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A TRUE SUCCESS STORY - ENNI RUKAJARVI CELEBRATES HER SWATCH TTR WORLD CHAMPION TITLE
29 Mar 2010

Mammoth, USA – March 28th 2010: This winter the 19-year old rookie from Finland, Enni Rukajärvi took the snowboarding world by storm by appearing almost out of thin air and dominating the top slopestyle events. Fresh from finishing high school, she begun competing a few years prior at her home mountain and it became clear that she had a talent.  more >>

Features


Snow covered temple - Nozawa Onsen Japan 2012 - The Rediscovery Tour
13 Jan 2012

Father It’s been 3 years since my last confession and these are my sins!

I took the money!

I succumbed to the evil lies of the suits.

They spoke of responsibility, family, maturity, mortgages and leases.

They said I had to become an adult, that it was time to become a man.

I weakened, I feel guilty at my lack of faith!

I took the cursed apple they offered me, the evil banks and their lies. I placed myself chained and bound for the rest of time, a slave to my new masters.

I work to profit the chosen few!

I have had trouble sleeping my father; nightmares they come, twisting turning, my fists clenched tightly, waking suddenly screaming sweat dripping from my body!

What have I done?

Who was I?

If I could only remember!

When sleep does finally envelope me in it sweet embrace, the whispers, the dreams they come, scattered fragments, images from another time as if watching from above a child like innocence, a time when I was free!

Freedom!

Father it haunts me so …

What have I become?

Who am I?

And so begins a voyage, of self-discovery and a celebration of a friendship spanning 36 years.

Japan the land of the Rising Sun and Epic Powder beckons me, as does a mermaid who whispers to the sailor who needs to return to the sea.

Will I find what I have lost, what I yearn to rediscover and if so the question quite simply remains what next?

Join the voyage – February 17th 2012

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Travel and Resort News


Whistler Sabbatical Project offers once in a lifetime experiences
16 Nov 2011
Whistler, B.C. – Things are heating up in Whistler with the Sabbatical Project heading into one of the resort's most famous kitchens.

From farm to table, Whistler’s acclaimed Araxi Restaurant, under the leadership of Executive Chef James Walt, is an industry leader, consistently recognized as one of the resort’s top restaurants. The opportunity to learn from Walt – one of Canada’s finest culinary masters – is an experience that most could only dream of. For the winner of the Whistler Sabbatical Project, however, this dream could become a reality.

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Competition News


Kummer and Fischnaller victorious in Bad Gastein / 1-2 punch for Switzerland and Italy
16 Jan 2012
BAD GASTEIN, Austria (JAN 15) – Patrizia Kummer (SUI) and Roland Fischnaller (ITA) have won the 2012 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup season's fourth parallel slalom and thus celebrated their season's third World Cup win each more >>

Industry News


Crescent Pure Helisking Shame for Gain Contest
09 Jan 2012

Welcome to the Shame for Gain Contest, presented by Crescent Spur Heli-Skiing. Share your most embarrassing moments for a chance to win a full week of heli-skiing or heli boarding. Your submissions can be from any action sport. Possible subject matter could include less-than-elegant wipe outs, poor choices in sports fashion, or ungainly rushes to the bathroom with all of your gear on.

 http://www.crescentspurheliskiing.com/shameforgain

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Adventures


Indy 5000 2 - Credit: The Mountain Weekly, www.themountainweekly.net An Alaska Heli Experience
03 May 2008

We arrived in Haines on the ferry from Juneau.  The 3 hour ferry ride over was amazing, when the peaks of Alaska finally started to break thru we knew we were in for a real treat. Haines is a tiny little in the middle of nowhere Alaska.

Once we got checked into the hotel we decided to head out to Mile 33 Road House and the Alaska Helisking operation run by Seandog. The drive from town was unreal; we saw huge moose, so many bald eagles they started to look like ordinary birds. This is a great way to get out of the hustle and bustle of city life.

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