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Wild Files
Idaho8.com - Record Breaking Two-Man Snowboard Wild Files: Wild Turkeys Take Over Farmer’s Property in Archer WILD FILES: Big Game Getting Into Farmers Hay and Facing the Snow Wild Files: Herd Accepting White Elk Wild Files: Idaho Cubs Find New Home at San Diego Zoo

New breed hits slopes - on its knees
Boston Globe - I also snowboard, but this is even more of a thrill.” The sled De Geus is referring to is made by Mad River Rocket, a company in tiny Warren, Vt., located a few miles from the Sugarbush ski area. Made of rugged polyethylene, the $85 sled features foam

Teens honored for helping find 11-year-old in avalanche
Daily Herald - phenomenally well,” according to his dad. He’s still meeting with a physical therapist to strengthen his hands again, but he’s otherwise healthy. He’s back to playing hockey and has started skiing again — not to mention learning how to snowboard.

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Tri-City Herald - Overall, they earned 35 places in the skiing and snowboard events. Corrie Hissam’s victories in the novice category for downhill and grand slalom races were more than special, said her mother, Beki Hissam of Pasco. “She is over the top with the medals

2007-2008 Women’s Alpine Results
TSN - TSN has teamed up with Ski Racing Canada to bring you in-depth coverage of the 2007-08 season. Alpine, cross-country, snowboard, freestyle - it’s all covered with news reports, features, athlete profiles and more! More from TSN and SRC 2007-08

World Cup Snowboard Results
International Herald Tribune - 1. Crispin Lipscomb, Canada, 1,000 points. 2. Iouri Podladtchikov, Switzerland, 800. 3. James Hamilton, New Zealand, 600. 4. Daniel Friberg, Switzerland, 500. 5. Ilkka-Eemeli Laari, Finland, 450. 1. Manuela Laura Pesko, Switzerland, 1,000 points. 2

Palmer wins boardercross season title
Tahoe Daily Tribune - Snowboard team “A” team. “This has been a great season, and after I got the first two wins I wanted to complete the sweep,” said Palmer, who competed in his first snowboard competition in 1988, approximately one year before Chythlook-Sifsof was born.

Ski helmet that lets you talk on phone is crazy
Anchorage Daily News - Perhaps what a ski shop loses in declining ski and snowboard sales, it can recoup in the new, must-have, skiwear-of-the-day fashion helmet. Skullcandy — a play on the nickname for expensive designer sunglasses, i.e. “eyecandy” — is just about the

The Most Foolish
Motley Fool - Amateur Surf Team, PacSun will be sponsoring the amateur snowboard team as well. Again, this should be a better fit than its other attempts at expanding beyond surf and skate. Even the terminology is interchangeable among the sports; a half-pipe can

Jared Olson, NU snowboarder
Union - Jared Olson is tough as nails. Nevada Union’s snowboarder raced his way through a blaze of injuries this season, only to get hurt in the California-Nevada Interscholastic Ski and Snowboard Federation state meet - the pinnacle of his four-year career

World Cup Snowboard Results
International Herald Tribune - 1. Matthew Morison, Canada, 1,000 points. 2. Roland Fischnaller, Italy, 800 points. 3. Justin Reiter, United States, 600 points. 4. Andreas Prommegger, Austria, 500 points. 5. Mathieu Bozzetto, France, 450 points. 1. Anke Karstens, Germany, 1,000

Schussing the night away
Sun-Journal - Many say they feel more dialed in while snowboard riding or skiing at night. Distances feel shorter and your speed seems faster, but your turns feel more precise, more focused.

Getting Made : Breckenridge snowboarder helps 15-year-old learn
Summit Daily News - BRECKENRIDGE After pro snowboarder and certified snowboard instructor Jesse Csincsak taught the MTV MADE casting director to ride, he was in. Csincsak was recommended by folks at the Breckenridge Ski Resort to be the coach for 15-year-old

Double diamonds
Arizona Daily Sun - This is the first JOs for Gumerman and she was the only girl from the Flagstaff Alpine Ski and Snowboard Team to make the cut. The Montessori Elementary sixth grader has been skiing since she was 2 and joined FAST when she was 4.

BAGGING SICK TRICKS with Slideshow
Sierra Sun - How s it feel to spend two hours building a jump by yourself and then stomp a 720 first try? Jake Koia lives the feeling while filming with Standard Films. In the fantasy world of ski and snowboard films, few mountainous regions have been featured

The Mountain Project at Red Mountain, B.C. Strikes Against Alpine
PR Newswire - Tim Petrick, VP of Sales for K2 Sports, Hanno Treindl, ex-FIS Director of Freestyle and Snowboard, and Robert Bernthal, former marketing director of Swatch and K2 Sports make up The Mountain Project’s growing neighborhood. Groundbreaking for the 10

Rebirth of a pioneer gives skiers a lift
Los Angeles Times - A native of nearby Pasadena, he said he prepared for opening day by checking out slopes the last two weekends, carrying his snowboard as he hiked a mile uphill on snowshoes. “This place is sort of spiritual for all of us,” Galvin said. “To be in the

Barfoot Snowboards Turns 30
Santa Barbara Independent - del.icio.us. Not long after calendars the world over were turned to 2008, a massive drought-breaking winter storm rolled into Santa Barbara, delivering several inches of much-needed rain and dropping a bit of ever-mesmerizing snow in our foothills

Vail’s Vonn captures World Cup crown
Denver Post - Ski & Snowboard Association, who was alpine director of the team in 1983 when McKinney and Phil Mahre both won overall titles the first and only other time Americans have swept them.

