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Latest News - Surfers Village
and board collection Sylvain Cazenave / Oxbow (click to zoom) Photo shoots with sponsors such as OXBOW have taken Laird around the world: the Caucasus mountain range to snowboard, a jungle preserve in Java, Indonesia with a world-class surf

Stretch, pace yourself, dress right this winter - Atlantic City Press
Dropping temperatures will mean that winter-related injuries and emergency room visits will rise. Fortunately, local health and sports experts say there are some simple precautions people can take to avoid getting hurt. According to Dr. Thomas

Aspen-Snowmass ski season shaping up as uphill battle - Aspen Times
A visit is one skier or snowboard rider visiting a ski area for all or any part of the day. When the recession hit last fall, Skico executives forecasted a 5 to 15 percent decline in business. They were thankful to be on the lower end of that range.

Stars’ Jet-Setting Thanksgivings: Morocco, England & More - NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
Thanksgiving may be a time to head home to gather with family, but a number of stars spent the holiday elsewhere. Jennifer Aniston, Salma Hayek, Gwyneth Paltrow and hot couple Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr were among the celebs in Marrakesh, Morocco

Aspen Ski Club Participates In Concussion Research - Denver Channel
The Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club is taking part in research on concussions on young skiers and snowboarders Project leader Zach Stutzman says the research will document the number and severity of impacts to skiers and snowboarders on the

Region in brief: Ski resort offers White Friday - The Spokesman-Review
Instead of hitting the stores on Black Friday, Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park is urging skiers and snowboarders to hit the slopes for what it s calling White Friday. The ski area north of Spokane is firing up its chairlifts on Friday to

Giving a new life to wedding dresses - StarPhoenix
Wedding dresses have obvious sentimental value, so why leave them languishing in cedar closets? Designer Mariouche Gagn asked herself this question and then decided to rescue the gowns from oblivion with a new re-designing service. Harricana has

Photo by Adam Lapierre - Hood River News
Get it while you can : It s a motto that holds true for countless situations, and a strategy that works especially well for taking full advantage of the variable ski/snowboard seasons Mount Hood gives us each year. For the powder snobs, the

Bozeman Contributors - Newwest.net
Moonlight Basin, the Big Sky resort that filed for bankruptcy protection last week, will have sufficient capital to open as scheduled on Dec. 12 and, barring extraordinary events, operate as normal through the ski season after a U.S. bankruptcy court

Zac Efron: ‘I’m On the Craziest Ride of My Life’ - Parade
Zac Efron sang and danced his way to success in the wildly popular High School Musical movies–not to mention Hairspray. Now, he’s taking a serious turn in Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles , playing a high-school kid who lucks into a big break

Try your hand at a number of winter sports from Boulder Outdoor Center - Boulder Clarion
Eric Bader s phone starts to ring more around this time of the year, seemingly linked to each inch of snow that sticks on the ground. Late October s 20-inch pounding over two days around Boulder County was no different. Boulder Outdoor Center

Schweitzer hopes to open Friday - Bonner County Daily Bee
Schweitzer Mountain Resort rental technician Eddie Engelhardt uses a scraper to shave excess wax off the base of a rental snowboard. (Photo by KEITH KINNAIRD) SANDPOINT Schweitzer Mountain Resort is planning to open for the season on Friday. The

U.S. sending swimmers, poets among 2010 Rhodes Scholars - USA Today
When Henry Spelman found out he’d won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend. To share the good news, of course, but also to see whether she was a winner as well. The couple, both seniors at the University of North Carolina, had

Ben & Jerry’s names new flavor after champion snowboarder - Katu.com
Hannah Teter of the United States competes to win the gold medal for the Women’s Halfpipe Snowboard competition at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games, Bardonecchia, Italy (AP).

Mt. Baker - Seattle Post Intelligencer
The only place to be the evening before opening day at Mt. Baker Ski Area is Grahams in Glacier, a dark old wooden place with a giant antique wood stove and wooden English style bar, a pool table, and the best fish tacos (and other food) in the

Friend arrested for App. State killing - CharlotteObserver.com
The friend of a Matthews man killed yesterday in Boone has been arrested and charged with felony involuntary manslaughter. Police say he accidentally shot his friend at a party. Jay Derby, 20, was a 2007 Butler High graduate from Matthews and

49ers’ Vernon Davis gets a broom and goes curling - San Francisco Chronicle
Vernon Davis stepped onto the ice and started moonwalking, fully confident he could conquer the sport of curling or at the least be respectable. He is an NFL star, after all. Then, the San Francisco 49ers tight end watched as Brian Zaitz glided

Ski equipment develops new tricks of its own - Holland Sentinel
With the popularity of freestyle riding in skiing and snowboarding, the equipment has developed some new tricks of its own. Some say rocker, also known as reverse camber, technology will be the next big evolution in skiing the first major change

Travel Arrangement & Reservation Services - PR.com
ACT VIETNAM TRAVEL, established in the 1990s, has over 10 years of industry experience and are proud to have been able to send millions ACTIVETRAVEL ASIA Hanoi, Vietnam ACTIVETRAVEL ASIA (ATA) offers a wide selection of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and

