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...American snowboarding participants have quadrupled in the past four years from 500,000 to two million, and they currently account for 12.7% of all lift tickets. Because the number of skiers has declined in recent years, the snowball effect of boarders has come as welcome news to both ski resorts and manufacturers...
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...
...snowboarding pioneer from Redding, Vermont, who has been fighting an uphill fight for 32 years. "In the early days," says Graves, "back when we were riding these primitive things called snurfers, skiers looked on us as lepers. I remember being escorted off Mammoth Mountain in California by the ski patrol and told never to come back." This week Mammoth is host to a special snowboard competition for women. At the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, in 1998, snowboarding will be introduced as a medal sport. (Park City, Utah, the site of Alpine events in the 2002 Winter Games, still bans...
...brutality and terror to drive Muslims out of his lands. But last week it was clear that his authority as voice of his people was at an end. He could barely command the attention of a group of fellow Bosnian Serbs at a strategy meeting in Pale, the shabby ski resort outside Sarajevo that he made his headquarters...
...adventure ended up turning out for the best, the student says, as she went with her host family on a ski trip to New Hampshire...