If you head north up the smooth Atlantic coastline from Lisbon you come to a little bump, a rocky peninsula jutting from the coast formed by a unique Toarcian turnover, which isn’t something you eat but the site of a “wave of extinctions that marked the end of the Pliensbachian stage and the start of the Toarcian stage of the Early Jurassic period, c. 183 million years ago” according to Wikipedia. Yes, the whole place is … More
We haven’t seen a ton of Torah Bright lately, but the 2010 Olympic gold medalist came out swinging at the Dew Tour women’s pipe finals today at Breckenridge, Colorado. Dew Tour placements carry extra weight this season as the tour is the first qualifying stop for riders hoping to make the US Olympic Snowboard team.
Just the third rider of the contest to drop in … Video and more
Florian Gruber has been crowned the inaugural Kiteracing Oceanic Championships winner, at Leighton Beach, Fremantle, Australia.
The German rider, 19, took out all but three races in the five-day competition. Gruber won a A$5000 first prize cheque and 100 Championship points.
“It was good to win the last race, and now I’ll … More