Shaun White Gets Snowed - Crispy Gamer
It was a total bummer. I didn’t know that I’d have to go into the gym Crispy Gamer: What exactly do you recall? White: I just remember being up on June Mountain, and rented a snowboard and went for it. I did all right. I had just started

Boyne Moutain, Boyne Highlands resorts reduce cost of lift tickets - MLive.com
Courtesy photo Boyne Mountain Resort in Boyne Falls is rolling back its multi-day lift ticket prices for the 2009-2010 season. Boyne Falls — The expense of skiing is not lost on the folks at Boyne Mountain and Boyne Highlands . The resorts in Boyne

see what Todd Harrison has written - Minyanville
Todd Harrison, founder and CEO of Minyanville, has 18 years of experience on Wall Street. After graduating from Syracuse University with honors (1991), he spent seven years on the worldwide equity derivative desk at Morgan Stanley (vice president

Fly to Park City, Utah, for free ski/snowboarding lift ticket - Los Angeles Times
Caveats: In order to jump on this offer, you must have arrived via a regularly scheduled commercial airline. Also, you can t snowboard at Deer Valley. See full rules and regulations on the aforementioned website.

Visa Launches First Global Olympic Marketing Campaign - WebWire
San Francisco, Visa Inc. ( NYSE: V ), a Worldwide Olympic Games Sponsor for more than two decades, today announced the global launch of its Olympic-themed marketing campaign for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Go World. This global campaign

Wisconsin Resort Announces Snowboard Restriction - ESPN.com
This season, Wisconsin’s Granite Peak Resort is restricting snowboarders from certain areas of their mountain. Remember when you had to get a special snowboard certification to shred at your local hill? Probably not, because that was a long, long

Vail Daily health: Snoring is a not-so-silent Killer - Vail Daily News
VAIL While many people, especially unlucky spouses, consider snoring to be annoying or even obnoxious, there is increasing evidence that snoring is a sign of a much more dangerous problem. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a disorder where a

Sun Valley Offers Thanksgiving And Pre-Holiday Ski Packages - OnTheSnow.com
Sun Valley Resort is prepping is slopes and lifts to open Nov. 26 for this winter’s season. Mountaintop snows dumping 17 inches in one snowstorm in October fostered anticipation for the ski and snowboard season to start. Early visitors to the resort

Celebrate Thanksgiving At Hyatt Incline Village With Dinner, Jazz Fest - OnTheSnow.com
Thanksgiving dinner brings no stress in the High Sierra when it is served at the Lone Eagle Grille in the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort. Kick back on a ski or snowboard vacation with someone else cooking the gourmet turkey. The Lone Eagle Grille

Judge orders treatment, monitoring for teen arrested while on bail - Seacoast Online
PORTSMOUTH — A city teen who was arrested while on bail for nine crimes alleging he was intoxicated when he drove into a Lafayette Road store was court-ordered to complete substance abuse treatment, followed by an “aftercare program,” then

Ubisoft Releases Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage - KXTV News10Net
Ubisoft’s latest sports title for the Nintendo Wii, Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage , is now available in stores across North America. Developed by Ubisoft Montr al in collaboration with Olympic Gold Medalist, Shaun White, the game is

see what Todd Harrison has written - Minyanville
Todd Harrison, founder and CEO of Minyanville, has 18 years of experience on Wall Street. After graduating from Syracuse University with honors (1991), he spent seven years on the worldwide equity derivative desk at Morgan Stanley (vice president

Keeping up Appearances - BikeRadar.com
What a pointless statement mate, and I don’t mean that in a harsh way, just that it applies to every single product group I can imagine. The world doesn’t work the way you want it to. I work hard, I earn money for that work, I spend it on things I

Swiss Resort Offers Environmentally Friendly Skiing - Travel Agent
There is also snowboarding and snowshoeing, cross country skiing, sledding, dog-sledding, paragliding and hiking. Rates are $351 from now until December 19. From December 19 to January 8 and from February 2 to February 28, prices are $551 and from

Lower-cost toys finding favour - New Zealand Herald
A magnetic battle robot, an “individual” doll and a puzzle word game are expected to be top sellers this Christmas, one of the country’s leading toy distributors says. Jeremy Kirk-Smith, the chief executive of Planet Fun, said the economic situation

Blake Stansbery - Bleacherreport.com
Blake is dedicated follower of all sports. SEC Football, Arkansas Razorbacks, SEC Basketball most loyally. A happy father of a beautiful daughter and two dogs. He lives in Steamboat Springs, CO and enjoys everything outdoors. Hiking, Biking, Skiing

Bright, Kokubo win WC snowboarding events - Brattleboro Reformer
SAAS-FEE, Switzerland — Torah Bright of Australia and Kazuhiro Kokubo of Japan won season-opening World Cup snowboarding events on Thursday. “I was so glad that we had a good weather today,” Bright said. “I had to get used to the pipe first, but

