International Ladies Shred Day this Saturday!
This Saturday I’ll be up at the Summit at Snoqualmie for International Ladies Shred Day. I’m looking forward to hanging out with other gals, having a lesson, and maybe working on my boardslides. Its mid-January and I haven’t even gone on a box yet. I better start hustling on that. Events are all over the [...]
Day 6: Sundays = Long Lift Lines
Sunday was my first day out at Steven’s Pass since mid-December, it had been way too long and I had to head out. Everyone else did too… The bad news was that I was completely unable to convince any friends to come out riding with me because of the forecast, the good news was that [...]
Why I haven’t been snowboarding
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post, I’ve been busy–but not with anything to do with snowboarding. After turning in my final paper-ever- for grad school I flew home to Minnesota. I wanted to make almost all of the gifts I was giving this year- vodka infused with cranberries, beeswax candles and [...]
9 Gift Ideas for Girls Who Shred
1. Seven Ply How awesome are earings made out of old skate decks? So awesome. They don’t look like it, but they are really lightweight. Lynn of Seven Ply makes every single piece different in color and style and also makes different sizes (down to studs) if you don’t like rocking the hoops. (She also [...]
Day 4: The Blender and Feelgood
Burton was at Stevens Pass on Saturday and I got the chance to demo two new boards, the Blender and the Feelgood. I’ve been riding a ’99 Burton Custom since, well, ’99. And a ’98 Custom before that. And an Air way back in the beginning. So I’ve only been on Burton, and (except for [...]
Day 3: Linking Switch Turns
Geared Up The last two times out with the Burton Emeralds I had had some major heel lift/foot cramps/numb toes. Why did I even bother getting new boots if they hurt? But instead of going back to my old boots, I went to the shop and they let me swap out the Burtons for Salomon [...]
Day 2: Stevens Pass Pow Pow
Lesson Plan: Powder! What I Learned: Snowboarding with chikas is super fun. Snowboarding in powder is even better. The big mounds of snow don’t hurt, you can ride right through them. At the end of a powder day, you’ll be covered in snow. Melissa and I drove out to Stevens for what was to be [...]
Day 1: Groomers, Moguls, and Tinkerbell
Despite having just written up a bunch of goals for the season, I had absolutely no goals set for the day besides get out onto the snow and getting back into the flow. I was carpooling, and I met up with two skiers under I-5 in downtown Seattle. It was pretty sketch, but it seemed [...]
Getting some skills (aka-season snowboarding goals)
Ready to charge…just like I was at 17. Alright, so I’m going to do this right. This year is the year I decided to get back into the snow for real, so I might as well get all serious and write up a list of my goals…come spring I can look back and hopefully each [...]
Check Your Head
This is the first season I will be riding with a big black piece of plastic covering my skull. I thought it would never happen, but here I am. I decided to spring for a lid last year when facing trees–thinking I probably shouldn’t do a tree run without a helmet–a la Sonny Bono. If [...]
Ladies, Where You At? Part 2
What did it take to not feel like I was totally crazy? Running into these two articles yesterday: “Anne-Flore Marxer: Pro-Spotlight,” TW Snow, Nov. 09 “A Girl’s Take: Missing-Females on the Silver Screen,” Powder, Nov. 09 In September I was wondering where all of the ladies parts were in the latest snowboard videos. I’m not [...]
Knife Show = Stoke!
[vimeo vimeo.com/7162183] Mike Benson and the Knife Show crew do it again with Volume 2, the first video of the 2009 season. They don’t have helicopters, crazy gear, and big budgets, but by the end of the video you wont be able to load your car fast enough for a road trip with your friends [...]
Working It: Preseason Warm-Up
Have you ever felt like hurling during a workout? I have. Twice. One time during a track practice in high school and then again last Wednesday during a ski conditioning class at the UW. So not awesome. Why did I put myself in this position in the first place? Well, I decided to take the [...]
Downtown Throwdown
Goes for the gold but gets the pole… …was probably the best quote of the day at the Downtown Throwdown in Pioneer Square in Seattle. There were some pretty impressive diggers, but some pretty awesome shredding was happening too. As the residents of Occidental Park looked on, Snowboy Productions descended on the park and set [...]
The Basics: Board Tech
Photo: Alex Indigo Your board. Probably one of the most basic of basics when it comes to snowboarding. In the past few years, the ways that boards are engineered have changed dramatically to say the least. Coming into the 2009-2010 season it seems like snowboard companies have their act together and actually know how to [...]
