A HUGE, but belated, shout-out to Jackie Paaso's HUGE 45-foot huck at the Nissan Tram Face Squaw competition last week. Paaso, an unofficial Squaw rider, was right at home on the peppery Silverado, not only stomping a nearly impossible to land cliff-drop, but skiing one of the best lines of the day, literally. Paaso was in the lead of BOTH the men and women after Run 1. Below is an exerpt from her blog post about the experience. Way to go Jackie! Keep on Jumpin. —Leah Fielding, Associate Editor

Jackie Paaso's first-hand account of what it's like to win a Freeride World Tour stop...

by Jackie Paaso

...After a fun but somewhat disappointing trip in Europe I was back to Squaw for the third stop of the tour. Well kind of, I was first on the wait list hoping to get in. They made me sweat for it. After a few no’s they finally decided to give me a chance! Well it was pretty much all or nothing from that point on. I knew I really had to prove myself if I was ever going to be able to compete on this tour again.

It was the morning of the comp and it had been once again moved to Silverado instead of the Tram Face due to poor avalanche conditions. I wasn’t in much of a rush to get up to the course. I had a pretty good idea of where I wanted to go I just wanted to see some of the guys runs first. Most of them where going into the area I wanted to. I was concerned about landing in their bomb holes so I decided to go over them, well, atleast try. My plan was to go from the top. I spoke to Jimbo my Electric TM and he said as long as I went straight from some of the pepper at the top I should be fine. Well after landing an ok size cliff I headed straight for that pepper and like Jimbo said let it run from there!

I landed and bounced again another 20 feet or so. When I landed on my feet again I was a bit surprised to still be on my feet. I guess I was just so determined to prove myself and land it that I did. It was in the same area that a lot of men had bounced and not been as successful as me. After run 1 I was in the lead for both the women and men!

Go here to check out my run!

2010 Tram Face Women\'s winning run!