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What to do on the first night of 2011? Head over to Crotched Mountain for an awesome night of Midnight Madness (riding until 3am) and vibe at the Roots of Creation concert that night in the lodge. Special guests DJ thomas, King-I and Bobo Smith will be on hand as well. Did we mention that the concert is FREE!? Don’t miss out!
The Rome SDS is excited to announce the 5th installment of The Local GNAR contest. The Local GNAR is a video contest for locals that celebrates the best part of snowboarding—hanging with your friends, shredding snowboards, and capturing it on film. Click through for more details.
World Snowboard Day is this Sunday December 19th, worldwide of course. Several resorts in the east will be participating in the 5th year of the annual event. It’s hard to say what incentives any of the resorts will be providing to get on snow, outside of some free rentals, lessons and a few parties. If nothing else, use this day as an extra kick in the pants to get out there and just ride for fun with your friends. Hopefully we’ll see some greater additions to WSD down the road.
Theory Skateboardings 5th full length video, By Mikey Pioggia and Rob Collins. Produced by Dan Dziuban and Frank Langone. Premiering at the West Springfield Cinemas on Thursday December 16th at 7pm. $10 at the door gets you a premier ticket and a copy of the DVD. You can’t beat that!
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The 2010 Rails to riches event at Killington (AKA THE BEAST) killed it, with a huge crowd and 60 competitors showing up, 30 riders and 30 Skiers. The weather was decent, with good snow and comfortable temps. For those who got cold, the event staff set up a couple of bonfires where people could warm up. The guys at Killington had a nasty setup including a straight downrail, a standard down-kink-down bar, and a down box with a good sized kink at the bottom. Dylan Dragotta of Burton snowboards destroyed it, taking first place and the $3k that comes with it, which he plans on spending on building his jeep and filming a new video part.
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Second place was taken by Shaun Murphy of Forum, followed closely by Tyler Lynch of Caked snowboards. For women, first was taken by Laura Rogoski with Meghan Dorsey and Cassandra Herbes com ing in second and Third, respectively. John “LJ” Strenio was named winner once again this year for the skiers. “I felt good, I was feeling real clean, this was the first comp of the year and I felt real comfortable, I got lucky…” said Strenio, talking about his riding in the event.
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The riders all seemed happy about the setup, with Shaun Murphy saying “the setup was super fun, you get to go back and forth from all three rails and all three rails were super solid, so it was really really fun”. Over all, the event went off without a hitch, awarding New England’s best riders and skiers with $15k total, which makes it the biggest Pro-Am event for the Early east coast season. All the skiers and riders that came out killed it, with a display of some of the best riding Steez magazine has seen in a long time. Check out the full event photos here.
This Friday December 10th, get yourself down to boston’s Royale Nightclub on Tremont St. for the Biggest Snow Party in the Northeast! There’s gonna be tons and I mean TONS of product giveaways throughout the night, music, go-go dancers, and REAL SNOW inside the club all night long. Don;t miss one of the biggest ever.
Those Bean boys know how to throw a party! I mean, “Part-A”. Last night Bean Snowboards premiered 3 new limited run artist collaboration decks at Good Life bar in downtown Boston. Artists Glenn LaGasse, Dana Woulfe and Nick Zaremba all hailing from Boston collaborated with Bean Snowboards for their first ever artist series boards. The premier brought out hundreds of snow fanatics and art enthusiasts alike for an awesome night on the town. Well done! When’s Part-B? Check out the boards and more from Bean snowboards here.
