{"id":12109,"date":"2009-05-12T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12109"},"modified":"2009-05-12T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T19:33:36","slug":"snowboard-skiing-hundreds-come-to-squaw-for-cushing-classic-pond-skim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12109","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; Hundreds come to Squaw for Cushing Classic pond skim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The weather was warm, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lake\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was chilly and the crowds were out on Saturday, celebrating the end of Squaw Valley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ski season at the 19th annual pond skimming contest known as the Lake Cushing Classic.<\/p>\n<p>This year almost 50 competitors attempted the more-perilous-than-normal pond crossing on skis, snowboards and various other creative contraptions including my personal favorite \u00e2\u20ac\u201d snowlerblades mounted with telemark bindings (that guy didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have much chance of getting across the pond, but he attempted it with style)&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahoebonanza.com\/article\/20090511\/NEWS\/905119982\/1061&amp;ParentProfile=1050\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The weather was warm, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lake\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was chilly and the crowds were out on Saturday, celebrating the end of Squaw Valley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ski season at the 19th annual pond skimming contest known as the Lake Cushing Classic. This year almost 50 competitors attempted the more-perilous-than-normal pond crossing on skis, snowboards and various [&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-12109","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\/12109","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=12109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12111,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions\/12111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}