{"id":10707,"date":"2009-04-28T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T20:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10707"},"modified":"2009-04-28T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T21:26:55","slug":"snowboard-skiing-california-squaw-valley-hosts-the-mother-of-all-pond-skimming-contests-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10707","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; California: Squaw Valley hosts the mother of all pond skimming contests May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10708\" title=\"squaw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/squaw.jpg\" alt=\"squaw\" width=\"640\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/squaw.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/squaw-150x141.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/squaw-600x566.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>SQUAW VALLEY, CA &#8211; Notorious for its colossal crashes, hilarious costumes, and ultra-creative pond skimming contraptions, the annual Lake Cushing Classic comes to the frigid waters of Squaw Valley this\u00c2\u00a0 Sunday May 3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This entertaining competition challenges local lunatics and gregarious guests to cross the vast and chilly waters of Lake Cushing on skis, a snowboard or any ski or snowboard-based vessel.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pond Skimming has become a fixture on spring event lineups at ski resorts around the world. However, it was at Squaw Valley, 19 years ago, when the event was first conceived&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utahskier.net\/utah_skier\/2009\/04\/squaw-valley-427-09.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQUAW VALLEY, CA &#8211; Notorious for its colossal crashes, hilarious costumes, and ultra-creative pond skimming contraptions, the annual Lake Cushing Classic comes to the frigid waters of Squaw Valley this\u00c2\u00a0 Sunday May 3 This entertaining competition challenges local lunatics and gregarious guests to cross the vast and chilly waters of Lake Cushing on skis, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10749,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions\/10749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}