{"id":27235,"date":"2011-12-19T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27235"},"modified":"2011-12-19T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T16:16:52","slug":"dirksen-derby-dazzles-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27235","title":{"rendered":"Dirksen Derby Dazzles Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2644-640x426.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2644-640x426.jpg','popup','width=640,height=426,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\/2011\/12\/IMG_2644-640x426-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 2644-640X426\" \/><\/a>This weekend (December 16-18, 2011) while snowboarding&#8217;s top sponsored sign spinners were busy getting on-cameras time at the <strong>Carbonated, Caffeinated, High Fructose Corn Syrup Tour<\/strong> in Breckenridge, Colorado, the hardcore faithful (including <strong>Terje Haakonsen<\/strong>, right) were at Central Oregon&#8217;s <strong>Mt. Bachelor<\/strong> for the fifth annual <strong>Dirksen Derby<\/strong> banked Slalom. More than 300 snowboarders gathered to race with friends and raise money for snowboarder <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5343\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Eklund<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Pipeline surfing legend <strong>Gerry Lopez<\/strong> was even able to make it home from Hawaii in time to win the &#8220;older and wiser&#8221; division. The Dirken Derby is everything that is good and right about snowboarding and competition. We&#8217;re bummed we missed another one, but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yobeat.com\/2011\/12\/18\/the-2011-dirksen-derby-recap-and-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yobeat<\/a><\/strong> was there and they have all the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yobeat.com\/2011\/12\/18\/the-2011-dirksen-derby-recap-and-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photos and coverage<\/a><\/strong>. <strong>Click here for full results<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Links: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yobeat.com\/2011\/12\/18\/the-2011-dirksen-derby-recap-and-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yobeat<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbachelor.com\/site\/info\/media_center\/Dirksen%20Derby%20Finals.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mt. Bachelor<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend (December 16-18, 2011) while snowboarding&#8217;s top sponsored sign spinners were busy getting on-cameras time at the Carbonated, Caffeinated, High Fructose Corn Syrup Tour in Breckenridge, Colorado, the hardcore faithful (including Terje Haakonsen, right) were at Central Oregon&#8217;s Mt. Bachelor for the fifth annual Dirksen Derby banked Slalom. More than 300 snowboarders gathered to [&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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27235"}],"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=27235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27238,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27235\/revisions\/27238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}