Burlington, Vt. (December 17, 2008) — The 2009 Burton Demo Tour is underway, featuring over 200 stops where riders can try the latest Burton hardgoods for free, including the revolutionary new EST binding and Channel snowboard technology. The largest consumer product demo in the snowboard world, the 2009 Burton Demo Tour also includes 10 Super Stops— 10 weekend-long events with a dedicated sponsor village and after-parties for local riders.   Continue Reading »

Ride Snowboards has cultivated a reputation for pushing style to the brink on its boards, boots and bindings over the past 17 years. Ride’s top performing women’s collection gets an intravenous injection of street style in 2009-2010 through a collab with the ever progressive Matix Girls Clothing label. The two creative teams worked together to blend Matix’s Girls refined look from their Fall ’09 Collection with Ride’s women’s specific Canvas board, Cadence boot and Sigma MVMNT binding for a truly one-of-a-kind ensemble.   Continue Reading »

The holiday season is here and everyone in Steamboat has snow topping their list of gifts this year. Steamboat just surpassed the 100 inche mark of cummulative snow for the season and conditions continue to be excellent on the mountain. Continuous storms and snow 17 out of 22 days have skiers and boarders be greeted by Champagne Powder™ snow daily.   Continue Reading »

December 23, 2008—Rockville, MD— Severely wounded service members who have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will participate in the year long sports rehabilitation program offered by Disabled Sports USA (DS/USA) in partnership with its local chapters and Wounded Warrior Project. This year’s activities for the Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project will include a series of more than 70 “learn-to” clinics in snow skiing, snowboarding, Nordic skiing, cycling, golf, sailing, outrigger canoeing, kayaking, SCUBA, rock and ice climbing, camping, water skiing, rafting, wake boarding, track and field, and other sports. A Winter sports schedule, with more than 35 events, is attached. A Summer schedule of activities to be announced later.

Advanced level training and competitions are also offered to help the Wounded Warriors to remain active throughout their lives. Several of the Wounded Warriors have been certified as ski instructors and scuba divers, and some are training to be Paralympians, as a result of this program. Many have become active in local DS/USA chapter activities, once they return to civilian life.   Continue Reading »

INNSBRUCK, AUT (December 18, 2008) – The 10th annual Burton European Open (BEO) is gearing up to be one of the season’s most exciting snowboard events as many of the world’s best riders get ready to compete in LAAX, Switzerland from Jan. 9-16, 2009. The third Burton Global Open Series event of this season and a 6Star Swatch TTR event, the BEO offers a prize purse of $125,000 and two new Volvo XC 60s for the male and female overall winners.

All invited riders are confirmed, and all open spots have been filled. Around 300 riders from 24 different countries – from amateurs to rookies to pros – registered online for a spot in the halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines. Riders from Europe, US, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and even Israel are expected to join this year’s anniversary event.   Continue Reading »

Temperatures were sub freezing in Breckenridge as the crew of Salomon girls attacked massive jumps at the first Winter AST Dew Tour stop.

Salomon Snowboards’ British darling Jenny Jones took silver with consistent tricks throughout the whole competition followed by Transworld Snowboarding’s Rookie of the Year nominee Bev Veuilleumier. Bev took the bronze for her back to back 3’s and standout frontside 720. Jamie Anderson rounded things out with a 4th place. Burton team rider Spencer O’ Brian took home the gold.

“The weather was super gnarly and everyone was having a hard time with it and it was really good to see our girls handle it and put down runs that would have been good in any other contest. Three girls out of the top 4 is pretty rad,” said team manager Java Fernandez.

For more info on the Salomon team or Salomon products check out www.salomonsnowboards.com

Incline Village, NV- Once again the Poker Run is back, and the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe has become its title sponsor! The Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Poker Run is taking place on January 4th at Diamond Peak Ski Resort from 10:00 am-1:00 pm.

Registration is at the Base Lodge Loft Bar at 9:00 am and the entry fee is $10, which includes a T-shirt. There are five clearly-marked dealers at different locations on the mountain with a deck of cards. Each participant is given a card with clues on where to find them. Ski or snowboard around until you find the dealers and then pull a card. You have two hours to find the dealers. Once your clue card is fully marked turn it back into the Loft Bar.   Continue Reading »

WEST DOVER, VT (December 22, 2008) – The screening of Meathead Films’ east coast ski epic, “Head for the Hills,” originally scheduled for December 12 at the Snow Barn at Mount Snow, has been rescheduled for January 16, 2009.

The screening will start at 7 p.m. and is open to all ages. DJ Manhole Cover will be spinning tunes after the film as the boys from Meathead give away prizes and DVDs. A few larger prizes will be raffled off.

The Snow Barn will be age 21+ from 9 p.m. on.

Please call the Snow Barn at 802-464-4266 for further details.

WINTERGREEN, Va.; December 22, 2008 — Snow sports enthusiasts can replenish their spirits this season with Wintergreen Resort’s new signature craft beer, Wintergreen Hibernator, created specially for Wintergreen guests by the region’s premiere artisan brewery, Blue Mountain Brewery.

Originally brewed by monks in Bavaria to help sustain them through the Lenten fast, Hibernator is a German-style Doppelbock (German for “double strong”). Wintergreen Hibernator is being served at various Wintergreen Resort beverage locations, including the Copper Mine Restaurant, The Edge lounge and the Stoney Creek Bar & Grill at Stoney Creek Golf Club (playable year-round).   Continue Reading »

BRECKENRIDGE, COLO. – Dec. 19, 2008 – Shaun White was the first athlete to win a Summer Dew Tour event in skateboard vert and he continued that success on the Winter Dew Tour by becoming the first person to earn a winter victory. White scorched the competition on Friday at Breckenridge Ski Resort, earning a 95.17 and capturing the first Winter Dew Tour men’s snowboard slopestyle title.

While White secured a spot at the top of the slopestyle point standings on Friday, the 2006 Olympic Gold Medalist isn’t finished for the weekend and still has hopes of earning yet another win. White will compete in the Superpipe prelims on Saturday and, if he advances, the finals on Sunday live on NBC (1 p.m. – 3 p.m. ET).   Continue Reading »