4th Annual Dumont Cup at Sunday River - but Simon is Sidelined....

Simon Dumont is from Sunday River, Maine...when the X Games Gold Medlaist and famous freeskier comes home now, he brings his best freeskier friends for his pro am Dumont Cup Slopestyle Event, sponsored by Red Bull, Target, Oakley, and Nike 6.0!

This year, the 4th Annual Dumont Cup will be different - since the host and superstar of the on snow show is sidelined, Simon left the Euro X Games earlier this month when he tore his ACL, he flew to Vail and underwent surgery last week, so he will be on crutches, not be competing on skis as he has done for the past three years.

Still this is a great big air event, free for spectators, and your chance to see the next superstars of the X Games! The skiing at Sunday River should be great too as the sun comes out and the snow softens.

See Heather's Boston.com blog about the 4th annual Dumont Cup!
http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/ski/blog/2012/03/big_doings_at_s.html

Dumont Cup this weekend!

Our family's obsession with Simon Dumont began with my daughter's crush five years ago...she thought Simon was all that and a bag of skittles. Then I saw him launch 36' off a monster manmade quater pipe at Sunday River in April of 2008 (establishing a Guinness World Record) and I joined the fan base for this freeskiing boy from Bethel. Simon has since won 9 X-Games medals, starred in numerous ski films, and acquired sponsors like the Shaq of skiing.

So that's where we'll be this weekend, watching Simon and his freeskier friends - Alex Schlopy, Jossi Wells, Tom Wallisch, Bobby Brown, all of whom my daughter is more excited about now - girl crushes change.

This is your chance to see the best in big air hit new heights at the 3rd annual Dumont Cup!

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Simon Dumont & the 3rd annual Dumont Cup at Sunday River

My daughter's obsession with Simon Dumont began when she was 14. This amazing athlete from Sunday River was smashing freeskiing records, launching big air and giving my daughter butterflies in the process. I actually let her skip school on a sunny spring day in April 2008 to witness Simon's Guinness World Record 35' jump at Sunday River...I frankly knew it would be one of those rare sunny blue ski days with soft corn snow- the Simon show was a bonus to me.

That dreamy day led to our annual pursuit of the now pro Dumont. We attended his first Dumont Cup and met his entourage of freeskier friends - Tom Wallisch, Josse Wells, Mike Riddle, Peter Olenik...which led to the 2nd annual Dumont Cup and more famous fun athletes and another big air showdown throwdown.

And that led to my assignment to write about the mighty young man from Bethel and his 3rd annual Dumont Cup for Maine Magazine...

Like all teen crushes, Simon has grown up and my daughter Aspen has moved on to the new fresh young faces of freeskiing, specifically Olympic freeskier medalists Gus Kenworthy, Nick Goepper and Alex Schlopy who swept the podium at Sochi Russia's Winter Games 2014. These guys are going bigger and better than their predecessors who petitioned the IOC to include slopestyle skiing and super pipe skiing as an official Winter Olympic venue.

Perhaps taking my Aspen to Winter XGames in Aspen is next... and we will continue to go every March to the annual Dumont Cup at Sunday River...now turning 7 in 2015. After all, you never forget your first ski crush. Dumont is now nicknamed the Godfather of freeskiing, which makes my daughter feel old. #lol