RESORT BLOG

Snowrev.com at Baqueira-Beret Snow Resort - Snowrev Crew spent a blast at Baqueira-Beret. Baqueira-Beret is a great resort situated in the Valley of Aran in Cataluña. It is very famous; it’s where the Royal Family of Spain and the High Class of Spain spend his vacation.

The resort has 104 km of slopes, the highest point at 2510mtrs and the lowest at 1500mtrs. There are 33 trails and the resort is open from December until March. Depends on the conditions the ticket is around $42.

Valle Nevado Resort is located in Santiago, Chile and is the Largest Skiable Acreage in the Southern Hemisphere - 23,000-acre total surface area. It has 23 miles of trails on snow that is appropriate for all levels and preferences and it is all fit into a natural environment that allows you to enjoy clear, sunny days more than 80% of the time. Top it all off with excellent snow quality due to the orientation and altitude of the resort. There is just no comparison! The most daring skiers and snowboarders will also find that Valle Nevado is leading the way in Latin America due to the fact that we have a Snow Park for jumps and free-style and a Half Pipe that has enabled us to become the only site in the Southern Hemisphere for the World Cup of Snowboard.

The Canyon side of Mammoth Mountain is officially closed. That also means that South Park/ Chair 4 Park is also closed and the film crews begin their private sessions. The park crew at Mammoth built a really sick feature for today’s session and The Autumn Line film crew was there to hit it. We were stoked to be invited to film for a quick teaser of what went down. Gabe Taylor, Greg Hahn, Doug Mercer, Johnny Centi, Kimmy Fasani, Bobby George, and a few other riders showed up to session this kicker. The session was awesome.

JOHN CENTI Photo by Julien Lecorps

Gabe Taylor was definitely killing it. He landed a bunch of tricks while filming his part in the new film by Autumn Line productions.

Snowboard Revolution Founder and Owner John Centi sessioning the jump with the pros. He landed a bunch of tricks and you will be able to see them in the Mammoth Theatre: Chair 4.

Travis White handplants the Canyon Lodge halfpipe, CLOSING DAY!

MAMMOTH THEATRE: MAIN PARK
Mammoth Theatre: 4/25/07. Spring time in Main Park. Riding by Lonnie Kauk, Joe Carter, Mac Spedale, Matty Mo, Javier Silva, Danny Thomas, Derek Shea, Mark Ankenbauer, Eric Meyers, Taylor Guccione, Cornell Agee, Neiko Volpa, Gabe Taylor, Tyler Flanagan. Music: PENNYWISE Unknown Road

“Yea! “ “Awesome!” “waa hoo!” are many of the words that get tossed around “The Lake” as cheezy as it sounds, it’s hard to resist hollering out in shouts of sheer joy when touring around Lake Louise with friends. Lake Louise is only 1 hour west of Banff and has one of the bet views in the Bow Valley. The Terrain at Lake Louise has pretty much everything you could ever want, steep lines, cliff drops, park laps and punter runs. With 7 lifts spread over one and a half mountains you’ll only have to come here once to see it’s the best resort in the Rockies!! Thanks to Rebeckah Hornung, Jen Dykstra and The Resorts of The Canadian Rockies our time at Lake Louise was totally awesome.

Check out a snowEDUCATION with Tim Nelson from Lake Louise park HERE

Snowshoe is the largest resort in the southeast and is different than most
resorts in that everything is at the top of the mountain. There are many
dining, shopping, nightlife, and lodging choices to choose from. The riding
is a lot of fun, there is many natural features to ride and there are 2
parks with table tops, rails, boxs.

180 inches average annual snowfall
4,848 foot summit elevation
1,500 feet vertical drop
Longest run: 1.5 miles
100% snowmaking
57 slopes and trails (41% easier, 36% more difficult, 23% most
difficult)
14 slopes open for night skiing
14 lifts include 2 high speed detachable quads, 2 handle tows
and Magic Carpet lift

22,900 people/hour total lift capacity

Resorts now have a blog where they can post there upcoming events, press releases, resort updates, news and more. This is a blog dedicated to resorts that allow Snowboarding which pretty much includes them all. If there are any resorts that don’t allow snowboarding move on to another blog. This one is for the true resorts.

