“Dick Reuter was a mountain man’s mountain man,” said Dave Myers, vice president of operation for Kirkwood Mountain Resort. “A real pioneer and tough as nails, Dick basically single-handedly installed chair #11, ‘The Reut’ of which the lift is named after him.” . . . Reuter’s mountain resort career began in the late 1950’s in Squaw Valley after a long career as a trapper and logger in the Lassen Park area, Dalzell said. . . Reuter helped fall trees to clear ski runs at Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley and worked as a ski patrol leader at Squaw Valley during the 1960 Winter Olympics where he met his wife, Jeanne, and started a family.
The Mt. Hood, Oregon summer season heats up this Sunday (July 10, 2011) as Bonfire, Salomon, Skullcandy, and Windells present the 14th Annual Bonfire Pipe to Pipe.
The gathering begins on the Palmer snowfield with a jam style snowboard competition in the NEW exclusive feature double mini-pipe with a spine in the middle Windells Camp will build for the event, complete with free BBQ, free prizes and a chance to ride with the best up and coming riders in the world. Pros compete for cash, Ams for prizes.
When last we visited decorated snowboard photography veteran Andy Wright the Videograss crew had him in his basement, knee deep in nostalgia, pouring over a light table while pining for the days of film. Part 2 finds Andy upstairs and behind the controls of his digital production rig.
The Oregonian writer Allen Brettman spoke to many of the P-Town outerwear brands like Grenade, Bonfire, Airblaster, Betty Rides, Holden, and Homeschool and found out that “July is perhaps among the busiest for the local snowboarding apparel and equipment industry.”
Future garments are under design, the upcoming season’s line is under production, and sales meetings abound, with independent representatives as well as a network of retailers. . . . “For sure, this is the busiest time of year for many of our departments,” Jesse Grandkoski of the Airblaster brand emailed from Taiwan.
Guess that’s where everyone has been lately. Click the link for the rest of the story . . .
Burton Snowboards kicks down the first clip from their upcoming snowboarding film Standing Sideways. The film will be out on iTunes in September and features: Terje Haakonsen, Nicolas Müller, Jussi Oksanen, Jeremy Jones, Danny Davis, Mikey Rencz, Frederik Kalbermatten, Keegan Valaika, Mikkel Bang, Kazu Kokubo, Mark Sollors, Zak Hale, Mark McMorris, Ethan Deiss, Alex Andrews and Stephan Maurer. Yeah, it’s a pretty deep lineup.
At the International Olympic Committee meetings in Durban, South Africa on Monday evening (July 4, 2011) it was announced that Slopestyle snowboarding (and skiing) would be officially added to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. As this addition will likely bring more gold medals to the US Team, USSA’s CEO Bill Marolt was obviously happy about it:
“The IOC’s decision to add slopestyle to the Olympics recognizes the millions of youth who are already participating in the sport in terrain parks around the world. It will have a very positive impact on the sport including our U.S. Snowboarding and U.S. Freeskiing programs, he said. “It’s gratifying to see the modernism shown by the IOC in bringing in so many new events to better showcase the excitement of skiing and snowboarding as action sports to the world.”
The snow level came down to about 8,200 feet, which was enough to drop snow at Squaw Valley’s High Camp and the summit at Northstar, said weather service meteorologist Scott McGuire.
It’s just in time for 4th of July snowboarding. But seriously, when is someone going to put a fork in this thing?
Leave it to Yobeat to pull together one of the most interesting interviewer/interviewee match-ups in snowboarding: OG slope jibber Russell Winfield and legend Terje Haakonsen. Here’s a small taste of what Terje is talking about these days:
Well right now as far as I’m concerned Travis rice Is the best snowboarder in the world but people don’t know because main stream media is focused on the big contests and only relates to the results of them. Another thing about snowboard contests is there are too many organizations and too many contests. It’s actually more of a mess than boxing. The losers are the progression of the sport and the top riders. They have too many contests and don’t know which ones to enter. I think it is real tough for these contest riders. They do too many contests and get hurt because it is just too hard hard on the body. If they don’t take care of themselves they will have a short career.
The State of Oregon may not trust you to pump your own gas (into your car), but they have no problem letting kids fly in from all over the world to hang out at Windells and get into some watersports on the side of an active volcano.
Dick Reuter, a member of Kirkwood Mountain Resort, died Monday, July 4, 2011 at the resort, according to a story in the Tahoe Daily. Reuter was 88 years old.
