Word: snowboarding
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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...
...Snowboard fashion, both male and female, is hot, and so, believe it or not, is snowboard literature. Surfing the Himalayas, a vapid, new-age novella written by Frederick Lenz (a discredited guru once known as Rama), is surfing the best-seller lists. The book tells of how a snowboarder and a monk known as Master Fwap come to a mutual understanding after the rider knocks the monk down. In that regard, the book mirrors the new age on the slopes. "The war is over," says Bob Gillen, the marketing director for Stowe. "There is peace in our time...
That comes as a great relief to Paul Graves, a 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...
...greedsters, says all that is necessary about the author's view of government. Hiaasen's shabby secret, however (so the reader guesses), is that he loves his state's stupefying cheesiness, and wouldn't move to Vermont if you gave him the Trapp Family Lodge and a brand new snowboard...
Besides the usual recipients of funds in the biannual appropriation--including various campus ethnic groups, political organizations and student publications--the council awarded $15 to the Harvard Zoso Club for Led Zeppelin appreciation and $86.95 to the Harvard Snowboarding Club for the purchase of a snowboard...