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Photo Credit: Josh Spaulding
VIDEO: CLICK HERE

STORY:
Suburban Blend, The Boardroom, Phatman and many more snowboard shops showed up at Holiday Valley for the Western New York regional shop wars. The teams were throwing down and everyone had a great time. Chris Perks and the park staff put together a dope slopestyle course that put the teams to the test.

The Slopestyle Course:

1st Obstacles: Left Side Flat Down Box, Right Side Down Rail

2nd Obstacles: Left Side 15 foot kicker, Right Side 20 foot kicker

3rd Obstacles: Left Side 20 Foot Kicker, Right Side 25 foot kicker

4th Obstacles: Left Side Down Flat Down Rail, Right Side Flat Down Rail

Shops Entered-

The Boardroom
Mud Sweat N Gears
245 Snowboard Shop
Ski Chalet
Sliders
The Shop @ Swain
Curleys
Suburban Blend
The City Garage

RESULTS
Ski Division
1st Mud Sweat N Gears
2nd The Shop @ Swain
3rd The City Garage

Board
1st Phatman
2nd The Boardroom
3rd The Shop @ Swain
Disqualified for not wearing helmets: Suburban Blend

This competition will be for snowboarders only on March 10th at Peek’n Peak Resort in Findley Lake, NY. There will be an entry fee of $3 which will go to Habitat for Humanity. Registration 9am-11am in the Retreat Lodge. Contest will start at 11:30 at the top of the Doncaster jumps.

There will be a male and female division. Children ages twelve and older will be accepted and there will be set age ranges for the competition to keep it competitive. They will be 12-15, 16-18, 19-29, & 30 and up. Each competitor under eighteen will need a parent or guardian to sign a release form. Competitors eighteen and older will also need to sign release forms. Helmets are required for all competitors.

The event will be held on Doncaster Jumps Rails and Boxes. Prizes include snowboards and gear.
Sponsors include:Buffalo Wild Wings Bar & Grill, Bay City Orthocare, Karbon, and ROME Snowboards
All images from the evemt will be posted on the Peekn.com user forum

NAME: Killington
Web: www.killington.com
Season: Nov-April
Tickets: All day $72
Vertical Drop: 3050′
Top Elevation: 4241′
Terrain Parks: 5
Superpipe: 1
Lifts: 33 total + 1 HALFPIPE ROPE TOW
Acres: 1209
Snowfall: 250 inches
Parks: 7 out of 10
Terrain: 7 out of 10
Town: 6 out of 10
Vibe: 9 out of 10
Who you might see: Killington mountain school kids, Darkside Snowboard Shop Team, Lucas Magoon
CLOSEST SNOWBOARD SHOP: Darkside Snowboard Shop

NAME: Cockaigne
Web: www.cockaigne.com
Season: Nov-April
Tickets: All day $34, 1/2 Day $28
Vertical Drop: 1000
Top Elevation: 2100
Terrain Parks: 1
Superpipe: 0
Lifts: 4 total: 3 Lifts, 1 handle bars
Acres: .34
Snowfall: 275 Inches
Parks: 4 out of 10
Terrain: 6 out of 10
Town: 4 out of 10
Vibe: 9 out of 10
Who you might see: Jamestown Riders, Western New York up and coming rippers, Low key Lake Effect Powder Blasters
CLOSEST SNOWBOARD SHOP: Suburban Blend

Cockaigne is more than the Western New York legend. Its where the entire Revolution began for the founder and owner of Snowboard Revolution Johnny Centi. Back in the day when John was a wee little one he rode with the Cockaigne Snowboard Posse, an innovative young group of rebellions that raised hell at Cockaigne. This place is a build your own and get creative kind of reort. There are a ton of natural jib features and a ton of lake effect snow that falls every few weeks. This resort quite possibly gets the most snow in New York state. So if you want to get creative, ride a ton of snow, and experience an East Coast resort with mad snowboard history ride Cockaigne and ride the Legend.