{"id":8231,"date":"2009-04-08T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T04:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2009-04-08T21:36:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T04:36:38","slug":"snowboard-skiing-snow-skaters-take-on-donner-ski-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8231","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Skiing &#8211; Snow skaters take on Donner Ski Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8232\" title=\"snow-skate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/snow-skate.bmp\" alt=\"snow-skate\" \/>A common sight this was not \u00e2\u20ac\u201d snow skaters shredding in force down the slopes of Donner Ski Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Minus 7 Melee this past Saturday marked the first-ever snow skate contest on Tahoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s north shore, said Kurt Zapata, owner of Truckee-based Minus 7 Snow Skates along with his wife, Jill.<\/p>\n<p>About 20 snow skaters, many of whom came from as far away as South Lake Tahoe, Reno and Sacramento, competed in a boardercross-style race (called skatercross) followed by a terrain park jam session. It was largely a family affair, Jill Zapata said, as fathers and sons as young as 8 entered together to fill out the youth and adult categories.<\/p>\n<p>Snow skaters ride a skateboard deck set on trucks and a small ski. Unlike snowboards and skis, however, the boards have no bindings&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierrasun.com\/article\/20090408\/SPORTS\/904089978\/1066&amp;ParentProfile=1051\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common sight this was not \u00e2\u20ac\u201d snow skaters shredding in force down the slopes of Donner Ski Ranch. In fact, the Minus 7 Melee this past Saturday marked the first-ever snow skate contest on Tahoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s north shore, said Kurt Zapata, owner of Truckee-based Minus 7 Snow Skates along with his wife, Jill. About 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-snow-products-tests","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","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=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8253,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions\/8253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}