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Kyle Suske, 25, of Athens, Wisconsin died Wednesday night at Granite Peak Ski Area from blunt force trauma to the chest, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune.
Capt. Diane Lotter of the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department says no one saw the accident but it appears Suske was trying to cross some moguls, lost control, became airborne and landed awkwardly. A friend who was snowboarding ahead of Suske found him face-down in the snow. He was wearing a helmet.
[Link: Chicago Tribune]
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William “Billy” Khourie III, 22, a snowboarder from Elk City, Oklahoma died Wednesday night after hitting his head while riding an advanced-intermediate run at Breckenridge Resort on Tuesday January 6, 2009.
The Breckenridge ski patrol was called to the accident on an advanced-intermediate trail at about 1 p.m. Tuesday and they took Khourie to Breckenridge Medical Center before he was transferred to Swedish Medical Center.
Khourie suffered a massive head injury after running into a wood post at the resort. According to the Denver Post on January 8, 2009 he was “brain dead” but being kept alive “awaiting organ harvesting.”
[LInk: Newsok.com and Devner Post]
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Apparently, Hurley swimsuits are big for apres ski. . . sadly this is exactly where snowboarding is headed.
[Link: Rocky Mountain News]
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Urban snowboarding progression means getting into more and more strange-ass places at speed. And sometime, getting pushed just doesn’t cut it. That’s why “legendary park tool builder and Forum Staff Filmer” Kurt Heine developed “an urban tow-in winch capable of speeds up to 40mph,” according to a post on Forum Snowboards.
Eddie Wall dropped in on the bad boy pictured below, and will be using this piece of artillery with the rest of the Forum team on urban street assaults all season long.
Winch way did he go? Winch way did he go?
[Link: Forum Or Against ‘Em]
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Kelly Ferrone and his friend triggered an avalanche just out-of-bounds at Brighton, Utah on Pioneer Ridge Peak.
Kelly Ferrone triggered the avalanche, which swept his friend away. Ferrone said, “I unstrapped and started running at full sprint through powder up to my waist, and when I got to him, I kept yelling ‘Marco,’ and he’d yell ‘Polo’ until we found each other. He was buried up to his waist and wrapped around a tree, and I had to dig him out.”
Neither snowboarder was wearing an avalanche transceiver nor any other backcountry gear. Looks like Ferrone’s headphone survived, though.
[Link: KSL.com]
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When Sebastian Gomez, 19, got lost snowboarding in New Mexico. In fact, he was out in a freezing snow storem over night. And just when he was dealing with thoughts of trying to survive another night in the snow, rescue crews spotted him.
. . . he heard a helicopter overhead. . . To draw attention, he waved his iPod. The crew on the chopper, wearing night-vision goggles, saw the light. Gomez was found about a mile from the ski area in four feet of snow.
Apple’s Jesus tech saves another life. Wonder if it will work for Steve Jobs?
[Link: CBS News]
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In a story titled 5 Cash-Rich Companies Being Given Away Motley Fool writer Morgan Housel says Volcom may be one of the stocks that Warren Buffet refers to as “a one-foot bar I can step over.”
Is retail dead yet? As a whole, perhaps, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some stores that stand out from the pack. Volcom might be one of them. While other apparel veterans like Quiksilver (NYSE: ZQK) and retailers like Macy’s (NYSE: M) are saddled with long-term debt, Volcom has kept its balance sheet spotless. . . . But with a bulletproof balance sheet and a well-known, powerful brand name, the main catalysts that typically shove recession-prone industries into the graveyard are nowhere to be seen with Volcom.
Apparently, being a millionaire is that easy.
[Link: The Motley Fool]
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The entire energy drink market has blown up right under Gatorade’s oblivious nose and the only time they ever seemed to take notice was when Salman Agah attempted to launch and market Skaterade.
Now it appears that someone has kicked the sports drink company in the nuts because they’re diving in on action sports like bums on a bottle, according to a story in Sports Business Journal.
The brand signed a multiyear deal with [Chaz] Ortiz that sources valued in the low to mid-six figures annually. He will be the cornerstone of Gatorade’s action sports campaign and will be featured alongside its marquee athletes, including Derek Jeter, Dwyane Wade and Peyton Manning. . . . The brand also signed smaller deals with snowboarder Ellery Hollingsworth, a 17-year-old from Darien, Conn., and BMX star Nigel Sylvester, an 18-year-old from Queens, N.Y. The athletes will be featured in Gatorade’s action sports campaigns, which are being planned. Terms of those deals were not available.
That fact that Gatorade never had any bull balls or caffeine in it always made it a favorite around here anyway. And for Chaz, the “mid-six figures” shouldn’t be so bad.
[Link: Sports Business Journal via Skatedaily.net]
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Quiksilver has already cancelled surfing events in Australia and now the company has cutting Travis Rice’s Natural Selection contest at Jackson Hole according to a press release posted on Transworld Business.
This winter, snowboarding fans will continue to try to grasp the cinematic magnitude of That’s it That’s All. They will see Travis compete in contests, they will read about him in the media and they will see repeated airings of the Natural Selection TV special on Fuel TV.
Apparently, that contest was all about promoting Travis Rice and really, who wants to him win his own contest two years in a row?
[Link: TransWorld Business]
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