Today (December 1, 2011) marks the beginning of the Salomon/Bonfire Team Vacation as Jed Anderson, Bode Merrill, Louif Paradis, Chris Grenier, Annie Boulanger, Harrison Gordon, Josh Dirksen, Desiree Melancon, Chris Carr, Jamie Nicholls, and Scotty Arnold reportedly hit the road.
Beginning in the Pacific Northwest this week the crew will roll down through California, over to New York, New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Easter, Canada, Minnesota, and Utah before finishing up in Colorado January 20 -25, 2012. If you think you hate them now, wait ’til you ride with them (or something like that).
The big hucker season opener is going down this weekend (December 3, 2011) as Oakley and Shaun White present the Beijing Air & Style stadium shredfest in China’s Olympic Birdnest. Click the link for all the details. Or on Saturday sometimes, click here to watch it live. [click to continue…]
It’s that time of year again and it’s official. The Dirksen Derby bombing banked slalom at Mt. Bachelor Resort will be held December 17-18, 2011.
Just like the weather reports in the NW, the actual details of the event are still a bit hazy. But one thing is for sure, the Dirksen Derby is going down and the good times are guaranteed.
Transworld Snowboarding Magazine turned 25 years old this year and to commemorate the anniversary the magazine staff chose to run a photo of legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly (RIP) shot by Bud Fawcett in 1989. Here, Bud tells the story of the photo. This is about as OG as it gets. For more photos from the shoot click here.
David Carrier Porcheron is traveling the globe preaching the POW gospel of winter protection with help from Spy Optics. A portion of the sales of DCP’s signature Zed goggle will go to Protect Our Winters.
“I have become aware of my impact on the planet in recent years and, a snowboarder, I appreciate being in nature so much—my career completely depends on it,” says DCP. “SPY and POW help me give back to the environment with a portion of sales of my signature snow goggle going to POW’s reinvestment with organizations that share our sustainability mission and focus.”
Winter does come in handy for snowboarding. . . Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
Halldor Helgason isn’t letting a “4 meter’ fall get in the way of his promotional work. In fact, he’s doing everything he can to promote Fast & Dangerous Wax from his hospital bed, according to post on Snowbroader. Wax on, wax off.
Nitro Snowboards new full-length advertising promotion film What Goes Up Must Come Down will premiere live online December 5, 2011 on Nitrousa.com. WGUMCD features the riding talents of Markus Keller, Eero Ettala, Marc Swoboda, Marco SmollaKnut Eliassen, Bryan Fox, Austin Smith, Anton Gunnarsson,Ben Bilocq, and the rest of the team.
And despite what the blog Board As Fuck says, we didn’t see any boobies in this teaser. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
According to a story in the Daily Mail, a British company has developed a new urinal gaming system that allows micturaters to control a snowboarder on a video screen all with their blasting, splashing stream of urine.
The system works by a clip-on LED screen at the top of the urinal, and a motion sensor aimed down into the ‘business’ area of the urinal. . . Because it doesn’t use liquid sensors or cameras, the makers hope that disagreeable cleaning tasks will be kept to a minimum.
Apparently, when men are given something to aim at there is less clean up. And a hulking porcelain urinal obviously isn’t enough of a target so drink up and bring on the piss shredders.
Angelique De Leon, 23, of Riverside, California died Sunday, November 27, 2011 from injuries she sustained while snowboarding at Southern California’s Mountain High resort, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.
[The] Riverside resident was wearing a helmet when she fell forward at about 4 p.m. on a run she had already descended successfully several times during the day, authorities said. . . “It was a head-over-heels fall, and she sustained internal injuries,” said Deputy Jeff Lewison of the San Bernardino county coroner’s office. “It just somehow hit wrong.”
Sadly, De Leon is the third snowboarder in North America to die in the first month of the new snowboarding season. Our thoughts are with De Leon’s family and friends.
After what is described as a “2kg explosive” fired from a helicopter, this 3.5 avalanche stormed down Whistler backcoutry’s Corona Bowl at noon today (November 28, 2011).
As Adam Levitt said on Twitter: “Thinking about going for a hike on Whistler or Blackcomb? Watch this then think again.” Word.
Today (December 1, 2011) marks the beginning of the Salomon/Bonfire Team Vacation as Jed Anderson, Bode Merrill, Louif Paradis, Chris Grenier, Annie Boulanger, Harrison Gordon, Josh Dirksen, Desiree Melancon, Chris Carr, Jamie Nicholls, and Scotty Arnold reportedly hit the road. 
