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[Link: Draplin Industries]
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Snowboarding
Two Boise, Idaho men, Robert Carl Befort, 26, and Jacob Jay Eller, 20, were arrested and charged in the thefts of two snowboards on Tuesday, Dec. 8th.
The men had reportedly taken two snowboards from Idaho’s Bogus Basin, however, the owners of the snowboards were able to give police a good description of the car and license plate. Meth makes kids do stupid things. Then again, maybe these boys at risk never had the Burton Chill experience.
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The media world never seems to tire of first person stories about old dogs trying new tricks. In this installment of that premise, the New York Times sends Harry Hurt III, a 57-year-old “executive” to Lake Placid to take up that rabble-rousing sport of snowboarding. You know, like the kids are doing. And you know, it’s like they speak a completely different language.
Despite my losing battles against age and gravity, I eventually remained upright long enough to experience a few fleeting moments of extreme joy. On Day 2, I put together a sequence of toe turns and heel turns that lasted about 100 yards. On Day 3, something possessed me to attempt a trick known as stomping the box. The box was an eight-foot-long plastic-topped girder that resembled a sidewalk curb. I was supposed to stomp on my board with downward weight pressure so that it remained flat. On my third and final attempt, I rode seven feet along the box before I did a Superman.
Figures.
[Link: New York Times]
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It’s been nearly a week since Michael George and Kyle Kerschen two 27-year-old snowboarders who went missing at Colorado’s Wolf Creek Ski Resort, but at least one helicopter is still looking for them.
Their car was found in the ski area’s parking lot [on January 5, 2008]. . . Mineral County Sheriff Fred Hosselkus asked anyone who may have seen the men before they disappeared to contact authorities. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sandy Kroll said missing-person fliers were being distributed in surrounding communities, and skiers and others were asked to look for any sign of them. . . . Kroll said Hosselkus has not said how long the search would continue. The men’s families have asked authorities to keep looking.
[Link: Summit Daily]
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Adam Putnam, 36, and his fiancee, Rachel Fehl, 30, spent three days in the outback near Ski Sante Fe ski resort in New Mexico after they got lost while hunting powder. Worker searched for them for three days, but the conditions were too stormy.
. . . the couple . . . slept on pine boughs in snow caves. They had a backpack hydration system with them that they filled with snow and stuffed into their clothing to melt. . . A rescue helicopter spotted the couple waving their hands near the top of Little Tesuque Peak, Anglada said. “They had stamped out SOS in the snow with their feet,” Anglada said.
Sounds like they were dumb enough to get lost, but smart enough to survive.
[Link: Associated Press]
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Leigh Barnier, 21, of Sydney, Australia died Sunday in an avalanche in Parachute Bowl at Big White Ski Resort. Though he was last seen Sunday morning, his body was not found until Monday moring.
McLachlan said the body was found in the main debris field of the slide, under three to four metres of snow. “After two RCMP police dogs gave strong indication in the area, mechanical equipment was utilized to dig down (to) where the deceased was located.”
Barnier was living the dream and working for a housekeeping company at Big White. He is the seventh person to die this year in Canadian avalanches. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
[Link: Canada.com]
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The ASP 2007 World Champ Mick Fannning, 26, was doing a little snowboarding in Japan during his time off and apparently fell causing what his mother Liz referred to as a “minor fracture that would not affect his preparations for this years ASP World Tour” which kicks off at Snapper Rocks on February 23.
“I love snowboarding, it’s so much fun, it’s like surfing but it does hurt more,” he recently told Japanese magazine Powderlife. “I’ve been doing one week snowboarding holidays every year since 2003 – California, Whistler, Colorado and Australia.”
Water, it appears is softer than snow.
[Link: The Age]
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Jesse Brigham, 27, was riding with two friends on Friday in the East Vail Chutes when an avalanche buried him.
His two friends, who located him by the beacon sounding from his helmet, spent 10 to 20 minutes digging him out. But they were not able to revive him, Cordingly said. The pair, who have not been identified, used a cellphone to call the Vail Ski Patrol. The Eagle County Sheriff’s Department also responded to the avalanche, which happened in cold, sunny conditions and was the 14th to hit Colorado this winter, according to the department.
Our thoughts are with Brigham’s family and friends.
[Link: Boston.com]
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Shares of Zumiez fell 13 percent to a new year low when the retailer “slashed its fiscal 2007 outlook after it posted holiday sales below its expectations.
Shares of the online and mall-based retailer have slumped nearly 65 percent since their October 2007 highs, as concerns about warm weather hurting winter sales worried investors. . . “Although holiday sales were positive, we did not experience the across the board strength that we had planned for,” Zumiez Chief Executive Officer Rick Brooks said in a statement.
[Link: Reuters]
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First they start a site that hopes to get kids to pay them money for the possibility of “getting sponsored” and now they say they’re launching an action sports version of Myspace and facebook. It appears that Sponsorhouse.com Scott Tilton and RJ Kraus have found a new way to talk action sports companies out of their money. It’s called Loop’d. They’ve even rallied Oakley’s Pat Mac (which isn’t all that difficult to do).
Patrick McIlvain, global sports marketing director for Oakley, said the promotion it’s running on the Loop’d Network is one way for the company to tap into the grass roots of the action-sports market.
Hey, with a name like Loop’d you know the kids are going to be down.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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