Fenway Park Transformed With 140-Foot Big Air Snow Ramp

Julia Marino, 18, is a 2018 Olympic hopeful and surprised her peers with her win at the World Cup Big Air competition.

At Boston’s historic Fenway Park, ski jumpers were practicing their tricks on a 140-foot-high (42.7 m high) ski jump covered in artificial snow that towered over the stadium’s famed “Green Monster” left field wall.

Both U.S. team riders will be accompanied by a strong armada from the hosting nation including the likes of Karly Shorr, Ty Walker, Jessika Jenson as well as Kyle Mack, Ryan Stassel, Eric Beauchemin, Eric Willet and Charles Guldemond.

Content Preview This content is exclusive for Optimum, Time Warner, Comcast, customers with access to News 12. Its an odd tradition, but one that signals the impending arrival of spring for those who have run out of patience with the ice and snow. The ramp is higher than the dang light towers. “So many people came out here to support me from the East Coast, so you got to put on a show”. “I’m just so stoked to be here that I’m just really excited”, Shorr said. The ski ramp is just the latest addition to the ballparks repertoire.

Fenway Park was created to house baseball games, and occasionally, it converts itself to house a college football game, like it did in November 2015. Organizers had been working on the event for nine months, but they couldn’t be sure everything was going to work until the athletes hit the ramp.

David Young has been a columnist for ESPN and Sports Illustrated, and has never caught air, only caused it. Skiers and snowboarders say they hope events like the one at Fenway also help attract a new, bigger audience to their sport.

A little more than two years after dropping into the slopestyle course at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Rigby’s Jessika Jenson made a much bigger drop at an event that created as much of a spectacle on American soil. “So I think it’ll be OK”.