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Jones and Terje near the Arctic Circle http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/sports/a-soft-spoken-snowboarder-blazes-icy-trails.html BB :D

I'll bet no one's riding this shore pound - body, Boogie, or longboard ... :eek: story here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/nyregion/winter-storm-northeast.html?hp&_r=0 BB

Suzuki S40 Boulevard (still available new, but cheaper used) big 600 cc thumper, highly modified as faux cafe racer. Kits available. I've always liked the minimalist elegance of big singlezzzzzzzzz, numbutt notwithstanding! BB :D

I really want to ride again, but http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/aging-easy-riders-beware/?smid=tw-nytimeswell&seid=auto Any thoughts/observations on this? BB, the elder

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/29/surfer-garrett-mcnamara-100ft-wave Garrett McNamara rides a 100 footer!! Definitely not a Newport shore pound! BB

Wish I could do this. Great board and a classic topsheet. Genuinely sorry to hear about your injuries. Hope you make it out this year. Have missed your posts. Hang in there. The white stuff can be a magical elixir! cheers and good luck BB ;)

GWF for MF(H). Height/Weight/Proportionate, Well-Traveled Adult Female for "close encounters" http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/12/04/3706504/great-white-mary-lee-finds-nc.html Not a lady you'd wanna meet... BB :o

naturally! ;) BB

Iran (seriously!!!) I'm sure there was no expectation the offer would be accepted ... "Send us your poor... your teeming... all your fissile material... " signed Uncle Sam Know who actually sent help after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fire? Russia! Seriously... BB

... a lightweight, walkable, Boa-laced & heat-moldable inner boot that's inserted into a carbon exoskeleton when you want to ride? It's been discussed here before. I think DrD opined that it would be near perfect with an added BTS-like walk-mode option and a hikable sole design on the exoskeleton (probably not carbon). I last boarded in AT boots, and that's where I'll re-start this year. As an elder, non-performance oriented freerider, my criteria are simplicity, comfort, walkability and light weight. Even with their ski-only design, I suspect I could buy the current "stock" ski Apex, use it in either of my two bindings that will accept ski boots, and ride very happily for years to come. Apex, I think, launched at the beginning of our (non) Depression, and they're still here - now with a range of models, the least expensive costing $795, I think (?) That price is inching down toward the cost of a new, state-of-the-art, boarding hardboot. Hope, someday, to demo the limited-distribution Apex & see if/how it works. BB

Battery Park Storm Surge 13 feet - higher than expected... Some tunnels and subways flooding 10:52 NYT http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/hurricane-sandy.html?hp Here in Possum Pouch (Central NC) - hundreds of miles from eye of post-tropical Cyclone Sandy - variable rain and winds 15-25 all night with gusts to 45 mph. On coast, Highway 12 - the single access to OBX wave magnet - long since flooded out. Worst damage Ocracoke Island and, now, 'up north' from sound-side flooding as westerly winds blow huge amounts of water out to sea. South of Cape Hatteras, the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic', 180' HMS Bounty replica sank - 14 rescued by two Coast Guard helicopters - one dead, one missing (?) Having spent more than one terrifying night on a wood-hulled ship in the middle of a chaotic Pacific maelstrom, I feel awe and sorrow for the brave crew of the tall ship, and incredible gratitude/admiration for the Coast Guard crewmen who saved them. http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/29/2447115/crew-of-tall-ship-off-nc-abandons.html Back in the Big Apple Above, sea water floods into 9/1/1 construction site. Meanwhile, up to 3' snow forecast above 3,000 ft in West Va. with blizzard warning. 2 PM, Tuesday 10/30 SNOWSHOE MTN, W.V. CUMULATIVE SNOWFALL FOR SANDY 24" THUSFAR Sandy Says 'Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow' 10.30.12 02:28 PM <Photo from today at Snowshoe from Krysty Ronchetti I hope your Halloween costumes consist of snowsuits! Sandy's snow is here to stay. Flurries started to fall late Sunday night in the mountains of North Carolina, and the rest is history. With the snow pouring down, numbers will continue to rise, but here's the latest from the area resorts: Cataloochee with four inches, Beech with eight, Sugar with seven, Wolf Ridge with eight, and the winner, Snowshoe Mountain, with a whopping 24! And yes, just yesterday it was reported that Snowshoe had a mere dusting. We'll continue to check in regularly to get updated information so be sure to follow us on twitter @SkiSoutheast for the latest and the greatest. With the heaping amounts of natural snowfall, many resorts have the potential to open early. Here's a look at what's happened over the past two seasons: Cataloochee started its 2010-2011 ski season on November 6, and its 2011-2012 season on November 12. Snowshoe opened on November 8 for the 2010-2011 season, and on November 9 for the 2011-2012 season. Beech kicked off the 2010-2011 season on December 4, and December 3 the following year. Sugar first began its 2010-2011 season on November 6, but had to reopen on November 27. A similar pattern occurred last year, when Sugar first opened on November 11, but had to reopen on the 18, and then again on the 29. Wolf Ridge opened the slopes for their 2010-2011 season on December 3, and on December 29 for 2011-2012. It's safe to say that many resorts will break their own records this year, or at least the late streak. If that's the case, we could be looking at well over 100 days to get out and ski/board. Heck, maybe even closer to 130; wouldn't that be nice? Feel free to email me your comments, photos, videos, etc. to tonette@skisoutheast.com.

