Featuring: Top ranked professional skiers and snowboarders, The Silver Boombox Thief on the turntables and event production from Crux Events.

New format: This year teams of ten will compete. There will be individual contests for first half of event (Best 540, Best Female and Best Male winners will be team captains).

Cost: Trains is FREE to watch! Catered food from Full Belly Deli (Truckee, CA) and Jamie Lavalle’s world famous Buffalo chicken wings will be available for a donation.

Post Event Party: Immediately following the contest at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort “Sun Deck” (Olympic Valley, CA) with great food & drink specials and music.

Watch the Trains 2011 - Shreddy Times - Presented by Volkl / Marker USA Video:

~Trains 2012 Sponsors: Volkl Skis, Marker Bindings, Alpine Meadows | Squaw Valley, vitaminwater (official non-alcoholic beverage), Miller/Coors (official alcoholic beverage), DieCutStickers.com, Powder Magazine, GoPro, Cabot Creamery Coorperative, Sports Basement, Start Haus, Smith Optics, Arcade Apparel, Discrete Headwear, Skullcandy and TRX Suspension Training.

~Event partners: BigTruck Headwear, Full Belly Deli (Truckee), Aelix Clothing (official clothing sponsor), the Auburn Ale House and Sports Insurance.

~Post Event Party: Immediately following the contest at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort “Sun Deck” (Olympic Valley, CA) with great food & drink specials and music.

For more information: www.highfivesfoundation.org

The High Fives Foundation is one of the best things to happen to the snowsports industry, even moreso than neon or pabst blue ribbon. They are a Tahoe based charity that helps athletes, who have sustained life altering injuries, in their path to better health. They are also one of the only charities I know, that throw a huge event to donate money to other charities. That event is called TRAiNS. The TRAiNS event went down at Alpine Meadows this past weekend, and was one of the more entertaining competitions I have ever been to. The format is pretty cool. 45 minutes of best 540, 45 minutes of best backflip, and 45 minutes of best TRAiN. Teams are groups of 5 skiers and snowboarders, and during the "TRAiNS" portion, they machine gun features like circus performers. Pretty insane. Add to the fact that the main jump was a poppy 75 foot booter, and you've got yourself a show!

Johnny Lazz, beastly back 1

Toby Miller is 13 and WAY better than you are at snowboarding

Danny Toumarkine from ShreddyTimes.com needs a haircut...and a shower

Every snowboarders favorite skier, Omar Otte

Slow down buddy, you're ooooozing style

'That Guy' was there too

The crowd seemed pretty hungry. Maybe had something to do with the date?  Roy Tuscany crushes some bbq from Full Belly Deli

Balloon dude Sean Rogers made a huge train for the event....

So I stole it and went for a joyride

Tomahawk owner, and Tahoe legend Jimbo Morgan

Katie Souza was there advertising

Johnny Lazz isn't just a rail rider. Here he is tossing one of a couple 10's over the massive booter

Lazz with the sick claim. He didn't win anything

Check out the video edit Conor Toumarkine of ShreddyTimes.com made. It's pretty good. You may even see a cameo spraying the crowd...