This winter Portland snowboarders who want to catch a ride to Mt. Hood Meadows can do it any day of the week for $10 round trip in eco-style thanks to Mike Parziale and the Grease Bus. But there is much more to this story as Yobeat.com’s Jared Souney discovered in this video.
[Link: Yobeat.com]
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While we were doing something else, Pamela Anderson was at a “private home in Malibu” with the US Snowboarding’s Olympic hopefuls . . . frolicking “with celebrity families in 40 tons of snow.”
Olympic snowboard coach Bud Keene was obviously an extremely attentive instructor getting Pam right up on her slippery, pink, Mammoth box. . . click the link for more photos
[Link: Gossip Girls]
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Josh and Nick are still rocking the danger. . . whether you like it or not. One question: what’s with the “Guest pros?” Is the Dangerzone going corporate? Gawd, we hope not. . .
[Link: Tahoe Dangerzone]
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Following in the footsteps of Barack Obama, former Olympic snowboarder Ross Rebagliati has written a book and entered politics, according to a story in the Whistler Question.
Rebagliati — who lives with his wife Alexandra and five-month-old son Ryan in Kelowna — on Friday (Oct. 23) announced his candidacy for the Liberal Party nomination in the riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla in the next federal election. . . “It was going to be an election without an option, basically,” Rebagliati said in an interview. “I felt like there needed to be a choice for the constituents.”
Rob’s wrife Alexandra is temporarily running his campaign.
[Link: Whistler Question and Vancouver Sun]
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Ross Rebagliati won snowboarding’s first gold medal in Nagano ’98. Though the IOC tried and failed, no one can take that away from him. Sadly, it was a medal in giant slalom and not in the crazy, off the hook halfpipe. This hasn’t stopped Ross from telling the story of snowboarding history himself in the book Off The Chain.
Off the Chain takes readers on a wild ride through the rise of snowboarding, from its hippie origins in the backwoods of Vermont and California to its present incarnation as a $150 billion global industry. Illustrated with 100 color photographs, Off the Chain begins with the sport’s early days, when the pioneers built their own boards and snuck onto the slopes. Author Rebagliati profiles snowboarding’s most notorious figures, explores the nature of snowboarding culture, and tells what touring as a young World Cup snowboarder is like. . . . He’s unsparing in revealing the sport’s more controversial aspects, from groupies to drugs, including his own experience having his gold medal revoked — and then restored — after failing a drug test. Rebagliati pulls no punches in this lively mix of personal memoir and sports history.
Seems like a bit of a strange title coming from Ross, but regardless, we’re looking forward to checking it out. Click here to pre-order the book.
[Link: Amazon]
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While we’ve never, ever heard anyone say, “Portland could use a few more good coffee roasters” we’re still hyped for Wille Yli Luoma on today’s official grand opening of Heart Roasters on 2211 E. Burnside St, in Portland, Oregon.
All the hipsters were out for the opening party on Saturday, October 17, 2009, but today, at 6 AM the doors opened for the rest of us.
Check it out next you’re in the City of Roses Roasters.
[Link: Heart Roasters via Yobeat]
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Let’s just put it this way: this is the second and last time we’re missing opening day at Mammoth. Thankfully, Ashbury’s Lance Michael Hakker got it all down on the web.
Big Mountain Mike and I roll up around 9:30am and the parking was the craziest I’ve ever seen it on opening day. And we’ve been going to Mammoth’s opener for 10 years or more.
How’s that for a crowd? Just think what free tickets do for on-hill food sales and Mammoth lodging? We think the kids should ride free all the time. Don’t you?
For the rest of the photos click the link. . . or for his real work check Lance’s story on SnowboarderMag.com.
[Link: Ashbury Eyewear and SnowboarderMag.com]
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While the talent pool of riders who compete on the US Grand Prix Tour in Olympic off years may not be a deep as many would expect, it is nice to see that there is a tour for those who don’t feel ready for the Grand Prix just yet. It’s called the Revolution Tour and it is in it’s sixth year.
“The Revolution Tour is entering its sixth year and we are absolutely stoked for another great season,” U.S. Snowboarding Program Manager Abbi Nyberg said. “The Tour has grown so much over the past few years it has been great to see athletes progress from the Revolution Tour and have success at the Grand Prix, US Open, other major events.”
The tour begins January 14, 2009 at Mount Snow, Vermont. Follow the jump for all the details.
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Opening day for the new shred season doesn’t get any better than this. With 20-30 inches of new snow in the past 24 hours Mammoth Mountain is ready to blow the doors off on the 2009-2010 season with free lift tickets on Friday October 16, 2009 (according to @mammothmountain).
As if we needed any more excuses to charge the 395. Looks like it’s time to call in sick.
[Link: Mammoth Mountain]
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Yobeat.com one of our favorite independent voices in snowboard media got into a little scuffle with some people at Burton Snowboards recently (read all about it right here).
The upshot is that Yobeat.com got a bunch of traffic and now they’re going to hand out some stickers, according to a post on jaredsouney.com:
So, the deal is, buy a snowboard from now through the end of November, and send us a copy of your receipt and we’ll send you free YoBeat stickers. They might be die-cuts, they might be screen prints, they might be an assortment of both. What’s the catch? It can’t be a Burton Snowboard. Anything else will fly, even their subsidiaries like Forum who we quite enjoy. Just no Burtons.
But that’s not all people who write in for free stickers also get entered in a drawing for free gear from the Yobeat.com product reviews.
It’s nice to see the new independent media up on their feet rather than groveling down on their knees, isn’t it?
[Link: JaredSouney.com]
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