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Meltdown Games is a weekend of fun that ends ski season in a splash. The entire ski and snowboard community comes to App Ski Mountain to participate in rail jams, trash bag races, cardboard box races, and of course pond skim.
While this year many of the events were canceled due to weather, people still showed up in costumes ready for the pond skim. With a huge crowd gathered at the bottom of the slopes waiting for the participants to come down, it can be nerve wracking not knowing if participants will be successful. While this event is fun, waiting at the top of the slope as a participant knowing how fast and fearless you have to be can be scary.
Despite the fails of not making it over the pond, this events brings people together. The Meltdown Games celebrates the end of the season and creates a fun and inviting community , but is also a bittersweet event. To many who spend as much time as they can skiing and snowboarding, they dread Meltdown games knowing that after this event the mountain will be closed until next year.
Recently other nearby mountains such as Beech have started having events similar to Meltdown Games with Beech having its first pond skim this year.
Snowboarder coming down the mountain in a tutu and catching some good air before hitting the water.
Snowboarder coming down the mountain in a tutu and catching some good air before hitting the water.
Skier rocking a pond skim with a fully pink outfit and neon boots.
Skier rocking a pond skim with a fully pink outfit and neon boots.
Ninja skier coming down the slope in style and getting some help from ski patrol after falling in.
Moments before a pond skimming disaster.
Moments before a pond skimming disaster.
Skier mid fall during pond skim.
Judges ranking each pond skim.
Moments before a camouflaged snowboarder hits the water.
Camouflaged snowboarder skimming across the water.
A snowboarder skimming across the water ready for a beach vacation.
Vacation ready Snowboarder taking a swim in something other than the ocean.
Skiers in the middle of walking away after a very successful pond skim, earning high scores from the judges.
Two young girls intently watching and cheering on their friends and other pond skimmers.
A young boy watches with excitement as the next pond skimmer comes down the slopes.
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