A 30-year-old Whistler snowboarder was found dead face down in the snow outside the ski area boundary on Sunday according to a story on CTVBC.ctv.ca.
The Whistler resident was found face down and buried in snow in the heavily forested area known to locals as the “Khyber Pass.” . . . He was found by a group of passing skiers, who dug him out of the snow and began performing CPR around 11:30 a.m. . . . Police, ski patrol and search and rescue workers were notified, and located the victim an hour later. . . Police believe the snowboarder fell into a hole created by fallen trees and suffocated in the deep snow.
The name of the snowboarder has not yet been released.
We mentioned last year that Billabong CEO Gordon Merchant was having some trouble with his neighbors for a surf camera he was installing at his $12 million Angourie, NSW home. Now, Mr. Merchant appears to have purchased a new place on the point at Agnes Water, Queensland for $3.8 million, according to a story in the Gladsotne Observer.
Mr Merchant snapped up the timber “beach shack” for a bargain basement $3.8m after the property had once been on the market for a reported $17m. . . The modest high-set timber house sits on 3846sqm of land looking straight into the waves at well-known surf break Agnes Point.
The lot reportedly has enough space for Mr. Merchant to land his helicopter. And he won’t be alone. Rip Curl’s Claw Warbrick has a couple places in the area as well.
“Dalton was definitely the hero of the day.” Brad Whiting, director of Mission Ridge’s ski patrol, said of Dalton Anderson. “Dalton did things right.” . . Dalton used a shovel to dig out Payton Weber, 13, who was partly buried, then raced to Wyatt Baird, 13. Wyatt’s left hand was the only part of him above the snow, Whiting said. . . “I don’t know how many 12-year-old boys would have the courage to stay there, instead of running for help,” Whiting said. “In an avalanche, you can’t go for help, really; there’s not enough time.”
Wyatt Baird, was “quite blue and coughing up blood” when he was pulled from the snow, but after time in the Central Washington Hospital critical care unit it appears he is recovering fine according to the story. Nice work, Dalton.
“I’m planning just to capture a piece of the world which is the bull riding in America. I think it must be an amazing subculture,” he said. . . McLeod’s first experience on a bull was two-and-a-half months ago, and he says he stayed on for a couple of seconds. . . “I think it’s a mental thing. If you’re prepared to really put yourself on and learn and try and stick on, you might get fairly good at it,” he said.
The fact that he’s only ridden a bull once hasn’t seemed to slow him down. It seems that McLeod has found the perfect occupation for an Australian: cluelessly dive headfirst into something without a clue and then spray about it for years.
The Tornoto Sun calls it a “bizarre accident” but as anyone who follows skateboarding knows, towing behind a car and getting seriously wrecked or killed is really not bizarre at all. It is cliché.
Niagara Regional Police said the crash happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday on Greenlane Rd., east of Ontario St., in Lincoln, Ont. . . A 27-year-old Beamsville man was on a skateboard, being towed behind a car driven by a 41-year-old man, police said. . . The boarder, fell and suffered a serious head injury. . . He was taken to McMaster Hospital where he remains in critical condition.
Towing kills. It’s a fact. If you don’t believe, click this link.
[Editors’ Update (April 7, 2010): according to a story on Canoe.ca the 27-year-old man who was hospitalized after being injured while towing died Tuesday, April 6, 2010 of his injuries. Canoe.ca.]
[April 15, 2010 Update: Joseph Cormier, 41, the man driving the car that towed the 27-year-old has been charged with “criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death.” The Standard.] [Link: Toronto Sun]
Thanks to some multi-million dollar renovations at Carlsbad High School, the world famous gap will be destroyed to make room for more better school yards. Transworld Skateboarding and DC got in for one last epic am contest session in on April 3, 21010. It went a little something like this.
In all the talk about the iPad saving the magazine industry few have pointed out the single most important change that Apple’s new magic slate is bringing. The iPad will finally deliver the Internet (blogs, social networking, and the realtime web) to the print media’s last stronghold, namely, the bedroom, the bathroom, and the beach.
Rather than offering print media a helping hand into their digital futures, the iPad will deliver the final knock-out blow to the magazine format’s quivering jaw. And, creating an environment where old media is enthusiastically cheering the approach of its own executioner is simply another example of the genius of Steve Jobs.
Looks like that early Chelsea Hedges run on the Rip Curl Women’s Pro Bells Beach ended today in semi-final number two when Sofia Mulanovich took her out in a nail biting tie-breaker. The three-time world champ Stephanie Gilmore marched right in and crushed Mulanovich in much the same way she cut past Sally Fitzgibbons in the semi final one. But Steph is much too humble to say it:
“Two for two is definitely an unexpected start of the year but I guess when you’re not really expecting too much that’s when it all just comes your way,” Gilmore said. “Winning the World Title is such an incredible feeling – it’s quite rare so while I can, I just might as well keep winning. But it does take a lot of energy – it really draws a lot of energy out of you. When you come to the end of the year, everybody wants a piece of your time and it can be quite intense, but it’s something that I enjoy. I think that’s why I just kind of cruise throughout the year and then at the end of the year, I want that big climax.”
One of the few things that creeps us out about surfing late in the evening or early, early morning is bumping into something in the water. And these stories don’t help. Santa Cruz surfers got an eery surprise this morning when they found the body of a 43-year-old woman who had been missing since March 22, 2010, according to a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Around 8 a.m. Friday, surfers noticed Davis’ body floating in the water between the surf break and a small, sand beach at the base of the stairs that lead up to West Cliff Drive. Someone called 911 while Cabrillo College instructor Rick Graziani paddled out to the body. . . “It was kind of a weird way to start a surf session,” the Soquel resident said. “It was moving in toward where the surf zone was so I decided I would stay with the body … and also I just didn’t want to leave her there by herself after she had finally been found.”
Foul play is not suspected. The missing woman, Lee Davis, 43, was a wife and mother.
