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CONTENTS EVERYBODY WAS PARTYING ALL DAY. I THINK THERE WERE, LIKE, 150,000 PEOPLE THAT WERE CAMPING AT IT. IT WAS GNARLY, SO MANY BABES
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Chris Coulter sending a Cab five over the (locally) infamous Red Mountain Pass road gap near Silverton, CO. We got shut down after the second hit, but the highway cop sent to bust us thought it was rad enough to let Chris hit it one more time s o h e c o u l d w a t c h . -Ben Eng
FOR A GUY FROM HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY, WHO SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, SIMS MANAGED TO MAKE AN AWFULLY BIG IMPACT ON THE HISTORY OF SNOWBOARDING HERE IN COLORADO
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16 22 26 28 30 32 FROM THE EDITOR BLUE RIBBON OUTSIDE THE BOX LENSMEN THE CHOP HOUSE SOMETHING.NICE 34 36 38 40 50 60 VIDEO STASH WEVE GOT COMPANY NEW TECH PRODUCT SHOWCASE LAST RESORT STYLE POINTS 82 86 92 72 A TRIBUTE TO TOM SIMS TRICK TIPS ART INSTALLMENT ON BLAST
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Even though my Letter From the Editor is usually the first thing you read, its almost always the last piece to go into making this magazine. One reason for that is that I dont need to make any phone calls or wait for e-mails back in order to complete it; its all on me. Sometimes I leave it because it allows me to address something current, like Arapahoe Basin becoming the first Colorado mountain to open, on October 17, 2012. But most of the time, it because my head is in a million different places. Editing, sales, design, publishing, website, events ... I try to keep as much involved in all I can. Not that Im a micromanager, my crew is more than capable of providing stellar work, and Im all about giving people enough rope to hang themselves, its just that this magazine means so much to me that its important to make sure every inch of it is the best it can be without any of us going insane. You would think that in the third year of this magazine wed have a pretty steady routine of things by now. Unfortunately, in the publishing world, routine is pretty much a pipe dream. Theres always something that will take a normal routine and somehow turn it into a total shit show. Im not striving for perfection; Im striving for quality. Each magazine will always have its blemishes. Well always look back at past issues and reflect on how much better we could have done, but most of all we know that well keep learning with every issue we put out. The magazine will continue to grow at a slow and steady rate to make sure we dont lose sight of what we are or why we do what we do. It will never be a perfect magazine, if there even is such a thing,
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but as long as its something thats supported by the real people who snowboard here in Colorado, were satisfied. In this issue, there are so many things that I want to highlight. Kicking off the issue, we present you a Blue Ribbon article highlighting the Colorado native, Michael Wick. This kid is a character, if Ive ever seen one! Make sure you check out his section and keep an eye out for Mike in the near future. I have a feeling you may be seeing a lot more of this guy. One particular section thats a must read this month is our Video Stash with People Films. We caught up with legendary filmmaker, Pierre Minhondo about his latest project, Pretty Wise, and the struggles and complete makeover People worked through this year. Last but not least, make sure to check out through this months feature. Contributing writer Colin Bane gives us an excellent reection on Tom Sims and Sims contributions to Colorado snowboarding. With the passing of the snowboard pioneer last month, it was necessary to do our part to relay to the younger generations Sims efforts and accomplishments. After all, he is a man responsible for where we are today. With that said, Im honored to bring you the 20th installment of Snowboard Colorado Magazine.
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Lately, whenever I see Michael Wick, I hear the gnat-assed, knee sock sporting football coach from Dazed and Confused in my head, teasing out a premonition of Randy Floyd and friends summer: You know, youre sitting around the pool all day, chasing the muff around. I have seen Michael a number of times this fall, in completely contrasting situations (Wednesday night movie premiere, midday rail jam), yet the constants remain. He is loose, rocking a Hawaiian shirt, and hes got chicks with him. Always just having a damn good time. Its like hes just checked into this perpetual 70s-era poolside disco. Hes even determined this Austin Powers-esque delivery, unabashedly slipping retro-sex intimations into his regular speech. Oh, shes still purrrrring, in reference to how his 15-passenger van, decked with hardwood and lined with blue shag, is running. Or in response to his female preferences: (Shes) Gotta be able to groove. Spice! Michael has been on the Colorado scene for a good minute now, getting his start on the Forum program a few years back. Mike Osborne, who works at BC hooked me up with Dougie (Olsen) one day. I just sent Dougie a little bit of footage when I was, like, 15 and he gave me a snowboard. It kind of escalated from there. He has been with Forum ever since, putting in work and moving up the ladder. Mike Swift, the new Forum Colorado rep, is the man, super-rad dude that
has always been supportive. And John Spiris, he used to be the Celtek team manager and just became the Forum team manager this year, he is another guy who has helped me a ton. Cool dude that definitely likes to get shit done. At a crisp 19-years young, that ripping testosterone has helped Michael get some shit of his own done in recent months, putting together a summer part with Connor Brown up at High Cascade and landing cameo shots in Dylan Thompsons Summer Shred video releases. I am homies with the filmer that was making those edits, says Wick. Dylan, Pat Richer (the filmer, aka Throwback Pat) and I ended up camping together the whole summer. We became good homies and he asked me to be in them! Michael also spent much of the last year cementing his place in the SLC-based, on-snow-college bash that is Lick the Cat.
GOTTA BE ABLE TO GROOVE. SPICE!
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I know Big Jerm and all the Park City local kids started it. I am not sure, like two years ago, and then they just asked me to be part of the crew, says Wick of his posse inception. (The group was recently featured in Snowboarder Magazines Tribes section). Lick the Cat is taking over. Its basically all the good homies that we snowboard with. (The brothers Kotsenburg, Sam Taxwood, Griffin Siebert, the list goes on and on.) We are all kind of the same age and we just like to fuck shit up and snowboard to good music and lick a whole lot of cats! If you know what I mean.
Some may deem the Lick the Cat handle repulsive, yet I find it particularly fitting of Michaels gentle, swing-ish nature. Though I assume the name is drawn more from an insatiable teen quest for pussy than any all-equivocal nod to sexual reciprocity, his inclusion is appropriate because Wick falls on the nice guy side of the playboy spectrum. More Leon Phelps than Tommy Lee. Or, as his homie Zak Hale describes his game, Its like picking a berry. It could either be sour as fuck or the sweetest thing you ever tasted. What do girls think of your van, I ask. I have heard when they walk up they are a little skeptical, but then once you get them in, its game over. Thats when all the writ comes out. You need to explain writ for me, I tell him.
I HAVE HEARD WHEN THEY WALK UP THEY ARE A

Its from this video, The 7-Minute Thug Workout: How to Cook
LITTLE SKEPTICAL, BUT THEN ONCE YOU GET THEM IN, ITS GAME OVER. THATS WHEN ALL THE WRIT COMES OUT
Crack. And the key to the crack-cooking game is all in the writ, like the wrist. It ended up catching on and everybody got hyped on it. Just whenever anything went down this summer we just always put up the writ. Tell me a story about your van that I can publish. I am trying to think. I dont know. I am trying to think of one that will be usable.
