The great Tom Sims tells the West Coast snowboard story on VBS.TV and it’s well worth hearing. Part 2 after the jump.
[Link: VBS.TV]
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686, with a little help from Malakye.com and SIA Snow Show, have created a a design contest that could allow three up-and-coming outerwear designers the perfect platform they need to launch a career in the burgeoning snowboard outerwear industry (or something like that). It’s called The Reclaim Design Project and it goes something like this:
This contest will give three designers the opportunity to make an original outerwear garment from reclaimed materials, trims, and left over items from the 686 production facility. The contest will begin the opening morning of the SIA Snow Show, Thursday, January 27 but first, we have to find THREE qualified designers who can come show their stuff on the show floor.
Follow the jump for all the info on how to become one of three designers who will get the chance to sew a jacket in real time on the floor of the SIA Show. It will be just like Project Runway. . . kinda.
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Someone has stolen a rail from Powder Ridge Winter Recreation Area in Kimball, Minnesota, according to a story on SCtimes.com.
The theft was reported Thursday but it is unknown the exact date the equipment was taken. Stearns County deputies describe the rail as being 27 feet long. . . The first 24 feet are flat and the last 3 feet slope down, Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner said. The top is constructed of 1½-inch steel tubing, rolled on the ends and painted black. It has a flat surface of clear poly plastic.
Not sure when it was taken? Are 27-foot-long flat down rails that hard to miss?
[Link: SCtimes.com]
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York, Pennsylvania is very proud of one of their local snowboarders.
Apparently, a 16-year-old Ezio Argento (not pictured right) competed in Parallel GS at the recent FIS Snowboarding World Cup in Telluride, according to a story titled Local Snowboarder 50th In World Cup Snowboard Event in the York Dispatch.
Argento finished 50th out of the 51 snowboarders who qualified in the event. . . Argento is enrolled in cyber school in order to devote more time to his snowboarding career.
Looks like all that cyber schooling is finally beginning to pay off for young Ezio.
[Link: York Dispatch]
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Johua Vigeant, 31 of Pembroke, New Hampshire died while snowboarding at Cannon Mountain on Sunday December 19, 2010, according to a story in the Nashua Telegraph. Cannon General Manager John DeVivo told the paper the following:
Vigeant was snowboarding with three other friends, and one reported the emergency at 1:36 p.m. to ski patrol. DeVivo said ski patrol found one friend performing CPR on Vigeant when they arrived. Vigeant was not wearing a helmet when he was found.
Local police and ski patrol are still conducting an investigation. This is reportedly the second on-snow death at Cannon in two weeks. Our thoughts are with Vigeant’s family and friends.
[Link: Nashua Telegraph]
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Five people suffered minor injuries today at Sierra-At-Tahoe when high winds broke the top of a tree off sending it falling directly onto the cable of the resort’s West Bowl Express, according to a tweet from @Sierra_at_Tahoe around 1 PM. Sierra’s Kristin Cattell told the Sacramento Bee that:
. . . the impact of the falling tree top caused the occupants in two nearby chairs to be “bounced out of their seats and into the snow between 5 feet and 15 feet below.Cattell said the ski patrol arrived at the site within minutes and provided aid.
Sierra closed a few minutes later at around 11 AM because of increased high winds.
[Link: @Sierra-At-Tahoe and The Sacramento Bee]
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It was a dark and stormy day in Breckenridge, Colorado December 18, 2010 for the Nike 6.0 Winter Dew Tour halfpipe. But Louie Vito danced right through the drifting powder to a win with a front double 10, Cab double 10, crippler, Michaelchuck front 10, and a Cab 7.
“It’s a good way to start the season off with my first Dew Tour win and second win of the season. But now I have to keep it moving,” Vito said. “Everyone’s going to be going strong at the next contest, so it’s another day, another contest and good times.”
Spain’s Queralt Castellet won the women’s event. Follow the jump for the rest of the story and more of the results.
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. . . and it looks like it took Dave Lee and the crew a little more work than simply snapping a few colored blocks together.
[Link: Signal Snowboards]
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After a successful US Snowboarding Grand Prix two weekends ago, Copper Mountain has signed up for four more years of Grand Prix hosting taking them right on through the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. But yes, it appears that skiiing will be included for the duration, sadly.
“Freeskiing and snowboarding are the most popular activities in our sport today with tens of millions of participants,” said USSA’s Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer Andrew Judelson. “This event is a perfect fit for the culture at Copper Mountain and will continue to help our partners market to an exciting demographic each year.”
But what about snow-biking? There’s got to be some way to get some winter BMX in there, too. Might as well. Follow the jump for the rest.
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We’ve always loved small-town newspaper coverage of action sports athletes, but the Newburyport News’ story on Scotty Lago’s third place finish at last weekend’s US Snowboarding Grand Prix at Copper Mountain is all time. Sports editor Dan Guttenplan begins by calling the US Grand Prix “the Winter Dew Tour,” and it only gets better from there.
He’ll likely compete in the three-stop Winter Dew Series, the Winter X Games and the United State Open. He also plans to film a Brain Farm Cinema snowboarding video in Jackson Hole, Wy., and along the Nissan X-Trail in Tokyo. . . [Lago] was well known in snowboarding circles for his ability to execute the most difficult jumping tricks with smooth precision.”
We’re looking forward to seeing Lago shred down Tokyo’s Nissan X-Trail and watching him “execute the most difficult jumping tricks with smooth precision” at the “United State Open,” aren’t you?
[Link: Newburyport News]
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