I’ve known Trevor Snowden since he was 14 Years old. He continues to impress me with his positive attitude towards Life. Sure he has some ups and downs, we all do, but he eventually sees the positive in most all situations. Taken the fact that, he’s been in a wheel chair for the past 12 years. Trevor Snowden was competing in a “big air” snowboarding competition at Snow Qualomy Pass. In the middle of doing his backside 360, Trevor turned around to see that he was doing to big an air, he jumped way past the landing and broke his back – so severely, in fact, that his spinal nerves were severed entirely. This inconvenience only slowed him up. Trevor now praises God for his situation because if he hadn’t ended up in a wheel chair, he wouldn’t of ever designed the “Trevair Chair”  The Trevair Chair is changing lives,  it handles like driving a Suzuki Samurai versus a Cadillac.  The design also offers a more simplistic appearance, is better for travel and more lightweight, on top of the fact that it’s less expensive and made in America.  So spread the word there is a better chair.

Shoreline of Tahoe is one of a very small group of Authorized Maui Jim Online Retailer.
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Added Pop and Support, A Better Way to Ride
Unlike the wedgies you may have received in junior high, this Wedgie will provide the added benefit of support and control, allowing you to ride longer and harder, all the while leaving your skivvies in tact. Years of experience developing our Custom Balance™ Footbed led us to the ideal angles for specific riding styles and stances. The Wedgie is an ultra-light footbed that uses subtle angles to align the ankles and knees to a more natural and comfortable position. The angle also gives leverage to press the board for huge pop, without affecting your preferred stance width.

NEW! Wedgie 1.5
Wedgie 1.5 offers a subtle amount of angle to provide the perfect mix of comfort and lateral support for the advancing rider.

NEW! Wedgie 2.5
Provides the ideal angle for advanced freestyle riders looking for that extra pop. If you are riding a rocker board, you’ll especially appreciate getting some added pop with 2.5.

NEW! Wedgie 3.0
The best angle for the advanced all-terrain rider looking for extra control, drive and pop.

NEW! Wedgie 4.0
Offers the maximum angle for those riders looking for the utmost drive and ollie pop. Ideal for those who rock the extra wide stance.

Hoping to do this most every year, thanks Lenard for a great time Fishing. We caught a total of 25 fish that morning. Lenard O’Malley is one of the best Tahoe fishing guilds, with over 30 years experience, there is hardly ever a day he goes home empty handed. Give a call 775-588-4102…you’ll be catching fish, hearing some very old jokes and eating your fill of trout.

First Tracks Productions new snowboarding movie, Droppin’, will premiere
in the Showroom at Montbleu Resort and Casino on Friday, September 25th.

The premiere is FREE/ALL AGES.

Doors open at 7:30 with the show starting at 8pm. Raffle for a
Sierra-at-Tahoe Season Pass, a new snowboard, and a lot more.

After-party with live music at Opal for 21+.

Come check out Droppin’ and get stoked for the big winter that’s on the way!

July 9, 2009
NOAA scientists today announced the arrival of El Niño, a climate phenomenon with a significant influence on global weather, ocean conditions and marine fisheries. El Niño, the periodic warming of central and eastern tropical Pacific waters, occurs on average every two to five years and typically lasts about 12 months.
Sea surface temperatures along the equatorial Eastern Pacific, as of July 1, are at least one degree above average — a sign of El Niño. Animation.
High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
NOAA expects this El Niño to continue developing during the next several months, with further strengthening possible. The event is expected to last through winter 2009-10.
So What is El Niño and why are we in Tahoe so happy to see its return? An El Niño is a temporary change in the water temperature of the Pacific ocean, in the region around the equator. You can see its effects in both the ocean and atmosphere, generally in Northern Hemisphere receives much more snow. Typically, the ocean surface warms up by a few degrees celsius. At the same time, the place where hefty thunderstorms occur on the equator moves eastward. Although those might seem like small differences, it nevertheless can have big effects on the world’s climate.

The Life Of Jeff Anderson
Thursday November 06, 2003
Appearing in TransWorld Snowboarding
The Life Of Jeff Anderson

Jeff Anderson When you work at a magazine, your trade is in words … but sometimes even we don’t know what to say. TransWorld wanted to do a special piece in memory of Jeff Anderson, something that encapsulated the alluring quality of his life, which was both brilliantly unique and simply human. Jeff had a major impact on the world, and snowboarding is more honest and fun because of him. Not sure how to pay tribute to all this, we went to his brother and best friend Billy. On an unmade bed in Billy’s Laguna Beach apartment, we sifted through what he called “my mom’s prize possessions”-old photos with ragged edges, handwritten letters, newspaper clippings. Billy leaned over and told us the stories behind everything-23 years of moments in a lifetime. We’ve done our best to bring that exact experience to you…Jeff’s Timeline
By Billy Anderson

