Alpine Meadows is hosting the second stop of the high-speed, action-packed Rahlves Banzai Tour this week. This year's course has been altered to accommodate snow conditions, but is sure to provide all the thrills that spectators have come to expect from the Banzai events.

Tahoe TV was on-hand to capture last year's inaugural Beaver Bowl Banzai - see video above.

[Tahoe City, Calif.] February 18, 2012 – Alpine Meadows will host the 2nd annual Beaver Bowl Banzai tour stop, Feb. 23 and 24, as part of the Rahlves Banzai Tour. This event, considered the world’s premier big mountain freeskiing meets skier/boardercross event, is a top-to-bottom race on challenging, natural terrain and snow conditions where skiers and riders go head-to-head, four at a time. The course has been relocated to Wolverine Bowl from Beaver Bowl. The course will start at the top of Wolverine Bowl at Round Rock, south of Idiot’s Delight, continue down through Wolverine Bowl, take a splash into the Waterfall before heading out onto the Face, then to Kangaroo Ridge, in and out of Kangaroo Gully a few times before finishing on the Summit run-out around tower three under the Summit chair.

Event Schedule
Time trials are on Thursday, Feb. 23; with a solo qualifying run that will rank the top 32 men for  ski/board and top 16 women for  ski/board to move on to the finals on Friday, Feb. 24 to compete for a $15,000 prize purse. The overall tour purse total is $80,000.

This event combines the competitive excitement of skier and boardercross with the speed-thrill of a downhill race.  Event organizer Daron Rahlves, a former US World Cup and Olympic skier, knows a thing or two about both. With 12 World Cup gold medals, Rahlves has won more medals and achieved more podium finishes spanning the globe than any other American man in the history of ski racing and competition.  Rahlves’ vision to fuse skier/boardercross and downhill racing equals one maniacal display of speed, strength, and strategy through Alpine’s most difficult steeps and off-trail terrain; non-stop from summit to base.

For more information about the Beaver Bowl Banzai, visit www.rahlvesbanzai.com or contact the Alpine Meadows events department at 530.581.8332.