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Archive for 2010
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New Crystal Mountain Gondola
Crystal Mountain is continuing the implementation of their 2004 Master Development Plan. After the ski season ends, construction will begin on a new top-to-bottom Gondola. The new Gondola is scheduled to be ready for winter 2010/2011. “The base terminal will be where the current Mountain Market/Bumps Espresso is located and bring passengers to the top of [...] -
swBroweather
Took a mini trip down to SLC last Friday (03/06/10). Rode Brighton on Saturday, caught it a day after they’d gotten 20 inches. Still good. I’d never been to Brighton. That place is super fun. Total boarder mountain. Natural jumps everywhere. From the parking lot i noticed a bunch of stuff that i’d seen in [...] -
The Worst Season Ever
Snowboarding is over. Seriously. It’s time to get your boat ready, start jogging, work on your garden, or whatever it is you do when shred is over. Flowers are blooming, baby robins are chirpin like mad at 5am. It’s spring time son. Hang it up. Kinda lame i know. I [...] -
Ride Shakedown March 12-13, 2010
In a couple weeks Snoqualmie Pass will host one of the biggest contest it’s ever seen. Friday March 12th and Saturday the 13th the 9th annual Ride Shakedown will take place at Summit West. The Pro/Am contest runs over a couple days and culminates in a final blow out aka The Shakedown. Rather than a rigorous [...] -
2010 Holy Oly!
The Holy Oly was pretty sick this year. It wasn’t as big as years past, but i can’t ride that thing for isht anyways. The QP was quite a bit narrower than usual making for some epic near misses. There was a bit of a kink in it this year that i’d like to blame [...] -
The 2010 Olympic Girls of Snowboarding
The Olympics start today (Friday, Feb 12 2010) up in Vancouver, Canadia. And while there’s been considerable hype on the lack of snow, traumatic injuries, what Shaun White will be calling the dbl 1260° McTwist, and Todd Richards announcing, the real story is the 2010 Olympic Girls of Snowboarding and which one is the best [...] -
The Media Hates the Double Cork
Alrighty. This gentleman named John Branch just dropped an article on the NYTimes about the Winter Olys and how they’re getting more and more scary. He’s pretty much directly against the double cork. Check out this snippet from the NYT sharticle: “After Pearce’s accident in snowboarding’s halfpipe and a succession of other head injuries, some have [...] -
2010 Banked Slalom
The Banked Slalom was last weekend. Good times for sure. Read about it on one of these fine websites. (Tackledbox, BoredYak 1, BoredYak 2, BoredYak 3, yobeat, frequencey). Rather than write my own recap i decided to rhyme. Here goes: The Slalom had a lotta bros. A few Yo’s. Probably some ho’s, but i don’t knows. There [...] -
Review: Ride Machete
After being a fairly devout Option Snowboards fan, I bought a Ride Machete 164 wide this year. The specs on this board are what appealed to me most–it’s pretty much a mid-wide board. That, the length and it’s slight reverse camber all were what i thought would work best for my size/weight/foot/etc. [...]