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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Spring Break is the snowboard/art project created by Corey Smith in which he and his friends make absurdist art snowboards, take them out into the snow, and ride them.
This year Ben Rice, Eric Messier, and Corey Smith took the boards to Mt. Bachelor and filmed in all it artistic, blur/pan, slow-mo glory. And yes, we have to admit that it all works beautifully all the way around. Scrap wood never looks so good.
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Last night Burton premiered their new film 13 at locations around the world. We attended the kickoff in Newport Beach, California and someone apparently captured the most of the opening sequence of the film. So, until we hear otherwise, here it is, live from the Lido Theater. Crowd noise included free of charge. If you want to watch the official version, click the link. We’ll have more soon.
[Link: Burton 13]
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The opening sequences of the 1985 James Bond film A View To A Kill featured one of Tom Sims most visible snowboarding moments and helped introduce pop culture to snowboarding. Even in the midst of the hailstorm of bullets, explosions, and chasers you still get a great feel for Sims’ timeless snowboard style.
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The word started getting out this morning that on the evening of September 12, 2012 skateboarding and snowboarding legend Toms Sims (pictured right in 1996) founder of Sims Skateboards and Sims Snowboards has died near his home at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital of suffered sudden cardiac arrest. He was 62 years old.
The Sims Snowboards website has the following message:
Forever missed, forever loved and forever a legend. Tom’s accomplishments speak for themselves. A true pioneer, Tom brought forward thinking concepts and innovations that forever changed the landscape of the snow and skate industry. His constant quest for the deepest powder, the longest downhill paved road and the smoothest wave has been and always will be an inspiration to us all.
Sims is survived by his wife Hilary, sister Margie Sims Klinger of Santa Barbara, sons Tommy and Shane, daughter Sarah and step daughters Alexa and Kylie Wagner. Our thoughts go out to Tom’s family and to the entire snowboard world. His contributions to the world of action sports will never be forgotten. Follow the jump for the official word.
[Link: Sims Snowboards via Yobeat and 705, ESPN] [click to continue…]
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Each week (or so) snowboard site Yobeat interviews someone on Wednesday. The interview is called Hump Day and this week they interviewed big mountain Jeremy Jones and got the lowdown on his unceasing quest for riding epic snowboarding lines.
We’ve always wondered where Jones’ big wall chasing would eventually end and in this interview he explains it pretty succinctly. In answer to interviewer Brad Oates question about a snowboard mountaineer who went missing in 2002 on Mt. Everest Jones had this to say:
Marcos Siffredi is a hero. Words can’t describe my respect for what he did with his snowboarding. The style that he did it – just on a whole different level. He went out in style and really did the biggest line in the world. For me -I don’t have a draw to that, I have a ton of respect for guys that are doing that stuff, it’s just that if I had gotten into real mountaineering maybe when I was 18 or something, maybe I would be on that plane, but my deal has been looking for these dream lines, meaning these ripple lines with perfect snow that can be charged, that can be ripped, so I’ve kind of stayed away from the really big, classic extreme mountaineering aspect of snowboarding and will continue to stay away from that stuff.
And we’re glad, because we like having Jones around in the long term. The rest of the interview is equally good and explains why Jones has had such a long, successful career in snowboarding.
[Link: Yobeat]
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