This is just a reminder to those who plan like we do (at the last minute) that the 2013 SIA Snow Show runs January 31 – February 4, 2013.
Scheduled for January 31 – February 3, at the Colorado Convention Center, the 2013 SIA Snow Show four-day event expects to draw over 19,000 attendees including suppliers, retailers, reps, athletes, media and professionals from across the globe. The Snow Show, which sold out in booth space last May, will feature over 950 snow sports brands covering over 334,000 net square feet of exhibit space including 40 new exhibitors that are brand new to the Show or returning after taking a hiatus.
It wouldn’t be a bad time to book your trip. Then again, we’ve never practiced what we preach because we’re not the kind of people we’re preaching to. Follow the jump for all the official details. [click to continue…]
For this month’s Every Third Thursday the Signal Snowboards crew clicked deeply into the Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 world to deliver a “bona-fide bulletproof Snowboard.” You know, for the times you’re caught in the crossfire and you need a little cover. We haven’t seen this much blood in a snowboard edit since RedSnow.
Have to admit it, these Supra Backwoods by Prodigy of Mob Deep look like the perfect after-shred sneaks.
The “Infamous” Backwood is a work boot/athletic-shoe hybrid constructed atop a unique sole that has a lightweight and comfortable SUPRAFOAM midsole with a rugged, rubber lug outsole. Prodigy designed the upper with grey suede camouflage and black ballistic nylon.
Warm, grippy, stylie. What else you want? Follow the jump for the official word from Supra. [click to continue…]
It’s always good to get a peek into the minds behind the cameras and this short on Matt Georges from the Pirate Movie Crew is no exception. The big question: Does Matt consider himself an “artist” or a “tool”? Watch the video and you’ll get the answer.
Spy, The Seventh Letter, and international graffiti artist Pose worked together to create this color way for Spy’s Platoon snowboard goggle.
“We provided Pose the blank canvas of the Platoon and let him take full advantage,” says Brent Sandor, SPY brand manager. “The SPY + Pose sharpie that comes with it is the icing on the cake.” . . Pulling graphics from several large scale paintings, the SPY + The Seventh Letter + Pose Platoon bleeds his trademark graffiti style on both the inside and outside of the goggle strap, is accented with raised, sign painter inspired 3D patches and carries the Pose seal of approval in the form of his signature logo emblazoned onto the lens.
SPY + The Seventh Letter + POSE retails for $150 and comes with a “fully sublimated microfiber pouch and a free yellow bonus lens” for those super stormy days. For the official word from Spy, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
686 has collaborated with LA style house Crooks & Castles on a line of street inspired technical snow gear.
“For the past twenty years, 686® has been known for making the best technically advanced products in winter apparel, while working with brands such as Levis and Dickies,” says 686 President and Creative Director Michael Akira West. “I wanted to pay homage to our Los Angeles roots and do something cool with our homies at Crooks & Castles.”
For an interview with West and Crooks & Castles Design Director Emil Soriano and a video follow the jump. [click to continue…]
In one of their most recent steps toward becoming a big, old, new media snowboarding super site Yobeat.com has announced the promotion of their intern Justin Thomas Moulthrop Leveille a.k.a. “Stan, Young Mountain Baby, J Money the Mountain Man, Weekend Warrior, Terry Dactyl, Mr. Anonymous, Hansu Weith and Tech” to the position of Managing Editor.
Leveille will assist in content curation and creation, as well as providing entertainment and herbal refreshment at the office. He will continue to exploit his brainchild the Toeside Terrors, as well as starring in “Thursdays at the Office.” His varied skills and complete willingness to make a fool of himself on a snowboard and on camera were the perfect addition to the crew. . . “Basically I knew Justin was a keeper when my sister, who was on the UVM Snowboard Team with him, said he was ‘Not an idiot.’ That’s the kind of skill set we look for at Yobeat,” YoBeat publisher and Editor-in-Chief Brooke Geery said.
We’re wondering if this promotion has anything to do with Geery’s recent “employment upgrade” at a local Portland cobbler. Follow the jump for the official word from Yobeat. [click to continue…]
From the looks of this promo we’d have to say that the new Neffland Park at Park City is going to be a rainbow of flavor. Seems like this video could use a little snow, or something. Shed like never before, rave bro.
Snowboarders Derek Tyndall and Thomas Dale ended up spending two nights on Mt. Ranier before finally being rescued are back off the mountain now, according to a story in the Seattle Times.
Tyndall, of Sumner, and Dale, of Indiana – were carving turns down from Camp Muir Sunday afternoon when a heavy storm forced them to halt their descent. They did not have overnight gear or extra food, save a few crackers, but immediately began preparing to hunker down for the night. . . “They are extraordinarily fortunate,” Mount Rainier National Park spokesman Kevin Bacher said. “This is a case where something went wrong, but from that point on they did everything right. They didn’t compound the situation by making poor decisions.” . . The two boarders called 911 and dug a snow cave near a freshwater spring not far from the southern end of the Paradise Glacier and used their snowboards to block its entrance and keep 70 mph winds at bay. They kept themselves warm and dry and did not move around.
This is just a reminder to those who plan like we do (at the last minute) that the 2013 SIA Snow Show runs January 31 – February 4, 2013. 
