Archive for March, 2010
After a powder day on the mountain, Troy Indermuhle flipped his snowboard over to create the perfect bed for a much needed nap on The Beach at the base of Lift 4. Indermuhle, who is visiting from Phoenix, Ariz., said his experience on Monday afternoon was “Beautiful.” [Photo by Brian Kozak]
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Captain Jack. A canonized ski bum. His is a name that nearly everyone knows. He has ski runs named after him in two countries: here, and in Canada. And this weekend, he’ll have 100 doppelgangers all skiing around with long, fake beards. Captain Jack’s foot-long beard wasn’t fake — little about him was — but this Saturday, hundreds of skiers from the Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club will honor …
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Tyler Jewell and Lindsay Lloyd raced to national parallel giant slalom titles Friday afternoon on the slopes of Steamboat Ski Area during the first of two Race to the Cup NorAm Alpine snowboarding events. Jewell trained in Steamboat Springs leading up to his first Olympic appearance in 2006.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)ALPINE MEADOWS — On a ridge near the 8,600-foot summit of Alpine Meadows ski resort, 17-year-old snowboarder Lucas Fuller scopes out the many chutes and bowls that radiate out from Ward Peak.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)A legislative committee in California has advanced a bill that would require minors to wear helmets while skiing or snowboarding and impose safety rules on ski resorts in the state.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)LA MOLINA, Spain (AP) — Benjamin Karl of Austria and Maelle Ricker of Canada clinched the overall snowboard World Cup titles after Sunday’s season-ending parallel giant slalom competition.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)A legislative committee in California has advanced a bill that would require minors to wear helmets while skiing or snowboarding and impose safety rules on ski resorts in the state. If eventually signed into law, the helmet ban would be the most restrictive in the nation, mandating them for everyone under the age of 18.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Just a month after Scotty Lago’s Bronze medal bar antics got him axed from the Olympics, the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Association is again feeling the sting resulting from public partying. Lago left Vancouver prematurely after incriminating photos of him and a woman posing with his medal at a bar raised the ire of Olympic officials and USSA President and CEO Bill Marolt. Marolt’s statement to …
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Members of the EJHS ski/snowboard team who competed in the 2010 Dotty Clark Classic at Bogus Basin are, from left, Chandra Smith, Jordan Sulgrove, Seth Curtis, Noah Sherrer and Sam Hidy. Not pictured is Skylar Harmon.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Rippers from the Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club took to the hill in beards on Saturday in honor of Captain Jack, a much-loved local who died over the summer. The skiers and boarders were carrying out their annual ski-and-board-a-thon, a day in which they try to ski the most vertical feed for fundraising. This year, they honored the Captain while doing so. [Photo courtesy of Mark and Melissa …
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