What's That? An Event At Meadows!?

New Year's Eve Party in the Park Progression Session

Still don't have plans for New Year's Eve? You could do worse than stopping by Mt. Hood Meadows. First of all, remember the feet of snow in the last couple days? Well, they're running the lifts until midnight, so you can make sure Two Bowl is extra mogul-ed out. If you get tired at any point and you're of-age, they have live music in the Vertical bar with The Essentials. Apparently who they are "the top rated dance party band on the west coast" (their words, not mine).

But wait, there's more! Just because you're young doesn't mean you have to totally miss out on an otherwise over-21 holiday. Meadows is hosting a rail jam in the Shipyard park. The name of the game seems to be 'free stuff.' For the crowd, for the groms, for people who like to wander and watch fireworks and maybe even for whoever wins the "slow-down throw-down." Seriosly, hoo wrights thiz stoughf?

If you've got mad rail skills and no New Year agenda, assemble your crew and get to Meadows. Leave without prizes and you only have yourself to blame.

Strange News in Mt. Hood Meadows Snowboarder Death

A week ago, 15-year-old Ilya P. Sirosh of Portland died at Meadows. Now, the Oregon medical examiners office is saying that he did not die from injuries and that he had no known medical conditions. Here's hoping the family can get some closure on this soon.

Link: Oregonian

Portland Snowboarder Dies at Mt. Hood Meadows

This from the Oregonian:

Ilya P. Sirosh was found lying face-down in snow by ski patrol staff clearing the slopes about 9:25 p.m. near the North Canyon trail at Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort, said Detective Matt English, a sheriff's spokesman.

Autopsy results were not immediately available. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

Subaru Log Jib

You might have thought Ken Block and the DC team were the only ones combining snowboarding and rally racing. You were wrong. This from Wyatt Knox and his front-wheel drive 1992 Subaru Legacy:



I hate to think what's next. Here's hoping this doesn't spawn any freestyle rallycross events. Head over to Wyatt's blog and let him know what you think and stay tuned to Bored Yak for more winter driving tips.

Capita 10-Year Anniversary Party

I didn't even know I was on the Capita mailing list, but look would showed up in my inbox today.

I'm powerless to regurgitate releases

Supersuckers, two shred flix, pros and does that say "10 G's worth of free stuff from our friends"? That's a lot of free stuff. Sounds like a hell of a night. If only I could get Capita to bring their boards to my local demo day. Hint mutherfukkin hint