Don’t think saying the US Open of Snowboarding at Vail is getting any easier because it’s not. We’re just going to have to give it five years. So here is the schedule for the 2013 event.
Wednesday, February 27th: Slopestyle Semi-Finals Thursday, February 28th: Halfpipe Semi-Finals Friday, March 1st: Slopestyle Finals Saturday, March 2nd: Halfpipe Finals
For all the official details (including how you can snowboard you way into the event), please follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Few things in life are funnier than listening to A-man voice over a video. Especially when it’s shot in the classic Warren Miller style. Here A-man posts up at the top of Timberline’s Pucci lift and gives the play-by-play. “Their passes are going to get snagged on something and they’re going to get decapitated, if the worms is their asses don’t get them. . . ”
Apparently, Shaun White won the pipe and Mark McMorris took the slopestyle. On the women’s side Brita Sigourney took the pipe and the magnificent Jamie Anderson killed it in slopestyle. For complete results, please follow the jump. And congrats to all the snowboarders. [click to continue…]
Rather than spend all year gathering footage and then putting it together into one movie to be shown next year, Rome Snowboards is doing a movie each month for 12 months. They’ve cleverly named the project 12 Months. Here is the November offering.
The New York Times looks into the issue of global warming and the future of the snow resort business. If some scientists are correct the entire business could look quite different in 78 years (not that we’d care all that much at that point.)
Under certain warming forecasts, more than half of the 103 ski resorts in the Northeast will not be able to maintain a 100-day season by 2039, according to a study to be published next year by Daniel Scott, director of the Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.. . . In the Rockies, where early conditions have also been spotty, average winter temperatures are expected to rise as much as 7 degrees by the end of the century. Park City, Utah, could lose all of its snowpack by then. In Aspen, Colo., the snowpack could be confined to the top quarter of the mountain. So far this season, several ski resorts in Colorado have been forced to push back their opening dates.
Guess by that time the kids will have to move indoors to some refrigerated slopes. Or, maybe the Republicans are right and by then we’ll be entering the next ice age. Who do you believe?
Yep, Kimmy Fasani, Hannah Teter, Kelly Clark, Cilka Sadar, Arielle Gold, and Enni Rukajarvi certainly do know how to push sticks through the snow out in the woods. Check it.
Nixon’s snow team is happy to welcome Nicolas Müller to its ranks.
“Nico is, without doubt, one of the most respected riders in the world,” stated Chad DiNenna, Nixon co-founder and E.V.P. of Marketing. “Not only by pro snowboarders, but across the wider boardsport industry and community. That feeling of respect is also shared by every one of our team riders, and that’s why it was easy to have him join us. We’re all pumped to welcome him onboard.”
For the official word, including what JP Walker thinks of Nico joining the team, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
Emily “Mimi” Watts, a 26-year-old British snowboarder (pictured right), is fighting for her life in an Annecy, France hospital after falling headfirst into a snowdrift and being stuck for 45 minutes at Chamonix on Saturday afternoon, December 8, 2012. She had suffered cardiac arrest by the time rescuers arrived, according to a story in the Daily Mail.
Describing Mimi as ‘heavenly’ and with a ‘passion for life’, her aunt Shona Pollock said her parents and brothers had rushed to be at her bedside. . . The design student was evacuated to hospital in nearby Annecy, before being transferred to a specialist unit. . . Miss Pollock said: ‘She is not very well I am afraid, she is still alive, but she is not very well, the family are at her bedside, they are all there. . . ‘We don’t know exactly what happened at the moment, but we believe she was snowboarding on piste and they tend to do little jumps. . . and went into a snow fall and suffocated. . . ‘That is what they think, but nobody quite knows for sure.
Our thoughts are with Watts and her family and friends. We hope she can pull through this.
[Editors’ Note: As of December 12, 2012 it appears that Mimi Watts is and has been “brain dead” since she suffocated on the hill and that her family says “it is only a matter of time before her life support is switched off.” Sad news for everyone. Mail Online.
[Update December 13, 2012: Mimi Watts has died according to a story on Sky News. She was 26.]
Don’t think saying the US Open of Snowboarding at Vail is getting any easier because it’s not. We’re just going to have to give it five years. So here is the schedule for the 2013 event.
