Four snowboarders who got lost while riding at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine on Sunday afternoon were located today after spending a cold night on the mountain, according to an Associated Press story.
A group of three snowboarders, plus a fourth one who was on his own, went out of bounds late Sunday afternoon in an area known as the snowfields, a large section of ungroomed expert terrain on the backside of the mountain. . . The Sugarloaf ski patrol and the Maine Warden Service searched late into the night Sunday, communicating with the lost snowboarders by cell phone and text messages and coming within shouting distance. But the search was hampered by high winds, steep terrain, thick spruce woodlands and the more than 5 feet of snow that had fallen since Wednesday. The temperature fell to 22 degrees.
The search was called off after midnight and the snowboarders were told to “hunker down” for the night. It appears that all four of the snowboarders (Luke Poisson, Cory Koop, Machali Belluscio, and Aaron Nadeau) are all doing fine after their night outdoors. Koop is literally from North Pole, Alaska so he probably slept fine.
Have to admit that we’re kind of surf filmed out, but it is good to see people like Joe G working diligently to keep if fresh. Stab magazine interviewed Joe on his new “concept experiment” for Globe.
You can watch “a rad surf part” everywhere these days and to me almost everything looks the same. I want the video tests to be what I see as an audiovisual experiment – something a bit different. Maybe an alternate music video for the song. Maybe something trippy that just so happens to have a few surf clips in it. Dunno. We’re basically just bored with a lot of the things we usually see in surf and like to try different takes on it.
While the total number of shark attacks worldwide increased from 60 to 61 between 2008 and 2009 the number of attacks in the United States have dropped from 50 in 2007 to only 28 in 2009, according to a story in the Palm Beach Post. That’s the good news.
Worldwide, George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at University of Florida said, more than half of the people who suffered shark attacks last year were surfers. . . Despite the decline over the past few years, Burgess says the number of shark attacks has risen to unprecedented levels over the past decade. . . “As scientists we don’t get so excited about individual years and tend to look at things in terms of decades,” Burgess said.
“Unprecedented levels” doesn’t sound so good. . . neither does Burgess getting “too excited.”
Uyehara says he just wants residents, tourists and the homeless to get along. . . “We need to have a better balance if we’re going to keep this an attractive tourist attraction, a destination that’s also located in a residential neighborhood.”
According to a story in the Wall Street JournalIntrawest owner Fortress Investments LLC has reached an agreement with creditors to restructure its $1.4 billion debt and will not be auctioning off equity today.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the new deal will allow Intrawest owner Fortress to inject an additional $150 million of equity into the business to pay down debt and retain control of the resort company. . . The report also indicates a new $1.2-billion loan package will extend debt maturities by as long as four years and will charge a higher rate of interest than existing debt.
If you subscribe to the WSJ you can read all the details.
Juliette Lewis says she tired of talking about her relationship with actor Brad Pitt and would rather talk about something else, according to a story on CBS42.com.
She says, “It amazes me that people are still fascinated that we went out for years. I was a teenager at the time. It’s a lifetime away. I was in my high school years and it was a wonderful, loving relationship with a fun, smart guy.Then it was over and he went on to become incredibly famous. The far more significant relationship was my marriage to an incredible pro skateboarder (Steve Berra). But no-one wants to know about that.”
Really? Seems like we know some people who would love to know about that. . .
Seems like everyone was at Ed Templeton’s Seconds Pass show opening at Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles on Friday night, February 26, 2010. Well, almost everyone. . . check out photos from the event on emerica.
After the tsunami scare on Sunday, the Quiksilver Pro 2010 got right back on track with eight heats of round two and the first extreme eliminations from the event. All the favorites made it through including; Taj Burrow, C.J. Hobgood, Bobby Martinez, Damien Hobgood, Dane Reynolds, Jordy Smith, Kieren Perrow, and Freddy P.
Reynolds seemed relieved. “I was happy they ran it today,” Reynolds said. “The other morning, I kind of got sacrificed for the tide because they have to start at a certain point to finish the round, and the first heat they’re going to start in bad surf. But today it’s really fun out there and they made a great call.”
Follow the jump for the results and the rest of the round 2 draw. [click to continue…]
Canada’s Jasey Jay Anderson won the men’s snowboard parallel slalom gold medal today (Saturday, February 27, 2010) in a nearly blinding rain storm at Cypress Mountain. Austria’s Benjamin Karl who took silver and France’s Matthieu Bozzetto claimed the bronze.
With this this win Anderson capped off an amazing career as a professional snowboarder. Alpine racers have it tough. Snowboarders don’t like them, major snowboard manufacturers don’t support them, and they have to train harder than most. But anyone who thinks that Alpine racers aren’t snowboarders needs to open their minds a little wider and remember that no matter what you think about them at least they’re not boardercrossers. . .
