We thought in the spirit of community and in keeping this a contest for the riders, by the riders, we’d open the final voting up to our Mountain Creek fans on Facebook.

All designs submitted by our finalists will be labeled on Facebook so you know who and what you're voting for. Design with the most “likes” by Friday, January 14th will win. Best of luck.

See the album of entries here.

3rd Rail Jam Promo

The 3rd Rail Jam goes down on January 8th.

Preregister online at 3rdrailjam.com.

See you there.