Diamonds in the Rough

Sugarbush has been a hotbed of freestyle skiing since the culture took serious root in the early 1960’s. Former ski school director Stein Eriksen’s famous flips were inspiring to many young skiers. By the mid-70’s, athletes like Hoover Austin and John Egan were tearing up bumpfields and launching even bigger airs on natural terrain all over Lincoln Peak. Born in 1993, the Diamond Dogs are an integral part of the Sugarbush freestyle evolution, thanks to a forward thinking Blazer coach …