Category: Snow

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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

After a long wait and much anticipation, we are very excited to say that our Treasure Mountain Hut trip outside Silverton, Colorado is good to go and accepting booking inquiries.  $1099/person gets you three days of unreal shredding in San Juan terrain that’s been explored mostly by pro film crews, two nights of lodging at either Treasure Mtn. Hut or Bonnie Bell Cabin, 3 catered meals a day, facilitated access via snowmobile and snowcat, transport of gear and food to the hut, grooming of the cat track for quicker laps, and 24/7 support from the TMH liasons to help with all your shred needs.  Check out the TMH page to learn all the details and how to book! SUPER stoked on this one…

TMH awaits you…  Nick Wigston photo

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SGT homies Robyn Van Gyn and Erin Comstock, exploring her methods in the TMH backcountry with the Roxy crew

Zach Siebert going for it at TMH.  Aaron Dodds photo

It’s Thursday so that means you all are thirsty for… rad news!  We’ve got a couple good things for you all to be stoked on today…

“The East Coast’s Premier Snowboarding Event Series,” The Main Event, is back for its 8th annual season.  Featuring the hottest of the hot in East Coast snowboard talent.  Featuring three stops – Bretton Woods on Jan. 15th, Sugarbush Jan. 29th, and Sugarloaf for the finals Feb. 5th.  SGT is giving away the grand prize for most overall points, a all-expense paid trip to Argentina next summer!  Shane Fortier walked away with it last year after stomping an enormous double back at Stowe, beating out John Murphy by ONE POINT.  It was heated and heavy and every stop was an awesome show.  Anyone who rides one stick in the East and thinks they got some steeze, register for this series.

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Main Event Finals 2010.

This just in from Japan…. it’s dumping!

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SGT Argentina client Matilde Byskov, who moved from her native Denmark to Japan yesterday for the season, just sent us this video from Niseko, where it’s abosolutely PUKING, as usual.  Need to get on board for one of the best shred trips around to the Far East, check out our Japan trip here…

And surprise, surprise… it’s DUMPING in Silverton!  50″ out of this past storm is making us sweat in our NH office staring at the melting snowbanks in this January thaw.

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Our client and homie Jake Cohn, now running Unofficial Whistler with SGT filmer and resident fat boy Jon “Officially Fat” Conway, was home in Telluride for the holidays and got to take some laps with SGT guide and NH native “Sneaky” Pete Connolly.  At a balmy -17 degrees farenheit outside, the boys lapped untracked fresh all day at the tail end of the unguided season in Silverton.  Need to get your San Juan fix? Stay tuned to our Silverton Treasure Mountain Hut trip page for one of sickest backcountry adventures in the Lower 48…

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A very merry banger from Julian Marshall featuring SGT athletes Sean Ryan, James Haffner and Eric Beauchemin

The first webisode  of Jamie Anderson’s “Visuals” is coming out soon, with the first episode coming from her time with us in Argentina during the Santa Rosa storm.

Stay tuned….

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Jackson Hole Freeride team members Blake Paul and “Killa” Cam Fitzpatrick crushing it at Breck.

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Jake Cohn, now running Unofficial Whistler with SGT filmer-boy/fat-boy Jon “Moustache and Cheesburger” Coonway, getting shacked at Whistler.  We’re very excited that the Unofficial Networks has expanded their media domination from Squaw-only to several other regions of radness in the snow world (Jackson Hole, Telluride, Snowbird, even STOWE), and that our boy Miles Clark is fully running the Squaw side of things.

The Telluride site also posted a sick photo from Jake jumping the only in-bounds cliff at Telluride that had never been boosted before, affectionately called “Leap of Jake.”  He is crushing it!