By all accounts, Dawson Ellery had a "pretty good weekend" on his board.
Under sunny, but cold skies, the 14-year-old teenager from Prince George captured gold in both of his age-group classes at the B.C. Snowboard Federation's Like Me Snowboard Series tour stop at Tabor Mountain Ski Resort.
Ellery won all four of his races in Sunday's snowboard cross event, and as well as Saturday's slopestyle event.
Sunday's snowboard cross competition featured a field of 50 athletes in several open age group classes as well as Masters and Fderation Internationale Ski classes. It was contested on the eastern slopes of Tabor Mountain as riders raced each other in several heats down a narrow course with banked turns and jumps, covering steep and flat terrain.
Saturday's slopestyle contest involved 24 athletes sliding length-wise over obstacles such as boxes and metal rails on a downhill course that leads to a series of jumps on the newly constructed terrain park. Riders were judged on their ability to execute tricks.
"It was my first slopestyle event and I felt pretty good about it," Ellery said after Sunday's competition. "I just did tricks that I knew. It was my first time on the snowboard cross track. There were a lot of rollers on it and I'm really good at that."
Ellery is a member of the Northern Edge Snowboard Club and the Tabor Mountain club and has snowboarded for eight years.
Hailey Laing, 12, was the first across the finish line in the female nine to 19 category in Sunday's snowboard cross event. The Grade 7 student from Mackenzie won all three of her heats.
"It was my first race this season and it was a fun track," she said. "There aren't many girls who compete so it was fun to compete against so many today."
Tor Green, a 17 year-old from Prince George, won his 15 to 18 age category in Saturday's slopestyle and finished second in Sunday's snowboard cross in the 16 - 26 age category.
"I'm pretty happy with how the weekend went," said Green, a member of the Northern Edge and Anti Gravity clubs. "It's really good to have a track this close to Prince George.
"I like slopestyle a lot better because there's more variety and more ways to win with landing your jumps and degree of difficulty with tricks."
The following are results from Sunday's snowboard cross event.
In the female 9 to 19 category, Katie Peterson, 9, of Smithers was second, followed by Kayla Donald, 19, of West Kelowna in third, and Alecia Ferreira, 14, of Prince George was fourth.
Jonathan Anderson, 11, of Prince George won the male 4 to 11 category, followed by Tosh Krauskopf, 8, of Smithers in second, and Connor Johnson, 10, of Prince George in third place.
Behind Ellery in the male 12 to 14 category, 14-year-old Levi Foster of Dapp, Alta. was second, followed by Colby Graham, 12, of Prince George in third place.
Charles Lamoureux of Prince George won the male 16 to 26 category. Green was next in second place followed by Austin Stedeford, 19, of Mackenzie in third place.
Bill Laing of Mackenzie won the male 30 and over event, followed by Chris Ramsay of Prince George in second and Tyler Ellery of Prince George in third place.
Surrey's Shayna Goodwin won the female FIS category, while 16-year-old Meryeta O'Dine of Prince George finished in second. Katie Anderson followed in third place.
Kelowna's Clinton Pederson, 18, won the male FIS event, followed by 15-year-old Evan Bichon of Prince George in second, and Jin-Yong Woo, 27, of Seoul, South Korea in third place.
The following results are from Saturday's slopestyle event.
Krauskopf of Smithers was second behind Dawson Ellery in the male 14 and under event, while Jonathan Gullason of Fort St. John was third.
Trent Bruhsell of Smither was second behind Green in the male 15 to 18 event. Joe Reise of Mackenzie followed in third place.
Logan Short of Prince George won the male 19 and over event, followed by Jason Wexler of North Vancouver in second place, and Zach Sambad of Prince George followed in third place.
Laing was the top female in the female event, while Peterson was second.
