According to ActionWatch December 2009 comps in core shops were up over October and November, but closed out the quarter 13 percent down, according to a post on Transworld Business.
This number gives the fourth quarter first prize in lowest sales declines of the year for the shops on the panel, but by a very small margin,” said Cary Allington. “Also, Q4 2009 had the “easiest” comparison of the year since that quarter was so bad in 2008, so we were actually expecting (or at least hoping) for an even smaller comparative sales decline.”
So that means it’s not getting worse, worse. It’s getting better worse. And that’s good.
Capita Snowboard’s celebrated their 10th year anniversary at the Denver SIA Show on January 31, 2010. Luckily for us, the Tahoe Dangerzone was there to get it all down on video. . .
Ericka Schriefer, a 24-year-old snowboarder from Fort Collins, Colorado was riding alone on Copper Mountain’s Formidable Trail Sunday, January 31, 2010 when she hit a tree fracturing her head and neck, according to a story on Coloradoan.com.
Schriefer. . . was found Sunday morning in some trees off an expert trail at the Copper Mountain ski area. . . Schriefer was airlifted to an area hospital where she later died. The coroner’s office says she was wearing a helmet.
On Friday night January 29, 2010 after the Transworld Riders’ Poll we cruised out to the wasteland below the bridges to Mile High Station for the RZA show sponsored by Snowboard Magazine. As noted in the comments, we apparently only caught the Wiz Khalifa portion of the show and don’t feel bad about it at all.
And to think, some dude in this could would later get arrested for punching a girl in the face and police would reportedly find him armed with both a knife and a gun. . . yep. Denver.
In case you missed Gretchen Bleiler and Kelly Clark in the X Games 14 halfpipe last night, January 30, 2010. For details on Gretchen’s gold, follow the jump.
Union Binding, Coal Headwear, andSnowboard Magazine graphic designer Aaron Draplin has become one of the most influential designers working today. Last year, when the Obama administration wanted a graphic that would communicate their economic stimulus plans they turned to Aaron to create the logo. The president eventually presented Aaron’s work to the nation himself. Recently Aaron has been on the national speaking circuit with the AIGA sharing his story with design students and professionals. But the reason more and more people are becoming Draplin fans is through his Field Notes Brand Notebooks. The simple, “paper, folded and stapled books made in America” is replacing the Moleskine as the world’s hippest analog note taking device. We saw Mr. Draplin near the Coal booth and asked him to tell us the Field Notes story. [Link: Draplin Design Co. and Field Notes Brand]
Once we actually got out of our hotel and inside the Denver Convention Center it was all good. The isles were full of smiling faces, booths full of people checking out product, and it didn’t really matter where we all were, because we were together.
Yesterday, when ESPN/Action’s Micah Abrams reported that Torah Bright, 23, had suffered her second concussion in three days and was withdrawing from Winter X Games 14 we worried that the 2010 Olympic halfpipe hustle had claimed another rider, but according to a report in The Australian Torah is okay.
She was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital for precautionary scans which cleared her of any serious injury, but she has withdrawn from the X Games, which was to have been her last competition before the Olympics. . . Bright played down the mishap as “a bit of a fall” and said it would not affect her preparation for the Winter Olympics. . . “I have really been pushing the limits of my riding and that’s all part of it,” she said. . . “It’s not the first or the last time I will have a fall. I am fine. I feel good and I just decided to sit out X Games in the best interest of focusing on the main event in Vancouver.”
That girl is tough. Hope she can keep in mellow until the games, but we’re not sure she knows how. . .
Our first night in Denver we heard reports that our hotel had been the site of a near shootout with cops the previous night. Then, when we tried to drop by the 686 party at the Tarantula Billards & Bar it had already had shut down by a reportedly drugged up civilian who tried to run out on his bar tab. Six Denver cops later and the guy was handcuffed and in the back of the car. One visitor from the Northwest said it was the gnarliest thing he had ever seen. “The cops did everything they could to get the guy to cooperate, but he just kept going at them.”
All this and we haven’t been inside the Denver Convention Center. But we’re going in today and we’ll keep you posted. Follow us on Twitter if you want the latest updates. [click to continue…]
Victor Garbev, a 28-year-old snowboarder from Sofia was killed in an avalanche a little after noon January 28, 2010 near the Bulgarian resort of Bansko, according to a story in the Sofia Echo.
MRS was alarmed about the avalanche which fell right under Todorka peak near Banderishka Polyana slope at 12.15pm.. . . After 45 minutes of digging into the fallen snow, rescuers found the body of the young man.. . Rescuers are still searching the area for any other casualties. . . Bansko mayor Alexander Kravarov told Darik that the snowboarder was a Bulgarian, a Bansko resident and also a ski instructor. The man had skied in an area that was outside the marked ski run and where skiing was forbidden, Kravarov said.
According to ActionWatch December 2009 comps in core shops were up over October and November, but closed out the quarter 13 percent down, according to a post on Transworld Business.
