Tonight, April 7, 2011 Laguna Beach, California’s 210 AR4T Space will host the opening of a new group photography show featuring the works of Cole Barash, Kevin Zacher, Cheyenne Ellis, Stepanka Peterka, and Lauren Ross titled Silence.
The opening reception begins tonight at 6 PM. 210 AR4T Space is located at 210 North Pacific Coast Highway, in Laguna Beach. [click to continue…]
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We’ve always loved spring at Mammoth. After the Easter break is over most of Southern California packs away their snowboards and turns to other pursuits leaving an entire mountain of corn and slush empty for the taking. And this year it’s going to be even better as the resort has already committed to remaining open until July 4, 2011.
May in Mammoth is looking pretty, pretty, good. [click to continue…]
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Stage 1 of the 4th Annual Ultimate Boarder snow, surf, skate triathlon wrapped up under blue skies at Mammoth Mountain on Saturday, April 2, 2011 with Chas Guldemond edging Mammoth loc and defending snowboard champ Trevor Jacob for the title. Shayne Pospisill finished third.
On his final run, Guldemond connected a 900 and switch double cork 1080 to beat out Jacob by 1.6 points. “At all my events I have entered this year, it keeps coming down to my last run,” said Guldemond smiling over his big win. “Overall it was a great day with spring conditions, and it was really fun to watch surfers and skaters all ride together,” he added.
Former pro snowboader Todd Richards had a rough time in the competition according to his Twitter feed and was not too happy with his 30th place finish. “What a time to have 3 bad slope style runs ! F word,” he Tweeted following the competition.
The Ultimate Boarder continues this week with surf (April 6 or April 7, 2011) and skateboarding April 9 at Seaside Reef Parking lot in Cardiff, California. Follow the jump for full results and more info. [click to continue…]
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Snowboarder Danny Ferrari, 42, spent 30 minutes buried after he and a friend triggered an avalanche at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area on Friday, April 1, 2011.
“As it’s all going down, I’m just trying to get back on my board to try and stabilize myself so I don’t get washed into a tree or something and it was just out of my control. [I] tried to fight it the whole time and keep my face covered, and I though it was lights out. I mean, what can I say? I hit like six trees, must have traveled 500 yards, and I was able to get my right up just enough to get enough [space in front of my face] so I could breathe. And then I saw some light,” Ferrari told 9NEWS.
While it must have seemed like a long slide, responders reported that the snowboarder probably slid about 400 feet. Ferrari and his friends are very Lucky.
[Link: 9 News]
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Winter is over. Done. Goodbye. We’ve gone from crushing, dumping storms, to 80 degrees inside of a week. Here’s more proof. Southern California’s Mountain High Resort is having a their annual Miss Mountain High Pageant (click for photos from last year) at 1 PM on Saturday, April 2, 2011 as part of the Spring-a-Ma-Jig.
The Miss Mountain High Pageant is free to enter and all participants receive a FREE bikini from Fresh Peaches. Winner takes home a 2011/12 Season Pass, an Ellis snowboard, 2 tickets to the “Big 4” concert, and is named next year’s Miss Mountain High.
Done the way only the 909 can. [click to continue…]
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The season ending Billabong Flaunt It women”s Slopestyle and Rail Jam is going down April 9, 2011 at Sierra-at-Tahoe. It is the seventh and final stop on the 2011 Flaunt it tour. And yes, with 700 inches of snow so far this season, we’re guessing the conditions are going to be just right.
With a cash purse of $10,000 plus additional product and prizes up for grabs, including Contour HD GPS Video cameras, Sony PIIQ headphones, and Dakine, VZ, and Billabong product, girls are encouraged to register early to secure their spot. Additionally, Flaunt It 2011 has bumped up to a 4Star event on the prestigious Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour, as riders collect valuable TTR Ranking Points at all Flaunt It contests.
One question: will the girls be wearing bikinis during this competition? There are 40 spots available first come first flaunted so NorCal shred girls need to get on it. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
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Snowboarder Kathleen Willhide-Michiulis, 43, of Santa Clarita, California lost one leg and badly injured her other after a collision with a Mammoth Mountain snowcat saw her get tangled in the cat’s spinning tiller on Friday afternoon March 25, 2011, according to a story on Mammoth Times.
Kathleen Willhide-Michiulis collided with the snowcat and became entangled in the back track and the tiller – a spinning part of the cat that is designed to break up ice. The tines spin at about 1,200 rpms. . . She also suffered facial lacerations and other major injuries, including a broken femur and tibia on her other leg.
An unnamed ski-area employee is quoted as saying, “Her leg was gone.” Willhide-Michiulis was reportedly on her last run on Mambo when the collision occurred. After a visit to Mammoth Hospital she was reportedly airlifted to a Reno hospital where she remained on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, according to the LA Times.
[Link: Mammoth Times via LA Times]
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The 10th Annual Ride Shakedown from Mont Saint-Sauveur, Quebec and the best part is that none of us have to travel to Quebec, deal with Canada’s French frontier to see it all go down. Nope. Thank to our friends at Fuel.TV we can catch it all live online. Show starts Saturday April 2, 2011at 4 PM PT. Tune in to see if Forrest Bailey and Jess Kimura and repeat their wins from last year.
[Link: Fuel.TV]
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A 20-year-old snowboarder died Sunday, March 27, 2011 in an avalanche out of bounds near Stevens Pass in Washington, according to a story in the Seattle PI.
“The victim and three friends were snowboarding when the man went down the hill in a slightly different direction than the others and was hit from behind by an avalanche and carried into a tree,” King County Sgt. John Urquhart said in a statement. “The three other men were not injured and managed to dig the victim out. He suffered injuries from hitting the tree and was not breathing.”
The name of the snowboarder has not been released. He is the 18th snowboard death in North America since December 20, 2010. Our thought are with the snowboarders family and friends. We’ve been saying this too much this year, but it’s still true.
[Update March 28, 2011: Authorities have released the name of the snowboarder who died in the avalanche. Riley McCarthy, 20, of Tukwila, Washington. He was a sophomore at the University of Washington, according to the Seattle PI]
[Link: Seattle PI]
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