I was just lookin at this and thought some of you ladies might like to go have a look...its the new Ride Ladies site. All the new range is there as well as profiles and interviews with the womens team.

Oh and just as a side note...I am in love with the new artist collaboration Tokidoki range (well the way it looks at least)..this board and bindings are fab!

Scottish pro rider Scott McMorris has launched his own website. It includes a blog, pictures, video clips and press coverage. Check it out at www.scottmcmorris.com

A prominent blogger posted a piece on his site a few days about a snowboarding accident that nearly cost him his life. A very moving story, well worth reading - http://www.copyblogger.com/the-secret-of-life/

Found this cute l’il animation on Vimeo – hope you like…

Lazy Sunday Animation: Snowboard from Martin Goguen on Vimeo.

Check out this l'il promo video for the Girl Powder clothing company - lots of fun rail action...

Kory Wright is hoping to compete at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver representing the nation of his birth – the Bahamas.

Kory has spent most of his life in Canada but still wants to represent the Bahamas and coaches reckon he’s got the skills to make it to the Games too. 

Find out more and watch the video story on the CTV website.

Snowboard photographer Vincent Skoglund has given his website a makeover. There's a ton of nice stuff to check out - snow and non-snow images. Go visit www.vincentskoglund.com

The guys at Legion have relaunched their website – www.ilovelegion.com

The site covers the Scottish freestyle scene – both skiing and snowboarding.

It will continues to provide articles, blogs, gear reviews and interviews and will cover Scottish events, whether they take place in the mountains, on Dendex or anywhere else for that matter.

Go check it out.

The Canadian Avalanche Association offers a free online course on their website. The course is called "The Avalanche First Response Training Program". The course focus (per the website)

"In Canada, we enjoy the world's finest opportunities for winter outdoor recreation. Each year, more and more skiers, snowboarders, mountaineers, and snowmobilers venture into the backcountry with their friends to enjoy what nature has to offer. Unfortunately, each winter, some of these people die in avalanches - either because they don't know how to rescue themselves or because their companions are unable to rescue them.
This course will help you learn avalanche first response skills - what you and your companions should do during and immediately after an avalanche. While this course will introduce you to other aspects of avalanche safety, such as route-finding, snow stability, and trip preparation, it is not intended to replace a face-to-face avalanche safety course. We urge you to complement this basic course with avalanche field training..... "

The link is http://access.jibc.bc.ca/avalancheFirstResponse/index.htm

I've bookmarked it and plan to do it sometime soon. If anyone else decides to check it out I'd love to hear what others think.

If you’ve got $135 million going spare (haven’t we all!) then you might want to check out a bit of property that’s just come on the market.

The Hala chalet in Aspen has 15 bedrooms, indoor pool and a beauty treatment room in the master suite.

Click here to see it and a gallery of the rest of the world’s poshest ski chalets on Forbes.com

Really exciting news to tell you.

We’re on the shortlist for the 2007 Yahoo UK and Ireland Finds of the Year Awards. We’re one of the sites chosen in the Social category. The site doesn’t seem to be linking yet to all the pages listing the winners but you can cast your vote for us in the People’s Choice Award.

It’s a simple one click vote – no registration needed – and you can vote wherever you live. So please do vote for us and tell everyone you know to vote too! Would be an amazing way to mark our fifth birthday by winning something for our virtual mantelpiece!

Click here to go to the vote site.

Just4Girls are giving away a pair of places for a camper and a friend at their December 16 to 23 girl's snowboard camp in Morzine.

The prize includes six days of coaching and guiding, transfers, lift pass, accommodation in a lush chalet, meals and après activities.

You have to make your own way to Geneva – they’ll pick you up from the airport - but there are reasonably priced flights from loads of cities and countries so you can enter this draw whenever you are from!

Click here to go to their site and answer one question (which might not be the answer you thought it was!) to go into the draw.

Their website at www.just4girlssnowboarding.com also contains full details of their other camps which take place in January.

The 11th weekly podcast from Roxy is now live. This is the second of two podcasts following riders at the European Open halfpipe finals in Laax, Switzerland. Check it out below:

Whitelines magazine sent photographer Nathan Gallagher down to the Metro Ski & Snowboard Show when it was in London a couple of weeks ago. His video report - possibly the first snowboard media film I've seen presented by a man in a suit - on the Mpora website now. Look out for a few familiar UK riders and industry folk:
http://premiumtv.mpora.com/snowboarding/whitelines-premium/tv_WD4zw8/

Snowboarder magazine have a really interesting feature this month - pieces on the 20 most influential snowboarders from the past 20 years. Some great riders in there including some worthly female riders - Victoria Jealouse, Tara Dakides and Janna Meyen. Check out the list and the articles yourself here -  http://snowboardermag.com/features/riderprofiles/riderprofiles-cover/

Is there anyone else you think should be on the list? Leave a comment below if you have any suggestions.

Grouse Mountain in BC is giving you the chance to build your own terrain park. The premise is this -  tell them what you want and they'll build it!

Visit www.byop.ca to find out how to build your own terrain park.

You can vote on features and watch the progress on www.youtube.com/buildyourownpark

BBC Breakfast visited Chill Factore in Manchester last week and met up with the GB boardercross team - Zoe Gillings, Ivy Taylor and James Foster. You can launch it from the BBC Sport Winter Sport website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/default.stm

The ubercute mountain pygmy possum is under threat because of plans to expand a ski resort where it hibernates, according to Cosmos magazine.

The animals hibernate in the snow fields of Mount Buller and the nearby Bogong High Plains and also Mount Kosciusko in the state of New South Wales.

But a new study claims that plans to expand the resort will impact on their habitat and threaten the remaining 1,800 possums.

More info and cute picture at Cosmos magazine.

Scotland could be headed for a bumper snow season according to an article on the BBC News website. The Met Office is predicting a colder winter than usual and the mountains have already had their first sprinkling of snow.

Click here to read the full article.

A week in Moscow with 10 men? Sounds like a mission – and it’s one that Eastpak European Marketing Manager Nadia Kokni chose to accept. She is spending this week in the Russian capital with eight of her team skaters, a photographer and a filmer and will be posting blog commentary, pictures and videos from their travels.
Check out the blog on the Eastpak website.

The Burton Scrap Metal tour kicks off at Tamworth next month and the organisers have launched a hela-colourful website to support it - www.burtonscrapmetal.com

The site contains details of the venues, prizes and will also feature photos after the event.

Interesting - if not a little cheesy at times - interview with three of Australias finest snowboarding ladies. Aired on Sunday on a current affairs show 60 Minutes a 15 minute segment featuring Torah Bright, Holly Crawford and Emily Thomas worth a watch.

High Flyers (there is a random blurb to the side of the video that doesn't seem to match the footage..?)

Just incase you have not already read it check out the interview I did with Holly a few months back

Click here to check out a piece from the Sydney Morning Herald’s travel blog on the ten cheapest resorts in the world – not including flights I presume…

Fresh from the Nikita Myspace bulletin check out the cool new book of Swedish Street art! As a lover of all things street art I may have to get my hands on this. Check it out here:- Icepick