Snowboarders declare victory on Taos

Shayboarder posted up this info on her blog: Now Taos Has Allowed snowboarding on their mountain.
It looks like Burton Snowboards can claim success on this one. Only recently began an ad campaign led by Burton to get all 4 blacklist resorts to Open Up. see $5000 prize for Poaching the Mountain" So suddenly Taos has declared that they will now open to snowboarders. The snowboarders and Jake Burton both get a victory. It looks like Burton really made a difference. They post a poaching Taos video where the snowboarders get roughed up simply for snowsliding down a mountain on one board instead of two. And it leads to Taos opening the mountin to snowboarders, yeah!
So Burton's marketing team can pat themselves on the back, cause this announcement will only cause great sales at Christmastime, and who in the snowboarding industry isn't looking for that. There's still 3 more resorts out there who don't allow snowboarding. So poach away and maybe you'll even win the $5000 prize Burton is offering for filming your exploits and publishing them on their site.

Rail Jam - @ Stevens Pass Friday Dec 14th

Rail Jam - @ Stevens Pass Friday Dec 14th
Cost of entry: $25 Season's Passholders or $50 w/Lift Ticket
Its the first night of night operations! Its a custom made jib course under the lights in the Stevens Pass Base Area. The contest will be judged by local shreddogs and there's a bunch of prizes.
Entry will get you a t-shirt, bib, and an entry to the grand prize raffle.
Afterparty in the Foggy Goggle featuring the music of Mob Law.
Sounds like the place to be if you're around Stevens this Friday.

Funner Webisode#10 Blair Habenicht & Donkey Mansfield - Pro Snowboarders

Blair Habenicht and Sean Donkey Mansfield star in this installment of Funner Webisode #10. Its an excerpt from the movie "Smokebomb" by Funner Films. Watch Blair Slay the pow and Donkey entertain you with his slippery snowboard butter trick collection.

New Frequency out Now

Issue 6.2
The Fall 2007 issue is hitting shelves just in time for the snow to start flying. Features include an interview with Austrian powder pirate Gigi Rüf, a four day powder and champagne binge on a private heli-equipped yacht, the rich history of Lake Tahoe’s Boreal Mountain Resort, summer camp in Iceland where the sun hardly sets, a gallery of images from Spacecraft’s Stefan Hofmann, and an urban mission to the Canadian Province of Québec. Commentary on Let it Ride: The Craig Kelly Story, Whistler artist Vanessa Stark, the art of grabbing stalefish, Whistler’s new gondola, and, finally, the number one commodity being plundered by aliens here on planet earth—the scarce and highly flexible element known as Boron—rounds out the issue. Getting you ready for another year of riding, it’s frequency: TSJ’s eighteenth installment.

Gigi Rüf
The Black Book Diaries: Gigi Rüf Interview: Senior Editor John Laing speaks with globetrotting Austrian Gigi Rüf about growing up in the Austrian Alps, the effects of global warming, snowboard travel, and the importance of making friends along the way. Gigi Rüf Rüf is on his own program.

Blades of Glory
The Seven Circles of Extravagance: Luxury Travel: Senior Writer Dan Kostrzewski can’t believe his luck when he is given a pass aboard a 201 foot luxury yacht, the Absinthe, for a four day heli-boarding odyssey in British Columbia’s Desolation Sound. Beer can chicken on a glacier, heli-fishing, and a bottomless glass of Dom accompany pow turns captured on film by Eric Berger. This trip might just have spoiled him for good.

$5000 cash prize for Snowboarding Where You Can't snowboard

Thanks to Justin for the heads up on this one.
Burton snowboards is offering a $5000 cash prize for making a video documentary showing you accomplish a poaching mission at the 4 resorts in North America that don't allow snowboarding: Deer Valley,UT; Alta,UT; Mad River Glen,VT; & Taos,NM. The video footy they already posted is hilarious, although it looks like some riders might have got arrested in Taos. I bet if this happens to you, Jake Burton himself will pay your ticket, so don't worry, just poach. F$$# those skiers, they give cool skiers a bad name. I have some friends that ski and aren't biotches like these guys in Utah,New Mexico, and Vermont.
If anyone is down, we should organize a million snowboarder march on these mountains and protest these Draconian laws!

