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.
Click the links for some photos: People : Booths : Product : Parties
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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She was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital for precautionary scans which cleared her of any serious injury, but she has withdrawn from the X Games, which was to have been her last competition before the Olympics.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. . .
[Link: The Australian and ESPN/Action]
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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.
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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.
It apparently took rescuers more than 24 hours to find him.
[Link: Sofia Echo]
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Eddie Wall has signed with Bond Outerwear and Weekend Snowboards according to an announcement that went out last night just in time for day one of SIA Show in Denver.
“Our whole philosophy with our brands is to work with people, whether they are reps, riders, or our accounts, that get what we are doing and have the same passion for it that we do,” stated Dan McNamara, co-Founder of Bond Outerwear. “Eddie is a great fit for us because he is one of us, and having him as part of the family means the world to Christian and I.”
Eddie joins Heikki Sorsa and TJ Schneider on Bond and Mark Carter and Heikki on Weekend Snowboards. Sounds like the Laguna Beach, California scene is back on the up.
Follow the jump for all the details.
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For the past 20 years brothers Tim and Tracey Canaday have been making snowboards in Denver, Colorado. When Snowsports Industries of America decided that 37 years in Las Vegas was enough Canaday and the rest of the Never Summer Industries crew thought the show was finally going down in the right town, according to a Colin Bane story in Denver’s WestWord.
“I think a lot of people in the industry see leaving Las Vegas and coming to Denver as a sign that the party’s over, and maybe that’s a good thing,” Tracey Canaday says. “Vegas is a great place to have a show, for obvious reasons, but I would love for it to work and be successful here in Colorado. It makes sense on a lot of different levels to have the SIA show here. It’s a lot cheaper for our company, for one thing! But it’s also the perfect place for the snow sports industry to get down to business.”
For the rest of the Never Summer and Denver SIA story, click the link.
[Link: Westword]
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Looks like Funny Feelings LLC founder Jeff Galbraith is learning to let go as Colin Wiseman, the former Managing Editor of frequency: The Snowboarder’s Journal has been promoted to editor of both the magazine and the website.
Beginning with his internship in 2007, Colin has proven to be an integral part of our growth and creative quality,” said previous Editor and current Publisher Jeff Galbraith. “His passion for freeriding, quality journalism, and the culture of snowboarding make him a perfect choice to lead frequency TSJ’s editorial into its next decade.”
Congrats to everyone involved. We’re guessing Jeff just wanted to spend a little more time on his new baby: The Flyfish Journal. Follow the jump for all the details.
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We covered the Legends of Tahoe last March, but Powder & Rails is doing it in much more depth. Here it is (all 24 minutes of it) from Donner Ski Ranch. It almost makes us weep. . .
[Link: VBS.tv]
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Pharrell is looking all winterfresh these days with some Nike Danny Kass snowboots and his newly designed chair that looks to have borrowed some design stylings from a Kassbohrer PistenBully. What now, the Billionaire Snowboys Club?
[Link: Billionaire Boys Club Ice Cream]
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And new bill before the California State Assembly could force California resorts to nut up regarding safety. The bill, AB 1652 was created by Dr. Dan Gregorie after the snowboarding death of his 24-year-old daughter. If passed it would require California ski resorts to do the following according to a story on ConsumerAffairs.com:
• Require each employee to wear a ski helmet.
• Adopt and enforce mandatory helmet use for all patrons age 18 years and younger.
• Prepare and post annual safety plans for public access.
• Provide accessible information regarding deaths and injuries, including the what, where, when, why and how of each incident.
• Establish standardized signage for ski-area boundaries and hazard warnings.
• Provide standardized safety padding for use at lift towers and other fixed obstacles.
None of it seems all that unreasonable especially when you see how many people died last season while riding resorts.
[Link: ConsumerAffairs.com]
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