Winter Dew Tour not returning to Copper Mountain in 2025
Liz Copan/For the Summit Daily News
After hosting a professional ski and snowboard competition every winter season for the better part of a decade, the Winter Dew Tour will not return to Summit County for the 2024-25 season.
The event was left off Copper Mountain Resort’s robust list of 2024-25 winter season events and was later confirmed by Dew Tour event organizers to not be returning to Copper or another Summit County ski area.
“There will not be a Dew Tour event in 2025,” Dew Tour event organizers said in a statement provided to the Summit Daily News. “For two remarkable decades, the Dew Tour helped showcase the incredible talents of world-class athletes across skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing, BMX and motocross and the Mountain Dew brand is incredibly proud of its support of the action sports community.”
The Dew Tour was first announced in late 2004 and made its debut in Louisville, Kentucky, in June 2005. In its inaugural year, the tour made additional stops in Denver, as well as Portland, Oregon, San Jose, California, and Orlando, Florida.
The tour was a widely successful in its first year, with athletes competing in outdoor summer events like BMX biking and skateboarding. The first Winter Dew Tour was held in the 2008 and similar to the summer event, made several tour stops.
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The first year of the winter tour made stops at Breckenridge Ski Resort, Vermont’s Mount Snow and Northstar in California. The tour returned to Breckenridge in the seasons that followed until the event shifted over to Copper Mountain Resort in February 2020.
Most recently, the Winter Dew Tour was hosted at Copper in March 2024, where world-class snowsport athletes like Eileen Gu, Lucas Foster, Mia Brookes and Alex Ferreira all competed in the 20th-anniversary event.
Since the 2023-24 competition season wrapped up, the snowsport industry has seen a shakeup in terms of the future calendar of events over the next few seasons.
Back in June, X Games announced that it would be moving to a year-round, global, team-based format in 2026, effectively shifting from its current event model which features two domestic events each year.
Shortly after X Games announced its plans for a new format for action sports, three-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White unveiled his own plans for an action sports league, The Snow League, which will focus primarily on snowboard and freeski halfpipe competitions.
Local and regional athletes quickly shared their excitement for the new leagues which will allow many of them to relish in new competition formats that get away from the rigidity of International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) competitions.
The X Games plans to host an event at Copper Mountain Resort in December, while The Snow League will launch its new series in Aspen from March 7-8.
The Dew Tour event organizers recognized the evolution that is currently taking place within the action sports industry stating, “However, with the ever-evolving nature of sports and culture, change brings fresh opportunities for growth, excitement and focus. This transition opens up different avenues for connection, celebration and energizing refreshment.”
The Dew Tour event organizers did not elaborate if the event will attempt to make a return in the future, but did thank all of the athletes, fans, sponsors and Copper Mountain for being an integral part of the Dew Tour.
As a Mountain Dew-sponsored athlete for many years, Silverthorne snowboarder and Olympic gold medalist, Red Gerard, was a focal point of many of the Winter Dew Tours at Copper Mountain Resort. Back in 2021, Gerard won his second consecutive Dew Tour title in the men’s snowboard slopestyle competition while Silverthorne’s Chris Corning finished in second.
Gerard also helped shape the super streetstyle ski and snowboard competition that made its debut at the 2023 event.
This story is from SummitDaily.com
