Archive for February, 2009
When Paula Lepporoli saw the snowboard attached to feet that weren’t moving, she was sure the rider was dead. Lepporoli, a ski patroller at Steamboat Ski Area, was skiing through the trees on Typhoon, between Cyclone and Tornado, just before 11 a.m. Saturday when a snowboard snagged in a branch caught her eye.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Hogadon Ski Area offers affordable packages to learn to ski or snowboard Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8. This opportunity includes a full one-hour lesson, all ski or snowboard gear, and a full-day lift ticket.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)NEEDHAM, Mass.—-PTC® , The Product Development Company®, today announced that Deuce Snowboards is using PTC CoCreate® to design and launch a new category of snowboard, the multi-edge snowboard.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Anja Puggl gifted Austria the second gold of snowboard competitions here on Monday as the Euro Cup winner raced to a convincing victory in the parallel giant slalom final at the Harbin Winter Universiade. The 22-year-old Austrian, who was last season’s Euro Cup winner in Switzerland, managed to shrug aside a series of duels’ challenge in her heat, quarter-final and semi-final, surpassing Japan’s …
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Jonathan Cheever of Saugus sounds pretty nonchalant about traveling — and accelerating — downhill on a snowboard. “Most courses, the average (speed) is 40 miles per hour,” Cheever said. “It also depends on snow conditions.”
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)In the offseason, Jonathan Cheever is a plumber. Now, the 23-year-old US Snowboard Team rider from Saugus is bubbling to the World Cup surface as the Visa US Snowboarding Cup comes to Sunday River in Newry, Maine, today through Saturday.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)So my wife and I packed the SUV with two pairs of skis, one snowboard and three teenagers. Not to mention several dozen prayers of hope.
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Aaarrrggh!Woa, woa, whoooooooooaaaaahhhh!Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!These noises filled the snowy forest more than a week ago during my first foray onto skis since I was a little girl.Ever since moving to Bend, my husband and I have wanted to try to cross-country ski. I snowboard (albeit very poorly and very infrequently) and we are both experienced snowshoers. Many of our friends love this form …
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Park City, Utah (February 20, 2009) - Park City Mountain Resort is taking the next step in snowboard competition evolution by hosting The Intelligent Design (IDPC) on Saturday, March 7, 2009 in the spectator friendly Pick ‘N Shovel park and Eagle Superpipe.
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Polish skiers shone at the men’s snowboard cross preliminaries here on Friday not only for their lightening speed that booked three berths to the finals, but their passion touched every spectator at the Harbin Winter Universiade. To a punk rock background beat, the helmeted riders raced one by one down the twists and turns of a 831-meter obstacle-strewn course. After a two-round knock-out heats, …
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