The parents of a 16-year-old girl who was reportedly sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old snowboarding coach while the two were at Copper Mountain for the 2011 Nationals are apparently suing Carrabassett Valley Academy for $1.35 million, according to a story in the Sun Journal.
The lawsuit, filed last month by attorney D. Michael Noonan of Dover, N.H., claims that the school was negligent when it allowed [the coach], whose current age and town of residence are not included in the complaint, to continue coaching after it learned he had had a sexual relationship with a female student before his assault on “JD.”
For it’s part CVA says they “terminated its relationship with the coach, notified the student’s parents and notified the appropriate authorities.” She also said that the 19-year-old was not the girl’s coach.” Ugly situation all the way around.
In days past it would be a storm that would get the sheds restless, now it’s the jet fighter sounds of snow guns that get hearts racing. And Colorado’s Copper Mountain is doing just that as they fired up their snowmaking guns this morning, October 2, 2012.
Favorable weather conditions have enabled Copper Mountain Resort to fire up the snow guns this morning, commencing one of Colorado’s largest snowmaking operations and the U.S. Speed Center VIP Preview Contest. 87 automatic snowmaking guns will be dedicated to the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center, the world’s only early season full-length alpine racing venue, scheduled to open in late-October.
Hope it stays cooled enough to make it stick. For the official details, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
The crew from Snowboard Alta went up to Utah’s Skiing Only resort to ask skiers how the felt about snowboarders riding on the mountain. As might be expected, no one wanted to see snowboarders on Alta Ski Area. Then again, these are people who have chosen to ski a mountain that excludes snowboarders. Kind of like walking into the smoking lounge at the Las Vegas airport and asking people if smoking should be banned.
Hey, baby. Videograss new film The Darkside should be hitting the iTunes store soon. In the meantime, take another look at the teaser. The film features: Ben Bilocq, Chris Grenier, Danimals, Darrell Mathes, Gus Engle, Harrison Gordon, Jake OE, Joe Sexton, Johnny Miller, Jon Kooley, Jonas Michilot, Jordan Mendenhall, Laurent-Nicolas Paquin, and last but not least, Nick Dirks.
You can’t get his super stealth pair of Ashbury Blacked Out Bullets on their site (they say it’s sold out), but you may be able to find a pair at an Ashbury dealer. Better get looking, these are bound to be gone real soon.
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.
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…]
Lib Tech’s7th 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…]
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.
