Yeah, he does some other stuff, too. It’s his Volcom #IP2 so you know what’s up.
[Link: Volcom Snow]
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Snowboarding
This month’s project for Signal Snowboards? A solar snowboard. We don’t know what that means either. Guess we’ll just have to watch the edit.
[Link: Signal Snowboards]
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The six-year-old UK based snowboard glove company Transform is now rolling in the USA (Thanks to Brown Bag Distribution and Midwest OG Tim Bean) and they’ve signed Nick Visconti to the team.
“In today’s market, snowboarding brands are a dime a dozen,” Nick Visconti tells us. “What makes a lasting impact and sustainable growth for a brand is a vision, mission and commitment- all three are key elements that Transform gloves has. Add innovation, premium fabrics and a grassroots marketing campaign, Transform Gloves is the future for progressive technical snowboarding hand wear. I am excited to promote and advocate for Transform Gloves.”
For the official word from Transform, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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We had one word when news arrived that Shaun White was cutting his hair: FINALLY! And it’s apparently for a good cause. Nice. He’s the ginger Jon Bon Jovi!
[Link via Yobeat]
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Don’t think saying the US Open of Snowboarding at Vail is getting any easier because it’s not. We’re just going to have to give it five years. So here is the schedule for the 2013 event.
Wednesday, February 27th: Slopestyle Semi-Finals
Thursday, February 28th: Halfpipe Semi-Finals
Friday, March 1st: Slopestyle Finals
Saturday, March 2nd: Halfpipe Finals
For all the official details (including how you can snowboard you way into the event), please follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Few things in life are funnier than listening to A-man voice over a video. Especially when it’s shot in the classic Warren Miller style. Here A-man posts up at the top of Timberline’s Pucci lift and gives the play-by-play. “Their passes are going to get snagged on something and they’re going to get decapitated, if the worms is their asses don’t get them. . . ”
[Link: Yobeat]
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While the showboarders were busy performing tricks for NBC’s cameras at the flame retardant, mouse dissolving, caffeinated, carbonated high fructose corn syrup event at Breckenridge, the snowboarders of the world converged on Oregon’s Mt. Bachelor for what is quickly becoming the season opening event for the core shred crowd, the Dirksen Derby. Luckily for us, Yobeat.com was there to capture all the action (click here for full results).
[Link: Yobeat]
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This weekend (December 13-16, 2012) the flame retardant, mouse dissolving, caffeinated, carbonated high fructose corn syrup winter event went down at Breckenridge Resort in Colorado. We didn’t watch a lick of it, because we’re not interested in promoting the obeseification of America’s youth.
Apparently, Shaun White won the pipe and Mark McMorris took the slopestyle. On the women’s side Brita Sigourney took the pipe and the magnificent Jamie Anderson killed it in slopestyle. For complete results, please follow the jump. And congrats to all the snowboarders. [click to continue…]
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Rather than spend all year gathering footage and then putting it together into one movie to be shown next year, Rome Snowboards is doing a movie each month for 12 months. They’ve cleverly named the project 12 Months. Here is the November offering.
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The New York Times looks into the issue of global warming and the future of the snow resort business. If some scientists are correct the entire business could look quite different in 78 years (not that we’d care all that much at that point.)
Under certain warming forecasts, more than half of the 103 ski resorts in the Northeast will not be able to maintain a 100-day season by 2039, according to a study to be published next year by Daniel Scott, director of the Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.. . . In the Rockies, where early conditions have also been spotty, average winter temperatures are expected to rise as much as 7 degrees by the end of the century. Park City, Utah, could lose all of its snowpack by then. In Aspen, Colo., the snowpack could be confined to the top quarter of the mountain. So far this season, several ski resorts in Colorado have been forced to push back their opening dates.
Guess by that time the kids will have to move indoors to some refrigerated slopes. Or, maybe the Republicans are right and by then we’ll be entering the next ice age. Who do you believe?
[Link: New York Times]
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