{"id":12686,"date":"2009-05-20T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12686"},"modified":"2009-05-20T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T05:09:00","slug":"snowboard-skiing-extreme-skiing-through-the-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12686","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; Extreme skiing through the recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A group of adventure-seeking entrepreneurs embarks on the wildest journey of all &#8211; launching a high-end travel company in the middle of an economic meltdown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">TORDRILLO MOUNTAINS, Alaska (Fortune Small Business) &#8212; i am standing near the peak of a craggy, white-capped mountain in Alaska. With me are three world-class adventure-sports athletes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Big-wave surfer Dave Kalama clicks into his skis while surf superstar Laird Hamilton straps on an unusually long snowboard in the knee-deep snow. A few yards away, tromping to the edge of a cliff to survey our exit options, is Jeremy Jones, Snowboarder magazine&#8217;s eight-time Big Mountain Rider of the Year. The bright red and blue A-Star helicopter that just deposited us here takes off in a blur of white powder, spins 180 degrees and disappears over a spiny ridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We peer from a tiny knoll down thousands of feet into &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/05\/20\/smallbusiness\/epicquest.fsb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of adventure-seeking entrepreneurs embarks on the wildest journey of all &#8211; launching a high-end travel company in the middle of an economic meltdown. TORDRILLO MOUNTAINS, Alaska (Fortune Small Business) &#8212; i am standing near the peak of a craggy, white-capped mountain in Alaska. With me are three world-class adventure-sports athletes. Big-wave surfer Dave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686","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=12686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12734,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions\/12734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}