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Pat Fava and Egan Wint Win Heavy Metal Detroit - Redbull.com (February 23, 2023)
For years, Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit has been a place that snowboarders pilgrimage to in the colder months, drawn by cement ledges and creeper rails. Tricks from the plaza have dotted video parts consistently for the past fifteen years, embedding the statue-filled park into snowboarding’s ever-growing story.
But the scene in Hart Plaza has never been like this. Normally, film crews move quickly and quietly through metro areas, shoveling snow to set up spots in hopes that authorities don’t catch on to their machinations. The process is rigorously DIY; when Scott Blum famously handplanted the top of Hart Plaza’s 40-foot wall in 2015, snow was packed onto a bike rack and a trashcan to create the transition that would enable him to reach coping. Details like that—the challenges of making it all happen—reinforce the mythology of this concrete mecca in downtown Detroit.
Heavy Metal Breakdown: Riders to Watch Battle it Out in Detroit - Redbull.com (February 2, 2023)
New Heights for Hight: Welcome to the Team, Elena Hight - Arcteryx.com (February 1, 2021)
The timing for her leap of faith from contests to backcountry couldn’t have been better. Tahoe’s snowpack was the deepest in decades and Elena was able to experience the mountains she grew up riding in a whole new way. “To be able to circle back to my roots and to these places that truly inspired me to be a professional snowboarder was completely mind-blowing and also just a dream come true,” she says.