This is central Outer Banks at one of few N.C. islands that runs east/west - actually faces south. http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/27/2442210/approaching-megastorm-threatens.html Northern OBX - Dare, Currituck counties including Nags Head, Duck, Corolla - will take a harder/wetter hit but nothing compared to Northeast if this thing, indeed, becomes a 'Perfect Storm.' BB

these guys. Didn't listen to the audio, but if all that day's takeoffs were, indeed, kamikaze drops, it's hard to imagine the courage of these men. Talk about Christians & lions... BB :eek:

In the finest tradition of the sport... Hundreds of skateboarders defied a court ruling on Saturday, gathering on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and then riding down Broadway to the Financial District, in an annual longboard race that a State Supreme Court judge had declared unlawful two days earlier. Related http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/nyregion/skateboarders-defy-court-to-race-down-broadway.html

had brief periods, much earlier in our sport's evolution, when they allowed boarding, I think... Don't know for sure about Deer Valley, but in my memory it's always been board-free with high-end dining, lodging and services for skiers only...? Mad River Glen is still owned by a skiers' association as far as I know. Famously gnarly with little, if any, snowmaking and no grooming BB

Tom Sims, who was credited with inventing one of the earliest snowboards and, as a world-champion competitor and manufacturer, with helping to further snowboarding's widespread acceptance in the sporting world, died Sept. 12 at a hospital near his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 61. The cause was complications following cardiac arrest, his sister, Margie Sims Klinger, said. Mr. Sims was an avid skateboarder in 1963 when he built a crude "ski board" in his seventh-grade wood shop class in Haddonfield, N.J., so he could continue to ride during the winter. "That's what led me to build the first snowboard: not being able to skateboard on an icy street," Mr. Sims said in a video posted on the magazine Trans-world Skateboardingï's Web site. "So after that, it was just 12 months a year of boarding, whether it be skateboarding, snowboarding or surfing." His boyhood invention did not work very well, but it inspired him to continue to refine the design. At the same time, he began building a career as a designer of skateboards. In the mid-1970s, when Mr. Sims was riding boards he had made in professional competitions, he founded Sims Skateboards in Whittier, Calif., to manufacture and market them. Soon the company was sponsoring skateboarding luminaries like Christian Hosoi and Craig Kelly and expanding to manufacture snowboards as well. By the 1980s, many ski resorts still looked at snowboarding as a fad, if they allowed it at all. The sport was nevertheless growing, and riders had started organizing competitions. Most of the early contests involved slalom races, as in alpine skiing. Mr. Sims brought his aggressive skateboarding style to the sport and helped introduce freestyle snowboarding, using natural and artificial obstacles on the hill to perform tricks. "He was the catalyst for having half-pipe in snowboard competitions," Pat Bridges, the editor of Snowboarder magazine, said in an online tribute, referring to the familiar U-shaped obstacle. "He actually got freestyle competitions off the ground, and that was invaluable." Sims Snowboards broke new ground in the industry. The company is often credited as the first to design boards with metal edges, making for a smoother and more stable ride; the first to design boards for women, making them lighter, shorter and narrower to accommodate smaller boots; and one of the first to design and manufacture high-backed snowboard bindings, which allow for more responsive maneuvers. An improved version of that bindings design is used by nearly all snowboarders today. Mr. Sims became a world-champion snowboarder in 1983. He was also Roger Moore's stunt double during a snowboard sequence in the 1985 James Bond film "A View to a Kill." Snowboarders are now commonplace at nearly all ski resorts, and snowboarding made its debut as a Winter Olympic sport in Nagano, Japan, in 1998. Thomas Paul Sims was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1950. His family moved to the East Coast when he was 2. He first saw children skateboarding on a family trip to Los Angeles in 1960 and was immediately smitten. In addition to his sister, Mr. Sims is survived by his wife, Hilary; two sons, Thomas Jr. and Shane; a daughter, Sarah M. Sims; and two stepdaughters, Alexa and Kylie Wagner. A slightly refined version of Mr. Sims' humble seventh-grade "ski board" now resides at the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum in Vail. NYT 09/19/12

SKES will really be missed. Your good humor is second to none! Looks like Snow King has survived the flames, however, and that's good news! Hopefully, your posts will keep coming, too. Still look forward to seeing you sometime on the SK steeps. Good luck BB :ices_ange

What a classic, frozen moment! Don't know if T.S. would be amused or flattered to know the latest Burton collection has at least three, evolved, metal-edged swallowtails so conceptually close to the board he's riding here. Somebody ought to design a two-board, all-conditions quiver commemorating Tom Sims and Craig Kelly! BB

Thoughts with you and your community. Hope conditions improve. Latest update I've found says the blaze has thusfar been kept from the peak of Snow King. May that continue! Stubborn heat/drought have been horrible this year. Heard a lifetime cattleman on NPR last night. Really heart-breaking. Good luck to your family, and stay safe! BB

http://www.skisoutheast.com/articles_3648_YoYoMa-Wins-the-34th-Annual-Woolly-Worm-Festival-.html?archived=false&type=all&subtype=firsttrax For the definitive Ice Coast forecast, we'll need to wait til Saturday October 20, when the "most predictive" woolly worm will be crowned. Stay tuned for a near-live update on the 20th. http://www.woollyworm.com/ bb

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/riding-the-wave-of-surfer-fitness/?ref=health New Zealand competition pro's - 54 % time spent paddling out to the waves. During contest heats, sustained heart rates of 120; intermittent 190. Only 8% time actually riding but board speeds of 25 - even 30 - mph. BB :rolleyes:

http://www.catchsurf.com/blog/#4245 Chaos and questionable behavior at a favored SoCal surf break ... :eek: BB * but no Goats !!?

Never saw kudzu either. No kudzu, no goats!! Everybody knows that. Only use for goats is kudzu control!! Maybe they're mountain goats? Yeah, that's it. They must be mountain goats! Don't know if mountain goats surf, but they've got the balance thing down pat! Baahh !! BB