Bonfire’s first Pipe 2 Pipe went down a few days ago here at Windells and even though a little bit of fog rolled in during the contest, Windells staff emerged from the clouds to lay down bangers and take both first and third for the snowboarding portion of the day. Scott Hoffman, one of the diggers, took home first place and 500 bucks and Windells veteran, Jeremiah Paquette landed himself in third place and grabbed 100 bucks.

Scott Hoffman took first and 500 bucks on hill with some jib trickery

Windells: You just won five hundred bucks–what are your plans for said money?
Scotty: I am going to save my money for a snowmobile.

Windells: So it was a pretty good day, overall?

It was really fun. Everybody was having a lot of fun and basically it was the funnest day of my life. The set up was really fun, it was like a down flat rail and a down-flat-down rail and I gapped it and a down rail. All the rails were really smooth. It was basically the best thing I could have asked for. [And] we sang the national anthem, me and Kyle [Martola], yesterday morning when we were grooming the park.

Windells: So it would be like a baseball game?
Scotty: Exactly.

Windells: So you think that might have given you the extra edge in the competition?
Scotty: Uh huh. Straight American.

Jeremiah (on right) gets by with a little help from his friends.

Windells: I hear this is your first cash money victory.

Jeremiah: It is. Big Money. I’ve always won weird things like tshirts and hats, stickers, [but] always looking out for the money. It took about 13 years in the making in my snowboarding career. We pulled through in the end.

Windells: What was the height of your trickery in the comp?

Jeremiah: Probably the 5050 noseblunt slide on the down-flat-down rail.

Windells: How long before you go pro?

Tentatively, it’s scheduled for the ’13-’14 season, so I got a couple more years. [I'm] working on some moves, but I think I’ll get there.