The History of Snowboarding

It’s fairly suitable, given I am sitting in an airport lounge awaiting a UK flight, that I present to you the history of snowboarding from Yahoo! UK & Ireland. Nice timeline from snurfing in the 60’s until the big business of today… the article overs it all.

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Cycling Season One Comes To A Close

For a guy that has lived in Mississippi for most of his life, I’m surprised that I was able to cycle in Canada well in to November. Add arm & leg warmers and a base layer, and the weather isn’t all that bad…yet. The Weather Network soon calls for snow in Toronto, which [...]

Whistler Gets Dumping, Opening Early? (Confirmed)

Now this… is some snowfall.

I WANT TO GO! I WANT TO GO NOW!!!
Edit: Whistler is mulling an early opening as a result: “Operations crews and all front line staff are going full steam ahead to prepare the mountains for the upcoming winter season. Official opening day is November 22 but with outstanding snowfall this week [...]

Enough With Interactive Trail Maps

Whistler Blackcomb has one. So does Stowe. Hell, even little Blue Mountain here in Ontario has one. Has what, you ask? An interactive trail map.
An interactive trail map is a fancy, Flash-based version of the traditional map you view online and use on a hill. There seem to be more of them every year, but [...]

Creative Ways to Find This Blog

I came across a funny post while perusing Hittinghickers.com today which referenced some odd keywords people used to find the site. So I went into our logs and dug up a few of our own:

eating cheese “makes you smell like cheese” - can’t help with that one.
getting a knee drained - been there, done that.

help [...]

Whistler Is Booked!

Although our “big trip” this year is to Banff, we’ve decided to spend some Aeroplan Miles on a quick trip to Whistler in January. We’re going for four nights and five days, but taking a red eye back so we can get an extra day of riding. Now that’s Highly Obsessed!
I’m particularly [...]

What Do You Tell People Who Want to Learn How to Snowboard?

This article on National Learn to Ski and Snowboard Week (January 20-28 in Canada, folks) got me thinking about people who want to learn how to snowboard. I’m sure most of you have encountered at least one person who’s said, “You like to snowboard, eh? Yeah, I thought about learning… but in the end, I [...]

Register Now for Tour for Kids!

Registration for the 2008 Tour for Kids is officially open!
If you aren’t familiar with it, the Tour for Kids is a 2 or 4 day charity bike ride in Ontario and Alberta aimed at helping cancer children. Riders get to chose daily between a 100km+ or 200km+ ride. The routes are well planned [...]

Ski Area Openings in North America

It’s getting cold, and there’s a bit of snow up north around Barrie; otherwise, however, the weather outlook for ski resorts in Ontario isn’t great thus far.
Of course, around North America — hell, even down the highway — this isn’t the case. Check out all these anticipated openings:

Mont Tremblant: November 21
Sunshine Village: November 15
Lake Louise: [...]