Matthias clucking about the weather

Crazy weather has been following the Swatch TTR World Snowboard tour for the last couple of weeks and the Roxy Chicken Jam, being held this weekend at Mammoth Mountain, California, has been no exception. The first day of the Chicken Jam (the last 6-Star event on the women’s tour) was delayed due to some unexpected snowy weather today.

The organizers of the event tried to wait things out to see if the weather would improve, but conditions were just not fit to run the qualifier competition. With the weather forecast pointing to bluebird sunny skies for the next two days, the decision was made to wait until the riders had optimal conditions to run the comp.

Jamie Anderson defying the conditions

Some riders still braved the windy conditions and headed up on the hill to cruise around and get a feel for 2008 Roxy Chicken Jam setup. The slopestyle course is looking prime with two jibs at the top of the run and three kickers each with two take-off options. The halfpipe was a bit hard today, but the sun should soften things up nicely for the competition tomorrow. The Chicken Jam mascot was seen ripping things up on both the slopestyle course and in the halfpipe which was crazy site to see on the hill.

Chicken got jammed

Stay tuned to see who will be crowned Queen of the TTR Women’s World Tour as the ladies battle it out for the World Tour Champion title and a piece of the Women’s TTR Prize Purse worth $110,000.

Updated schedule for the tomorrow’s halfpipe event:

9:30- 11:30am Halfpipe Qualifiers
12:30-2:30pm Main Event-Halfpipe Finals
2:45-3:15am Chicken Jam Mascot Compeition
3:30pm Halfpipe Awards

We’ll tell you tomorrow what came first: the chicken or the egg…