When we first saw the ads for Recon Instrument’s in-goggle gps heads-up display, we were salivating at the prospects.  We could just imagine tearing down the mountain with Terminator vision ticking off our location, speed, and altitude as our headphones blared GNR – because we’re old school like that. At the time, you had to buy the GPS/display unit from… [read article]

(Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)   Is Shaun White losing his mojo?  Clearly, White has not lost a step on the snow, where it really matters, but a recent celebrity E-Poll has the X-Games superstar on its list of biggest decliners in terms of popularity. The poll, which is collected weekly and based on surveys of 1100 consumers, measures ‘appeal, cuteness,… [read article]

  We’re not really sure what’s more amazing here: the crazy survivalist splitboard snowboard that splits into not only skis for backcountry ascents – but also a shovel for digging out snow caves; or the awesome life that the guys at Signal Snowboard are living. The video above shows the dreaming up, creation, and riding of the crazy Swiss-army-board.  It’s… [read article]

(Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)   Oh, Shaun, why are you always out there thrashing other people’s dreams?  Shaun White: Doesn’t like giving competitors goldz. The X-Games, which evidently travels from country to country like a wandering, Go-Pro powered Gypsy carnival, landed this past week in Tignes, France. Snowboarding wunderkind Shaun White heard there might be some delicious goldz given… [read article]

  There he is… THERE!!! It’s the Abominable Snowman, get him! Looking like a cross between the Abominable Snowman and the dudes from Daft Punk, snowboarder William Hughes was caught riding in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France by filmaker Jacob Sutton.  The project was actually Sutton’s brainchild, created as an experimental take on alternate lighting. It wasn’t all fun and games though…. [read article]

(Photo by Rich Lam/Getty Images)   The votes have been tallied and we have our winners in the January USOC Athlete of the Month poll and, as it turns out, it helps to be from sports that have lots of viewers. On the men’s side, snowboarding superstar Shaun White took the top honor after winning his fifth consecutive X-Games superpipe… [read article]

(Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)   The Winter X-Games wrapped up on Sunday and Shaun White won his fifth consecutive gold in the superpipe, but there were a ton of other events as well.  That got us thinking:  What would you do if you could compete in the Winter X-Games?  Race like a bro’ed out NASCAR rider in Snowboarder X?… [read article]

  Oh, Shaun, is there anything twisty in the air you can’t do?  Last night at the 2012 Winter X-Games in sunny Aspen (Where the beer flows like wine…), Shaun White won his fifth consecutive X-Games gold in the superpipe – and did so by scoring the first ever perfect 100 in competition. He also did so while wearing the pants… [read article]

  Wow.  Somebody wasn’t thinking. If anyone was watching football last night you might have noticed the new Bing commercial with snowboarder Kevin Pearce.  In the commercial, part of the ‘Bing is for doing’ campaign, Pearce talks about his injury after a crash – and his two year rehabilitation.  But here’s the thing:  Pearce crashed on the same superpipe, Eagle… [read article]

  Behold!  In just 60 seconds, through the magic of interwebs-o-vision, you too can witness the passing of 18 days as the goodly snowelves of Copper Mountain build this incredible contraption. This twenty-two foot superpipe is constructed and painstakingly crafted by molding and shaping great mounds of snow with the delicate, earth rumbling motions of giant Snow-Cats (seen here –… [read article]