May 2007


General29 May 2007 07:30 pm

The Futurist: Living the Virtual Life
MediaPost - On top of the cash I am earning through Google, I’ve compiled over 900,000 points on [the snowboard company] Burton’s online community. Only 100,000 more points and I can get a free snowboard. With thousands of online communities popping up

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ScrippsNews - Accidents with a snowboard, bicycle, wheelchairs and stairs are played for laughs. After-effects of a fire are shown. — Drug or alcohol reference: Adults drink beer, wine or other alcohol. “Spider-Man 3″ — Rated: PG-13. — Suitable for: School-age

Cruises, resorts offer teenagers their own space
Baltimore Sun - Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort began deploying in December what it calls “ride guides,” local teens who lead young guests on ski and snowboard excursions. At Four Seasons Resort Whistler near Vancouver, Canada, Ben Podborski, 17, son of Olympic

Online Press Release
PRWeb - New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and New York for One Low Price with the New Powder Passport Smart Destinations, creators of the all-inclusive Go Visitor Card multi-attraction products, have re-launched their Northeast skiing and snowboard product

Spring into action for resorts’ season-ending events
San Francisco Gate - Snowboard Academy Camp runs Saturday-Sunday; $99 includes two lift tickets, lunches, instruction, swag bag. (530) 426-3666. Bear Valley: Wine-tasting and live jazz, 2-5:30 p.m. Saturday, $15. Reggae on the Mountain, micro-brew festival and pond

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Summit Daily News - WHISTLER, B.C. - Mohawk-headed Glen Plake was turned back at the Canadian border on his way to talk about skiing at Whistler’s Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival. It would seem that Plake, who was voted as among the 35 most influential skiers by

Scott Smiley blinded in Iraq combat skis, surfs, wakeboards
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Making this adventure possible is Foresight, a nonprofit organization that enables blind and visually impaired skiers to ski, snowboard and snowshoe. Foresight was started by Mark Davis, a 49 year old Denver resident, who is also visually impaired

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Interview: Tim Gargiulo
Denver Post - Snowboard team to get my feet back under me, and so I could feel like the injury didn’t beat me. This is an idea that I had been kicking around for about eight years, so I finally decided it was time to put my snowboard away and roll up my

General20 May 2007 01:30 pm

The Brampton Guardian
Brampton Guardian - The city is also planning snowboard competitions in the park, using ’snow’ from a local hockey rink. The park’s concessions will be open as well. The rides and midway are open from 11 a.m. to midnight Saturday and Sunday. On Monday, the amusements

Winter X Games dates announced
Aspen Daily News - The Winter X Games will be held Jan. 24-27, 2008, at Buttermilk. The annual event features athletes from across the globe competing for medals and prize money in skiing, snowboard and snowmobile contests. Practice days and elimination rounds are

General18 May 2007 04:30 pm

Online Press Release
PRWeb - New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and New York for One Low Price with the New Powder Passport Smart Destinations, creators of the all-inclusive Go Visitor Card multi-attraction products, have re-launched their Northeast skiing and snowboard product

Winner by a solar light
Nevada Appeal - The 37-year-old Carson City man hopes this award will illuminate his career, as well as the cargo carriers of ski and snowboard bums. Eckery’s life reflects what it takes to get to the top for any Nevada family. He’s been going to school part time

Olive wins two matches, reaches semifinals
Denver Post - Organizers announced that the Winter X Games 12 will be held at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen/Snowmass from Jan. 24-27 with an international roster of athletes competing in skiing, snowboard and snowmobile events. Practice and elimination rounds will

Cashmere skier ready for some heat
Tacoma News Tribune - Ski and Snowboard Association announced May 1 that it will bid to host the 2013 Alpine World Ski Championship at Vail and Beaver Creek, Colo. Austria, Switzerland and Italy also are candidates. The International Ski Federation will pick the location

Burton Snowboards hires Chuck Mason as VP of sales
Global Surf News - The combination of his experience at a top specialty retailer and leading sales teams of four snowboard brands will serve him well at Burton. Reporting to Burton s Executive Vice President and General Manager Clark Gundlach, Chuck is charged

Utah Mountain Resort Picks Thomas Taber
Adweek - We believe that these talents will help us continue to strengthen our brand and further position us as an industry leader.” New work is slated to appear in the fall. The agency will fashion a multiplatform campaign for the skiing and snowboard