Funner Webisode #9 - Urban Jibbing in Bellingham

Jibbing downtown Bellingham,WA after a big snowstorm with Lucas Debari, Caleb Johnson, Kyle Walton, Nick Ennen, and Chase Cleveland. Some crazy unique obstacles and good riding. Check out our new movie Sentimental Values on DVD Now!

Isenseven - Crashes and Outtakes

The Isenseven crew is based in Europe although they tend to do most of their snowboarding in Canada and the USA. These videos are some of my personal favorites because of the funny moments and great filming. They are never taking themselves too seriously, yet they manage to pull off some of the most creative riding of any crew out there today.
Their new movie is called Ubermovie, and while I have yet to see it, I know its going to be a good one based on the teasers they've put out throughout the internet and their last vid, Prediculous.

Let it Ride - The Craig Kelly Story

Let it Ride is the Craig Kelly story. A documentary about the greatest snowboarder in the beginning of snowboarding history, although I tend to think Terje Haakonsen is truly the best rider ever. Craig did it all, from Freestyle contests with flouro outfits, to big mountain in Alaska. Sadly Craig died in an avalanche while guiding at a cat-skiing resort in British Columbia. this movie is a definate must to have in any snowboard fan's collection as a vid you an bust out for the non-snowboarder to help them get a better grasp on why you do it.
Sit back and watch a legend in action.

Return of the Nina : A Right On Brother Film

Return of the Nina is a film by Right On Brother. It loosely follows the story of the 3 Giffin brothers, Zack, Jeff, and Sam as they live life constantly seeking adventure mostly by visiting the ski resort at Mt Baker. The film is truly different than most other snow flicks that come out these days and its very refreshing to see something different in a world of cloned movies. The are all great in their own endeavors, Zack being a skier, Jeff a telemarker, and Sam a snowboarder.

This is also the story of La Nina, a seasonal heavy snowfall that only comes around every once in a while, and Mt Baker footage from the years 1998-99 (World Record Season at Mt Baker) until 2006-07. The movie tells a story of the ups (classic shots of huge backflip by Sam and 360 by Tarek Husevold, the deepest pow shots, rides down the Mt Baker Arm and Hemispheres, Record Snowfall Levels) to the downs (Avalanches with footy of Mt Baker's Historic Avalanche on the Arm that sadly resulted in the deaths of 2 people - the first time this footage has been unveiled) to the happy moments (Flips off rocks, shirtless: skiing and snowboarding with no snow, funny personalities telling us why they love to ride, hanging with friends).

Return of the Nina is heartwarming, shocking, fun to watch, and definately will provide you with some fire to fuel your ride for another season in the mountains doing what you love. Its a refreshing look into your own reasons for why YOU ride, and lets face it sometimes we can forget how fun it is to ride and that we should do it for ourselves and its time to enjoy while we've got it.

Length: 52min
Company: Right on Brother productions
Produced by Studio 411
Directed by Sam Giffin

Mt Baker Opens This Thursday

***By Press Release:
MT. BAKER SKI AREA WILL OPEN THURSDAY NOV. 29th!
Well, it looks like winter has really hit! The storm dropped 17 inches of new snow on Mt. Baker last night, to bring our base to 35 inches. This enables us to open in full normal midweek operation out of the White Salmon Base Area on Thursday with Chairs 3, 4,5, 6 7 & 8 operating.

It is currently 24 degrees and overcast on the mountain, and the good news is forecasts are calling for addtional snow Wednesday night and Thursday, with low freezing levels continued through the weekend.

It looks like it will be a classic Baker powder opening day!

We look forward to seeing you on the mountain starting Thursday.