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Well ladies and gentlemen, it’s a very special day for us here at the SASS Global Travel offices.  After four months of development work, we’re proud to announce the launch of the brand-new, new and improved, version 3.0, 4G South America Snow Sessions program!  We’ve moved to sick SLOPESIDE lodging this year putting us within a hop, skip, and a jump of both the lifts and, more importantly, Tage, our favorite pit stop.  We’ve also set up our sessions to run week to week (Saturday to Saturday), so those of you who didn’t have the time or money to do a full two-week session in years past can now come down and get the experience you’ve been waiting for.

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As well, our college program with Sierra Nevada College returns for its third year, with two two-week college sessions with classes in spanish, photography, videography, AIARE Level 1 avalanche certification, freeskiing, freeriding, and internships directly with SASS in ski business management.  So check out the new site at www.sasnow.com!  We’ve got a cool “Stories from SASS” section where you can read about different riders’ experiences at SASS as well as videos and photos from past pros and teams we’ve had down.   We’re really excited for this year and you should be too – it’s gonna be a banger in 2011!

Brand new SASS site for 2011

Another day in an unbelievable East Coast winter… photos courtesy of Ryan Denning at Alpine-Live.com.

Just to get your weekend started and your stoke stocked up…

Here’s our boy and Argentina coach Brendon Drury sending the diving board off the back of Sugar Bowl… boom!  Homie’s going HUGE on this one and Brendon is stepping up to some serious b/c maneuvers this year – watch out!  Ben Meester photo.

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With the East Coast set to get another monster blizzard and shredders from all over the region giving themselves food poisoning to get out of work on Thursday, it’s time to get some pow shredding stoke going!

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Dew Tour champ Jamie Anderson came down this summer with the One Life crew to shred pow and with our mini greenhouse project.  Her boyfriend Martin Rubio caught the action on film for the JA Visuals blog.  Check it out!  As we near the launch of the 2011 SASS program, it’s time to get stoked!

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Main Event Sugarbush went down this weekend – super fun course and a smaller field putting down runs despite the speed issues with the falling snow.

The SGT tent was gettin’ mobbed all day thanks to our hourly prize raffles with our renewed partners RED Protection and Anon optics.  Ryan gets ready to raggle off some goggles!

Goal Zero‘s Boulder 30M solar panels kept the SGT videos and tunes going strong all day.  Check these guys out – mobile renewable power for everything from rolling tours like ours to Everest base camps.  Legit!

Sunday – adventure comes in all forms – like when the road turns into the VAS snowmobile trail and you get stuck on a waterbar, confuse 40 snowmobilers who wonder why you’re halfway down a hill on a snowmobile trail digging an enormous rut in the fresh groomer, and then get towed out by a tractor that appears out of nowhere.

Intern Max in the woods on our actual mission, skinning and skiing the Camel’s Hump in VT.

Emma slaying at SASS.  Ben Girardi photo

And, in non-X Games news, SGT client Emma Lande crushed it to 3rd place at the Jackson Hole Freeskiing World Tour qualifier, winning her the fourth and final spot on the 2011 Tour!! Emma found a line she liked on the second day and sent a fast, technical run with a few good airs.  Emma’s time spent shredding at SASS with Michelle Parker and the rest of the crew really shows, and we couldn’t be more stoked for her!  Check the story on Doglotion and follow Emma on her blog as she dominates the tour!

Ding ding ding!  Round 2 of the Main Event Snowboard Series is going down this weekend at snow-sacked Sugarbush, Vermont at Mt. Ellen.

Going to be exciting to see who comes back after the Bretton Woods stop to stack points and earn that SGT trip!  But you don’t have to be Yale Cousino to win something – we’ll be giving away either a RED helmet or a pair of Anon goggles every hour on the hour in sponsor village starting at 10 am to celebrate our renewed partnership with RED/Anon.  So come on by, chat us up and win some prizes!

This weekend we packed the car up and headed up to Killington for the annual East Coast stop of the Dew Tour.  A move to Killington meant a steeper slopestyle course with bigger jumps and a new, 22-foot superpipe – one of the biggest set-ups the East Coast has ever seen.  Athletes were stoked on the fast, firm, and fun slope course and while the left wall of the pipe was taking skier out left and right Saturday night, some impressive, doubles-filled runs were still thrown down.

But what was the real attraction you ask? THE SASSQUATCH.

The SASSquatch was all over Killington this weekend – shredding woods off Snowdon, firecrackering the stairs in the Stash park, posing for photos with fans, and even wrestling Toyota’s Yeti to a draw.  It was an action-packed two days for the SASSquatch, and everyone wanted a piece, from SGT clients…

…to our friend Jamie Anderson (two webisodes from SASS dropping soon on her blog), who won slope finals…

…to the Toyota Yeti him/herself.  Despite the wrastlin’ match that went down, these two are now cool.

SGT snowboard coach Nicki Slechta was also in town competing in women’s slope, and made finals after nailing the most tech rail run of any of the girls, with a front board-180-back board on the flat-down gap box – legit!  Unforunately, Nicki took one of the hardest falls I’ve ever seen during training, coming up short on the final 70 foot table and landing flat on her back.  Nicki was down for a minute but then quickly got up and walked it off.  With twenty minutes before her finals run, Nicki was in a ton of pain but tried for her run anyway – what a badass!  Nicki’s back froze up after the rail section and she had to forgo the rest of the contest, but damn that girl is strong.  Best of luck in Utah!

Big congrats to Nicki for being a badass and Jamie for crushing the slope finals!  If you actually wanted to learn about the results, I’ll let you check all that out on the Alli site.  Thanks again to the Lyles for putting us up and to Lee for the tickets!  Have a great week everybody – get shacked!!

People love consistency, and ski and snowboard sites are good about giving it to them.  Sundays in the Park, Photo Fridays, Hump Day Interviews, etc. are all good examples of organizing media output around a specific day of the week and a witty title.  Weekend Update and Thisty Thursdays are the ones I’m barely succeeding at updating weekly, but now that I’m batting 2 for 2 for Thirsty Thursdays videos, I’m feeling pretty good

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Main Event Series Stop #1: Bretton Woods by Ian Post

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Vermont Avec Rehtards by the SGT crew