Archive for June, 2008
Top Ten Summer Ski Resorts
Aaaaand we’re back. Steve and are were both out of town the entire week, so posting was non-existent. One of the first interesting tidbits I came across upon my return was OnTheSnow.com’s Top Ten Summer Ski Resorts. The spread of resorts is pretty global, but I think the bottom line is fairly straightforward: if you’re [...]
Ski Resort Web Videos: Our Take
Whether it’s a “vlog” or “video report” or straight-up video, ski resorts are slowly adding video content to their websites. As they do so, each resort adds their own little twist and style - with mixed results. Here are some of the ones we checked out recently.
The Canyons’ YouTube Channel
Utah’s largest ski and snowboard resort [...]
Tiger Woods Has A Torn ACL
Best of luck to the amazing Tiger Woods, who’s done for the season after winning the U.S. Open. He’s taking time off to have the ACL in his left knee reconstructed, and to rehab a double stress fracture in his tibia.
I tried golfing three weeks after having my ACL reconstructed, with painful results. But 10 [...]
CDC: Snowboarders Lead Emergency Room Visits
Here’s a dubious honor recently bestowed upon shredders. According a recent study by the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, snowboarders lead the dubious category “outdoor recreational injuries” by a long shot.
According to the study, detailed here, almost 26 percent of the nearly 213,000 people [...]
Summer Gear for Shredders
The scene is a familiar one. You’re on a beach, in the sun, sitting on a towel. Then, suddenly, it hits you; in a moment of sheer terror, you realize it’s June. Recognizing just how far off shredding actually is, you sob uncontrollably. You bury your head in your sand-covered hands. Somewhere, an inflatable dinghy [...]
Exciting Things To Do In Lieu Of Snowboarding
Summer is officially here. Okay, not officially - but here in Toronto, the thermometer is going to reach well above 30 celsius, and the humidex will make it feel like around 40.
Once temperatures reach this area I start to to realize just how far away I am from snowboarding again; five months or so, [...]
China Gets in on the Ski Resort Action
Recently The Globe and Mail ran a piece on the growth of ski resorts in China. So did Frequency, the quarterly snowboarder’s journal. The story in the Globe is more focused on the development of the real estate market as it relates to ski areas; Frequency’s story is much more about improvements within the resorts [...]
Free Stuff Review: Snapple Antioxidant Water
One of the neat things about operating a quasi-popular blog about outdoor sporting activities are the neat things that cross your desk from time to time. Example: Snapple Antioxidant Water, a case of which arrived a couple of months ago. Intrigued, we drank some down, passed some around, and the stuff was generally well-received.
Personally, I’m [...]
