Did you watch star snowboarder Shaun White's Grade A-mazing gold-medal winning halfpipe performance on Wednesday evening's Olympics telecast? Did you catch the references to his "secret" and "private" halfpipe in Colorado? In the words of an old ballad, "The secret's not a secret anymore."
The venue: Silverton Mountain, North America's premiere extreme-skiing area set deep in the snow-rich San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The super-groomed halfpipe is a contrast to the rest of Silverton Mountain's permitted terrain, which is not groomed at all. Not ever.
Click here for sensational footage of Shaun White's backcountry superpipe, dubbed ProjectX, sculpted to Olympic dimensions and funded by his sponsor, Red Bull energy drinks. I'll bet it is the greatest boom Silverton has experienced since the Sunnyside Mine closed in '83 -- three years before Shaun White was born.
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