Looks like 686’s Patrick McCarthy has been putting in a little time behind the desk. Nerdcore 2013, huh?
[Link: 686]
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Snowboarding
We know what you’re saying to yourself: More Hot Dawgz & Hand Rails? Who cares about a bunch of crushed ice in the mountains of Los Angeles. Well, apparently Arbor and Flux care. And to tell you the truth we like this edit better than the one we posted earlier. So there.
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British Columbia Canada’s Red Mountain is nearly doubling their in-bounds terrain this season with an addition of 997 acres.
The 997-acre expansion on Grey alone is about the same size as the revered Mt. Baker Ski Area in Washington. To put this in perspective, total acreage with our new terrain on Grey makes RED larger than Jackson Hole, Wyoming. With the new zone, RED is elevated to the top three-percent (3%) of all resorts in North America for skiable acres (2,682!), while keeping its independent soul and escaping the stuffy (and expensive) trappings of many of the Mega Resorts.
For the 2012-13 season the Grey Zone will be accessed by an Alpina Sherpa sled, but during the summer of 2013 the resort is putting in a Poma Quad Chair. That means the civilians are coming. Better get it while you can this winter. Follow the jump for the official word from Red Mountain. [click to continue…]
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Lib Tech’s 7th Annual Downtown Throwdown returns to the crushed icy streets of Seattle (October 6, 2012) and San Francisco (October 27, 2012) to delight shred fans with epic shred rail work from some of snowboarding’s best show ponies.
The DTTD has grown from a local DIY project to the most anticipated and respected urban snowboarding event in the world. “It’s rad to see it keep growing each year,” says event creator Krush Kulesza “we were able to increase the prize money again, added some new features, the rider list is insane and Lib Tech’s even doing snow cones…it’ll be all-time!” . . Speaking of that rider list, easily the heaviest to date with Forest Bailey, Dylan Thompson, Dylan Alito, Brandon Hobush, Scott Stevens, Nick Visconti, Austin Hironaka, Ted Borland, Andrew Brewer, Ryan Paul, Desiree Melancon, Sean Black, Danyale Peterson, Austen Sweetin, Johnny Lazz, Brandon Hammid, Johnny Brady, Jaeger Bailey, Ethan Deiss, Nial Romanek, Max Warbington, Chris Brewster, Stefan Krumm, Yale Cousino, Zak Hale, Chris Cloud, Spencer Schubert and Daniel Brown all confirmed.
Sounds rad. Just remember not to drink that foul green juice they’ll undoubtedly be handing out at the event. Follow the jump for all the official details. [click to continue…]
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No need to wonder where you are, how high, how cold, how fast you’re going, or how far you jumped. Nope. With the new Zeal Z3 (with Recon MOD GPS and Polarized Automatic lens) all that data will be displayed right up in your face on a 16×9 widescreen display that only you can see. It can be paired with a Smartphone to allow you to see who’s calling you maybe, read text messages, all without even touching the phone.
The stunning GPS capabilities of the MOD Live can pin-point your location to within a meter, tracing your every move on the slopes. The on-board altimeter shadows you to the summit, where the thermometer informs you of the alpine conditions. . . As you set off, carving through the backcountry, your path is followed from mountain peak to ski lodge. Long gone are the days of soggy paper trail maps. You can now find your way around resorts easily aided by intuitive navigational features.
We didn’t believe it until we tried a pair on at the SIA Show in Denver last winter. We didn’t think it would work with our contacts on, but the Recon heads up display was in perfect focus. There, but not at all distracting.
[Link: Zeal Optics]
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Didn’t make it to Bear Mountain, California for the 9th Annual Hot Dawgz & Hand Rails fieta? We didn’t either, luckily for all of us Snowboarder Magazine was there to capture at least a portion of the action.
[Link: Snowboarder Mag]
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Fiat has teamed up with Nitro Snowboards to create vehicles based on the Qubo Trekking (above) designed to appeal to snowboarders and those who like to think of themselves as snowboarders, according to a story on Autoevolution.
The main feature, present on all the aforementioned cars is the roof-mounted storage box which can carry 490 liters-worth of snowboards, or anything else you may fancy carrying. However, you would have to take out the snowboard which already resides in the box, because all Nitro cars come with a snowboard and branded backpack.
The cars, premiered at the Paris Auto Show, also come with Nitro hoodie seat-covers to keep those dirty shreds from messing up the interior. Follow the jump for more photos. [click to continue…]
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The world’s largest snowboard company (Burton, duh) has partnered with the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. owned Pottery Barn Teen on an “an exclusive home collection” according to a story on Pymnts.com.
The new collection will be available through the PBteen catalog, e-commerce site PBteen.com and at the six PBteen stores beginning this September through the 2012 holiday season. . . The new Burton home collection includes bedding, lighting, lounge seating, wall décor and accessories for tweens and teens. The collection features patterns and prints inspired from Burton’s popular apparel line. Some highlights include: a quilt which is comprised of 12 t-shirt logos from Burton’s current and past seasons, as well as a duvet cover modeled after a Burton snowboard jacket with authentic details like zippers and pockets. The Burton home collection also includes wall murals featuring images of Burton Team Riders: Danny Davis, Gabi Viteri, Hannah Teter, Jussi Oksanen, and Nicolas Muller.
This stuff actually looks really good. If Pottery Barn is going to do snowboarding, they might as well do it right. Same for Burton.
[Link: PBTeen via Pymnts.com]
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Joe Carlino and Tanner Pendleton captured from pretty good footage of Jed Anderson and put it all together in this little Nike/Salomon joint titled In Full. Watch and weep.
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