This past weekend the 29th Annual Mt. Baker Banked Slalom took place. This event is the real deal; it’s the race that started, and inspired the current trend of banked slalom events that happen ...

Mt. Baker Ski Area’s annual snowboarding competition, the 36th Legendary Bank Slalom, has been canceled due to a lack of snow. This year’s El Niño winter is bringing warmer weather conditions ...

SEATTLE – Next weekend’s 36th annual Legendary Banked Slalom snowboarding competition at Mt. Baker Ski Area has been canceled. The culprit: El Niño, which has sent too much rain, too little snow.

Learn more. CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Seth Wescott was more interested in playing the part of a proud papa than a conquering hero Sunday after he won his first Sugarloaf Banked Slalom on Sunday.

To a celebrated snowboarder such as Seth Wescott, the race is a throwback to the most elementary of times. “There is something wonderful about the simplicity of a course and clock,” he said.

Over the years, the Mt. Baker Banked Slalom has compiled a champion's list that reads like a Snowboarding Hall Of Fame induction ceremony: Tom Sims ('85), Craig Kelly ('91, '93), Terje Haakonsen ...

Competitors race in a luge-like course, jump sky high in the style jump event and get into snowball fights during the third annual Trick Ditch Banked Slalom competition Saturday, April 6 ...