Teaching an old boy new snowboarding tricks - The Guardian
Wyse move Pascal feels ‘as high as a kite’ as he practises his new moves. Let’s be clear about the mountain I had to climb. Except during asthma attacks, I absolutely do not “grab air”. As a late starter to snowboarding , I specialise in the kind

Standard Films, E-Jack Edit - ESPN.com
Who slays pow harder than anyone? Eric Jackson, clearly! Check out this session at the Shark Tooth deep in the Kootenays of British Columbia. Seriously, if these E-Jack floaters don’t get you hyped up for the season, give up now. For more Standard

Winter Trails day will offer free snowshoeing and cross-country Jan. 9 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
McLEAN, Va. — Winter Trails will celebrate its 15th year Jan. 9 at locations throughout the U.S. with free snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. The annual event is designed to offer kids and adults who are new to snow sports a chance to check them

Outdoor notebook: Most Utah ski resorts wait for winter to kick in - Salt Lake Tribune
Skiers and snowboarders ride the Moonbeam Express chair lift during President’s Day holiday at Solitude Ski Resort last February. (Tribune file photo) Utah’s ski resorts have already received a winter sample and some got just enough to open for a bit

Vail Valley: Variety of exercise prevents ski injuries - Vail Daily News
Traumatic injuries, as well as minor sprains and strains, are common during the ski and snowboard season. However, by following a few tips for preparation, you can enjoy an entire, injury-free fractures, ACL tears, and shoulder dislocations.

Calendar spotlights kids fighting cancer - Riverside Press Enterprise
Living with cancer doesn’t mean living with limits. Hope was the theme of Thursday night’s 10th annual Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern California calendar unveiling at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. Each month of the calendar

Gimpl lands victory in season’s first big air event - Universal Sports
LONDON — What a day for Stefan Gimpl: The Austrian snowboard veteran not only celebrated his career’s seventh World Cup triumph by taking gold with 52.7 points at the season’s first FIS World Cup big air competition, the rider from the Salzburg

The Register-Guard - Register-Guard
Jim Hill, founder of Sport-Hill, the Eugene fitness clothing company, said he was just looking for an easier and cheaper way to apply wax to skis when he designed a simple heated box that would allow wax to more deeply penetrate into ski bases. Now

Meet Ski Hall of Fame inductee Freda Langell Nieters of Keystone - Summit Daily News
VAIL The Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame in Vail will induct six new members at a gala Saturday in Denver. The inductees are Freda Langell Nieters, Vladimir Peter Spider’ Sabich, David Scott, Ann Taylor, Otto Tschudi, and Otto Werlin

Skiing & Snowboarding - Glenwood Springs Post Independent
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado Sunlight Mountain Resort is going it alone to organize a replacement 12-hour endurance ski race this winter, after breaking ties with the organizer of the popular 24 Hours of Sunlight in a dispute over nonpayment of a

Mountain Resort Secures $10M Refi - GlobeSt. com
HANCOCK, MA-CNL REIT is securing a $10-million refi from Berkshire Bank for its Jiminy Peak Moutain Resort. The permanatne mortgage financing is a fixed-rate, five-year loan arranged for CNL by Minneapolis-headquartered. NorthMarq Capital. The four

One year after the big 5-0, Mt. Bachelor welcomes its second half - Oregonian
Entering its 51st winter, Mt. Bachelor has begun the process of updating its master development plan. The central Oregon resort will hold a public hearing Friday, Nov. 6, from 7-8:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Portland SkiFever and Snowboard Show

Four seats open on the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association board of - Sierra Sun
TAHOE CITY Each November, members of the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association (NLTRA) elect and/or reelect members of the board of directors. This year, there are four open seats, including large lodging, restaurant, retail and ski area. All are

Sports Briefs - Newburyport Daily News
Triton winter athletes must attend a winter sports meeting on Nov. 9 (6 p.m.) along with their parents. This is a mandatory meeting that will take place in the Triton auditorium. Field Hockey Triton field hockey will support “Play 4 the Cure” Nov. 2

Foley senior may go pre-med - St. Cloud Times
Family: Dad, Martin; mom, Sue; siblings, Alex, 15, Willie, 13. Activities: Basketball, track, Big Brothers Big Sisters, National Honor Society, church youth group, 4-H. Which activity has affected you most and how has it affected you? Basketball

Shoppers line up for Vail swap - Vail Daily News
Cost: $5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; free after 2 p.m. More information: www.skiclubvail.org VAIL For two hours, Stephen Botts camped outside the Dobson Ice Arena in Vail in the cold with his sleeping bag. His mission? To get the best selection

Today’s Young Professional: Tom Hoffert - Statesman Journal
Responsibilities: I work with our company’s national restaurant customers to fulfill their tortilla development, quality, service and distribution needs. We always remember that the most important tortilla we make is the tortilla you are about to eat

Hopeful loved ones wait out search for missing air crews - Sacramento Bee
They hailed from towns and suburbs across America small places like Elm Mott, Texas, and Decaturville, Tenn. Last week, their passion for aviation and serving others took them into the night sky above the Pacific Ocean. Off the Southern