Shaun White Rocks the Pipe (photo by http://www.dailymail.co.uk)
Snowboard Olympics
Mens US Team has dominated so far the snowboard scene. Seth Wescott won the gold medal in Snowboard Cross followed by the Canadian Mike Robertson and the French Tony Ramoin. In mens Half Pipe the big air astronaut Shaun White blasted the track and the fans to oblivion…. Really, once again he was too good to be true!!! Hew was seconded by the Finn Piiroinen Peetu and followed by the Yank Lago Scott
In Women’s Snowboard Cross the Canadian Maelle Ricker won the gold medal, seconded by the French Deborah Anthonioz and followed by the Swiss Olivia Nobs. In Half Pipe […which we did not see as there was Figure Skating (Bliax!!!) on TV] the gold medal goes to the Australian Torah Bright (… interesting!! goes well with White as a surname), seconded by the American Hanah Tetter and followed by the American Kelly Clark
Ski Olympics
Whomen’s Downhill and Super Combined… Now that was SUPER interesting… In a difficult track when the others were trying to put their feet together Lyndsey Vonn was flying low winning finally the gold medal. Maria Riesch after a speedy run lost balance in the final jump of the track and fell loosing her place in podium. In Super Combined the story was reversed… Lyndsey Vonn, racing after Maria Riesch, lost balance and fell leaving Riech alone in the podium. Julia Mancuso comes back strong winning the silver medals in both (!!!) races
In mens downhill Didier Defago after a fantastic race wins the race leaving the other two places in Aksel Lund Svindal and Bode Miller. In Super G the deck is shuffled a bit with Aksel Lund Svindal flied to the first place, with 0.28 sec difference, leaving the second and third places for the Yanks Bode Miller and Andrew Weibrecht. Our favorite moment of the race the moment that the Italian Christof Innerhofer avoided falling with an acrobatic move finishing just +o.11 from Bode… Nice going man!!!
Garcia on Santa Cruz!!!
One of our Icon riders Cendric Garcia’s CG Racing Brigade will be racing this season with Santa Cruz bikes (… not so favorite… we are Yeti Heads if you remember). Good Luck this season!!!
The Season
We like the season!!! Favorite episode the one with Jonaven Moore. check weekly updates on Arcteryx website and here for past episodes. Bonus! you can download the mp3’s if you like the season soundtrack
Arc’teryx Gloves Microsite
we like this microsite. Nice new opening for Arcteryx with interesting designs
Marmot Spring Website Update
Spring Update for Marmot website. The race for lighter holds well. New MemBrain Sawtooth with waterproof fabric
Animated Knots
We like this site with animated knots by Grog. From climbing to decorative to rope care.
Path Rider 