If you’re heading up to Snowbird tomorrow to see the North Face Masters you also might want to check out Avalanche Rescue Awareness Day. Watch avalanche rescue dogs do their thing. Practice with your beacon and more. Here are the details:
01/31/2009 – 11:00am
01/31/2009 – 2:00pm
Location:
Snowbird-Rescue Training Center-Entry 4
Come and watch world renowned avalanche dogs and handlers train for real life snow safety techniques.
Rescue Dog Search Demo
Recco Detector Search Demo
Locator Search and Instruction
Shoveling and Probing Search Instruction
Air Med Helicopter Long Range Reciever Search Demo
With 30 inches in 2 days, we decided to take the morning off of work and get after it. First we hit up Millicent at Brighton and then shot over to Solitude for a couple of runs “near” Summit. Good times.
Well the parks are up and running at the resorts and everyone is having a good old time hucking, bonking, and sliding all the goodies that the crews have built. But, you might need a refresher course in the Smart Style program of Terrain Park safety and ettiquette. Watch this video about how to behave in the park:
Don’t miss all the LIVE competition action at 10th anniversary Burton European Open, January 14-16, Laax, Swtizerland.
Featuring the men’s and women’s halfpipe and slopestlye semi finals and finals, this will be some of the best riding of the season! And with cool interactive technologies, this is your chance to join the Burton Global Open Series online community and talk with the commentators, check out rider bios, send questions to your favorite riders, and chat with other webcast spectators from around the globe.
This is also your chance to win one of 4 BGOS prize packs that will be given out during each of the BGOS webcasts. Everyone that watches and enters to win, will also be automatically entered to win a grand prize of $500 worth of Burton product to be awarded after the US Open. Tune in to the BEO webcast for more details on how to enter!
So don‘t miss, Shaun White (USA), Peetu Piiroinen (FIN), Andy Finch (USA), Antti Autti (FIN), David Benedek (GER), Kevin Pearce (USA), Mikkel Bang (NOR), Jamie Anderson (USA), Jenny Jones (GBR), Kelly Clark (USA), Silvia Mittermüller (GER), and Cheryl Maas (NED) duke it out for a piece of the US$125,000 prize purse and valuable 6Star TTR points.
Check out specific webcast dates and times for your time zone below. And for anyone that misses the live webcasts or the daily replays, both highlights of the winning runs and the full webcasts will be available for on-demand viewing after the event is over on www.go211.com and back to back replays of the entire webcasts will take place starting at 3:30pmEST / 12:30pmPST / 21:30CET/ on Tuesday, January 20 or 5:30JST / 9:30NZST / 7:30EDT or Wednesday, January 21.
I stopped by the Slug Games at Brighton today. I got there a little late because I spent the morning teaching my 3 year old how to shred, and then the lunch hours riding with my 14 year old neighbor. The Candyland Jam seemed well attended by groms, but, I ran into some friends and everyone seemed to be having fun. Check back here or check out Slugmag.com for the results.
A critical need exists for basic avalanche education for all ski and snowboarders in Utah.
Just as students in Hawaii learn about the dangers of rip tides and shore breaks at an early age, snow sports enthusiasts in Utah need to learn about snow safety and avalanches.The rising number of avalanche victims have demonstrated an obvious need for basic avalanche education.
“Know Before You Go” is a free 50-minute presentation from the Utah Avalanche Center.
We hope you and your friends and family can join us for this very important discussion.
Tuesday, January 6
7:00 pm
Canyon Sports
517 South 200 West
After the presentation we would like to encourage you to have dinner at Red Rock Brewing Company, you’ll receive a complimentary appetizer with your dinner purchase and you can try the “Avalanche” brew.A portion of the proceeds of your dinner will be donated to the Utah Avalanche Center for all their hard work in keeping us on top of the snow!
Not sure why you should attend this? Check out the latest from the Utah Avalanche Center:
