Did Hospital Kill Teen For His Organs?

" An Ohio couple whose teenage son was injured in a snowboarding accident has filed a lawsuit, claiming his doctors harvested his organs before he was declared dead. Eighteen-year-old Gregory Jacobs, of...

New Burton Snowboards Feature Pictures of Nude Playboy Playmates

Burton Snowboards is introducing a new line of snowboards featuring images of vintage Playboy models. Burton's 2009 Coalition line of snowboards features a model called the "Love" that uses vintage Playboy...

Hangboarding: snowboarding reinvented

You have to see the video to fully comprehend this thing.  You're suspended in a harness a few inches above a snowboard as you fly down the mountain head-first.  It looks a little strange, but it does...

Find Price Drops on the Slopes via 'Liftopia'

They are not quite new kids on the block as Liftopia launched in November 2006. I just read about them on Springwise.  They provide fans of winter sports a window on discounts on lifts tickets at various resorts in the US.  For a test drive I did a search for Deals...

ESCAPE THE MUNDANE THIS SUMMER ON THE TOURPARTY SUMMER CAMPS & HOLIDAYS!

Whether you are a teenager looking to escape the boredom of the long Summer holidays or an adult wanting more than just a beach holiday this year. Tourparty (www.tourparty.com) has come up with the perfect...

High-tech Web site for the serious skier

Serious skiers now have a place to find accurate, current, even "live" information about their favorite Squaw Valley area slopes. The site is the brainchild of two brothers who became fed up with sifting through...

The History of Snowboarding in 2 Minutes (Video)

"Last month we reported on the best places to catch some early snow - this week we scrounged up a video of the history of snowboarding. Glen Lazzaro put together this great clip of how the sport got its start - click through for video"

Skiing Pyrenees Ski Languedoc

"The Pyrenees mountains rise like an enormous barrier, separating France and Spain. They stretch 430 kilometres from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean of Languedoc - and are older than the Alps. Unlike the Alps, they are home to very few great lakes, but have far more...

Flying Tomato has starring role at X Games XII

"Inside his personal tour bus, a vehicle that will chauffeur him around Los Angeles while he plays games on a PlayStation2, watches video feeds of practice runs and listens to Led Zeppelin on the surround-sound...

History of Snowboarding In The Olympics

Snowboarding is as popualr as ever, and the Olympics is showing why so many love the sport... "Snowboarding made its Olympic debut in the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan with a total of four competitions divided into two categories: men's & women's halfpipe and men's &...

The BIG SLIPPERY THIN ICE EDEN PROJECT QUIZ

   Have a go! : http://www.eden-project-insight.tk/ (Be prepared for surprises !) This also gives good reason to pause for thought: http://chrissie-wildwood.com/TEMPTATION-IN-EDEN aS dOES...

World Snowboard Invitational Begins at Whistler

250,000 visitors are expected to hit Whistler over the next 10 days to take in events connected to the World Snowboard Invitational. The event will feature the world's best snowboarders competing for a 50,000 prize. Organizers are happy to report that the snow conditions...

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