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Well, you could tell part of a story. Lets see how this one sounds, he begins. We were at a music festival in Minnesota, WE Fest. Glee fest? WE Fest, like W-E Fest. Everybody was partying all day. I think there were, like, 150,000 people that were camping at it. It was gnarly, so many babes. Then all these security dudes started riding around on horses and the weather got really gnarly and they are telling everybody to stay in their tents because there was a possible tornado coming through the campsite. It started raining all gnarly. I put my swimsuit on and was just sending it outside. When people got bored of the rain, we started partying in the van. The partying was just going off. There were so many babes coming in the van and then I ended up with some chick and everybody had left the van. I didnt see him, but one of my friends opened the door and saw me getting it with some spicy blond girl. Spicy blond girl, I laugh. Is that what you said, Gettin it in the van? Yeah, gettin writ!
Michael will be taking the show west to Salt Lake City this year, meeting up with the rest of his brethren, living in Sage Kotsenburgs basement and possibly helping put together a full-length video. The move really just comes down to filming. The whole crew is out there, just all the people that I really love to board with. Little bit of a rumor that we might make a Lick the Cat movie, says Wick. We just got a new VHX and Carlinos fisheye lens, so we are ready this year. I just want to basically film with whoever I can and just kind of stack footage. Hes not one to get caught up in any of the nonsense of the snowboard world. Hes always down to bust his ass, but you wont find him freaking out or stressing when things arent going exactly the way he planned. Just a nice dude sporting island gear and some killer teeth whos always looking to keep the party rollin.
IT STARTED RAINING ALL GNARLY, I PUT MY SWIMSUIT ON AND WAS JUST SENDING IT OUTSIDE
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LONNIE IS ONE OF THE MELLOWEST DUDES I HAVE EVER SPOKEN TO. SUPER POSITIVE AND SUPER MOTIVATED. HE HAS MADE SOME MAJOR SWITCH UPS THIS PAST YEAR AND WE TALKED THIS SUMMER ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS FOR HIM. IT WAS A TOUGH YEAR SNOWWISE FOR A LOT OF FOLKS. DID YOU END UP FLYING ALL OVER THE PLACE? Actually, this year I just drove up to Whistler and stayed there for two and a half months and didnt go anywhere. Just hit the sled. This year I switched it up because DC and I parted ways, which is definitely for the better. Because of that I filmed with the People crew this year. DC was making their own movie and they had all this budget cut stuff going on. Luckily, the team manager gave me a heads up and was like, I dont know what these guys are gonna do dude. Everybody was STANDARD WAS SOMETHING YOU HAD DONE FOR A GOOD BIT. WHAT WAS THE SWITCH LIKE FROM STANDARD TO PEOPLE? I think it s cool because with Standard, those guys make it pretty easy, in a way. They give you a really good mold for putting t h i n g s to g e t h e r. W h a t s co o l getting cuts with their checks, less travel. It was just kind of sketchy. So, I was like, its definitely time t o b o u n c e . D C wa s t h e o n e kind of footing the bill with the Standard thing and Monster, my main hook up, was kind of down for me to do something else and see what happens.
about them, too, is all the trips are usually planned out. You just basically have to call your sponsor up and be like, Hey, there is a trip going on up here and all I need to do is use my travel for that. So can you just pay for it and we are all good. So, it was cool this year. It was more like, Man, what are we gonna do? I had been up to Whistler a little bit, so I decided I was going to go up there and rent a place and just go chill. Hang out. Just go out as many days as I can. SO, FILMING WITH PEOPLE WAS A BIT MORE LIBERATING? Yeah, for sure. Just a chill vibe. Thats what I always like, when the vibe is good. Especially with snowboarding lms. Obviously, you are lming snowboarding, thats what youre doing. But at the same
time, you could see the ultimate video part, where the guy is just killing it and he is doing every trick there is, but its like, OK cool, you rip, you kill it, but what else? How about tell the story a little bit more rather than like a four-to five-minute video part with all snowboarding in it. Takeoff, landing, takeoff, landing and then its over. Youre like, Dude, that was sick, but who is he? SNEAK SOME PERSONALITY IN THERE. Yeah, exactly. Then I think people can really get psyched on the person and how he rides and its just all around inspiration. Or maybe the guy is a total asshole and you can see that, too. Its an opportunity for the guys to be themselves.
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A R E YO U T H E O N LY N AT I V E AMERICAN PRO SNOWBOARDER? Yeah, from what I know. I am half native, so I would say that I would be the one carrying the most of it. Some other people are for sure, just not as much maybe. YO U R FAT H E R H A S H A D A PROLIFIC CLIMBING CAREER. YOURE A CLIMBER YOURSELF, CORRECT? A c t u a l l y, y e a h . I h a v e s o m e sponsors and get paid and stuff. I h ave a n o t h e r o u t l e t t o g e t myself out there, which is cool, and the even cooler part is that our dad, he never taught us how to climb. I mean, he took us out here and there but never really showed us anything. I picked it up on my own after I hurt my ankle skateboarding. I needed something to help get it better. So I started climbing and after a while I had this feeling like, whoa, this is rad. Actually, last summer I spent about a month working on this one
climb that my dad put up in 1991 or something. There had only been one other guy who did it before me and he did it probably, like, two weeks before I did it and he is a real famous climber. He is amazing and he was like, Man that thing is hard. So, that was cool, too. WHATS THE CLIMB CALLED? Its called Crossroads and the grade is 14a. Its really famous. Its so cool because there are only three people to have done it in the whole wide world.
AND YOURE ONE OF THEM. Yeah, third one. THATS WILD. Ye a h , i t s p r e t t y g r e a t . I t s awesome. There is a whole story to be filmed within that. Thats what I would like to do. A documentary kind of film covering the climbing, the snowboarding just your whole take on the whole scene. Even with my dads story, too, its pretty heavy. ARE YOU ON LOBSTER NOW? Yeah, I hooked up with those guys and it is awesome. It is kind of like how it used to be.
that will help you just be yourself and promote yourself. And when you do a video part or anything like that - its you, its totally you. Its not somebody that they are just telling you to be. I like to think of it like this; there are all these companies out there, and they sponsor all these kids and they get these kids so hyped out on doing so great and all this stuff. Its almost like the kids are the horse and they just jump in front of that carrot and run as fast as they can. They run so fast that they forget about who they are and where they come from. They tire them out so bad and then its like, OK next. And thats it. When you actually have an opportunity to show who you are and everything, its a cool and powerful opportunity. Kids look up to you. They will listen to you. If you go out and win a bunch of contests, kids are going to look up to you and you have the opportunity to share something with them, other than your snowboarding, you know?
ITS SO COOL BECAUSE THERE ARE ONLY THREE PEOPLE TO HAVE DONE IT IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
OLD-SCHOOL FEEL? Yeah, because they are just like, Man, be yourself, we dont care. Its all good. S O, YO U R E H Y P E D O N T H E SWITCH? Yeah, in this game of being a pro athlete, its all about the sponsors
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To your average video-watching shred dog, urban sessions probably look like a hoot. Youre out past your bedtime in the crisp night air bagging hammers with your buddies. While that may be partially true, most kids are never privy to the true inner workings of an inner-city rail mission. For every trick a rider makes, there are endless issues at hand, trying to ensure that no bangers are missed on camera. Although each spot comes with its own unique problems, lets focus on a few of the most basic. The main buzzkill facing any urban session is the cops. In my experience, no matter where you are and no matter how benign your setup, theyre not having any of it. Sometimes you can talk them into letting you stay, assuming you dont have a snotty attitude. Always be nice, dont talk back, and promise that youll clean up when youre done. If they can see you as a group of kids out having fun and not a bunch of smart-mouthed little pricks, your chances of not getting kicked out skyrocket. The second major issue working against a rider s rail wizardry is that your typical city is not set up for you to get your jib on. Streets are flat (mostly) and until someone invents a non-gravity powered snowboard, youre going to have issues. In the past couple of years, bungees have exploded onto the scene making the problem of getting speed far more negotiable. They dont work for every spot, but they definitely help in most situations. Im still a big fan of dropin ramps since they dont go whizzing by your head at 60 mph like a bungee does when someone lets go of it. I swear someones going to get killed by one of those things, so dont stand where you can get smacked by one! On this particular night, Jonah Owen was using
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a drop in and a bungee to get enough speed for this switch lipslide 270 out. Thirdly, most spots need some sort of sculpting before theyre rideable. This usually always means shoveling enough snow onto the concrete to make an in-run, a kicker to the rail and enough of the fluffy stuff to land on without coming to a screeching halt. Luckily for us on this night, some previous shredders had already done most of the hard work, so the in-run and kicker were already in place. However, the booter theyd built was about three feet tall, so we chopped that sucker down to a manageable size. You do not want your snow step to be as tall as the rail, kids. Finally, you almost always need some form of illumination. Even if the spot has a streetlight nearby, its not going to be bright enough for a decent shot. Thats where the good old generator comes in. These things weigh a ton, rarely ever start up right away and make your car stink like a petroleum refinery. If your buddy has a truck, get them to haul the dumb thing around in the back. Next, you need some sort of high-powered floods to plug into it. I own your runof-the-mill Home Depot construction specials. While they work fine for brightening up the spot, Im pretty sure most filmers hate their pee-colored hue and opt for something 10 times more expensive out of the B&H catalog. As I said earlier, there are a million things that make urban sessioning vastly more difficult than riding up the lift and jibbing your way back down. If youre going to get after it in the streets, get ready to put some serious time and effort in.
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November. Theres no holding back this month. Every resort in Colorado will be open by Thanksgiving and now people start to really flood up the mountains. My favorite place in November is Breckenridge, hands down. They open on the 9th this year and the last few years have opened with a triple line of jumps and a couple rails. I usually only go to A-basin or Loveland a couple times in October to break in my gear and wait until now to really start snowboarding everyday. With the addition of each new snowboard addict, November gets crazier every year. The good part about November, though, is that if we pray hard enough, we will get the snow needed to allow the resorts to open up more terrain and spread the crowds out. November has been known to have a good pow day here or there, but I usually try to stick to the hardpack. Even if we do get a lot of snow, its so light that even if its five feet deep, theres still no base and you go right to the ground. You end up stuck a lot. Loveland Pass is a great place to go build a mini-kicker or do some low-tide pow laps with a rock board if you dont have a pass or just want to get away from the long, early-season lift lines. If you are looking to ride the park in November, youre going to have to dial your dodging skills. Skiers have always been the majority on the hill and now that they are all over the park, it has gotten very busy. Imagine if 200 Rollerbladers started coming to your skate park that could only hold a max of 20 skaters. Nothing against skiers, if it wasnt for them we might not have metal edges. Im just saying be ready to dodge, snowboarders or skiers.
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You can also rip Denver and Boulder this time of year. It gets cold on the Front Range and tends to snow regularly. That means no more hitting up your buddys slider bar. Time to break out the Banshee Bungee and take it to the streets. If youre not into riding park or jibbing the city in November, theres always EpicMix. This is a good month to start clocking vertical with your Epic Pass; just sign up for EpicMix and start doing laps. It becomes addicting, as nerdy as it is. I took a lot more laps last year just trying to catch up with Nate Doggggs vertical. Both the Keystone and Vail gondolas are good for this. As I said earlier, the pow up here is very rarely good in November unless you really pray. However, its almost guaranteed to be good down at Wolf Creek. Check their website for their snowfall report. Anywhere between 125-200 inches year-to-date means it is all-time. Once they have over 200 inches, the rest of Colorado usually has enough and you wont have to make the long drive down there anymore. That is, unless you already live down there, of course. Come the end of the month, Thanksgiving hits and, provided we are getting good snow, winter is here! No more riding the white ribbon of death; youll be in dreamland until the end of May, if you want!
IMAGINE IF 200 ROLLERBLADERS STARTED COMING TO YOUR SKATE PARK THAT COULD ONLY HOLD A MAX OF 20 SKATERS
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R: JJ THOMAS / LOUIE VITO P: ZACH HOOPER FOLLOW JJ ON TWITTER @JJTHOMAS_
WELCOME TO THE PROS, KID

Everyone who competes in a sport remembers their first contest as an amateur, and then as a pro, if they get there. My first crack at a pro contest was one Ill never forget! I was 13 years old when I heard that the ASP halfpipe competition was coming to Vail. I knew I wasnt going to win or anything, but just having the chance to drop in and compete against my favorite pros at the time like Todd Richards, Jeff Brushie, and Stevie Alters was too hard to pass up. I spent the week prior to the event practicing relentlessly. Every day, for hours on end, I would hike and ride that halfpipe at Gold Peak until I couldnt stand anymore. The weather that week was amazing, and I clearly remember having some great moments during practice where I was thinking to myself, Man, I might surprise some guys this weekend. Finally the day came, and sure enough it was a snowy one. Up until then, I never really did a contest while it was snowing, but it was not the day to make excuses. I remember being so nervous around all the pros and barely getting any practice due to the crowded frenzy that is a professional halfpipe contest. I did, however, get a few good runs and still felt like I could make the first cut and shock some locals. As my first run drew near, sure enough, the snow flakes got larger and stickier than I ever remember seeing them. But the guys who were going before me seemed to be doing OK. I still thought I had a good chance at lighting up that halfpipe and impressing all my friends and family who had come out to watch.
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The starter called my number and said I was clear to drop. The pipe looked perfect and I was frothing at the chance to go huge and put on a show. But as I dropped in and made my way across the flat bottom to my first hit, I realized I was barely moving. It was as if my board had a sheet of sandpaper stuck to the bottom of it. Ill never forget going through my run and feeling so helpless and frustrated. I dont think I did one air over the lip of the pipe. The new snow that had fallen made it impossible for me to get any sort of momentum built up and I think I ended up finishing close to last place.
IT WAS AS IF MY BOARD HAD A SHEET OF SANDPAPER STUCK TO THE BOTTOM OF IT
Of course, my parents said I did fine and all that, but the truth was that I just had the worst contest run of my young competitive career, and I was pretty embarrassed, to say the least. Todd Richards went on to win that day, and I couldnt figure out how he was managing to get out of the pipe in those conditions and link all his impressive moves. Looking back, its safe to say that my first pro event was a major bust. Competing in the halfpipe during a snowstorm is an art in itself - it would take me 10 more years of competing to figure out how to pull it off. In the end, it was a great, humbling day that I will never forget!
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What camera / cameras did you use to shoot the video? The movie was shot primarily with the Canon 60D and the Panasonic HPX cameras. From a direction standpoint, I really like a mixed media feel by using different cameras for action, lifestyle and cut shots. By using different cameras for certain shots, you can give the viewer a variety of feeling rather than just one look for an entire movie. The HPX is a workhorse of a camera. It shoots action great, is extremely reliable and puts out a great image. However, this camera is difcult to create images with a lot of depth of eld and a more cinematic look. This is where the Canon DSLR cameras come in handy. The depth of eld that you can achieve with these cameras is incredible and the feel that you achieve with that look is really nice, both for action, scenic and lifestyle shots. Did you have a favorite location to shoot this year? What made it so good? We lmed in Austria for about a month and I would say that was my favorite trip. Austria is just a majestic place, in my eyes. Not only is the terrain incredible, but everything around you is so visually stimulating. The architecture, the food, the people, the mountains and the resorts all have so much history. It is just as much fun lming snowboarding there as it is lming the surrounding area, eating at the restaurants and meeting the locals. What was it like shooting with a completely new crew this year? How has People changed? It was a lot of fun having a completely new crew. For example, in Austria I was with Rusty Ockenden, Shayne Pospisil, Elias Elhardt, Marco Smolla and photographer Jerome Tanon. None of us knew each other coming into the trip and within a day it was as if we had known each other for years. Its pretty amazing that having snowboarding as a common bond can bring together friendships like that. I feel like this is the next chapter for People and we will continue to make videos with creative and talented individuals.
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How has your job changed since the Neoproto days? Its denitely turned into more of a job since the Neoproto days. I have a lot more responsibility and instead of just being able to make a movie, I have to deal with all aspects of the company. It is tough because as DVD sales decline and there is less and less money coming in, I have to stretch myself thin in order to make the movie, create all of the web content that our sponsors require and run the business. I feel like the movie suffers from this. Something will need to change in the future or independent companies like People Films will no longer be able to keep making these movies. Did you hit any major obstacles along the way or was this year pretty smooth? There were some pretty major obstacles, for sure. On December 1, 2011, which is when I would have usually started lming for Pretty Wise, I didnt have any lmers, any riders or any sponsors. My business partner of 10 years left to go to work at Burton. All the riders from our previous movie Good Look left for movies that their sponsors were making, other videos and to do web specic projects. All that was left from People at that point was Shaun McKay and I. With the help of friends in the industry I was able to round up a new crew of riders, lmers and sponsors and start lming by January 1. It was a really unsure, scary and stressful time in my life. I didnt know if I was going to be able to make another movie or even have a job. I felt disrespected by a lot of people who I no longer respect anymore. However, at the end of the day, I pulled through with the help of my close friends and was able to save the company and continue making these lms that I love making. Standout parts in your opinion? Some of the riders that standout in the movie are Jason Robinson, Rusty Ockenden, Will Lavigne, Shaun McKay and Scot Brown.
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In this age of POVs and follow-cams, there is quite a range of filmers on the mountain: young bucks to weathered vets. Add to that the multitude of camera types and models available, and there is a mass of styles and designs to cater to. Camtrol Free Shooting Tools recently opened their headquarters in Breckenridge and is positioned to provide a line of tools suitable for just about any camera wielder. Camtrol is a tool for everybody, says Camtrol founder Jonny Rowen. Camtrol is an on-the-go, modular, production tool that can be tethered to any device for absolute ease of use, variety, flexibility and shooting styles for anybody who wants to see what they are doing. The handles feature three ball joints that allow the user to shape the handle exactly how they need for virtually any type of camera: DSLRs, Camcorders, POV Cams, iPhones, iPods and anything else without a handle. With most setups, you are restricted to a limited range of motion that is constrained from your waist to chin. However, the lockingball-joint system used in Camtrol products allows for quick and easy adjustments when shooting overhead angles, and especially, low angles. While Rowen was living in the Lake Tahoe area, he would often film family and friends on the weekends and was frustrated by the difficulties he felt controlling his camera. After building a model in his garage and sporting it around the hill, it was clear that he was not the only person looking for that kind of tool. I couldnt not be approached by people in the lift-line asking me where I got it or where they could get one, says Rowen. At that point, I decided that it was a valid product and that I was going to pursue patenting my idea so that I could protect it and go into manufacturing. Bringing this product to consumers was no easy task. The legality behind patenting, copyrighting and trademarking was something
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I had to learn, explains Rowen in regard to the initial speed bumps he encountered when starting the company. Most of the struggles that come with a new product, other than that, come from convincing people to try something new. They sorted through the obstacles and introduced their product, getting Camtrols into the hands of the key videographers across the industry. Filmers at Mt. Hood and Camp of Champions used the handles this summer, and a number of video crews were hooked up with handles to use for their feature films this season. The word is quickly spreading, especially right here at home. Colorado, to me, has always been the mecca of new products and new sports, says Rowen. We felt that the company vision was about a lifestyle of filming your life experience and that is what Colorado natives are all about. Colorado has also facilitated the growth of the Camtrol team. One tends to meet like-minded individuals when living in this state and Matt Guess, Camtrol VP of Sales & Marketing/Team Manager, is not immune to the allure of the Rockies. Matt and Jonny met a couple years ago at SIA in Denver. Guess saw the passion Rowen had for this new product and was sold on the idea. What started as a simple sponsor relationship blossomed into a much bigger role for Guess. Matts strong feelings about Colorado reflect Rowens. Guess says he loves being in the environment where this new product thrives. I am very excited for the future of Camtrol, says Guess. If you want your ideas to succeed, you must have passion. Then, you need to surround yourself with like-minded individuals that share that passion with you. The Camtrol dudes seems to be on the right track.
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Admittedly, when I hear the phrase POV, I dont necessarily think of goggles, or snowboarding. However, the point-of-view camera is only becoming more popular, and this year, with the iON, Zeal is tossing their own spin into the mix.
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three adjustable scene settings: auto, low light and sunny. The camera also boasts 8MP photo capabilities and has settings for single shot, sequence and time lapse. While the camera specs are similar to those found in competing
Zeal was the first goggle company to incorporate a GPS system into their product, and upon realizing that the wide-screen viewfinder used for the GPS display in their Z3 goggle would work for video, they set out to find a way to take the next step. The iON basically came out of us filming our own things and realizing that we werent getting the shots we wanted because we had no vantage point, says Chelsea Lawson, Zeals head of public relations. We were looking for a way to mix technology, function and fashion together. Keeping the development in-house was a priority and a number of engineers were brought aboard, with teams working separately on certain aspects of the camera. There were specific engineers for every component of the electronics package, says Lawson. After two years of development, we will see the iON on the market for the 2012/2013 season. The built-in camera can shoot in both 1080p and 720p at 30 and 60 fps, respectively, and is supported by 8GB of included SD card memory, which is good for up to four hours of HD video. Exposure and white balance are set automatically and there are
models, there are a couple of distinctions that separate the iON. One, the camera can be fully operated through the goggle without having to remove your gloves. Secondly, because of the in-lens viewfinder, there is no need to consistently check to see if your camera is on or ask someone else on the hill if its on. All of that information sits on the 16x9 widescreen display, right in front of your eyes. The Zeal iON is a game changer for POV cameras. No more guessing how the video is turning out. Instead you can play back your footage whenever you want, says rider Kimmy Fasani. I was happily surprised to see how easy this goggle and camera were to use.
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THE A51 TERRAIN PARK IS UNDOUBTEDLY KEYSTONES MASTERPIECE.
BOASTING 3,148 ACRES OF TERRAIN FEATURING EVERYTHING F R O M S T E E P S TO TO P R A N K E D PA R K S TO C AT-AC C E S S E D BOARDING, KEYSTONE RESORT HAS UNLIMITED POTENTIAL FOR RIDERS SEEKING A MOUNTAIN THAT HAS IT ALL WITHOUT TRAVELING FAR TO GET THE GOODS. LOCATED 75 MILES FROM DENVER, DOWN EVERYONES FAVORITE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTERY, INTERSTATE 70, KEYSTONE SITS ABOUT SEVEN MILES CLOSER TO DENVER THAN BRECKENRIDGE, GRANTING YOU ANOTHER SNOOZE ON THE ALARM CLOCK. OR, FORGET THE ALARM AND SLEEP IN: KEYSTONE IS THE ONLY RESORT ON THE VAIL RESORTS EPIC PASS THAT OFFERS NIGHT RIDING. Accessibility comes easy at Keystone. Upon arriving, forget about needing cash or parking miles away, Keystone is one of the few places in Colorado you can park for free and walk to the lift. On the mountain, 6 carpets and 14 lifts (most of which are high-speed) make getting to your favorite spot easier and quicker. From River Run Village, the eight-passenger gondola zips you up the front side of the mountain. From there you can access the second gondola,
the Outpost Gondola that spans from the top of the front side (Dercum Mountain) to North Peak. This can be a lifesaver when the temperatures drop and you seek the solitude further back on the mountain. For riders seeking steeps and deep terrain, Keystones three peaks, with a number of ridges and bowls make for awesome freeriding. For only five bucks extra, you can hitch a snowcat ride to some of Keystones best backcountry riding terrain - in-bounds. Or if you prefer the old heel-toe express, you can always access this terrain on foot. The coveted spots are the Outback, Windows and Independence Bowl where you can find your share of trees, cliffs and powder. The Outback is the highest lift-accessed peak at Keystone that delivers cat access to the North and South Bowls for amazing tree riding. For the quickest access to the goods after a storm, head into the Windows, a short hike from the top of Dercum Mountain, for some good trees to thrash through. The newest of the bowls at Keystone is Independence Bowl where you can find breathtaking views from the top via snowcat or on foot and stellar riding on the way down.
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of the worlds best snowboarders rip A51. With ride times of five and seven minutes, respectively, they make for endless park and fullmountain laps. Thanks to the northeastern aspect of the A51 park, THE ALLEY HAS SOME OF THE GREASIEST DOWN BARS THIS SIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE you can lap in the sunshine and worry less about wind affecting your hangtime. Keystones progressive terrain park features provide the perfect place to develop some Evil Knievel moves. From Fredas Incubator to Main The A51 Terrain Park is undoubtedly Keystones masterpiece. It has been ranked within the top three parks in the world and is ridden by some of the best in the world, too. Keystone usually opens in November with more features than any mountain in North America and when fully open (typically by Thanksgiving), A51 boasts over 100 features that deliver everything from innovative jumps to jibs. The 2012-2013 season marks the 10th anniversary of A51 and to celebrate they will showcase a signature 10th-year park feature. Both the A51 double and the Peru High Speed Quad run right over the park and it can be something else just riding the those lifts and watching some Street you can take small steps, moving from a small box to a handrail or a three-foot jump to a 60-foot booter. Keystones park staff keeps the features in immaculate shape and they switch things up regularly to create fresh lines. The A51 terrain parks have such a variety of features; if you put in your time here, you will certainly get better. Main Street has the big jump line where a set of three, X Gamessized jumps are built each year. Park Lane has the medium jump line and The Alley has some of the greasiest down bars this side of the Continental Divide. For those seeking to shake things up, a trip down the I-70 park line will do it with creative features that allow you to
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link together unique lines. The Rail Garden after the Main Street jump line is another area for creativity, but on a much larger scale than I-70. These features test anyones ability on a snowboard. If you decide to wander the mountain looking for another park, you wont find one. Keystone keeps all of its features in A51. If you prefer a little more to your park run than just jumps and rails, Keystone has you covered with wide-open groomers that are perfect for mobbing. Some of the best runs are just after the park. Cut right at the end of the park down Ballhooter for some mellow cruisers, or point it down the ski racing trail Go Devil to get that adrenaline flowing.
other options for pizza as well, especially for those headed back to I-70. Jersey Boys in Dillon is the place for a good East Coast slice of pizza. With roots back east in Newark, New Jersey, this place knows whats up with pizza and for me is the go-to spot for a little taste of home. Nothing completes a day of snowboarding more than pizza and beer.
AN AWESOME THING ABOUT KEYSTONE IS THAT When it comes to eats, the village has an array of joints to choose from. On your way back to your car at the end of the day, it is very likely you will pass Pizza On The Run before you reach the parking lot. The smell of pizza pumping out of this place can really test your willpower and itll be hard to not run in for a slice to-go. There are FOR $5 ON TOP OF YOUR LIFT TICKET OR SEASON PASS YOU HAVE ACCESS TO CAT BOARDING
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Now if pizza is not your thing, there is the famous Dos Locos Mexican Restaurant and Cantina. This place has an awesome happy hour with Mexican food, wings, and booze. And if youre on a strict budget, you can be the stingy one who makes a meal out of the free chips and salsa. Watch your timing at Dos Locos, though, because tables fill up fast, especially weekends when the game is on. If late-night action is what youre into, Dos Locos offers karaoke on Thursday nights. Keystone is a place where both park dwellers and freeriders can get For those seeking events that add to the mountain experience, Keystone has played host to a number of contests and events youll see in snowboard magazines and first-hand throughout the season. The launch of the River Run Rail Series gives local riders a chance to throw down and win prizes (including cash) in a Rail Jam at the base of the River Run Gondola pre-season in September, opening weekend in November and closing weekend in April. The biggest events have included Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam, Transworld Snowboardings TransAm, Snowboarder Magazines Superpark and Ms. Superpark. their fix. With night boarding and other activities going on around the village, Keystone is a great option to consider when looking avoiding the I-70 rush hours during peak season. Make a point to leave the couch behind a couple times this winter and go ride Keystone Resort. NOTHING COMPLETES A DAY OF SNOWBOARDING MORE THAN PIZZA AND BEER
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Reflections on Sims Colorado story By Colin Bane
S E P T E M B E R 1 2 , 2 0 1 2 , A S W E A L L N O W K N O W, W A S A H E AV Y D AY. T O M S I M S PA S S E D AWAY AT FA R T O O Y O U N G O F A N AG E . I T WA S A N I M M E N S E LO S S TO S N OW B O A R D I N G A N D S K AT E B O A R D I N G A N D T O A L L W H O K N E W H I M . LU C KY FO R U S , TO M L E F T B E H I N D A L E G ACY A N D H I S A C C O M P L I S H M E N T S S P E A K F O R T H E M S E LV E S . A T R U E P I O N E E R , T O M B R O U G H T F O R WA R D -T H I N K I N G C O N C E P T S A N D I N N OVAT I O N S T H AT F O R E V E R C H A N G E D T H E L A N D S C A P E O F T H E S N O W A N D S K AT E I N D U S T R I E S . H E E S S E N T I A L LY S H A P E D B OT H O F T H E S E S I D E WAY S - STA N D I N G D I S C I P L I N E S A S W E K N O W T H E M T O D AY. H I S C O N S TA N T Q U E ST F O R T H E D E E P E ST P OW D E R , T H E LO N G E ST D OW N H I L L PAV E D R O A D A N D T H E S M O OT H E S T WAV E H A S B E E N , A N D A LWAY S W I L L B E , A N I N S P I R AT I O N TO U S A L L . - M A R C V I T E L L I , S I M S S N OW B O A R D S
Theres a well-worn quote about the Velvet Underground frequently attributed to Brian Eno that has attained mythic status in the history of rock and roll: Only five thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground album, but every single one of them started a band. Trent Bush, the only snowboarder member on the board of directors at the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum in Vail and co-founder of the Colorado Snowboard Archive exhibit there, attributes a similar level of inuence to Tom Sims in the world of snowboarding. He just embodied this whole lifestyle as this wild-eyed, rock-and-roll Southern California guy upending ski culture, and he was infectious, Bush says. He was one of the most important and vocal carriers of the torch for snowboarding from the beginning, and anyone who got near him wanted to be involved in what he was doing. People crossed paths with Tom and then went and started their own companies.
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For a guy from Haddonfield, New Jersey, who spent most of his life in Southern California, Sims managed to make an awfully big impact on the history of snowboarding here in Colorado. Sims, who is credited with inventing the prototype for the modern snowboard in his junior high wood shop class back in New Jersey in 1963, was also among the first to sell and distribute boards in Colorado and helped convince ski area operators at Ski Cooper and Berthoud Pass to let some of the first snowboarders on their slopes. He ultimately lived to see the sport he helped create welcomed and embraced by every ski area in Colorado and nearly every ski area in the U.S. and around the world and was still charging hard in Colorado every chance he got, including recent trips to Breckenridge and a heli-boarding trip to Silverton Mountain. With the passing of Tom Sims, the world lost a true pioneer in snowboard and skateboard culture that goes so much further than his impact in the products that carried the Sims name, wrote Bush and his Colorado Snowboard Archive co-founders David Alden and Kurt Olesek, in a statement after Sims death from cardiac arrest was reported in September. That raggedy old board Sims cobbled together back in 1963 is one of several early SIMS Snowboards prototypes on display in the Colorado Snowboard Archives permanent exhibit at the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum. Toms vision and relentless drive helped shape the identity of an entire generation who discovered a lifestyle that he helped create. Anyone fortunate enough to have stepped on a snowboard or skateboard in the last few decades owes a huge debt of gratitude to Tom Sims, and the work we
did with Tom to create the Colorado Snowboard Archive in the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum in Vail has taken on even more importance as a way to preserve his legacy. We join the entire snowboard and skateboard world in our best wishes for Toms family, and Tom, while youve moved on to deeper powder and smoother streets, you will never be forgotten. Sims Colorado story dates back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, after founding SIMS Snowboards in 1976, when he began his campaign to convince ski areas to allow his boards on the slopes. He competed in and won some of the earliest contests at Ski Cooper and Berthoud Pass, going as far back as 1981, events that were aimed specifically at demonstrating how far snowboarding had come in a few short years and how it could be compatible with existing ski areas. It worked: Ski Cooper and Berthoud Pass worked to sort out the insurance issues around allowing snowboarders on their slopes and chairlifts, and the success of those early events helped pave the way for other ski areas in Colorado to open to snowboarders within a few years. I was involved with those first Berthoud Pass contests and I remember Tom driving up and pulling a board out of his trunk with a P-Tex bottom and metal edges when there wasnt another soul out there with anything like that, recalls Bill Wright, owner of the Wright Life shop in Fort Collins, one of the first local shops to carry SIMS Snowboards and the longest continually-operating snowboard shop in Colorado. He then proceeded to just destroy the entire field, but in the process he gave the rest of us a glimpse of what was possible on a snowboard.
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Wright has three museum-worthy vintage SIMS Snowboards models among his private collection on display in the shop, including a yellow plastic contraption involving a wooden skateboard deck that was one of Sims early prototypes from the 1970s. I was very sad to hear of Toms death, and its been reminding me of those very early days of the sport when it was just SIMS and Burton, and Tom and Jake were the guys answering the phones, he says. To get boards and stuff you pretty much went through them. Its sort of amazing to think back on how far its all come. Sims collaborated closely with Bush, Olesek, and Alden (a former SIMS team rider) on the Colorado Snowboard Archive, where promotional posters and results sheets from events like Berthouds King of the Mountain are among the collections treasures, and Bush says his research confirms Wrights first-person recollection. Everyone else was showing up with wood boards and plastic boards, and he shows up with a fiberglass composite snowboard not all that different from some of todays boards, Bush says. At every contest he rode in back then he did a thing called the SIMS Challenge, where if you beat Tom hed give you a free board. I dont even know if he ever had to give one away. That was always his deal in the early days: he was the best, but he also really wanted to see people rise to the challenge because he was trying to grow the sport and the whole lifestyle. Those contests now make up some of the earliest history of snowboarding, in Colorado or anywhere else.
I n t h e l ate 70 s a n d e a r l y 8 0 s To m a n d o t h e r s n ow b o a rd i n g pioneers saw Colorado as the key battleground, Bush says. The Colorado ski industry was already well established and there was a high concentration of ski areas here, so Tom realized that if the acceptance of snowboarding was going to happen on a big scale, it kind of needed to happen here first. Colorado was also just a natural crossroads at that time, with Tom coming from the West, Jake Burton from the East, and then Winterstick happening in Utah and Mervin coming from the Northwest. Colorado was where all those roads converged. By the time Sims helped bring the World Snowboard Classic to Breckenridge in 1986, the sport was already well on its way to fulfilling his prophecy. It will become the mainstream sport for teenagers and guys in their twenties within five years, I believe, Sims told sportscaster John Keating, then of Denvers KMGH 7 News, the local ABC affiliate, during coverage of the 86 Worlds, in one of the many awesome old videos we dug up on YouTube. He wasnt far off. Within that five-year span nearly every ski resort in Colorado had come around to allowing snowboarders, and even the International Olympic Committee had seen the light, announcing that the sport Sims helped create would make its debut as a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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Sims was also a pioneer in building a team of pro riders to represent his brand, recruiting riders like Craig Kelly, Terry Kidwell, Noah Salasnek and Shaun Palmer who would become legends in the sport, as well as sponsoring dozens of Colorado locals over the years. Chris Pappas, Tim Windell (now best known as the founder of the Windells Camp at Mt. Hood in Oregon), Kevin Delaney and David Alden were among the first waves of SIMS Snowboards riders, and the SIMS current pro lineup includes Breckenridge frequenter Seth Hill and Vails Bryan Daino, with Snowmass local Gwyneth Tefft representing on the amateur team. Although Sims was as into slalom snowboard racing as anyone back in the day (search YouTube for some epic videos of him trying to shave extra seconds off in a neoprene surfing dry suit) he was also largely responsible for shaping the freestyle aspect of the sport, a direction that even his earliest team rider selections reflect. Had Tom not been around, I dont know if the freestyle aspect of snowboarding would exist so much today, Bush says. It probably would have gone more towards ski-style racing, you know, slalom and giant slalom and downhill, because the other guys in the sport early on all came from ski backgrounds. Tom came from surfing and skateboarding, and he was very influential, from a very early stage, in keeping that skate roots and surf roots mentality. Anyone who was on SIMS back then was also a skateboarder, and that made a huge difference in the direction everything would take. Sims took his own legacy seriously in his final years, and took an active
role in seeing it preserved out of fear that Burton and others would overshadow him in the annals of snowboard history. He was very, very vocal almost overzealous at times about what his contribution was, and is, to snowboarding and skateboarding and youth culture and the whole thing, Bush recalls. And he wasnt wrong! There were a couple of guys who were ground zero in the birth of what snowboarding is today and he was one of them. He deserves a lot of credit for that. But, I do think he felt that his legacy was being overshadowed. For better or for worse, he was a much better rider and innovator and ambassador for the sport than he was a business guy, by his own admission, and some of his license deals didnt work out so well over the years. We were really fortunate to get to work with him to get his story and to have him so willing to donate some of his most historic boards for the museum. When we first got involved with the project and started digging around in some of the snowboard stuff the museum already had, we were surprised to find some of Toms stuff in there, along with video of a 1995 presentation at the museum, then called the Colorado Ski Museum, where he was already arguing that they should add snowboarding to the name. Hed beaten us to the punch by more than a decade. Speaking of stories, as anyone who ever rode up a chairlift or ran into Sims in a bar at the base area can attest, he was a guy who could talk your ear off about snowboarding, and could spin a back-in-the-day yarn with the best of them.
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The amount of knowledge and historic context we got from him anytime we had a question things wed never known before was just incredible, Bush says. But as we were bumping up against our deadlines to get the exhibit open at the museum last year, we actually got to the point of not wanting to call him when we had questions because youd get on the phone with him and hed talk for an hour! He was super enthusiastic, which was great, but we were sitting there on deadline trying to get stuff done because the doors were going to open, trying and failing to reign him in! Looking back on it now, theres a sense of, thank God we had those conversations and got those stories from him when we did, because it turned out to be our last chance. Sims can rest in peace knowing that his legacy will, indeed, be preserved, both at the museum and in the collective memory of everyone who inherits his passion for zipping sideways down mountains and roads and waves. His contributions to snowboarding, in particular, were heavily reported in the days and weeks after his death, and the roots of nearly everything about todays snowboard culture have been traced back to him as snowboarders everywhere have been sharing their remembrances. Hes probably single-handedly responsible for exporting stereotypical, Southern California surfer slang to the mountains, for one thing. So when youre getting radical out there this season you can thank Tom Sims for both helping shape that experience and for giving you the appropriate vocabulary to describe it.
Growing up in Colorado in the 70s and 80s, you couldnt really be a surfer, obviously, but we were envious of that surf lifestyle and we were skateboarders who were looking to take that same thrill to the mountains, says Tim Canaday, Co-Founder of Never Summer Industries. Tom Sims came through and showed everybody how it could be done. I never knew him personally, but Sims designs were an inspiration to us early on when we first started making our Swift Snowboards, later on when we founded Never Summer Industries and again when we got into the longboard market. Without Sims, I dont even know if there would be such a thing as a longboard market today. He was the original. Sims can be seen rocking a ridiculously long longboard in the 1976 sk8sploitation film classic Freewheelin, sporting short shorts and a mustache that would be the envy of any modern-day hipster as hes bombing hills and carving bowls alongside the likes of Stacy Peralta. He spent decades trying to promote the idea that longboards gave the best approximation of the sensations of surfing and snowboarding before it finally caught on. But, like many of Sims innovations, longboarding is now beloved around the world. Go to any college campus in Colorado, on any given day, count the number of longboarders cruising by, and know that Tom Sims spent most of his life hoping that day would come, a project as dear to his heart as promoting snowboarding. Sims Colorado connection was cemented in 2006 when he granted global licensing rights of his brand to Englewood-based Collective Licensing International. Tom owned and had complete control of
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the brand up until his passing and, I assume, has passed it onto his wife, says Marc Vitelli, Brand Manager for SIMS Snowboards. We are running the brand, and have been for the past six-plus years, with Toms ownership and involvement. Although Sims was not involved with daily operations at SIMS Snowboards, Vitelli says he worked closely with him to restore and rebuild the brands equity during that time, re-branding and working to re-educate retailers and consumers about the brands authentic roots in both snowboarding and skateboarding, with an emphasis on telling the story of Sims innovations and historic firsts, including the first snowboard with metal edges, the first folding highback bindings and the first true twin-tip shapes to facilitate switch riding. Sims nal innovation, Vitelli says, is being unveiled in this seasons boards: the SIMS E-Board (short for ergonomic snowboard) is a skateboardinspired project Sims worked on over the last four years with Louis Fournier, using wedges on the board beneath the bindings to better align a riders hips, knees and ankles, reducing leg fatigue and injury. I mention it because Tom was still at the forefront in facilitating and bringing new performance-based functionality to snowboard design right up to the end of his life, Vitelli says. He was a true pioneer all along. While we dont tend to think of SIMS Snowboards as a Colorado company in the same sense that we do with the handful of local companies Never Summer, Unity, Venture, Oz, High Society Freeride,
etc. that manufacture boards right in here in Colorado, Vitelli says the brand has embraced both its local roots and its Colorado future. Since 2006, we have sponsored camps at both Echo Mountain and Woodward at Copper weve been doing summer camps at Woodward every year since they opened and every photo shoot that we have done since 2006, we have always done in Colorado, exploring different resorts and backcountry areas all over the state, Vitelli says. Vitelli says he is currently working on a permanent online memorial to commemorate the history of the SIMS brand and Tom Sims contributions to both snowboarding and skateboarding, and that a memorial event in Colorado is currently being planned. I hope the next generations of snowboarders, here in Colorado and around the world, will learn of Toms legacy just as the first generations of riders now remember him, Vitelli says. He really created what we all know today as snowboarding: when he wanted to emulate surfing on the streets of New Jersey in the early 60s he built a longboard, and when he wanted to do it in the winter time he built a snowboard. He knew that he wanted to live this surfing lifestyle year-round, and even from a young age, he had a vision for how to make that happen. He was the first true boardsports pioneer and the first who could hold his own on a surfboard, a skateboard and a snowboard. That combination really shaped everything he did in snowboarding.
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The Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum will also be planning a memorial event this winter, according to Bush. I went to the paddle-out ceremony in California and it was amazing to see so many people and so many snowboard legends come out for it, Bush says, referring to the memorial ceremony at Hammonds Beach in Montecito on September 16 that attracted approximately 300 of Sims friends, fans, family members and even some of his former rivals, like Chuck Barfoot. That paddle-out ceremony couldnt have been more appropriate because Sims was a surfer through and through. But I think it will be equally important to make sure something in his memory happens on snow this season. Aaron Brill, co-owner of Silverton Mountain the only snowboarderowned area we know of says Sims was still ripping in the final years of his life, recalling a surprise visit from him in 2011. SIMS Snowboards brought out their team to spend a couple days in the backcountry near Silverton, and at the last minute Tom Sims decided to jump on the trip, Brill says. They stayed in a backcountry hut and set it up so we went and picked them up with a heli and brought them over to Silverton. We took them in the heli right to the top of the peak, took them straight to the goods, and everyone was ripping it up. He was solid: he was holding his own riding hard with the best of the SIMS team at the time, throwing up big powder trails. You would have never guessed the guy was 60 at the time. The only sign
he showed of his age was he was like, no hiking. Hed ride anything, but he did not want to walk! Brill credits Sims with inspiring his own career in snowboard and, indirectly, with inspiring him to open his own snowboarding paradise at Silverton Mountain. I started snowboarding back in the early 1980s, before most of the ski areas allowed it, and watching Sims and his peers battle for ski area acceptance when I was a kid I remember thinking, someday Im going to open my own mountain, and run it my way, Brill says. The first snowboard I ever bought with real edges and rode at a ski area was a SIMS board, and when I think back to everything he did back then its crazy. I mean, you just dont find guys like that these days. He created the boards, he created the team, he was an awesome snowboarder and all that, but he also had to convince the ski areas to let him ride in the first place! He had to do and be everything. He had to be the athlete, the builder, the production guy, the salesman, and the ambassador. Theres no argument, without Tom Sims, snowboarding would be very different today, if it existed at all.
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TRICK TIPS
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ALLEY-OOP BACKSIDE RODEO 360 ON A QUARTER PIPE WITH HANS MINDICH

Approach the quarterpipe going straight. As you make your way up the tranny, make sure youre in the power stance. As you get to the vertical part of the pipe, almost at the top, pop with both legs and lean back a little, like a backflip. Look as you would if you were doing a normal back flip, but as you look back, bring your knees in and grab melon. (For both style and rotation. This is also the scary part). If you fall, dont blame me. Hence t h e wo rd s Tr i c k Ti p ; i t j u s t means Im giving tips. Once you get here, youre just about home free, my friends. Just spot your landing and get ready to ride out switch. Once youre upside down and a little sideways, you should feel the rotation start to come right around to the point where you can start to get your feet under you.
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BRANDON WILSON
This month I got to chat with former Breckenridge resident, wildlycreative artist and Zion Snowboards designer, Brandon Wilson. After following the usual routine, living in Breck and running a small clothing company, Brandon decided to get more serious about his desired career in art. He moved back to his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, and went back to school for graphic design. After school, Wilson worked his ass off and landed fun design jobs for Wal-Mart, McDonalds and United Way, to name a few. He enjoyed his success, but his roots in the snowboard world were still pulling at him, like they do for many of us when we decide to grow up and get a real job. Years later, he was ready to break off on his own to focus on designing for a select few companies that he was most passionate about. Over the course of this last year, he has gotten to focus whole heartedly on work for Ridefourever.com / Studio Skate Supply, a Kansas City based skate/snow brand, Zion Snowboards and a few others.
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friends (www.austinwalshstudio.com & tadcarpenter.com ), and of course, Froese. Eventually he would love to continue to add additional artists as Zion grows. Our featured Zion board this season is the Lost Series. This series of snowboards is about taking scenarios that wouldnt present t h e m s e l ve s i n eve r yd ay l i fe a n d m a k i n g o d d , b u t f u n co l l a g e environments on the boards. This year s Lost Series centers on dreamy childhood thoughts. The theme came from Wilsons own childhood memories of low-budget, cross-country road trips his whole family used to take. He told me stories about how they would drive everywhere with a mission to find motels with the craziest amenities, like mini-golf with dinosaurs and plastic-palm-tree sprinkled pools, and how his imagination would go crazy at those places. To him, the board and his memories create the same feeling that snowboarding does, a fun, free sense of travel and transportation. Zion is the love child of the people who work on it. They all have
Zions headquarters are in Canada, but the company has a strong connection to Colorado. The companys owner, Walter Froese, has become a great friend of ours from all the way up in Vancouver, without even meeting any of us. Through his pure vision for a core snowboard company and his fun, kind personality, Froese has made many long-distance friends here in Colorado, just through phone calls and Skype. Years ago, Wilson was introduced to Froese through Zion team rider, Summit County business owner, and mutual friend Floyd Ralph. Froese and Wilson quickly realized they had a similar vision and have been working together ever since. Wilson started small, doing art for a board or two, and gradually took on more and more responsibility. He now primarily runs the direction of the design for Zion. He does most of the art himself, with help from a few of his
full-time jobs to pay the bills, but this company transports them to the world they love and gives them that childlike excitement. We support their absolute love and core mentality when it comes to making quality, well designed snowboards. Visit Brandons website: http://www.contrabrand.net.
THE THEME CAME FROM BRANDONS OWN CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF LOW-BUDGET, CROSS-COUNTRY ROAD TRIPS HIS WHOLE FAMILY USED TO TAKE
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THE MINORS WHO USED TO COME OUT TO OUR SHOWS ARE NOW OF AGE AND FULLFLEDGED BAR DRINKERS
FRONTSIDE FIVE
Bands come and go, especially in the punk-rock world. The few that are able to stay together for the long term maintain their longevity not only by being a good band and staying appealing but because they hold on to the people and the places that have helped them get to where they are. Denvers Frontside Five have stayed true to their skate-rock roots for a full decade now and have no plans of changing that anytime soon. We have developed a solid, core group of friends and family over the past 10 years, says Robdogg, the bands drummer. The bonds we have are unbreakable. Staying true to our word, true to our friends and true to our family will keep the momentum of Frontside Five always going. Their sound is denitely punk rock, but its not your everyday, harmonic whoa-oh punk. Its faster, more in your face and full of unrelenting energy and passion. Its skate rock. In Denver, Frontside Five is that band. Theyve made records, been all over the country, played with many of the legendary bands that helped shape the punk rock scene and have done it all by their own sweat and blood. And they are celebrating it all on October 27 at their 10-year anniversary party at the Marquis Theater. The band is currently made up of ve hardcore rockers who have made skateboarding almost as much of the bands image as the music itself. Get there early at their next show and you can help them load their gear on to their boards and push it in the back door of the venue. If youre lucky you can snag a Frontside Five skate deck from their merch table. Back in the day, the guys got their start rocking Denvers abundant and beloved rock n roll dives, including the 15th St. Tavern (now defunct), Larimer Lounge, Climax Lounge, and the nest spot on East Colfax, the Lions Lair. They also got hooked up at the Bluebird and Gothic. We would personally like to thank Peter Ore for setting us up with our rst big show with The Exploited at the Gothic Theatre in 2003, and two years of playing the main stage of Red Rocks for the Punk Rocks shows in 2008 and 2009, says Robdogg. Over the last decade, the band has watched Denvers punk scene grow into what it is now, with so many bands and people involved that is hard
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to stay on top of them all. The minors who used to come out to our shows are now of age and full-edged bar drinkers, Robdogg says. We encourage them to buy us shots since they are the demographic with the most disposable income. These drinkers only have a select number of nights a year when they can buy them shots, as the four guys and one gal in the band have priorities outside of Frontside Five. Skateboarding and music are big parts of our lives, but not the only thing we have going for us, says Robdogg. Weve been very picky when it comes down to the shows we are playing around Denver. We dont have the time to take every show we get offered. Weve been having fun disappearing off of the local radar and coming out of nowhere with some of the best shows weve played in 10 years. Their homemade record label, Fivecore Records, was born in 2005 to help out ve Denver bands. The rst bands on the label were Frontside Five, Lyin Bitch and The Restraining Orders, King Rat, Valiomierda, and Truckasaurus, says Robdogg. Eventually, we began signing nationally touring bands and developed several touring circuits that kept these bands busy on the road. The record industry changed almost overnight, he says. People were not buying CDs, and record stores were closing quickly. The digital music age was here and free file sharing was making things hard to make a profit. We decided to pull the plug on Fivecore Records last year. We were spending a lot of time working on the label, but at this point, we couldnt justify spending so much time on something that didnt pay the bills. Even without the label, Frontside Five plans to put out a new record in the near future and do some touring. As far as where else they will be leaving their mark? A whole bunch of stickers on the urinals of your favorite bar, Robdogg says. Check out Frontside Five online at facebook.com/frontside.ve.
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