Interview with Spacecraft Co-Owner: Sarah O’Brien Parker
Sarah O’Brien Parker is the co-owner-entrepreneur-behind-the-scenes-woman-in-charge at Spacecraft. And, I was lucky enough to get the chance to meet up with her at the super sweet new Spacecraft headquarters in Ballard. The entire place –with its work rooms, art everywhere, and views of the sound–is saturated with creativity. If you haven’t heard, Spacecraft is all [...]
Molly Hawkins: Evo Strategery
Strategery is Molly Hawkins’ title–in corporate/web 2.0 speak that’s community manager and she works at Evo, a rad core shop in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. (Check out Shayboarder’s post on Evo for the full scoop on the shop.) Evo is known for its community events-whether it be a game of S.K.A.T.E., coordinating rides up [...]
Interview with Randa Shahin
I met Randa Shahin, a local Pacific Northwest pro, during a weekend up at Stevens Pass with Ride Snowboards. It was fun to hang out, talk about gear, and how to get more women interested in snowboarding. She was kind enough to take some time and answer some questions I had. Where are you from? [...]
Pillow Fight: Recap
Molly from Evo filmed the Pillow Fight weekend at Stevens Pass this past February and the video weekend recap is up. Take a look and, ladies, be sure to come next year!
Snowboarding with the ladies
This season I’ve ridden with more girls than all of my previous years riding combined. Mostly, I would ride with a bunch of guys–the same way most every other girl does–but this year from Ladies Shred Day, Pillow Fight, and then this past weekend, I’ve ridden with lots of rad chickas. All of the ladies [...]
Day 20: Shred and Big Air Fiesta
Last Saturday I was up at Stevens and met up with some of the guys from the motor-home lot. It was sunny, spring conditions and lots of fun cruising around with the guys. I think we were setting speed records down the mountain. Off groomers was soft and poofy on top with sheets of ice [...]
Ride Shakedown
Friday night Austin and Izzy won the Rail Jam. By far, the best feature to watch during the rail session was the totem pole. Riders were airing over it, landing on it, doing fastplants. The other features were a downrail and a straight rail with a squared-off end, they were good, but it seemed like the riders were able to be the most creative with the totem pole.
Ride Shakedown 2010-Qualifiers
Manuel Diaz, Tanner Davidson, and Colin Clarke- three ams going on to compete with the pros in Saturday’s Shakedown. I arrived at the Ride Shakedown with the qualifiers for the jump portion of the Shakedown going on. Ams were spinning frontside and backside 7′s with a few throwing down Rodeos. Manuel Diaz (from Wild Card’s [...]
Pillow Fight: Day 3
Sunday morning came early and I was sore from Saturday’s pow session. But, I was too excited to lay around in bed, so I stiffly threw on my gear, brushed my teeth and headed to the Kingfisher Lodge at the Sleeping Lady to have breakfast with all of the other awesome Pillow Fight ladies. It [...]
Pillow Fight: Day 2
If you haven’t been to Pillow Fight at Stevens Pass…GO! Today was so, so awesome. There were about 50 women and we split up into different groups–beginner, intermediate, intermediate-advanced, park-beginner, and park-advanced. The groups were small and each had an instructor, and everyone I talked to said their instructors were great. Here is our rad [...]
Pillow Fight: Day 1
This is my first time to Leavenworth. I drove from Seattle taking I-90 to Hwy 970 to Hwy 97. I’d never taken the route before and it was so beautiful. Especially Hwy 97. The rain changed to snow as I started to climb into the mountains and I watched the temperature drop from 42 to [...]
Pillow Fight at Stevens Pass
This weekend is the third annual Pillow Fight at Stevens Pass! It’s my first time heading out for the event and I am super excited. It promises to be an awesome time. From what I hear there are still a few spots open so if you are around the PNW there is still a chance [...]
Day 9: Ladies Shred Day, plus a 50-50
Two Saturdays ago I went up to the Summit at Snoqualmie for International Ladies Shred Day. This was the first time I had been up to the Summit, and I was excited to check out a new Washington ski area. It was pretty close to Seattle and smaller, so I can see how it wouldn’t [...]
International Ladies Shred Day this Saturday!
This Saturday I’ll be up at the Summit at Snoqualmie for International Ladies Shred Day. I’m looking forward to hanging out with other gals, having a lesson, and maybe working on my boardslides. Its mid-January and I haven’t even gone on a box yet. I better start hustling on that. Events are all over the [...]
9 Gift Ideas for Girls Who Shred
1. Seven Ply How awesome are earings made out of old skate decks? So awesome. They don’t look like it, but they are really lightweight. Lynn of Seven Ply makes every single piece different in color and style and also makes different sizes (down to studs) if you don’t like rocking the hoops. (She also [...]
Day 4: The Blender and Feelgood
Burton was at Stevens Pass on Saturday and I got the chance to demo two new boards, the Blender and the Feelgood. I’ve been riding a ’99 Burton Custom since, well, ’99. And a ’98 Custom before that. And an Air way back in the beginning. So I’ve only been on Burton, and (except for [...]
Ladies, Where You At? Part 2
What did it take to not feel like I was totally crazy? Running into these two articles yesterday: “Anne-Flore Marxer: Pro-Spotlight,” TW Snow, Nov. 09 “A Girl’s Take: Missing-Females on the Silver Screen,” Powder, Nov. 09 In September I was wondering where all of the ladies parts were in the latest snowboard videos. I’m not [...]
