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Heading into the lodge for a midday hot cocoa? Adorable. Plan on leaving your Nidecker Swarovski-studded snowboard in the rack alongside the “normal” boards? Better not. Have a portable vault handy instead.

Actually, why the hell are you even snowboarding on one of these things in the first place? …  Details

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Each weekend this winter the 20-something founders of Bean Snowboards have trekked across New England, often in a borrowed bus, setting up their display tent at ski areas and proudly spreading the word that their boards are “Made in Boston.”

Indeed, their two products, “The Commonwealth” and “The Violator,” are handcrafted in Brighton inside a rented, 400-square-foot cinder block garage – the same type of humble origins that launched big name companies like Apple and YouTube, not to mention Burton snowboards.

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Lebanese ski racer Georges Salameh, who provided a urine sample containing traces of cocaine during last month’s Alpine skiing world championships in France, blames his positive test on the work of mysterious saboteurs.

“I have enemies in Lebanon who may have pushed people to do this,” Salameh said. “I never used these drugs. I don’t know what happened.”…   Details

Riding in to take the top spot of the snowboard simulation market, Stoked offers an astounding virtual simulation of hitting the slopes. The game, though it is exclusive to the Xbox 360, is getting ample attention for being the greatest snowboarding title created, and living up to that title. Stoked is the first game Destineer has created, with help of the accredited name of Bongfish. Destineer has created a dream team of snowboarding sponsors and riders to collaborate on this innovative gamer’s thrill.

Stoked is the fist snowboarding game to give a choice of how the gamer’s personal character can ride…  Details