Flashback Friday: Brighton Locals

July 31

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Back in the early 90′s, the snowboard scene in Utah was based in Little Cottonwood Canyon at Snowbird. Legends like Andy Hetzel, Tina & Mike Basich, and many more called it home.

Meanwhile, one canyon over in Big Cottonwood a new crop of snowboard stars were emerging. Check out Snowboarder’s archived footage from 1994 of Capita Snowboard’s owner Blue Montgomery and crew at Brighton. Classic footage! Gotta love all the no grab shifty’s that were so popular at that time.

Besides Alec Wheeler, Greg Pearson, and Joe Stalzer, who are featured in this edit, who were some of the other rippers at Brighton during this period? The first name that pops into my mind is George Johnston. Got any other names?

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John Enloe

Yea ME!
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liderc

i’m afraid BM was never a brighton loc – original brighton loc’s are as follows: steve fry, brandon ruff, jason brown, zack watkins, jon keddington, adam compton, sam compton, chris hill, and sam van duren who skinned bark off all the jibs and paved the way for the jib-centric version of snowboarding we now have..Blue won a few pipe comps back east where he is from and attended university in utah but subsequently moved to the northwest which is where most of the people he rode with when he was in utah where also from.. e.g. meeks, schuefell also not locs from brighton.. nigga pleez!!
Karen Salita

Ha! Yeah Enloe, you were there. So was Tonino Copene, Josh Skolnick, and the Leines brothers.