While resort buying and selling seems to be an endless Ponzi scheme where no one ever really comes out ahead it is worth mentioning that today Intrawest announced that it is selling Copper Mountain to the Park City, Utah based Powdr Corp.
The transaction is anticipated to close in December 2009 and the agreement is subject to regulatory approvals including the issuance of a U.S. Forest Service special-use permit to Powdr Corp.
When a post on the Ashbury Eyewear site featuring Kr3w’s new snowboard team started a blazing 114 comment flame war between people claiming to be from Comune, Ashbury, and Kr3w it did more than waste time for everyone involved. It sent one more reminder to other companies that what their employees post online from work can come back to bite them.
In the comments the Ashbury Eyewear site admin eventually exposed all the posts that were coming from what they believed was Comune’s IP address. A similar thing happened last month when Yobeat.com’s Jared Souney called out Burton employees for posting anonymously to the Yobeat.com comments.
This debacle caused at least one manager to take action. “After I saw those comments I seriously sent an email to my staff telling them not to do shit like that,” one company executive told us. “With online you always have to try and stay one step ahead on shit like that. Employees can screw things up without even realizing they’re doing it.”
Most employees understand that whenever they speak, they’re in some ways “speaking for the company,” but with social media taking over it becomes more important that ever to remember that what is Tweeted, facebooked, myspaced, or posted to comment boards has a far larger audience than just talking shit between friends at an after party.
It’s not all downside, however. Conflicts are great for traffic and we’re guessing this feud probably ended up helping Ashbury get more traffic than they’ve had in a while.
TJ Schneider is back for season three of The Snowboard Realms, which according to a post on Snowboard Canada, launched today. All it does is make us feel worse about missing opening day at Baker. If that was possible.
We have no problem with skiers. Not even the one’s who are obviously doing their best to be snowboarders. They do their rad thing, we do ours. But Northern Idaho College’s David Humphreys doesn’t like skiers at all, according to a story on The Sentinel Online. And we couldn’t help but laugh while reading his rant titled Skiers Can’t Take The Hint.
With the approaching winter, comes the cumbersome task of dealing with skiers. Every year, I give these pole jerkers another chance, but they always manage to get on my bad side early on in the season. . . . In general, skiers flaunt a boisterous persona, melting the snow around them with a sense of false confidence. . . Skiers, what’s with the poles? Is it really neccesary to use a couple pieces of metal, just to stay up? Snowboarders can ride perfectly without the help of a couple of sticks; skiers should do the same.
Apparently it’s the 80s all over again up there near the Panhandle.
When it comes to images that capture the very beginning days of snowboarding, no one has a deeper file that photographer Bud Fawcett. Aside from publishing them in the occasional snowboard magazine history story, Fawcett has mostly kept the photos to himself. But according to his blog, that has recently changed.
After many years of avoiding personal requests for many of my snowboarding photos, I finally decided it’s easier to set up an online shop rather than spitting them out one-by-one on my inkjet printer. I just got the 5×7 proofs for a test and the quality is really good. The B&W’s look like the real thing. Check it out, maybe you need a Christmas present for yourself.
I’ve never been a fan of the “b-word” and I’ve openly warred against it ever since the term first crept into the global vocabulary. Yet here I am now, embracing it like a cheap whore. . . I think after the publication of both Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art and The Disposable Skateboard Bible, I’ve exhausted my ability to squeeze books out of this obsessive/compulsive fascination of mine. So this is the next best way for a junkie like me to keep scratching the itch.
We have to admit, the logo of the Stan Evans produced women’s film Stance looks a little familiar, but the music is amazing, and we’ve got the entire movie here in a “not so exclusive” showing thanks to our friends at Snowboarder Magazine.
As they said:
Watch the highly anticipated all-women’s film project STANCE in it’s entirety exclusively right here. Featuring: Gretchen Bleiler, Hana Beaman, Kimmy Fasani, Lisa Filzmoser, Jenny Jones, Torah Bright, Raewyn Reid, and Molly Aguirre.
Go behind the scene of the making of Absinthe FilmsNeverland and watch them work. Justin Hostnyk, Shane, and the boys start gettin’ ‘er done. Truth is, we still haven’t seen the movie.
While resort buying and selling seems to be an endless Ponzi scheme where no one ever really comes out ahead it is worth mentioning that today Intrawest announced that it is selling Copper Mountain to the Park City, Utah based Powdr Corp.
