Upcoming Events!

Hello out there in Internet world... The snowboard industry has a lot going on in the next few months so hope you have some travel funds saved up because some of these events you do not want to miss. Actually, I'm just excited there are still major events going on with all of the sponsors dropping like flies and contests being cancelled! Gotta keep the spirit up and show up to these events! Anyways.... Some to check out:

Waterville Valley, NH turns pink: for the 4th year, Waterville turns pink to support Boarding for Breast Cancer on Super bowl Sunday, Feb 1st. There's a "pink rail jam" sponsored by Oakley, raffles to win all sorts of goodies. In the last 3 years, Waterville Valley has raised $20,000 in it's support. So get out there and go pink!

Red Bull Snowscrapers, NYC: Thursday, February 5th 2009: 16 amazing riders will descend upon the East River Park in New York City to compete for 850 TTR ranking points and a beefy $100 000 prize purse in what is sure to be a throw down of epic proportions. Bundle up, it is supposed to snow that night! Gates open at 3pm.

Red Bull Buttercup; Mount Snow: Feb 28th head North to Mount Snow for the newest contest series on the east coast. " Red Bull has built a super fun, custom butterpad that will be traveling to each resort in the series. Set at the base of your local mountain, under the lights after the lifts are closed, Red Bull Buttercup is all about how much style you can spread onto the butterpad. Jib, bonk, tap and slide your way across the multi-featured pad however you like, just make sure you lay it on with a lot of smooth buttering." Winning finals could make you $1,000 richer. Get that paper.

And the biggest snowboarding event on the east coast is Burton's US Open. Taking place March 16-22nd at Stratton Mountain, VT. Always a good time, outstanding riders and parties that seem to last for daysssssssssss.

Red Bull Snow Scrapers

On February 5th, 2009 head down to New York City to watch 16 of the world's best snowboarders (including Shaun White, Travis Rice and Pat Moore) compete on the banks of the East River. This will be the largest snowboarding contest held in an urban setting in North America with a $100,000 prize purse! This also includes top music acts (they have yet to announce them) and a spectator village.

Snowboard-mag.com has this to say about the set up of the contest, "For the first-time ever, Red Bull will create an amazing 90-foot state-of-the-art structure for top riders to own the iconic Manhattan skyline. The athlete’s will drop in from a nine-story building before flying off the specially constructed kicker toward an immense 80-foot long hip. The innovative hip built by world-renowned designers Frank Wells and Mike Bettera of Snow Park Technology allows riders multiple angles of trajectory— frontside or backside, landing on either the right or left side of the massive 45-degree spine."

Holy cow. This is going to be intense and awesome to be a part of. And yours truly has media passes coming her way so please believe I will post all of the pictures and awesomeness from this event! Make plans to head to the big apple, you don't want to miss this!

For more information please visit RedBullSnowscrapers.com. or ttrworldtour.com