Although Aspen's Buttermilk Mountain is best known as the annual location for the ESPN Winter X Games, the mountain also offers rolling terrain that is ideal for beginners with a special Beginner Terrain. The mountain is also known for the two-mile Crazy T'rain Park, North America's largest terrain park and home of the coveted X Games Superpipe complete with an intense sound system. Over 141,000 visitors flock to Buttermilk Mountain each season to stir up the 200 inches of annual snowfall along 21 miles of trails. Buttermilk Mountain is located in the White River National Forest, just three miles outside from downtown Aspen, Colorado.
Highly coveted as one of the top extreme snow sports events in the country, the Winter X Games features well over 200 of the nation's top snowboarders as they compete for top honors, medals and cash.
Watch the freestyle snowboard and ski stars of tomorrow as they face-off in this three-day open event that includes men's and women's divisions of superpipe and slopestyle competition.
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