Archive for December, 2009
Dumping in town. 7″-13″ expected at Meadows.
Posted onDec 29, 2009 by Landon.
I was surprised to look outside my office today and notice white stuff falling from the skies. I let Allie out to play in the back yard and it just started coming down super hard. Within 2 hours everything was totally covered with snow. The deck and stairs are hard to even find and it [...]
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Sugar coating the goods.
Posted onDec 28, 2009 by Landon.
A few weeks ago, myself and a few good friends were watching the snow report for Mt. Hood Meadows. We checked the NOAA report, along with snow-forecast and we cherry picked the day we thought would be the sickest of the storm. NOAA was reporting 2-3 feet, while snow-forecast was reporting less then 1 foot [...]
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2010 ASP World Tour and ASP Women’s World Tour Schedules Released
Posted onDec 28, 2009 by Landon.
With a historic 2009 coming to a close, the 2010 ASP schedule has been released and will mark some major shifts in venues and dates in order to ensure that the world’s best surfers battle one another in the world’s best waves. “2010 will mark some major changes for professional surfing and the schedule reflects [...]
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More Massive Surf
Posted onDec 08, 2009 by Landon.
This is a big week for the surf on the North Shore of Oahu. We’ve started to see the first part of a massive two-day swell generated by Typhoon Nida in the Western Pacific followed by more swell, and then more. It’s been forecasted that the waves this week will be the largest surf to [...]
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Eddie Might Go
Posted onDec 08, 2009 by Landon.
WAIMEA HITS 40-FEET, QUIKSILVER READIES FOR TOMORROW Australian Legend Carroll Suffers Serious Injury, Now Out. Contestants of the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau, fueled by Monster Energy, were calling the waves at Waimea Bay today bigger than any contested the past three times this event ran. But organizers opted to employ patience and wait [...]
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Big Tuesday Night-ish
Posted onDec 07, 2009 by Landon.
Hawaii got pounded with swell over the weekend. They are seeing the largest surf then they have seen in over ten years. Forecasting swell reports are predicting up to 50 foot waves in the outer reefs of Hawaii on Monday-Tuesday. Just in time for the Eddie too, which might be on tomorrow. We should be [...]
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Northwest Snowboards
Posted onDec 04, 2009 by Landon.
My good friend and fellow snow-shredder Jon Schurke, just designed and developed the new website for Northwest Snowboards. It just re-launched about a month or so ago, right around the same time as Northwest boarder went live. So I challenged Jon to a google search war for the term Northwest snowboards. Granted they have the [...]
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A wee bit nipply in the northwest this week
Posted onDec 04, 2009 by Landon.
This morning was just a tad bit chilly out there. Everything was frozen with a white glaze crusted over it. In some spots where the sun was just starting to show it’s face, you could see steam evaporating into the air like it was coming out of a tea kettle. I could even see the [...]
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The First Step On The Road To The Olympics
Posted onDec 04, 2009 by Landon.
As reported on TransWorld SNOWboarding’s official Web site: If you remember, a while back we filled you in on Olympic eligibility. The Grand Prix is the U.S. Olympic qualifying series, but in order to to compete in the Olympics, everyone needs a top 30 finish in one World Cup event between September 2008 and January [...]
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Sunny Garcia going for his 7th triple crown win at 39 years of age
Posted onDec 01, 2009 by Landon.
Garcia’s power was on par with that of the new swell, looking comfortable and focused in the expansive lineup that wreaked havoc with many less-seasoned competitors. Garcia caught a total of four rides during the 30-minute heat, with top scores of 9.5 and 5.5, each out of a possible 10. He looked every bit of [...]
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Big surf in store for the final leg of the ASP surfing tour. Go Mick!
Posted onDec 01, 2009 by Landon.
El Nino is bringing on some really big surf on the final leg of the 2009 world tour in Hawaii. It’s been a really exciting year to watch so far. Joel Parkinson came out of the gates with a bang in the first half of the season, followed by Mick Fanning tearing through the second [...]
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