The Aunti Films crew kick down another slice of wintery snowboard goodness just to help get us all through this latest heat wave. Looks like someone got some work done last winter.
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According to Tanner Pendleton this is what summer in Oregon looks like. Jed Anderson and Louif Paradis seem to be enjoying it, also.
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Just a little reminder of what a rad, gifted person Nelson “Nelly” Pratt from Tim Warwoods.
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Looks like Louie “Tiny Dancer” Vito has a new gig on Youtube channel The NOC’s courtroom show Judge Sapp. Vito is apparently the courtroom DJ. Follow the jump for video glimpses of Louie making funny faces while wearing headphones. [click to continue…]
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Bonfire, Timberline, and Windells will be hosting their 15th Annual Pipe To Pipe snow/skate competition at Mt. Hood on July 21, 2012. Take this is fair waring then click the line for more details.
[Link: Bonfire Snowboarding]
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British snowboarder Nelson Pratt, 33, has reportedly hanged himself in the garage of his parents house, according to a story in The Sun.
In a story on Whitelines editor Ed Blomfield says Pratt was “one of the most talented and popular snowboarders in the UK.” Blomfield continues:
Nelson’s grounded perspective perhaps came from his upbringing on an arable farm in Hampshire. He hated technology (famously rocking a trusty brick of a mobile phone) and seemed profoundly connected to nature. Indeed he was only truly at home outdoors, where he could spend his immense physical energy digging jumps or helping his family with the harvest. Nelson was a man with giant strength, a giant appetite and a giant heart. A true gentleman.
According to the story Pratt was found by his father. Our thoughts are with his family and the entire UK snowboarding community.
[Link: Whitelines and The Sun]
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Everyone could use a little boredom killing every now and again. Thankfully, Bode Merrill delivers.
[Link: Bonfire Snowboarding]
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Now that it’s official summer, a lot of snowboarders have a bit more off-snow time that they need to fill. Mix that in with the rising cost of lift tickets and Snowboardgreen.com’s Grant Bowen may have just the perfect July project: making your old board a splitboard. Apparently, it is this easy. . .
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Opened in 1961, June Mountain has always lived in the shadow of Mammoth Mountain. First as a competitor, and then after Mammoth founder Dave McCoy bought the mountain in 1986, as a quieter, mellower sibling to Mammoth. But for many years, that was a good thing. It never had the crowds, it had a long, fun park, a once epic halfpipe, and on powder days Carson could compete with some of the best powder lines in the West.
June also has a long history in snowboarding. The mountain hosted the first televised snowboarding event the OP Pro of Snowboarding in 1989, and in 1991 Craig Kelly and Keith Wallace dropped off the roof of the Chalet with the Mono County Sheriff on their tail only to be arrested in the parking lot. The mountain has played host to snowboarding contests, photos shoots, and more, but it looks like those days are over as Mammoth CEO Rusty Gregory announced yesterday (June 21, 2012) that Mammoth will not operate June Mountain for the 2012-13 season.
“June has operated at an annual deficit each year since its purchase in 1986,” said Gregory. “It is time to invest some of this subsidy into the analysis and planning required to position the resort for a sustainable future, then secure the approvals and financing required to create it.”
Guess those dreams of connecting Mammoth and June with a new base lodge below San Joaquin Ridge just never worked out. For the official word, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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We’ll admit it. Our only interest in watching this Frendly Gathering 2012 official video was the hope that it would feature long-haired, smooth-skinned Vermont hippie girls spinning around in the forest. While the video does, in fact, feature a few glimpses of hippie girls doing yoga, getting their faces painted, riding quads, and hoola hooping, it was a solid reminder that we didn’t miss a thing by not taking a early June trip to Vermont. Which is not to say the people who went didn’t look stoked out of their heads. They all seemed very happy with all the work the Frends crew and bands put into the weekend.
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