Ontario Standings
TSN - TSN has teamed up with Ski Racing Canada to bring you in-depth coverage of the 2007-08 season. Alpine, cross-country, snowboard, freestyle - it’s all covered with news reports, features, athlete profiles and more! More from TSN and SRC 2007-08

Local ski area hosts state championships
Independent Record - Eliza Wiley IR Photo Editor - The 2008 State Snowboarding Championships will be held at the Great Divide Ski Area Saturday, March 15, and Sunday, March 16. The best snowboarders from around Montana will ride the rails at Great Divide this weekend

LIGETY REIGNS AS GS KING
USA Today - Ski and Snowboard Association CEO Bill Marolt said. “I don’t think we’ve ever had an overall result like this in the history of the program.” While U.S. sports fans generally pay attention to ski racing only in Olympic years, World Cup overall titles

Heavenly’s Roberts earns podium at JOs
Tahoe Daily Tribune - Heavenly Ski and Snowboard Foundation freestyle skier Jimmy Roberts finished third in dual moguls last Sunday and was the only team member to finish on the podium at the two-day Junior Olympics in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Roberts was 12th in Friday’s

Getting Made : Breckenridge snowboarder helps 15-year-old learn
Summit Daily News - BRECKENRIDGE After pro snowboarder and certified snowboard instructor Jesse Csincsak taught the MTV MADE casting director to ride, he was in. Csincsak was recommended by folks at the Breckenridge Ski Resort to be the coach for 15-year-old

Baby-boomer boarding
Calgary Sun - She recommends taking time off in the week to snowboard with a partner “I get to spend a whole day off work with my best friend,” Urschel said.

Ursel skips B.C. into Brier page playoff
TSN - Alpine, cross-country, snowboard, freestyle - it’s all covered with news reports, features, athlete profiles and more! More from TSN and SRC 2007-08 Canadian Podiums The Q with Aksel Lund Svindal

Route 31 reopened following Algonquin collision
Northwest Herald - No one was injured in the collision, Kennedy said, but the highway was closed between Wilbrandt Road and Raging Buffalo Snowboard, Ski Park and Wakeboard School.

Snowboarders offered bounty for poaching ski-only resorts
USA Today - MONTPELIER, Vt. Video-camera-toting snowboarders pulled out all the stops sawing boards in half to hide them, hiking up ski slopes in the dark, switching from skis to snowboards mid-slope to answer a $5,000 challenge by manufacturer

Red Cross honors hero teens who rescued boy from avalanche
Salt Lake Tribune - He’s out skiing again, learning to snowboard and playing hockey. “In the scheme of things, he’s doing phenomenally well,” said his father, Brian Zilvitis. Without all the rescuers, finding Max might have been a lot harder, he said. While

McDonald wins junior Olympic super-G
Summit Daily News - Ski & Snowboard Club Vail’s Byrne crushed the field Wednesday, coming in with a time of 54.57 seconds. Buck Hill’s Madeline Wiltgen was second at 56.13, with SSCV’s Kaytlyn Samuelson third at 56.35.

Aspen freeskier Whitney Wickes stands tall
Aspen Times - It was pretty relieving,” the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club member said Sunday. “I’m trying to focus on my skiing now instead of what’s happened in the past.

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PR.com - the industry’s most respected manufacturers, including RockyMounts, Inno Racks, Trac Rac, Thule Racks and Yakima Racks, the company provides high quality truck rack, cargo box, luggage roof bag, roof basket rack, fishing rod carrier, ski-snowboard

Julia Cobbs: Sofa, so good
Minneapolis Star Tribune - I’ve got a snowboard (I got it for Valentine’s Day), a big huge bowl, some Teddy Graham wrappers, a framed print of the 23rd Psalm, the cutest little baby pictures of my boys. You gotta love a sectional. There’s so much room. Q Why aren’t those

PHOTO: Former Mustangs competing as Cowgirls
Alaska Star - The Cowgirls are defending champions, and the men are looking to recapture the title after taking home the runner-up trophy last year. Eight Cowboys and six Cowgirls qualified for nationals. The United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association

