SnoCross made a triumphant return to X Games Aspen 2013, after a brief one-year hiatus from the event in 2012.

Tucker Hibbert became the first person to six-peat at X Games Aspen Sunday when he won Snowmobile SnoCross after leading the 15-man final from the start. The 28-year-old won his seventh career SnoCross gold medal 13 years after he won his first, at age 15. He is still the youngest gold medalist in X Games winter sports history.

"For me it was weird," said White. "They were like how do you feel being the oldest competitor and it freaked me out. I don't think I've ever been more focused and more in tune with what I'm doing physically as well as mentally. Six years! That's pretty heavy, though. It's going to be more uncomfortable next year when I'm going for the seventh."

There were a few X Games firsts in Women's Ski Slopestyle Finals on Sunday. Among them, Utah's Jamie Crane-Mauzy, who placed seventh, became the first female to land a double backflip in competition.

Ayumu Hirano, 14, isn't just satisfied to be at X Games. "I want to be on that podium," he said. And at his first X Games event, the protégé of the great Kazu Kokubo, he did just that -- coming in 2nd in SuperPipe on Sunday.

Sweden's Henrik Harlaut won Saturday night's Ski Big Air by landing the first nose butter triple cork 1620. "Skiing is the most fun thing I know in this world," Harlaut said after winning. "The jump was so good. I had good speed and everything worked out super well."

Electronic dance-music artist Calvin Harris had a huge crowd bouncing at X Games Aspen 2013. The X Fest Stage area was jam packed with people too busy dancing and fist-pumping to mind the steady snow.

Two days after claiming X Games gold in Snowmobile Freestyle, Levi LaVallee returned for Snowmobile Speed & Style to claim his second gold medal of X Games Aspen. With LaVallee's name on the invite list for Snowmobile Best Trick, there's a chance he could roll away from Aspen with three X Games gold medals.

After an almost overwhelming amount of "will he or won't he" drama leading into his face-off with Shaun White in Slopestyle, McMorris rose to the occasion and exceeded every expectation. White on the other hand, surprised everyone by not even making the podium.

Belgium's Seppe Smits learned how to ride on a dry slope and has been a regular on Big Air podiums for the past few years. After landing his very first triple cork 1440 in Big Air finals on Friday, he earned his first X Games medal, a bronze, in Slopestyle on Saturday.

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The total crowd count for Saturday, Jan. 26 at X Games Aspen was 47,200. That is a single day record for an X Games winter event, breaking the mark of 45,600 set on Saturday at X Games Aspen 2012.

I-Pod not only qualified first for Sunday's SuperPipe finals, on Saturday in practice he was spotted landing a brand new trick -- one he had only landed into an airbag before arriving at X Games Aspen. Looks like the stage is set for another showdown.

Saturday was a historic night for Women's Snowboard SuperPipe Finals. Kelly Clark earned a three-peat and Elena Hight unleased a backside double alley-oop rodeo, becoming the first snowboarder of either gender to land that trick in competition. Queralt Castellet from Spain, shown here, placed sixth.

On Day 2 at X Games Aspen 2013, Bobby Brown qualified in the fourth spot in Ski Slopestyle Elimination. Next, he'll compete in Ski Big Air Finals on Saturday night, where, Brown says, "I think this year [a triple] is definitely going to happen [in Ski Big Air]. It's going to happen in qualifying, I'm sure."

Two trick firsts went down in Snowboard Big Air Friday night: Mark McMorris' Cab triple underflip 1440 and Torstein Horgmo's switch triple cork 1440. Horgmo was awarded a perfect score of 50 for his trick, and went home with gold.

In the Men's Ski Slopestyle Elimination on Friday, Brit James Woods earned the highest qualifying spot, while defending gold medalist Tom Wallisch didn't make the cut for finals. PK Hunder, shown here, finished 16th.

In Snowboard Street Finals on Friday, Colorado local Dylan Alito claimed the silver medal behind French Canadian Louis-Felix Paradis. "That was pretty nerve-racking to do," Alito said. "Not many people do 270s onto closeout rails."

After a crash in his first run in Ski Slopestyle Elimination on Friday, James Woods said, "I knew in the back of my head I could fix that and throw down a good run." He did and qualified first for Sunday's Ski Slopestyle Finals.

At the close of the Snowboard Street Finals on Friday, top finishers Louis-Felix Paradis, Dylan Alito, Dylan Thompson, and Jaeger Bailey removed their shirts and threw massive laid-out backflips off the biggest gap jump, drawing a huge cheer from the crowd.

Norway's Ståle Sandbech stomped a perfect triple cork 1440 on his third run of Big Air finals, scoring him a near-perfect score of 49 that put him solidly in the lead. Though he was bumped to third position by two never-been-landed tricks thrown by Torstein Horgmo and Mark McMorris at the buzzer, Sandbech's solid, stylish tricks were the hit of the night.

X Games Aspen 2013 got off to a huge start on Day 1 with the first gold medal (Levi LeVallee in Snowmobile Freestyle), some brutal crashes, and heated eliminations. Stay tuned for more action to come in Aspen, Colo.

Defending Men's Ski SuperPipe champion David Wise took the top spot in SuperPipe eliminations on Thursday. "I have always been hungry to be at the top level, one step, one trick or one foot ahead of the rest," Wise has said.

The Men's Snowboard Slopestyle elims could go down as the heaviest contest of the week. All 16 invited riders are good enough to make the finals, but after a nail-biting two runs, many favorites, such as Ståle Sandbech here, didn't make the cut.

In a surprise turn of events, Shaun White declined to take his second run in SuperPipe Elims after his first-run score came in just .33 points off of first-place finisher Iouri Podladtchikov's. I-Pod's Swiss compatriot Christian Haller qualified for the finals in seventh place.

Following a two-year absence at X Games, Levi LaVallee returned to claim gold in a carnage-filled Snowmobile Freestyle finals. "It's definitely a dangerous sport but this is what everyone does," LaVallee said following the win.

Levi LaVallee celebrates with members of his support team following his win in Snowmobile Freestyle at X Games Aspen on Thursday night. "I'm going to bed," LaVallee said, "and I'll celebrate after Best Trick on Sunday."

The first head-to-head matchup between X Games Tignes 2012 Slopestyle silver and gold medalists, Mark McMorris and Shaun White, went down in spectacular fashion. McMorris lived up to the hype and qualified first, while White made the eight-rider cut by one place.