Archive for the ‘Ski’ Category

Season’s Over For World Cup Champ

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Slalom champ Kalle Palander will miss most -- perhaps all -- of this race season after a flare-up of the stress fracture that sidelined him for most of last season had to be fixed with extreme surgery. The Finnish World Cup racer, the first-ever from his country, has dominated in ...

Keystone Friday Night Lights Concert

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The snowboard, ski, snow blade season is about to get underway and resorts all over the country are kicking off the fun with a bang.  Keystone Resort in Colorado will celebrate with the Friday Night Lights Concert Series starting in November and through the early part of December of this ...

Former Oakley Employee Stole $1 Million in Goods

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

You might want to rethink that stapler or pen that you might have "borrowed" from work.  Of course, unless that pen or stapler is worth $1 million you might be okay.  Or unless you sell your "borrowed" items on eBay. Turns out Oakley, the sunglasses and bunch of other things maker, ...

Come Kick Off The Season At Mammoth Mountain

Monday, October 13th, 2008

It’s been a long hot summer.  You wake up at noon everyday with your alarm clock blasting Fall Out Boy or something sweet like that.  Then you eat the breakfast your mom prepared for you before she left for work: a Pop Tart, Sunny D, and some string cheese.  Then you ...

Big Sky Sells For $74 Million

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Who says you can't make money in snow resorts?  Montana's Big Sky Resort has just been set up for a sale totaling $74 million between Boyne Resorts and CNL Lifestyle Properties. The agreement is the result of a loan from CNL to Brighton for $68 million.  When the loan matures in ...

Oakley’s Uniquely Campaign Becomes New Film

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Last year Oakley started a campaign for women called "Uniquely" featuring some of its athletes in photo shoots/advertisements and videos.  Now that campaign has kicked into high gear with the release of a new HD film featuring most of the top-flight Oakley women in a "cultural journey" around the globe. Among ...

King of Style to Use Video Qualifying

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Peak Performance King of Style, the big air skiing contest, is going down on Nov. 22 in Stockholm and while there will be a number of invited athletes, two qualifiers will make the cut a unique way: through YouTube. The contest is putting together a video qualifying round on YouTube, where ...

New Tachyon XC Helmet Cam

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Just last week I decided that I wanted a different perspective with how I shoot my extreme Rollerblade videos so I asked my dad to build me a helmet camera.  Unfortunately for me I didn’t have an actual handy cam at the time so we cleverly attached my snapshot camera ...

Mt. High’s $1.5 Million Renovation

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

These are some scary times in our economy.  With the current financial crisis with insurance companies dropping like flies and oil prices on the rise, we the American people must learn to cope with it.  Just the other day I saw my neighbor saving water by watering his garden by ...

An Alternative To Skikes

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Have you not heard of Skikes?  Have you not experienced the innovative form of transportations and mystique that surround Skikes?  Well get with the times bro because they are so a few seasons ago.  But to keep you updated and well informed, Skikes, at the time, were a new extreme ...