Catching cool mountain air
Salt Lake Tribune - Josiah Wells, of Wanaka, NZ, won the event. ***** World Superpipe championships will be at Park City Mountain Resort this year. The Men’s Snowboard Competition will be at 11:15-12:45. Photo by Chris Detrick/The Salt Lake Tribune frame #_1CD6498

American Bretz edges Martin in World Cup snowboard event
ESPN.com - STONEHAM, Quebec — Greg Bretz won the halfpipe competition for his first World Cup victory Sunday, beating Canadian Brad Martin. Bretz, from Mammoth Lakes, Calif., used a frontside 900, backside 540, air to fakey, cab 7, frontside 7 to top the field

Problem solved: Meet the ‘Calvinator’
Times-Argus - They have also begun to work on a snowboard version, hoping it will cut into the snow less deeply. Friday afternoon, the students took the contraptions out to the top of the big downhill next to the school.

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Tri-City Herald - WENATCHEE — Blustery weather flattened the hospitality tents and wiped out the awards ceremony platform the night before, but members of the Tri-Cities Wolves ski and snowboard team didn’t care. They’ve been through much worse. Now it was their

Record warm winter for northern Europe
Associated Press - That news delighted a group of six-grade boys traveling by train for a snowboard outing Tuesday with their teacher in Helsinki. “It’s been a long time coming.

Ski & Snowboard Instructor Courses - Alltracks
pressbox.co.uk - Ski & Snowboard Instructor Course specialist, ALLTRACKS Academy, is delighted to announce it s newest course at Revelstoke, Canada s new $1 Billion resort development set amongst some of the best ski terrain in North America. The 11 Week

King of the hill
Arizona Daily Sun - Last year was tough having to go to Telluride almost every weekend,” said Nichols, who is a member of the Flagstaff Alpine Ski and Snowboard Team.

Canadians win silver at snowboarding event
Globe and Mail - STONEHAM, Que. Brad Martin of Lancaster, Ont., and Sarah Conrad of Dartmouth, N.S., both captured silver medals at a World Cup halfpipe event on Sunday. “I felt pretty good this afternoon,” said Conrad. “Unfortunately, I got a little more air

City of Toronto community centres and arenas closed and programs
CNW Group - Parks, Forestry and Recreation staff are working to open outdoor artificial ice rinks as soon as possible. >> The City’s Ski and Snowboard Centres at Earl Bales Park and Centennial Park will remain open.

Hockey Lives Here!
TSN - TSN has teamed up with Ski Racing Canada to bring you in-depth coverage of the 2007-08 season. Alpine, cross-country, snowboard, freestyle - it’s all covered with news reports, features, athlete profiles and more! More from TSN and SRC 2007-08

48Straight & Jeep King of the Mountain
Lewiston Morning Tribune - College students and faculty, with current proof of identification, can take advantage of Sun Valley s incomparable ski and snowboard terrain for only $29 per day from the start of March through the conclusion of the resort s ski season. The

Record Warm Winter for Northern Europe
Seattle Times - That news delighted a group of six-grade boys traveling by train for a snowboard outing Tuesday with their teacher in Helsinki. “It’s been a long time coming.

Dan Pollard
TSN - TSN has teamed up with Ski Racing Canada to bring you in-depth coverage of the 2007-08 season. Alpine, cross-country, snowboard, freestyle - it’s all covered with news reports, features, athlete profiles and more! More from TSN and SRC 2007-08

PGA Hot n’ Cold
TSN - TSN has teamed up with Ski Racing Canada to bring you in-depth coverage of the 2007-08 season. Alpine, cross-country, snowboard, freestyle - it’s all covered with news reports, features, athlete profiles and more! More from TSN and SRC 2007-08

Locals rule at Colorado Freeride
Aspen Times - Riley Gessele and Shannon Yates captured the respective male and female snowboard titles. More than 120 athletes com peted in the seventh annual competition for a prize purse of $7,500, charging the steep faces, cliffs and hanging snowfields of the

Avalanche Center aims to educate public about safe backcountry travel
Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Johnson advises that recreationists who ski, snowboard, snowshoe or ride in the backcountry examine the Avalanche Center’s daily advisories and check the weather conditions before heading out. Even aside from those precautions, there are other signs

Sunshine Kids provides adventure for cancer patients
Steamboat Pilot & Today - But while strapping into his snowboard atop Mt. Werner on Wednesday, the Camden, N.J., resident was able to put the illness out of his mind. I m actually doing a lot better I m hanging in there, he said. But it s a lot of fun to

Brent Wallace
TSN - Alpine, cross-country, snowboard, freestyle - it’s all covered with news reports, features, athlete profiles and more! More from TSN and SRC 2007-08 Canadian Podiums Canada’s Speed Queens answer your questions!

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Hays Daily News - Hyland Ski Snowboard — Tue 4:56p packed powder machine groomed 12 - 46 base 14 of 14 trails, 100% open, 8 of 8 lifts, sm Mon-Fri: 3p-9p; Sat/Sun: 9a-5p;