Jon Frankel of HBO Sports sits down with two snowboarding Olympians to talk about the United States Olympic Committee’s lack of financial assistance in a segment they named “Going for Broke.” In the piece they examine why so many U.S. Olympic hopefuls are going broke going for gold and why the USOC offers so little monetary compensation […]
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WATCH: 7-Day Snow Forecast (Active Jet Stream Out West/Heavy Totals)
Great news for all you left coast skiers and snowboarders, that jet stream that brought recent snow will remain active for the intermountain West through the weekend into next week with three to four waves of snowfall. However, it all stays north of California, so Tahoe is outta luck. In the Northeast, there are two chances […]
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WATCH: Jackson Hole’s Terrain Park Staff Had An Interesting Job Prepping Corbet’s Competition
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (@jacksonhole) The terrain park crew at Jackson Hole had an interesting week preparing for today’s Kings and Queens of Corbet’s competition. Not everyday you are snow raking with a harness on. Comp scheduled to kickoff at 1:30pm MST: “1/31/18 @1:30pm: Kings and Queens […]
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WATCH: Kayaker’s Boat Explodes In Half Dropping Colorado Waterfall
“Dude, holy shit. That boat literally exploded.” Fireworks on OBJ Creek as this dude exploded his prototype kayak dropping a waterfall. Luckily they were pros and got to safety all while filming it from two different angles. For going bad, that went surprisingly good: “Grady Flynn breaks boat in half on last drop of Avalanche […]
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FUNNY: How To Be A Skier
Taking us through all the stereotypes and terminology of the modern day ski scene ,this video is probably the most successful ski humor video in the history of the internet. Totally corny but if you haven’t seen it before I guarantee you watch the whole thing. Here’s a bonus graphic of skiers from 1982 vs […]
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NOAA: Super Bowl Sunday Will Be DEEP @BigSky | Over A FOOT OF SNOW Forecasted
[protected-iframe id=”719ef83981eed68d7132a35945e77a9a-65244901-84409940″ info=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbigskyresort%2Fposts%2F10156095596874281&width=500″ width=”500″ height=”618″ frameborder=”0″ style=”border:none;overflow:hidden” scrolling=”no”] Blower pow is coming to Big Sky Friday-Sunday, so get your powder skis waxed up– this one is going to be a doozy! Currently, NOAA is forecasting upwards of 14″ for the summit of Lone Peak and snow will be falling below base level, creating for some […]
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WATCH: ‘Bois Gone Wild’ In Revelstoke Is All The Stoke You Need Today
Big thank you to Patrick Brown for sending along this grade A piece of stoke this morning. If you didn’t already know, Revelstoke had a ridiculous January and February looks like more of the same. Cheers bois. *Video courtesy of Bow Valley Strong Categories: Skiing
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Super Bowl AD: Keanu Reeves Surfing A Motorcycle Is A Great Way To Start Your Day
Keanu Reeves has teamed up with SquareSpace to create a Matthew Mcconaughey-esque philisophical monologue for the super bowl and I’m straight up stoked to start my day. ‘Make It Happen’ says Keanu– right on. *Video courtesy of Squarespace Categories: News
Posted inSnowboarding
SHRED HACKS: How To Straight-Line Like Xavier de le Rue
“Don’t hesitate and put little speed checks because that can be lethal.” Loving this new Shred Hack series by Xavier and Red Bull. It’s like Michael Jordan hopping on Youtube to teach the fade away jumper. If you want to be the best, you might as well learn from the best: “Xavier de le Rue […]
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TEASER: MTV To Bring Jersey Shore Vibe To Hunter Mountain | ‘Winter Break’
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