Get out there and have fun

The sixth annual West Coast Invitational and Rail Jam, this year spanning the Cinco de Mayo weekend May 4-6, is taking on a distinctly Mexican feel.

The ski and snowboarding festival is featuring a Village nighttime Rail Jam and a "Fiesta de la Pipa" at Mammoth Mountain.

In addition, the party has extreme snowmobile demos, live hip-hop concerts and the best pipe and rail riders competing for $20,000, all taking place over the course of one weekend.

"It is really turning into a complete festival weekend," said Oren Tanzer, Mammoth's director of Youth Action Sports. "It's the same thing WCI has always been – on steroids."

Vans Fiesta de la Pipa – Friday, 11 a.m.

The party fires up on Friday, May 4 at the second annual Vans Fiesta de la Pipa at the Mammoth Super Pipe. This is not like other pipe contests – it's a three-hour jam, judged by the riders themselves, in a freshly-built, 18-foot Zaugg-cut pipe lined with boxes, rails, unique jibs and piñatas. Despite the relaxed competition format the winners go home big-time with $10,000. Last year it was Chad Otterstrom Pat Moore, Peter Line, Eddie Wall, Jamie Anderson or any other of the 20 invited pros compete.

Red Bull Extreme Snowmobile Demos – Saturday and Sunday

New this year, Mammoth and Red Bull bring us freestyle snowmobile demos on the snow in front of the Main Lodge sundeck. Riders throw backflips over a 55-foot ramp to snow landing and the 75-foot snow takeoff to snow landing in two shows each day.

Live concert – Saturday, 3:30 p.m.

In front of Lakanuki. This line-up of West Coast hip-hop groups from Portland to L.A. features MyG with special guest Abstract Rude and Aceyalone, as well as performances by North Coast Underground, Hungry Mob and Sandpeople.

Village Rail Jam – Saturday, 8 p.m.

Lucas Magoon, Travis Kennedy and Eddie Wall use a triple line built on three stories of scaffolding. Featured: a down box with ledges, a 35-foot single, two-inch-round down rail and a 37-foot down-flat-down single rail.

After negotiating this double line of features they will proceed to an eight-foot tall, 24-foot wide wall ride.

Live concert – Saturday, 9:30 p.m.

Concert goers can take the Village Gondola to Canyon Lodge for a live performance by Guru, Superproducer Solar, DJ Doo Wop and DJ Smoky. This 21-and-over apres-fiesta is only $5 per person, and there will be plenty of Red Bulls to go around.