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 [...]
Last Day: Stevens Pass
Sunday was the last day at Stevens Pass for the season. Le sigh. After a late start, Afton, who has come to think of himself as quite the mountain dog, Mitch, and I drove up to find bluebird skies, packed parking lots, and warm weather at Stevens.
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 17: More speed!
Note: I am having the best winter I have had in a long time since I decided to get back into snowboarding. I’ve realized how much I missed it and how much happier it makes me. I hope you’ve had some epic days on the snow too and have had a fun season riding with [...]
Day 10: Off the Groomers at Stevens Pass
With reports of 8″ of snow on Monday from Stevens Pass, I headed out with my friends William, Teresa, and Lola to get some runs in. Lola is one, but she loves playing in the snow so Teresa and Lola stayed at the lodge while William and I headed out to see what we could [...]
Day 6: Sundays = Long Lift Lines
Sunday was my first day out at Steven’s Pass since mid-December, it had been way too long and I had to head out. Everyone else did too… The bad news was that I was completely unable to convince any friends to come out riding with me because of the forecast, the good news was that [...]
Day 3: Linking Switch Turns
Geared Up The last two times out with the Burton Emeralds I had had some major heel lift/foot cramps/numb toes. Why did I even bother getting new boots if they hurt? But instead of going back to my old boots, I went to the shop and they let me swap out the Burtons for Salomon [...]
Day 2: Stevens Pass Pow Pow
Lesson Plan: Powder! What I Learned: Snowboarding with chikas is super fun. Snowboarding in powder is even better. The big mounds of snow don’t hurt, you can ride right through them. At the end of a powder day, you’ll be covered in snow. Melissa and I drove out to Stevens for what was to be [...]
Day 1: Groomers, Moguls, and Tinkerbell
Despite having just written up a bunch of goals for the season, I had absolutely no goals set for the day besides get out onto the snow and getting back into the flow. I was carpooling, and I met up with two skiers under I-5 in downtown Seattle. It was pretty sketch, but it seemed [...]
Getting some skills (aka-season snowboarding goals)
Ready to charge…just like I was at 17. Alright, so I’m going to do this right. This year is the year I decided to get back into the snow for real, so I might as well get all serious and write up a list of my goals…come spring I can look back and hopefully each [...]
Downtown Throwdown
Goes for the gold but gets the pole… …was probably the best quote of the day at the Downtown Throwdown in Pioneer Square in Seattle. There were some pretty impressive diggers, but some pretty awesome shredding was happening too. As the residents of Occidental Park looked on, Snowboy Productions descended on the park and set [...]
Ladies, where you at?
So, after not having a paid much attention to the snowboard industry in the past, oh seven or eight years, I am pretty disappointed to find out that it doesn’t really seem like there are that many more ladies out on the slopes killing it. Yes, there are women out there and they are kicking [...]
