So about a year ago, I heard rumblings of a small snowboard company in the backwaters of Southern Vermont. Ok, no big deal right? Well then I heard that they were making snowboards by hand, using US sourced sustainably farmed wood with the same eco-resin that Grain Surfboards uses. Started by Jesse Loomis, former staff …
Well, we all knew it was coming, but I still wanted to believe in my heart of hearts that it wasn’t true. Golf clap to Angry Snowboarder for bringing this to light to the masses. At least my wife will be happy that we can celebrate her birthday somewhere other than Stratton with a bunch …
Well after my last stint in the bike industry, I have been taking a (well deserved) break from the world of professional (bi)cycling racing. Sure, I snuck a peak at Paris-Roubaix (c’mon it’s Roubaix), but that was pretty much it. Stacks of cycling magazines went unread. Emails from CyclingNews went straight to the trash can. …
Check it. If you live in the NYC/NJ area and you shred, you gotta make a stop at Mountain Creek. And since all of us truly suck at park (oh you’re awesome then why aren’t you on the Dew Tour), Mountain Creek has upgraded their famry park features and offering prizes every Sunday to the …
A nice shout out to the US Snowboarding Boardercross team via NBC. Natale Morales seems so bored… but she gets to wear a tie-dye t-shirt. Because tie-dye is so hip and steezie.
I always have a secret love of ski resorts in the summer. It’s like the feeling you get when you peer behind the curtains of the play or peek into the projection room of the movie theatre. You feel like you’re part of something secret and special that no one else knows about; sneaking a …
If you’re not at the U.S. Open, sunning yourself on the beach or playing with yourself on your Wii, check out Fuel.TV for their live webcast of the Tampa Pro in HD (I guess you can have HD web stuff now, right? From their Press Release: Since 1994, the Tampa Pro contest has been showcasing …
Just thought I’d spread the word. Mr Angrysnowboarder got banned at Keystone for sharing his opinion to the ski patrol (cough cough ski nazis cough cough). Sometimes you are in the wrong, and sometimes, ski patrol are just being complete PITAs. I’ll leave it up to you the reader to determine, but my favorite quote …