Gabriel Lee Hilliard, a 30-year-old snowboarder died Wednesday, January 18, 2012, after hitting a tree on the run Deep Temertiy at Aspen Highlands, Colorado, according to a story in the Aspen Times.
The man was discovered, unconscious, by another skier who notified the Ski Patrol. A patroller performed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation on the man for an unknown period of time before he was pronounced dead at the scene. . . An investigation into the incident revealed a single snowboard track leading into a tree. It is believed the snowboarder hit that tree, continued and struck another tree. A branch from the second tree impaled the man in the left side of his chest, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Our thoughts are with Hillard’s friends and family.
686 is looking for some snowboard industry people who would like to settle a score, knock someone out, or just dust it up for a round in their Lights Out boxing matches during the SIA Show on January 26, 2012 at Casselman’s.
They’re describing it as “a fun-filled evening of your friends from the snowboarding industry kicking the s*$t out of each other!”
We’ve been diving into all the new Youtube “channel” content lately to see what it’s all about. (Want to read more about Youtube’s somewhat skewed logic check out John Seabrook’s story Streaming Dreams in The New Yorker).
Livin’ Louie Vito is just one of the shows Red Bull is populating their channel with that, not surprisingly, promotes an energy drink sponsored athlete. If you hadn’t noticed yet, self-serving media is the new media.
The search for someone to host a fictional new extreme sporting show called The Gnar Zone has potential to be one of the funniest new webisodes on Youtube. Check it. . .
In 1997 Burton Snowboards was at the nexus of a storm of rumors. The rumors were so pervasive that some clever instigator at the company created an extremely limited edition T-shirt for the 1997 SIA Trade Show in Las Vegas. The shirt jokingly outlined all the outlandish, outrageous things people were saying about the company that season.
Now, 15 years later, we thought it might be interesting to revisit the T-shirt that set out to sarcastically dispel the rumors and see how many of them eventually came true. Follow the jump for the complete rumor breakdown.
From the official news released today it would appear that Mike “Chief” Nusenow has a new boss of sorts, and someone who shares his SVP, winter sports title at Quiksilver.
Clark Gundlach, the former (wait, it’s a really, really long title) “Senior Vice President leading Sales, National Accounts, Sales Operations, Licensed Store Platforms, and Multi-Channel Distribution in North America and the Southern Hemisphere for Burton, RED and Anon brands” has been named Senior Vice President and General Manager of Winter Sports at Quiksilver, Americas.
“Clark, Chief, and the rest of the snow team in the Americas, along with athletes like Travis Rice and Torah Bright, are going to take our brands and our business to new places,” stated Rob Colby, President of Quiksilver Americas. “I couldn’t be happier with this crew.”
Gundlach will report directly to Colby and Nusenow will report to Gundlach. If Quik wants to make inroads into the heart of the winter sports market there’s no better way than by hiring one more person away from the leader in the category. Follow the jump for the official word from Quik. [click to continue…]
As we follow the launch of the new Youtube action sports channels, here’s the teaser for Network A, the channel being created by Wasserman Media Group and Bedrocket. According to sources, it will go live later today right here. Tony Hawk’s The Ride Channel is already live. We still want good video without having to wade through all the stuff we don’t want to watch and so far these new “channels” don’t seem to be helping much in that pursuit.
Scotty Vine and Ian Sams show the world that SoCal’s Bear Mountain doesn’t need any fresh snow to make snowboarding happen. That’s what miles of snow blower hose is for. . .
Jake Owen, a country singer we’ve never heard of before, reportedly broke is collar bone while snowboarding in Colorado on Friday the 13th, according to a story on The Boot.
He got pretty banged up, but that didn’t stop him from hopping on Twitter to share the details. . . “Just broke my collar bone,” he tweeted. “Guess I charged this mountain a little too hard.” . . Included with the post was a picture of the country star with his arm in a sling.
From now until the end of January snowboarders with a season pass to any resort in California can show it at a Mountain High ticket window and get a lift ticket for only $25. Anytime. Sounds like one more reason for SoCal snowboards to say home the next few weeks and brush up on their acting. . .
