{"id":441,"date":"2008-02-17T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T18:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2008-02-17T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T19:07:19","slug":"huffman-goes-no-boarding-for-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Huffman Goes No-Boarding For NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/15noboard600.1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/15noboard600.1.jpg','popup','width=600,height=300,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\/2008\/02\/15noboard600.1-tm.jpg\" height=\"212\" width=\"425\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"15Noboard600.1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessie Huffman<\/strong> has been writing up a storm lately for the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/15\/travel\/escapes\/15noboard.html?8dpc\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. His latest was a bindingless trip with the Noboarding crew.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THREE miles into the Kootenay Range backcountry by snowmobile, I stood alongside 50 other riders, gathered at the bottom of a wide and untracked sub-alpine run. The mid-January snowpack was so deep in the Interior Mountains of British Columbia that the effects of logging were buried beneath 180 inches of powder &#8212; the downed trees, stumps and rocks all transformed by the bounty of snow into a snowboarder&#8217;s paradise.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions were extraordinary, and the crowd included <strong>Travis Rice<\/strong>, a professional snowboarder and multiple gold medalist in the <strong>X Games<\/strong>. But on this overcast Saturday, the draw was the third annual <strong>Greg Todds Memorial No-Board Race<\/strong>, and the challenge was simply to get down the hill &#8212; without bindings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/15\/travel\/escapes\/15noboard.html?8dpc\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessie Huffman has been writing up a storm lately for the New York Times. His latest was a bindingless trip with the Noboarding crew. THREE miles into the Kootenay Range backcountry by snowmobile, I stood alongside 50 other riders, gathered at the bottom of a wide and untracked sub-alpine run. The mid-January snowpack was so [&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\/441"}],"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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}