Vernon, NJ – Zeppelin, Zappa, Floyd…The Camaro, TransAm, Chevy Nova… What’s more seventies than muscle cars and classic rock, Farrah Fawcett and Suzy Chapstick? This weekend Mountain Creek invites you to travel back in time to an era where skiing might have been groovy, but Jake Burton had just ‘invented’ the snowboard industry. nAt … … Continue reading Pop a Zeppelin 8-Track in the Trans Am and Head to Mountain Creek
Keystone, CO – Former Olympians Steve Mahre and Jason Rossner tried to keep up with 75-year-old Freda Nieters on the slopes of Keystone on Sunday. Nieters, a former ski champion, broke the Guinness Book of World Record last year by skiing 78,000 vertical feet in one day at the Colorado ski and snowboard resort, but … Continue reading Politicians and Former Olympians Join 75 Year-Old to Ski for SIDS
Snowmass, CO – Kiffor Berg and Kate Cardamone were the top male and female skiers respectively, and Dave Watson and Tiffany Noel captured the male and female snowboard titles at the 2007 Stihl Colorado Freeride Championships presented by Spike Shooter, held Friday and Saturday in Snowmass.nThese athletes out-dueled their competitors as they charged steep faces, … Continue reading 2007 Stihl Colorado Freeride Championships Winners Announced
Kranjska Gora, Slovenia – Austrian Mario Matt won his second straight slalom since winning the SL gold medal at the 2007 World Championships while teammate and defending overall champion Benjamin Raich reclaimed the overall Alpine Skiing World Cup points lead Sunday as he finished second. Italian Manfred Moelgg finished in third position. For the U.S. … Continue reading Matt Wins SL, Raich Reclaims World Cup Alpine Skiing Overall Lead
Tarvisio, Italy – In an improbable scenario, the U.S. Ski Team’s Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA) finished third Sunday in a super G behind World Cup SG champion Renate Goetschl of Austria – pushing the two into a tie for the overall points lead.nGoetschl, who was handed the super G title when Lindsey Kildow (Vail, … Continue reading Mancuso 3rd in SG, Ties for Overall World Cup Skiing Points Lead
Sapporo, Japan – Kris Freeman (Andover, NH) ignored shoulder pain and muscled his way through softening snow Sunday to finish 12th in a 50K mass start classic technique “slushfest,” the final race of the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. It was the the fifth top 20 of the season for Freeman, who injects himself … Continue reading Freeman Powers to 12th in Nordic Ski Worlds 50K Classic
Calgary, Canada – It was deja vu all over again. On Saturday, Switzerland’s Manuela Laura Pesko and Ryoh Aono of Japan repeated Friday’s results to take home the titles in the sixth halfpipe contest of the NOKIA Snowboard FIS World Cup 2006/2007. In Canada Olympic Park, the World Champion from Switzerland grabbed gold in the … Continue reading Pesko, Aono Repeat World Cup Snowboarding Halfpipe Victories