With the serious cold snap hitting the West Coast of the US this weekend Southern California’s Mountain High has decided to turn on the snow guns and begin making snow on Friday, November 9, 2012. With the guns running full speed they hope to open by Sunday morning, November 11.
“We are excited to get this season underway,” says Mountain High CMO John McColly. “With more than $1 Million in improvements and the possibility of another El Nino, this is going to be a terrific winter.”
If the mountain is open on Veterans Day (Monday, November 12) the resort will stick to their “active military rides free on Veterans Day” promise. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
Burton Snowboards is taking Ethan Deiss, Zak Hale, Mark Sollors, Niels Schack, Ludwig Lejkner, Dylan Alito, Jamie Nicholls, Wojtek Pawlusiak, Brandon Hobush, Takahiro Ishida and a few others down to Tokyo, Japan’s Roppongi Hills Arena on November 17, 2012 for what they are calling the “largest outdoor snowboard event in the city’s history.”
The contest starts at 5:00 pm and will feature many of the best rail snowboarders in the world competing on a completely redesigned course built by leading snow park and half pipe designers, Snow Park Technologies. The all-new course design brings the rustic atmosphere of the mountains to the packed streets of Tokyo with features like a hitching-post jib log, a picnic table gap jump and a handrail to log bonk. Measuring nine meters tall and 31 meters long, the massive wooden course will be covered in over 90 cubic meters of snow brought to central Tokyo specifically for this event.
The entire event will be on the web live at Burton.com on November 17, 2012 beginning at 11:30 PM PST (8:30 AM in Europe). Follow the jump for the official details. [click to continue…]
Louis-Felix Paradis goes snowboarding and we all get to watch.
This video features footage that earned him the 2012 X Games Real Snow gold medal, some of his time spent on Team Vacation, and some footage that until now, no one has seen. Louif is not a loud, in-your-face type of guy; he takes technical riding to the streets with modesty, unparalleled grace, and deafening style. Thousands have emulated him, but there can be only one. This is Louif.
Legendary new school snowboarder Dale Rehberg has been named Director of Marketing at Flow Snowboards.
“Dale was one of a cast of characters that helped pioneer the whole jib scene in the 90’s, a period which paved the way for today’s park and freestyle scene. Unfortunately, snowboarding has lost a bit of its irreverent, pioneering ways. We believe that Dale can bring this back to the sport and most certainly to Flow. Dales is authentic, fearless and a true maverick. We look forward to all the great things he will bring to the Flow brand.” – said, Flow Sports CEO, Anthony Scaturro.
It’s always good to see people with deep, deep roots in snowboarding moving into positions of leadership in the business. Congrats, Dale. For the official word from Flow, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Airlines are hard on things—bags especially. Burton’s Wheelie Flight Deck is made to get your gear home and back in one piece. The well thought out, bulletproof airline approved carry-on rolls smooth thanks to Burton’s skate-style IXION wheels and features a removable laptop bag perfect for grabbing some last minute in-flight entertainment.
Available in six color ways including a True Black style, this bag should be in everyone’s travel quiver whether they’re taking their first trip or on their 50th cruise.
We’ve been rocking an older version of this bag for years, gone thousands of miles and it’s still rolling, but this year’s Bombay Block Party print (right) has thinking about an upgrade.
The Wheelie Flight Deck retails for $219.95. We recommend that you click to buy.
For the 2012-13 season Rome Snowboards will be filming and producing monthly films for each month of the year beginning with November.
For the next twelve months, we’ll create and release a monthly film about some aspect of snowboarding that we are into. Different spots. Different riders. Different fixations. It’s a format that gives us the freedom to do whatever we want. . . The different months of the year open unique opportunities for different types of snowboarding. Sometimes we’ll probably slow shit down for mellow good times; sometimes we’ll ramp shit up with hammers—whatever we feel like doing that month. Pros, ams, regional kids, homies and assorted riders in the SDS will come along for the ride. Basically, if it feels good, we’ll do it.
That’s a nice way to get the crew to create some month web content, huh? Follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
Two-time Olympic snowboard cross gold medalist Seth Wescott loves Norway Savings Bank so much that he wears a Norway Savings Bank logo’d dress shirt each time he visits the bank. He also loves saving money. And really, who doesn’t.
With the serious cold snap hitting the West Coast of the US this weekend Southern California’s Mountain High has decided to turn on the snow guns and begin making snow on Friday, November 9, 2012. With the guns running full speed they hope to open by Sunday morning, November 11.
