Word: blackcomb
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Robert Shaw, the public relations director at Blackcomb, near Vancouver, Canada, estimates that snowboarders provide 40% of the business there. French ski giant Rossignol-Dynaster has seen its snowboard production increase 100% in the past three years, and according to product manager Jean-Karl Carpano of Rossignol, "We could see every other person on a snowboard by 2005." There are some isolated ski areas that prohibit snowboarding, but the vast majority caters to the ever increasing numbers of boarders who want to tweak the halfpipes and bonk some fat air (ride the parabolic-shaped chutes and hit a really good...
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