{"id":14821,"date":"2010-03-18T20:05:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14821"},"modified":"2010-03-18T21:15:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T04:15:34","slug":"airboarding-pillow-humping-on-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14821","title":{"rendered":"Airboarding: Pillow Humping On Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/spongers_snow.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/spongers_snow.jpg','popup','width=600,height=331,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/spongers_snow-tm.jpg\" height=\"237\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Spongers Snow\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/19\/travel\/escapes\/19airboard.html?src=me\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has tapped into the newest extreme sport. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Airboarding&#8221; and it is apparently sweeping the nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also known as snow body boards, Airboards (the Swiss company Fun-Care holds the trademark) are inflated raftlike sleds with underside grooves and side handles that allow you to turn using forearm pressure and shifting body weight. You grab the board, take a few running steps, plop down on your stomach headfirst, and you\u2019re off. (Helmets are required.) When you want to stop, you just lean hard enough for a 90-degree hockey stop or dig your boots into the snow or simply roll right off the raft..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Hoodoo Ski Area<\/strong>, <strong>Schweitzer Mountain Resort<\/strong>, and <strong>Smugglers\u2019 Notch<\/strong> are renting them so get humpin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/19\/travel\/escapes\/19airboard.html?src=me\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times has tapped into the newest extreme sport. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Airboarding&#8221; and it is apparently sweeping the nation. Also known as snow body boards, Airboards (the Swiss company Fun-Care holds the trademark) are inflated raftlike sleds with underside grooves and side handles that allow you to turn using forearm pressure and shifting body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14823,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions\/14823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}