PORTLAND ( AP) — The smattering of snow and sleet over the past 24 hours in Portland won’t be enough to prevent the cancellation of Friday’s Downtown Showdown.
The fourth annual snowboarding and freestyle skiing event in Portland’s Monument Square has fallen victim to a lack of natural snowfall and warm weather that has prevented consistent snowmaking to create the 35-foottall skiing hill to be used for the event.
The city made the decision to go ahead and cancel. The state’s two biggest ski areas and co- sponsors, Sunday River and Sugarloaf, agreed with the decision.
The Downtown Showdown was supposed to be centered on a five-story rail and ramp system allowing aerial acrobatics by skiers and snowboarders.
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