{"id":37899,"date":"2012-11-12T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=37899"},"modified":"2012-11-12T08:27:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:27:39","slug":"craig-kelly-named-to-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=37899","title":{"rendered":"Craig Kelly Named To Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kelly_fawcett.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kelly_fawcett.jpg','popup','width=600,height=424,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\/2012\/11\/kelly_fawcett-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Kelly Fawcett\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skihall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame<\/a><\/strong> in Ishpeming, Michigan will name legendary snowboarder <strong>Craig Kelly (Photo: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/budfawcett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bud Fawcett<\/a><\/strong><strong>) <\/strong>to their Class of 2012 inductees, along with freestyle skiing pioneer <strong>Wayne Wong<\/strong> and a couple other skiers at their ceremony on April 13, 2013, according to as tory in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningjournal.net\/page\/content.detail\/id\/581694\/Ski-snowboard-hall-names-6-inductees.html?nav=5010\" target=\"_blank\">Mining Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Craig Kelly is the third snowboarder elected to the hall of fame. An influential pioneer in the sport, he won four world titles in its early days and worked with <strong>Jake Burton Carpenter<\/strong> to open countless ski areas to snowboarding in the 1980s. . . Playing a key role early on at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burton Snowboards<\/a><\/strong>, Kelly had an honors degree in chemical engineering and starred in numerous skiing and snowboarding films for 20 years. . . The first true pro snowboarder, he was awarded TransWorld Snowboarding&#8217;s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. . . He died a year later in an avalanche while seeking to become the first fully certified Canadian mountain guide as a snowboarder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great to see Craig continue getting the recognition he so rightfully deserves..<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningjournal.net\/page\/content.detail\/id\/581694\/Ski-snowboard-hall-names-6-inductees.html?nav=5010\" target=\"_blank\">Mining Jounral<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in Ishpeming, Michigan will name legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly (Photo: Bud Fawcett) to their Class of 2012 inductees, along with freestyle skiing pioneer Wayne Wong and a couple other skiers at their ceremony on April 13, 2013, according to as tory in the Mining Journal. Craig Kelly [&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\/37899"}],"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=37899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37903,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37899\/revisions\/37903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}