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Alpine Zone - NEWRY, Maine — The United States of America Snowboard Association (USASA) National Championships were held during the first week of April at Northstar at Tahoe and Gould Academy Sunday River (GSR) athletes brought back a title and many strong

Powerlifter puts weight behind snowboarding
Nashville Tennessean - So I got on a snowboard, and I was pretty good.” Despite his size (Baker was 390 pounds at the time), he was quite graceful on the board. The following year he returned to the Winter Games and competed in the snowboard competition. Over the last nine

Slush Cup gives debate cold clarity
Anchorage Daily News - The Bible tells the story of Jesus Christ walking on water, but what about some guy dressed up as Jesus trying to snowboard across a temporary pool at the bottom of a ski run? The Slush Cup s personal Jesus must have had his doubts. As he came down

PM Makeover: Giving Back
Popular Mechanics - The Watkins Street crew, along with eight other FDNY firefighters, provided transportation and support for 31 disabled vets (most of them injured in Iraq or Afghanistan), who were learning how to ski or snowboard under the tutelage of the Adaptive

General17 May 2007 06:30 pm

Sport Chalet Opens Store in Phoenix, AZ
MSN MoneyCentral - The Company offers over 50 services for the serious sports enthusiast, including backpacking, canyoneering, and kayaking instruction, custom golf club fitting and repair, snowboard and ski rental and repair, SCUBA training and certification, SCUBA

Sofia To Host Snowboard World Cup Event in December
Sofia News Agency - Bulgarian capital Sofia will hold a Snowboard World Cup event in December, mayor Boyko Borissov said on Thursday. Borissov met with international ski federation (FIS) snowboard race director Marcel Looze in Sofia to discuss the organisational details

Snow sports industry tapping market of female skiers and snowboarders
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - But as she finally comes to a stop at the bottom of the lifts and unstraps her board, it’s clear by her Prada sunglasses and Roxy snowboard that she is all girl. Wilkins, a Florida college student on vacation with her family, represents one of the

General16 May 2007 07:30 pm

Groff at ease on skis
Bucks County Courier Times - The 2004 Central Bucks East graduate showed his prowess in the snow recently by helping the University of Colorado snowboarding team win two titles at the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association’s (USCSA) National Championships held in

Slush Cup gives debate cold clarity
Anchorage Daily News - The Bible tells the story of Jesus Christ walking on water, but what about some guy dressed up as Jesus trying to snowboard across a temporary pool at the bottom of a ski run? The Slush Cup s personal Jesus must have had his doubts. As he came down

PM Makeover: Giving Back
Popular Mechanics - The Watkins Street crew, along with eight other FDNY firefighters, provided transportation and support for 31 disabled vets (most of them injured in Iraq or Afghanistan), who were learning how to ski or snowboard under the tutelage of the Adaptive

Western resorts make tracks
Dallas Morning News - The Treehouse will offer families one-stop shopping, including ski and snowboard school check-in, rental and retail, apr s-ski entertainment and activities. Also opening will be Snowmass’ Elk Camp Meadows beginner area. Situated

General13 May 2007 01:30 am

summit daily news
Summit Daily News - He hopes to one day lose the canes and ride a snowboard again. Last year the event raised more than $3,000. The event featured men s and women s snowboarders and men s skiers. Each group had 30 minutes on three types of rails and there was a

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Gamasutra - After all, Monopoly’s branded tokens seem very similar to static in-game advertising (like the Honda Element that on the snowboard courses in SSX3). In a New York Times article about the new edition, the executive director of a consumer nonprofit did

PM Makeover: Giving Back
Popular Mechanics - The Watkins Street crew, along with eight other FDNY firefighters, provided transportation and support for 31 disabled vets (most of them injured in Iraq or Afghanistan), who were learning how to ski or snowboard under the tutelage of the Adaptive

Don t get involved with The Ex
MSNBC - And so Tom stumbles through each day, being hit in the head with a snowboard, falling on his face on the gym floor when Chip asks him to join in a wheelchair basketball game, crashing his bike into a convertible. And Sofia stays home each day with

Snow sports industry tapping market of female skiers and snowboarders
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - But as she finally comes to a stop at the bottom of the lifts and unstraps her board, it’s clear by her Prada sunglasses and Roxy snowboard that she is all girl. Wilkins, a Florida college student on vacation with her family, represents one of the

