Venice Beach, CA – A southern California beach may seem an unlikely place to catch top snowboarding action, but 80,000 pounds of snow will transform the famed beachfront into a snowboarding spectacle at Sunday’s 4th Annual Supergirl Jam.nSome of snowboarding’s best female pros will display their most innovative tricks in tomorrow’s Supergirl Snowboard Rail Jam. … Continue reading Snowboarding Sunday on California’s Venice Beach
Snowbird, UT – Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort’s annual Oktoberfest celebrates its 38th anniversary this year with eight weekends of festivities beginning today. More than 50,000 visitors are expected to enjoy one of Utah’s largest festivals, which includes live music, dancing, authentic German food and children’s activities at Snowbird every Saturday, Sunday and Labor Day … Continue reading Snowbird’s 38th Annual Oktoberfest Begins Today
Oberwiesenthal, Germany – The U.S. women’s ski jumping crew were flying through the sky on Friday, competing in the Oberwiesenthal Continental Cup. USA’s Sarah Hendrickson, of Park City, Utah, stomped on the podium in third. Austria’s Jacqueline Seifriedsberger won the event.nThe women competed on the normal hill Friday with Seifriedsberger landing two consistent jumps of … Continue reading Hendrickson Flies into 3rd in Germany
Lake Wanaka, New Zealand – The Volkl NZ Freeski Open came to a spectacular close at New Zealand’s Treble Cone Ski Area Thursday with New Zealanders Alex Lynden (Auckland) and Janina Kuzma (Wanaka) crowned champions of The North Face Big Mountain Event.nThis is Lynden’s first win in The North Face Big Mountain, while Kuzma, of … Continue reading Kiwis Reclaim North Face Big Mountain Titles at 2010 Volkl NZ Freeski Open
Lake Wanaka, New Zealand – The 2010 Snowboard and Freestyle Junior World Championships are only days away with opening ceremonies taking place this Friday. The event, scheduled for August 21-31 in New Zealand, will be the first time that snowboarding and freestyle skiing are performing on the same stage in a World Championship event. It … Continue reading Junior Worlds Making History
Government Camp, OR – U.S. Snowboarding’s 2010 Project Gold PGS camp at Timberline Ski Area on Mt. Hood, which concluded earlier this month, offered a great opportunity for aspiring alpine snowboarding athletes. The camp attendees included the elite junior alpine snowboarding athletes in the U.S., as well as the entire U.S. Junior World Championship Team.n”I’m … Continue reading Project Gold on Mt. Hood Introduces Aspiring Racers to Alpine Snowboarding
Vail, CO – What may have looked like children’s play with arts and crafts supplies was serious adult work trying to solve a significant threat that could decimate the ski industry.nMore than 100 representatives from 30 ski resorts across the United States, Canada, Switzerland and Australia who gathered recently at a Resort Technology Partners (RTP) … Continue reading Workshop Seeks to Spark Renewed Interest in Ski Resorts