Saturday arrived in Denver (despite a couple late nights) and day 3 continued with the tradition of waking up early, meeting with companies at appointments and hanging out with fun people during the show. I was able to have a break on Saturday for lunch but met with companies from 9am to almost 7pm which [...]
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SIA 2010: Day 3
January 31st, 2010SIA 2010: Day 2
January 30th, 2010So far Denver has kept up with the parties, fun and products that the SIA show brings for the industry each year. Day 2 for me was a personal triumph with a late night out on the town the night before and a little over 2 hours of sleep but adrenaline kept me alive all [...]
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January 29th, 2010At age 23, Hannah Teter has quite the track record for snowboarding and humanity. She’s already won a Gold Medal in the 2006 Olympics and her ventures have taken her into the public eye with appearances on late night television, her own Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor and she continues her charity work to [...]
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January 29th, 2010Today is the beginning of four days of fun, products and people at the SIA Snow Show in Denver. SIA is an industry only event which means you’ll get the most influential people to snowboarding in one building and access to all of the 10-11 gear that will be hitting the sales floors in the [...]
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January 28th, 2010The time has arrived and despite a very busy schedule Hannah Teter picked a winner in the ask Hannah Teter a question to win a AMP Snowboard Contest! All you had to do was ask Hannah a question and if she picked your question to answer then you are the winner of a new AMP [...]
Read More... | 5 CommentsSIA 2010: Arrival
January 27th, 2010Instead of the typical flight to SIA, this year I just needed to hit the highway and drive 3 hours to Denver. Luckily I could overpack, bring groceries and never miss my flight. I left Steamboat later than expected but still made it to Denver with plenty of time to run errands before checking into [...]
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January 27th, 2010The moment has finally arrived and I’ll be making my way down to the SIA Snow Show in Denver, Colorado. Even though it begins tomorrow at 9am, I’m happy to head down early today to check into my hotel room and get the fun started the right way. What you’ll see is 6 whirlwind days [...]
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January 26th, 2010There’s still a couple of sierra snowboard members/staff in town so today I was able to take my ride break and join some of the crew for shred time. Since the arrival of sierrasnowboard, it’s been snowing in town which is helping the mountain look more like Steamboat again. Sierrasnowboard continues with the collaboration boards [...]
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January 26th, 2010A couple weeks ago when Idea Mensch approached me about an interview for their website, I immediately headed to their website to see what it was about. I soon found out that there motto, “Featuring people with good ideas from all over the Internet” crossed many borders throughout the webosphere and to be one of [...]
Read More... | 3 CommentsReview: Pom Pom “Pocket Rocket” Rub-on Wax
January 26th, 2010Intended Purpose: The Pocket Rocket Rub-on wax is an all-temperature rub-on wax that you can carry with you on the slopes or keep by your board for those days when you forgot to wax your board but are going out to shred anyway. Smell: Pom Pom wins me over at the smell test, hands down [...]
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