Spring into action for resorts’ season-ending events
San Francisco Gate - Snowboard Academy Camp runs Saturday-Sunday; $99 includes two lift tickets, lunches, instruction, swag bag. (530) 426-3666. Bear Valley: Wine-tasting and live jazz, 2-5:30 p.m. Saturday, $15. Reggae on the Mountain, micro-brew festival and pond

EA hopes to capitalize on Wii success
MSNBC - EA deserves points for not taking the easy way out and just letting you steer the snowboard by tilting the Wii Remote like many other Wii racing games. Instead, you use the Nunchuk attachment to carve the mountainsides and perform tricks with the Wii

General12 May 2007 05:30 am

Head To Reno-Tahoe
KGO - Spring is the perfect time to visit Reno Tahoe! Sunny blue skies and plenty of snow on the slopes means Reno-Tahoe is THE place to put some WOW in your weekend! There is still plenty of time to ski and snowboard, so check out all the great ski and

Our Recent Recruitment Efforts
Inside Higher Ed - Or our Junior Year Abroad, with snowboard academies in the Swiss and Italian Alps and surfing school in St. Croix? Gosh, we ve got so many ideas, generated by the Manhattan-based PR firm of Skule & Dine, we hardly know what to do with them! Our

Sunlight event grows; one world record set
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. As Louise Marron completed her sixth and final lap at 24 Hours of Sunlight on Sunday morning, she hit a kicker on her snowboard, finishing the event with a jump across the finish line. The crowd cheered, welcoming her in

TELLURIDE CO
Native American Times - Ute Mt youth welcomed home to Telluride s Mt Village with Ute sculpture to ski and snowboard by Telski and town leaders. Front L-R: Shane Ketchum, Marilyssa Knight, Rabbi Michael Saftler, Olympian Suzy Chaffee, Hawkins Wall, Kit Collins (Cowboy

Local talents strut their stuff in famous Freeway park at Breckenridge
Summit Daily News - On the snowboard side, a local 18-year-old, Breck s Madison Ellsworth, strung together a clean, balanced run that was just enough to top Eric Willett s effort. Ellsworth, a Copper Freeride Team member and winner of this year s Aspen Open

Slush Cup gives debate cold clarity
Anchorage Daily News - The Bible tells the story of Jesus Christ walking on water, but what about some guy dressed up as Jesus trying to snowboard across a temporary pool at the bottom of a ski run? The Slush Cup s personal Jesus must have had his doubts. As he came down

Movie review: The Ex ***
Toledo Blade - It eventually veers into more unconventional territory, although it milks laughs from Braff being smacked with a snowboard or wheelchair. It s both a bit edgy and rough around the edges, clocking in at 89 minutes, but it has moments that may make

General11 May 2007 08:30 am

Online Press Release
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summit daily news
Summit Daily News - He hopes to one day lose the canes and ride a snowboard again. Last year the event raised more than $3,000. The event featured men s and women s snowboarders and men s skiers. Each group had 30 minutes on three types of rails and there was a

Sawdust explosion starts fire in factory’s dust collector
Peninsula Daily News - CARLSBORG - A sawdust explosion and subsequent fire drew a crowd to Mervin Manufacturing’s snowboard factory Tuesday morning. No one was injured in the blaze, said Clallam County Fire District No. 3 chief Roger Moeder. Firefighters at the nearby

Utah Mountain Resort Picks Thomas Taber
Adweek - We believe that these talents will help us continue to strengthen our brand and further position us as an industry leader.” New work is slated to appear in the fall. The agency will fashion a multiplatform campaign for the skiing and snowboard

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Alpine Zone - Budding Evel Knievel’s are invited to strap on a pair of skis or a snowboard and attempt to rocket across the 38-degree pond. Costumes are encouraged. Anyone looking for drier pursuits can soak up the island vibes of * Reggae Fest. The band will

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The romance of deceleration
High County News - He taught me to rock climb, to snowboard, to kayak, and most importantly to question society s rules. But I d begun to rely on him too much for motivation, and his growing negativity was starting to smother my once-fervent optimism.

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A life less ordinary
Amador Ledger-Dispatcher - So I moved to Lake Tahoe and became a snowboard instructor.” One day, Wier was flying through the blistering air on his snowboard when a stranger took notice of him. “He was a representative for Austen Snowboards,” Wier said. “He offered me a great

Resort Report
Aspen Daily News - Ski and Snowboard Association, has submitted its bid to host the 2013 World Alpine Championships. The foundation wants the events to be split between Vail and Beaver Creek mountains. The decision on the host location will be made next spring, the

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