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Stevens Pass Photo Book Reception Tonight
Chase Jarvis, whose tremendous snowboarding photo graces the cover of the mag this month, has a limited-edition coffee table book of images from Stevens Pass out this month.
To celebrate, there's a book signing and multimedia slide show at the main REI tonight at 7pm. You can read more about it ... »
Sphere of Influence
Oh, sweet smells on the September breeze.
Oh, crisp September nights.
Oh, historic King Cat Theater
bring us the gods of winter,
donned in poofy jackets and
showered in neon lights.
Ready? Ready.
Absinthe Films’ Sphere of Influence Tour is dropping into the King Cat Theater this Saturday night to present their latest ... »
Elusive Snowboarder, Filmer Jesse Burtner Speaks
YoBeat.com has been making fun of snowboarding since 1997. In 1997, I was making fun of snowboarding too, because I was 13 and still on the two planks. I wasn’t cool till college when I switched to surfing the white winter wave.
Jesse Burtner, on the other hand, has ... »
Females Tear It Up, and More Skateboarding News
Ladies are participating in skateboarding more than ever, according to the latest report put out by the National Sporting Goods Association. In 2007, females represented 26.6% (2.7 million) of the total skateboarding participation, up from 19.5% (1.9 million) in 2002. Not too shabby.
Seattle and Portland obviously have deep roots in the ... »
Mack Dawg Documentary: The Life and Times of Peter Line
It is this time every year that snowboard and ski movies begin making their way around the globe: starting with wild premier parties, then out on tour, after time spent filming all the winter past and editing through the summer months. And with each year, the number of films ... »
WCT Pro Surf Comp Broadcast at Cheka-Looka
My T.V. gets one channel, sometimes Channel 13, sometimes Channel 4. There's never any surfing contests shown on either. The T.V. at my favorite bar? Nope, no surfing competitions broadcast there either. The big screen panel at the fine surf shop right next to my favorite bar(s)? Ding, ding!
Cheka-Looka surf shop ... »
08/09 Gnu Snowboards Presented
EXPN’s snowboard wonk Andy Blumberg and I come from the same slice of snowboard sunshine, Southern California—a scene I left behind for the more genuine and laid-back culture of the Northwest. Don't personally know the guy, but when he says: “There's just something about that misty, credible, even quirky, ... »
Pro Wakeboarders Coming to a Lake Near You
Ah, the mid August afternoon sunshine is nuzzling the tops of your shoulders; a sweet breeze is drifting in from off the glassy lake toward your shaded spot on the shore, and snow-caked Mount Rainer is standing in salute over—one hell of a wakeboarding party.
Malibu Boats’ Pro Wakeboard Team ... »
Today’s History Lesson: The Noboard
Burton—a pioneer in the snowboarding sensation; one of the first companies to put bindings on a slab of wood; the first to christen the debutant a “snowboard”—teamed up with Noboard, of Revelstoke, B.C., “inventor” of bindingless snowboards, so, uh, Noboards, in 1999.
This year they present the new Burton ... »
