TAHOE CITY — Powder: Tahoe’s white gold. It’s what drives winter alarm clocks, what sends skiers into a morning freeze, out of warmed cars, into whited parking lots, hands numb, fingers clasping at ski and pole, filing into the resorts and lift lines, waiting, anticipating, calculating the rush and madness of the first virgin run.
It’s an experience Tahoe resident Dave Rintala loves and questions.
“The thing that I like to think about is that when skiing was first originated and birthed, it was about powdered snow,” said Rintala … Details
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The FIM Motocross World Championship arrives in Lierop to celebrate the penultimate Grand Prix of the season with Antonio Cairoli being already the 2010 MX1 World Champion after the Brazilian GP. In the MX2 class everything is still to be decided, but Marvin Musquin has a highly range of possibilities to be proclaimed the 2010 MX2 World Champion with still one round to go.
Recent 2010 MX1 World Champion Antonio Cairoli obtained his fourth World Title in Brazil two weeks ago, which is his second in a row in the MX1 class and his first one with the revolutionary 350cc KTM machine. Clement Desalle lost all the chances to fight for the … Details
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a recent interview posted on his blog, Joel Parkinson said “…being world number one coming into Tahiti isn’t all beer and skittles because you generally get Manoa.” Quite a compliment to hear coming from Parko, that he’d rather not be leading the world title race, just because it means facing Tahitian wildcards like Manoa Drollet. “You know you’re going to get Manoa or Heiarii and they know the place so well its going to be hard. I’ve been beaten by wildcards so many times it’s not funny.” … Details & Pictures
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