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.
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. [click to continue…]
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. [click to continue…]
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?
US Marines reportedly name their guns and treat them as they would a girlfriend. It appears Torstein Horgmo has a similar attraction to his snowboard. . . or something like that. Oscar talk is making the rounds.
According to a new report by snow injury statistician Jasper Shealy, reported in the Wall Street Journal snowboarders may experience more injuries on the hill, but they die much less often than skiers do.
On paper, snowboarding appears to be more dangerous but less deadly. The injury rate is 50 percent to 70 percent higher than in skiing, Shealy said, which he suspects is due to the people doing it. Snowboarders tend to be young males. . . While snowboarders get injured more often, the death rate is about one-third lower than in skiing. That snowboards don’t release from the feet of the snowboarder is likely explanation, Shealy said. When a rider falls, the edge of the snowboard drags on the snow and acts like a brake. But that can also cause fractures, he said.
Last year the National Ski Areas Association say 25 skiers and 13 snowboarders died on snow. We’ll take the injuries, thank you.
A month ago Burton Snowboards released a new board that features a design created in partnership a local Burlington, Vermont bong builders The Bern Gallery. The board is called the “Nug” and the Burlington Free Press used this local collab as the perfect hook for a story on one of Burlington’s coolest businesses..
Inside, Burton looks like a ski lodge, combined with an ad agency, a retail store, a mad scientist’s laboratory and a dog kennel. Dogs are everywhere — big ones, little ones, short-haired ones and furry ones, playing in people’s offices, staring sweetly from beneath people’s desks, and tearing around corners in hot pursuit of something, although it’s not always clear what.
See, the Burlington Free Press occasionally does nice stories about Burton, too.
Louie Vito danced with the stars down Copper Mountain’s halfpipe with a frontside double 10, cab double 10, stiffie, back 9 and front 10 to win US Snowboarding Grand Prix number one today. Luke Mitrani and Scotty Lago got second and third
“I’m really stoked. I’m happy to land a run when I had to and start the season off well,” Vito said. “It’s good to have landed and to be on the podium with two of my best friends.”
Sun Valley, Idaho’s Kaitlyn Farrington edged Kelly Clark to win her first US Grand Prix with an air, backside 9, front 7, cab 7, and air to fakie. Japan’s Rana Okada finished third.
“It was the first time that I’ve landed the backside 9, so I was stoked just to try it and land it,” Farrington said. “I worked on it a lot last year and I’m happy it all came together this year. It’s a good way to start out the season.”
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:
