Archive for the ‘Skiing’ Category
Sarah Schleper set for World Champs team event
After the one and only “day off” on the Garmisch-Partenkirchen World Championship schedule, racing is back on tomorrow (Feb.… More | Posted: February 16, 2011
Grete Eliassen Checks in Prior to Winter X Games
Grete Eliassen is in a league of her own. As one of the most accomplished women in freeskiing, she’s driven to expand the role of women in the sport, pushing for more exposure and more participation.… More | Posted: February 9, 2011
Skiing Mag’s Women of Snowbird
Grete Eliassen
Grete Eliassen has been on the road twice a week this fall promoting her all-female ski movie “Say My Name.”… More | Posted: January 13, 2011
U.S. Snowboarding announces 2011 halfpipe teams
On the eve of the season opening Visa U.S. Halfpipe Grand Prix, U.S. Snowboarding’s 2011 halfpipe teams were announced Tuesday alongside the cavernous 22-foot halfpipe at Copper Mountain.… More | Posted: December 5, 2010
Ace Freeskier Grete Eliassen on the Her New Film, the Future of Women’s Skiing
By Tetsuhiko Endo; Photograph courtesy of Grete Eliassen
This week, Adventure got a chance to chat with one of the best women’s freeskiers of the last decade, Grete Eliassen.… More | Posted: December 2, 2010
Vail’s Schleper wins slalom at Copper
COPPER MOUNTAIN – Wednesday was a good day to be Sarah Schleper.
The Vail native and World Cup racer won a slalom event at Copper Mountain, took her first powder runs of the year and was home in time to take her young son, Lasse, to storytime at the Vail library late Wednesday morning.… More | Posted: November 18, 2010
Best in snow
Three years ago, Brooklynite Morgan Rae Berk successfully gathered the surfers that inhabit the concrete capillaries of New York City to give them something they yearned for: surf.… More | Posted: November 18, 2010
Gretchen Bleiler, Jamie Anderson & Grete Eliassen named among athletes invited to Winter X15
The return of SMB Speed & Style and debut of SNB Best Method for 2011 WX.
Winter X Games will celebrate its 15th anniversary in Aspen, Colo.,… More | Posted: November 17, 2010