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Overview:

The Salomon Salvatore Sanchez is the reverse camber version of their popular Sanchez board.  The Salvatore Sanchez is a fun lightweight freestyle board with a very loose “skatey” feel.  The Salvatore is a true twin tip sporting Salomon’s fun and snappy Aspen Light Core and rubber dampening pads to help smooth out the bumps.  Retailing at $350 the Salvatore brings a lot of tech to the table for not a lot of cheese.

Props:

No surprises here, as a soft flexing reverse cambered freestyle board, the Salvatore really shines off the snow.  On metal, wood or plastic the Salvatore will have you spinning and sliding like a video star.

Knocks:

Like most reverse cambers I’ve ridden the Salvatore has a noticable lack of pop on ollies.  I also found the Salvatore to be a little too “loose” for my liking.  I had a hard time getting this board on edge when I needed to and sometimes felt downright out of control. 

Bottom Line:

The Salvatore is a fun playful board best suited to park rail and box sessions or urban rail assaults.  I’d have a hard time recommending this board as your go-to do-it-all everyday ride.

Thanks to Emo at Method Board Shop for the demo hook up.

Get more details at SalomonSnowboard.com

The Burton Snowboards and Teen Vogue Girls Night Out event is an exclusive engagement – if you want in you need RSVP to get your name on the list. To get hooked up, email: rsvpNYC@burtonsnowboards.com

For more info call: 212-966-8070 or visit Burtonsnowboards.com

Chill Foundation Benefit Concert and Fashion Show

Featuring P. SO (formerly P. CASSO)
The Bloodsugars

Sounds by DJGETLIVE!

Public Assembly 70 North 6th Street Brooklyn
$15 Donation.  Doors open at 8

$10 Snowboard and Mountain Creek Season Pass Raffle
Product Giveaways

Sponsored by: Burton Snowboards, TransWorld Snowboarding Magazine, NY Snowboarding Group and Mountain Creek

Ready and Waiting

Your name doesn’t have to be Storm Fields to tell that it’s been unseasonably warm here in the Northeast this fall.  Today several resorts including; Okemo, Mount Snow and Waterville Valley announced the postponement of their opening days due to warm weather.  Meanwhile, areas like Summit County in Colorado, Mammoth, Mt. Baker and even Mountain High and Bear Mountain in California have been experiencing some of the best early season conditions in years.  Where’s the justice?

Apparently, I’m not alone in my frustrations.   I had to smile when I came across this recent resort update from Mountain Creek, NJ’s new snow reporter, Halley O’Brien yesterday:

You know… It really bothers us when we hear someone refer to this weather as “beautiful.” Stop right there, Mr. Summerlover – this weather is NOT “beautiful.” To us skiers and snowboarders, it’s downright torturous. Those of us at Mountain Creek are over this “beautiful” warm weather thing.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself Halley.  Bring on the snow!

The DH 2.3, featuring the work of talented designer and illustrator, Shawn O’Keefe. Hailing from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, O’Keefe possesses a history of screen-printing mastery, love for graffiti and a passion for fine art. Shawn’s graphics showcase his truly original style.

Driven by design and music, O’Keefe is living out his dream as he continues to pursue new ground as a painter, working both as a solo artist and as a founding member of the Woodpile Collective. Check out the video and bio to learn more about Shawn O’Keefe.

Get one before it’s too late at an authorized Ride dealer near you.

About the DH2 Limited Artist Series
Each DH2 board in the series features the distinctive work of influential artists as well as Ride’s most innovative board technologies.

The DH2 series features Ride’s new LowRize™ rocker profile with LowRize™ specific sidecut, built to lock in landings and eliminate hook. This twin also combines our exclusive Membrain® top sheet, Pop Stixs™ and 85A Slimewalls® for a one-of-a-kind freestyle Ride that’s ideal for going big.

Ridesnowboards.com

By: Press Release

Getting there is half the fun.   Unless the “there” doesn’t matter, then just getting becomes all the fun.  When your whole shred trip is a road trip, it can be a great adventure, but at the same time, spending more time traveling than riding can be a tough ratio at times.

      With a loose plan put in place and an end-point to reach, the Rome team jumped in the van in British Columbia last season and headed East across Canada to shred, meet some shops and have a good time together. Below is the first in a handful of interview recaps on the FuGnar adventure. We decided to start at the source with Team Manager/Filmer John Cavan and get his thoughts on the trip. Enjoy! 
 

Breakdown the main idea behind the cross Country adventure? 

The main idea behind the FuGnar trip was, since we weren’t making a movie, a good road trip through Canada, taking our time and really riding where we wanted to ride with the locals would be an awesome way to keep everyone riding together.  Also it would be a great way to check out places we hadn’t been much. We kind of had to change the trip a bit to meet certain needs and time deadlines so… that added with some of the weather issues we faced made it so it didn’t turn out exactly how we wanted, but we still had a blast and I’m stoked to have done it. 
 

Best day of the trip if you had to pick one? 

I think for me one of the best days of the trip was probably at Kicking Horse. We had the entire crew there so we had a big train of riders bombing around the hill and everyone seemed to be having fun. We found this natural jump over some rocks that played out well, and we also found some hidden pow slashes here and there that were fun. The best part about Kicking Horse was that we found these long gully runs that were a blast to work, so it made for a great day. I think we all had a really good time together whether it was messing around in the gondola, or sitting in the snow waiting for someone to get a shot. That night I think we all had a great dinner in town and we played a game of credit card roulette that may not have ended up so well for one of the riders. 
 

Worst day of the trip? 

The worst day of the trip for me was when we got to Ottawa, We were just fried…The drive had been hellacious, everyone was cranky, we hadn’t gotten too many shots, and then when we got to Ottawa there was no snow so we couldn’t really do anything on all of the spots we had scoped out. Also LNP’s bags got lost and we apparently had some shop visits we were supposed to go to. Basically at this point everyone wanted to leave, but I guess it’s to be expected when you pack that many people in a car and send it across the country that fast. All in all it could have been a lot worse. 
 

For the rest of John Cavans interview on the FuGnar adventure, check out www.romesnowboards.com.  
 

For more news and Rome SDS happenings keep an eye on www.romesnowboards.com, www.facebook.com/romesnowboards and www.twitter.com/romesds.

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On November 28th, skiers and riders can strut their stuff at The Killarney What-I-Learned-This-Summer Rail Jam.  This competition, open to skiers and snowboarders of all ages and encourages participants to showcase the new tricks they learned over the summer.  The entry fee is $20.  Registration is scheduled from 8 to 10 a.m. in the Okemo Clock Tower Base Lodge mezzanine.  The competition starts at 11 a.m. and the best trick wins $200.

Okemo.com

Check out the full version of STANCE staring: Gretchen Bleiler, Hana Beaman, Kimmy Fasani, Lisa Filzmoser, Jenny Jones, Torah Bright and Raewyn Reed.

www.stancemovie.com