* 1979: Jeff Anderson comes into the world on November 2, 1979 in Mammoth Lakes, California. The ground is dry when my mom goes into the hospital-the next day there’s three feet of new snow.
* 1979: The family has a Halloween party for Jeff’s first birthday, and we both dress up as Superman.
* 1982: His first ski race is in March of ’82. He’s three and a half years old and doesn’t miss a gate.
* 1984: The first time Jeff steps on any kind of board is in August of ’84-and believe it or not, it’s a surfboard. Jeff didn’t even know how to swim at the time, but he didn’t care-he had to be out there.
* 1985: Jeff starts school in September at the age of four. Mom says, “He was a terror.”
* 1985: Christmas of ’85 is when Jeff receives his first skateboard-he’s five years old.
* 1988: In third grade, Jeff snowboards for the first time at June Mountain-the only day that season-with friend Brain, Mikey, and me.
* 1989: Stormriders Snowboard Shop opens just down the street from our house. This is when Jeff truly finds snowboarding. When we first start hanging around there we don’t even know how to ride, but that’s all we want to do. We pedal our bikes down to Stormriders every day for the next five years.

* 1989: Jeff shoots his first action photos with Debbie Ellis. Debbie’s daughter, Cheyenne (who was our friend growing up), went on to shoot the opener for Jeff’s interview in TransWorld.
* 1989: Tom Sims approaches Jeff and offers him a sponsorship, but Tom never calls him back.
* 1989: Jeff receives his first sponsorship-it’s from Volcom. He then goes on to get his first board sponsor, Lamar, and films his first video part in Lamar’s Fakie This. In the spring, Jeff goes to his first Nationals at Timberline, Oregon. He finished third in the halfpipe.
* 1991: Jeff meets Yale Miller who will be Jeff’s best friend for the rest of his life.
* 1993: He travels to Bend, Oregon for a Pro Snowboard Tour of America event-his first road trip with the Lamar team. This turns out to be a tough trip for Jeff. He comes home from dinner one night to find his snow magazines ripped to shreds, and Sean Johnson and Mike Ranquet are drunk and pouring beer on him from the loft. That winter he also films for Volcom’s Alive We Ride. The two of us then take our first solo road trip to Southern California to see the Alive We Ride premiere.
* 1993: Jeff signs with Burton, which remains his board sponsor for the next ten years.
* 1994: Jeff films for Volcom’s The Garden.
* 1996: Jeff starts traveling internationally with multiple trips to Europe and one of his first trips to Japan. That spring, Jeff wins the June Mountain Nationals and gets 1,000 dollars.
* 1997: He graduates from Sierra High School in Mammoth and starts reading a ton of science-fiction novels, like the Dune series.
* 1998: Jeff loses his close friend Jamil Kahn in an avalanche.
* 1998: He receives his first cover of a major mag-the 1998 TransWorld SNOWboarding Photo Annual.
* 1998: Jeff fails to make the first U.S. Olympic team, and Burton questions why Jeff has been riding so much pipe instead of filming. This kind of throws Jeff into a tailspin about snowboarding.
* 1998: Jeff is featured in Jump magazine and Teen People, where the headline is “Babe On Board.”
* 2000: After finishing fourth in the Winter X-Games slopestyle event, Jeff blows out his knee during practice for the halfpipe. During a grueling 28-hour trip home that included missed planes, mechanical problems, and fog, he gets a speeding ticket only miles outside of Mammoth. At the time he also had a broken wrist.
* 2001: In the fall, Jeff becomes the first person to do a frontside 450 on, 270 out on a rail.

* 2001: Longtime friend Dave Sypniewski gets hired at Burton-Jeff’s really excited to work with him. Dave is then fired, and Jeff is thrown into another tailspin, making him want to quit snowboarding.
* 2002: Jeff signs with Mosaic Management, and Sue Izzo becomes his agent. Sue is there for Jeff at any time-day or night. I think she was more a psychologist that a sports agent.
* 2002: Burton Team Manager Blotto steps up and helps Jeff work on his Happy Hour part and get enough photos to earn his first TransWorld interview.
* 2002: Jeff is back in Japan, where we compete in one of our last contests together at the Volcom Slopestyle. He wins the rail best-trick award.
* 2003: Jeff starts out having a great year. He lives in Mammoth for the preseason and then moves to Salt Lake City and commits full-time to film his movie part for Kingpin’s Back In Black.
* 2003: On February 18, Jeff is battered and bruised from filming but is ready to make one last strong push with a filming trip around the world along with teammate and good friend Gigi RÅf. They are to make stops in Japan, Austria, Vermont for the U.S. Open, Utah, and then back to Mammoth. Jeff tells our mom he’ll be home on April 6.
* 2003: My little brother dies in an accident on February 23 in Japan. This quickly turns into the worst day of my life. I would like to thank everyone who was there that day helping take care of Jeff and me-Marc Frank Montoya, Romain DeMarchi, Gigi, Bjorn Leines, Jay Twitty, all of the riders who were there, everyone at Volcom Japan, and everyone at Burton Japan. And an extra-special thanks goes to Hoshihiko Katagiri-if you weren’t there, I feel like Jeff and I would still be in Japan.
* 2003: A service is held at Mammoth on March 1. More that 600 of Jeff’s friends turn out to pay tribute to a fallen hero. A day that I thought might be the worst actually turns out to be the best.
* 2003: This fall Jeff’s Burton UNINC pro model will hit stores for the upcoming season. Also look for Jeff in Back In Black.

