halfpipe Archive

  • You're Welcome Skiing. Your Friend, Snowboarding

    You're Welcome Skiing. Your Friend, Snowboarding

    Once again snowboarding has been the catalyst for popularity for skiing*.  Skiing was taking a shit in the 80′s till punk snowboarders came along and injected some excitement.  Then freestyle skiing went ape-shit in the mid 90′s copying snowboarding.  Now snowboarding has paved the way for a new skiing Olympic event–Halfpipe. Last week, the International [...]

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  • You know mainstream media is out of touch with Snowboarding when…

    You know mainstream media is out of touch with Snowboarding when…

    Figure Skating "expert" asked to voice opinion on why snowboarding in the Olympics is dangerous.

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  • Dude-Tube vs. YouTube

    Dude-Tube vs. YouTube

    Tuesday i woke up and checked my email on my iPhone (i have an iPhone). The little ding sound i set to notify me when i got a new message was going off. Over and over and over… When all was said and done, i had like 150 new emails piped from my Gmail account [...]

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  • 1st Pipe in Washington?

    1st Pipe in Washington?

    UPDATE:  01.14.1008 2:00pm Just talked to a reliable source.  Said that the reason there is no pipe right now at Snoqualmie is because the Water Utility Company for Snoqualmie Pass jacked up the price of water 10 times what they were paying last year.  When you consider that it takes something like 200,000 gallons (?) [...]

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