Suddenly the Green Monster doesn’t look so imposing at Fenway
The left field wall at Fenway Park is known as the Green Monster and is legendary in baseball, but it has been dwarfed this week by a 140-foot ramp skiers and snowboarders are using to perform all sorts of craziness at the Polartec Big Air at Fenway competition.
Watching these amazing athletes perform death-defying jumps is always entertaining but putting them in an iconic baseball stadium has taken things to a new level. The ramp they’re using appears to be about three times as big as the Green Monster and is 14 stories tall.
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The big air event is part of the U.S. Grand Prix tour and athletes are competing for a $150,000 grand prize. It makes for some great images and theater. Generally you would have to be in a helicopter or attached to a parachute to get these kinds of views of the ballpark. The only things that get this high around here are fly balls off the bat of Red Sox slugger David Ortiz.
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