From our freinds at Burton Snowboards comes, The B Movie, Soon to be released, and avalible at Shoreline of Tahoe.

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Hear what they liked, from the 2010 Transworld good wood board test. Like last year the reverse camber conversation continues. We have a great understanding about the differences between Camber vs Rocker (reverse camber) you can find other blogs we have posted on the subject or give us a call at 888-866-7669 during west coast Business hours, and talk to us, we’ll help you make the the right choice. If after you talk to us you still don’t know , stop on by during the season and we will let you try a demo, then apply your demo price towards the purchase of a brand new board.

Carlsbad, CA—The October issue of TransWorld SNOWboarding magazine (twsnow.com), the world’s #1 snowboard magazine, reveals the 45 winning boards in the eleventh annual Good Wood Board Test. The results are broken down into categories including Top 10 Men’s And Women’s Under $399, Top 10 Men’s And Women’s Over $400, and Top 5 Best Pipe Boards.
“There isn’t a lot of good info available to riders looking to invest in a new snowboard,” said Annie Fast, TransWorld SNOWboarding’s editor-in-chief. “That’s why the Good Wood Test results are so important—we give our readers solid feedback on which boards ride the best, and we offer this info in price ranges available for every rider.”
Over 30 brands sent in a total of 450 boards to be tested last spring in Breckenridge, Colorado’s Park Lane Park, Freeway Superpipe, and the 2,400 vertical feet of all-mountain terrain on Peak 8. The 23 testers scored the boards based on characteristics that define a good board such as turning, flex, high-speed stability; and also those specific to park, pipe, or all-mountain boards.
The October issue features an overview on each winning board, tester comments, and complete tech stats. Readers will be able to use the Good Wood results to find the perfect board whether they’re down for park riding, all-mountain freeriding, or shredding the pipe.
Read more about Good Wood in the 2010 Gear Guide and the October issue, also go online to twsnow.com for videos, photo galleries, and individual tester bios.

TransWorld SNOWboarding’s Good Wood Winners Are:

Top Ten Women’s Under $399
Burton The Social
Capita Space Metal Fantasy
DC BFT
Endeavor Boyfriend Series
Gnu B-Nice BTX
K2 VaVaVoom Rocker
Rome Detail
Roxy Ollie Pop BTX
Signal Vita Park
Technine Women’s Jib
Top Ten Women’s Over $400
Arbor Cadence
Burton Lipstick (All-Mountain)
Gnu B-Pro BTX (All-Mountain)
K2 EcoPOP (All-Mountain)
Lib Tech Skate Banana
Nitro T1
Rome Lo-Fi 1985 (All-Mountain)
Roxy Eminence BTX (All-Mountain)
Salomon Gypsy
Technine One Love
Top Ten Men’s Under $399
Artec Gabe Taylor
Burton Blunt
Capita Horrorscope FK
Forum Youngblood Chillydog
K2 Darkstar
K2 WWW Rocker
Nitro Swindle
Omatic Extr-Eco Wigglestick
Salomon Drift
Rossignol Angus (All-Mountain)
Top Ten Men’s Over $400
Burton Easy Livin’
Burton Custom V-Rocker (All-Mountain)
Burton Joystick (All-Mountain)
Forum Destroyer Chillydog
Gnu Park Pickle
K2 Parkstar
K2 Slayblade (All-Mountain)
Lib Tech Skate Banana
Nitro Rook
Ride Machete
Pipe
Burton Vapor
Forum Seeker
Gnu Danny Kass BTX
Lib Tech TRS
Salomon Official

From Transworld….
For more information on Good Wood, contact Editor-In-Chief Annie Fast at annie.fast@transworld.net. Thank
you to High Cascade Snowboard Camp for expertly running the board test and to Breckenridge, Colorado
for providing the very best testing terrain.