{"id":9785,"date":"2009-04-20T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9785"},"modified":"2009-04-20T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:18:33","slug":"snowboard-thousands-turn-out-to-watch-annual-pond-skim-contest-at-canyon-lodge-at-mammoth-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9785","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard &#8211; Thousands turn out to watch Annual Pond Skim contest at Canyon Lodge at Mammoth Mountain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Phil Garcia had a strategy to make it across the near-freezing pond on his snowboard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I just had to lean on the back and apply slow aft pressure,&#8221; the 24-year-old Laguna Niguel resident said after he was one of a handful of skiers and boarders to skim the entire 107-foot-long pool in front of Mammoth Mountain&#8217;s Canyon Lodge. &#8220;We talked about it and I did it on my first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Garcia was one of many Orange County residents to attend the ski resort&#8217;s 10th Annual Pond Skim contest at Canyon Lodge on Sunday, drawing a crowd of more than 2,000. The event celebrated the end &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/canyon-lodge-ski-2369053-skim-mountain\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Garcia had a strategy to make it across the near-freezing pond on his snowboard. &#8220;I just had to lean on the back and apply slow aft pressure,&#8221; the 24-year-old Laguna Niguel resident said after he was one of a handful of skiers and boarders to skim the entire 107-foot-long pool in front of Mammoth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785","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=9785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9816,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785\/revisions\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}