The final stop and Super Finals of the Rahlves’ Banzai Tour takes place this weekend at Sugar Bowl ski resort in Lake Tahoe.
Sugar Bowl athlete and X Games medalist Jayson Hale won the Men’s Snowboard title at Alpine Meadows last weekend, and is gunning for first place against snowboard Olympian Nate Holland in the $5,000 Men’s Snowboard Super Final on Sunday.
Olympian, Sugar Bowl Ambassador, and race founder Daron Rahlves will be back to ski all out in the Men’s Ski Super Final on Sunday, which also awards $5,000 to the winner.
It’s not too late to sign up for this unique ski and snowboard racing series. Visit www.rahlvesbanzai.com to register for this week’s final event at Sugar Bowl.
Lake Tahoe’s most popular racing series – the Rahlves’ Banzai Tour – is back for the last of four events. The previous three were held at Kirkwood Mountain, Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows.
“There is no other race like this in the world,” Rahlves said. “What’s so unique about the Banzai is that every-day rippers line up against pro-level athletes to find out what they’re made of, battle for Rahlves’ Banzai titles and an $80,000 purse. When the gate drops, it’s on as four competitors go head-to-head in a top to bottom race over natural terrain.”
The Rahlves’ Banzai Tour is quite a mixture of skiers and riders of all levels, including every-day rippers representing their home resorts, to skiers/boarders of all levels coming out for a fun and competitive experience, to competitors making a name for themselves on other tours in racing, ski cross and big mountain.
GoPro will be capturing all the action and Alaska Airlines awarding four round-trip flights to any Alaska Airlines destination to each of the four overall Rahlves’ Banzai Tour winners. They will also offer the “Alaska Airlines Long Flight Award” of $100 Alaska Airlines bucks for best air during the Sunday finals at each Tour stop.
Rahlves’ Banzai Tour Presented by Bank of the West is proud to be associated with Kirkwood Mountain Resort, Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows, Sugar Bowl Resort, Red Bull, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., CEP Compression, Wend Wax, Lake Tahoe North, TahoeCenter for Orthopedics, Jagermeister and our newest partners Alaska Airlines and GoPro.
The 2014 Rahlves’ Banzai Tour is once again broadcast live on Truckee and Lake Tahoe’s own radio 101.5 FM, which has also partnered with Alaska Airlines to send two winners with round-trip airfare to Cordova as part of station’s annual Points North Heli Ski Giveaway.
