The Burton Stash in Avoriaz Gets Bigger This Winter

The Stash in Avoriaz is the go to place for natural freestyle riding, created in conjunction with Burton it's still one of the best of it's kind in Europe, and this winter it's set to get even better!

Tammy from Mint Snowboarding School has been investigating what the park team have been up to since a few new features have been spotted popping up in the trees in the last few months.

The inventory now includes 36 features, including 4 new ones at the bottom of the Lindarets forest, a new banked slalom course in the middle and they've also started a protection programme for tree saplings.

Here's how the feature inventory looks for this year:

1. Up flat down
2. Snake Run
3. Pyramid
4. Up gap down
5. Wall
6. Quarter to coping
7. The crazy jib of hell
8. Stash stump
9. The fallen dead tree
10. Double wall
11. Hang on the wall - NEW
12. The suicide pole jam
13. Benches
14. Flat down
15. Double curved wall - NEW
16. Wall ride
17. Shreddie's rainbow
18. The souvenir bridge
19. The old picnic table
20. The new picnic table - NEW
21. Curved wall
22. Wall ride
23. Transition to vertical tree
24. The massive extended wall
25. The roof
26. Natural jib trunk
27. The little up flat down
28. The rainbow log
29. The washing machine
30. The banana
31. Corner jump
32. Bonk on the trunk
33. The other pyramid
34. Corner jump
35. Transition to bench
36. Corner of the bonk

The Stash is around 1.3km long and covers a vertical descent of around 470m. There are three different levels of difficulty through the trees which meet half way at a cabin, and it's all accessed via the Prolays chairlift (see maps here).

Take a look at the pictures above to see the work in progress and hit the weblink button in the top right hand corner to find out more about Mint Snowboarding School.