snowboard posts

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (1 month ago)
Sep 26th, 2009 at 2:00PM: We're into the home stretch on 2009, with only three months left to enjoy. Then, the calendar page flips over, and we take on 2010. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways left to make the rest of this year memorable. In Finland, home to some of the strangest celebrations on the planet, you can find a few interesting distractions – and they'll make for great stories when you get home. Of ...

by Jeremy Kressmann (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Apr 3rd, 2008 at 8:00AM: Snow season might be winding down, but that's no reason not to start thinking about next year's fresh powder. While you're waiting, why not check out the iPod and iPhone-compatible skiing and snowboarding guides by Podpro? The company offers free downloadable trail maps for a number of the most popular resorts in both the U.S. and Canada. iPhone users will be pleased to find full maps for more ...

by Abha Malpani (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Jan 2nd, 2008 at 10:30AM: There are four resorts in North America that still prohibit snowboarding: Mad River Glen, Vermont; Deer Valley, Utah; Alta Ski Area, Utah; and Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico. Encouraging a "peaceful protest" against the ban, famous snowboarding equipment company Burton is sponsoring a contest where you must to go to one or all of these resorts, snowboard, and submit a video of it. The best video in ...

by Ember Swift (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Sep 11th, 2007 at 5:28PM: Ember Swift, Canadian musician and touring performer, will be keeping us up-to-date on what it's like to tour a band throughout North America. Having just arrived back from Beijing where she spent three months (check out her "Canadian in Beijing" series), she offers a musician's perspective on road life.
It's easy as a musician to suffer from the "everything I do, I do for music" syndrome. ...