HOOOOO DOGGIE! Sunset Sliders are currently traveling through the deserts of the Southwest on a tour of magnificent proportions. Tuesday was Day 1 of the shredding and it proved to be incredibly exciting with the Arroyo Invitational Boardercross race. Nothing of the sort have my eyes seen before with ditch slalom, jump ramps, mine fields and smoke bombs. Sunset Sliders very own shredder Jessie “Pepper” Brieman put in work in his first ever ditch race and battled from the losers bracket to earn his position in the semi-finals. Along the way he braved a wicked 3-man heat to meet the desert legend Will Brunson in the quarter-finals. Will and Pepper proceeded to put on a show that will be told to future generations across all the lands…
Pepper took off with a tremendous push and led until the final jump ramp, over a ladder mind you, where Brunson caught up with tremendous force. As the two hit the ramp, the prodigious power of the two racing sent pepper to his feet as his board slipped away mid-air in the jump of destiny. Joe, awesome event organizer and general radical dude, chatted with Brunson, the presumed champ and Brunson decided he wanted to do a re-race in the interest of a good challenge. Pepper gave him hell and as the two entered the mine field; filled with boulders, bricks, glass, cones, beer cans, oil slicks, hecklers and smoke bombs Brunson tumbled as did Pepper, both spilling blood across the heated ditch concrete. Pepper gathered himself and quickly got across the finish line which then took the two valiant fighters into a final elimination race. After a few seconds to wipe some blood and take a breath race 3 began and all the spectators knew they were watching what was truly the champions round! Pepper took off from the start with a horse legged push and whisked his way into the cones holding a line fit for a king. As Brunson followed he pinched sharply on the second cone, a bush barrel on the flat apron,
