The Burton Stash in Avoriaz Gets Bigger This Winter
Improvements for this season to the all natural feature park from Burton
The Stash in Avoriaz is the go to place for natural freestyle riding, created in conjunction with Burton it's still one of the best of it's kind in Europe, and this winter it's set to get even better!
Tammy from Mint Snowboarding School has been investigating what the park team have been up to since a few new features have been spotted popping up in the trees in the last few months.
The inventory now includes 36 features, including 4 new ones at the bottom of the Lindarets forest, a new banked slalom course in the middle and they've also started a protection programme for tree saplings.
Here's how the feature inventory looks for this year:
- Up flat down
- Snake Run
- Pyramid
- Up gap down
- Wall
- Quarter to coping
- The crazy jib of hell
- Stash stump
- The fallen dead tree
- Double wall
- Hang on the wall - NEW
- The suicide pole jam
- Benches
- Flat down
- Double curved wall - NEW
- Wall ride
- Shreddie's rainbow
- The souvenir bridge
- The old picnic table
- The new picnic table - NEW
- Curved wall
- Wall ride
- Transition to vertical tree
- The massive extended wall
- The roof
- Natural jib trunk
- The little up flat down
- The rainbow log
- The washing machine
- The banana
- Corner jump
- Bonk on the trunk
- The other pyramid
- Corner jump
- Transition to bench
- Corner of the bonk
The Stash is around 1.3km long and covers a vertical descent of around 470m. There are three different levels of difficulty through the trees which meet half way at a cabin, and it's all accessed via the Prolays chairlift (see maps here).
Take a look at the pictures above to see the work in progress and hit the weblink button in the top right hand corner to find out more about Mint Snowboarding School.
