Those who missed the Mammoth Lakes opening, or who just love snowboarding art and the memory of Jeff Anderson have another California chance to check out the I Am Snowboarding art show this time on December 10, 2009 at Club 6ix at 60 Sixth Street (between market & Mission) in San Francisco. This stop will feature music by Stagger and Fall, Attitude Problem, Gull and DJ Baron. As always money raised goes to support the JLA Memorial Fund.
Copper Mountain, the newest member of the Powdr family of resorts will open their 22-foot superpipe tomorrow Saturday, November 28, 2009, according to a story in the Summit Daily.
Copper’s pipe will host the US Snowboarding Team for daily training sessions. The US Snowboard Team will have exclusive training times from 8:30-10:00 a.m. on weekends and 9-11 a.m. on weekdays leading into the USSA Grand Prix at Copper, Dec. 10-12.
British actor Charlie Bewley who plays the vampire Demetri in the latest installment of the Mormporn series Twilight apparently spent a couple years hanging out in Whistler snowboarding according to an interview on Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch blog.
I really did enjoy snowboarding. I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration. I think in some respects, spending time in the mountains was something that prompted me to stay away from England and take up a path less trodden.
Tara Dakides is out in the desert of Baja California right now with mohawked skier Glen Plake and NASCAR racer Boris Said making a run in the Baja Challenge class of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.
Thanks to Tracking International we know that as of 9:26 AM Saturday November 21, 2009 it appears that Tara’s BC-5 car is going about 41 MPH near mile marker 625 and is still about 40 miles out from the finish in Ensenada, Baja, Mexico. It appears that they are no longer leading the race.
For more on Tara’s drive across the Mexican desert click the link.
Lick it up, lick it up. . . Yes, Olympic gold medalist Hannah Teter now has her own Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream flavor and it’s call Blonde AmbitionMaple Blondie.
The first flavor created for an athlete, Maple Blondie is a rich and creamy maple ice cream with blonde brownie pieces and a smooth maple caramel swirl that will be arriving in Scoop Shops nationwide later this month. Channeling the company’s commitment to social mission, a portion of the proceeds will benefit Hannah’s Gold, Teter’s own charity that funds various projects in Africa.
Sounds pretty tasty. Not surprisingly Hannah is “amped.” “It’s great to have support from my home state, and a cool way to further support Hannah’s Gold and all the work we’re doing in Kirindon, Kenya,” she said.
We’re not even going to guess where this thing came from, but The Snowtunnel is described as follows:
The Snowtunnel is a patented design that allows snowboarders/skiers the opportunity to ski all year round. Unlike other artificial environments, The Snowtunnel uses real snow and can be run at a fraction of the cost of larger refridgerated park rides. The Snowtunnel concept can be standalone unit or incorporated into a larger facility.
Are we missing something or is this just a corrugated pipe that’s been iced down and spun? We would, however, like to see what it looks like when someone falls. . .
GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus (a.k.a. Dave Brockie) is apparently a hardcore shred who, like all of us, wanted a pro model. It appears that Sined Snowboards has given him one according to a post on the oderus.com website:
That’s right, own a piece of rock and roll history with the very special limited edition (only 300 made) SINED/Dave Brockie snowboard. For those of you that don’t know it, Dave Brockie is one of the founding members of the grammy-nominated rock group band GWAR, and the malevolent mind and mouth behind GWAR’s supremely evil front-thing and FOX News intergalactic correspondent, ODERUS URUNGUS! But Brockie is much more…a writer (check out his blog at rvanews.com), an illustrator (check out his work at oderus.com) and an avid snowboarder! So when old buddy, huge GWAR fan, and ex-pro rider Ron Bureta got his own company going, the long-held idea of a Brockie snowboard finally became a reality.
The Wall Street Journal’s Hannah Karp lightly discusses halfpipe judging to see just what will happen if Shaun White or any other snowboarders pull out some tricks in the Vancouver Olympics that the judges have never seen before.
Sweden’s Ola Sundequist, the Olympic Head Judge, chimes in with some color, but doesn’t really get into how the judging is really going to work. And that’s probably a good thing, because snowboard halfpipe judging never really has stood up that well to rigorous analysis of any kind.
Nemo’sTrevor Graves has posted a collection of photos from the I Am Snowboarding collaborative art project that is on display in The Village at Mammoth through November 29, 2009. If you didn’t make it, these photos will make it better.
