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Totally Tanner

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:09:44 -0800

One of the most celebrated freestyle skiers today with accolades that include Superpipe gold and silver at multiple Winter X-Games and podiums at three of skiing's biggest contests (US Open, World Skiing Invitational, and World Superpipe Championships).

Hall is one of the young innovators who is making skiing fashionable again — busting out with huge air and impressive moves that compound the exhilaration usually attributed to snowboarding with the speed and finess that only skis can supply. Although he's barely in his twenties, the press has already dubbed him "the best skier of his generation," and a host of gold medals, including the first-ever World Superpipe Championship, attest to his dominance.

Daron Rahlves rules

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:56:34 -0800

"We're trying to draw the best skier-cross athletes, the best halfpipe athletes, and have them involved in one tour. I think it's going to be a great thing." "I'm excited because it's new motivation," Ralves said. "It's a way for me to expend some competitive energy. Just to completely drop off from racing, 12 years on the world cup to nothing, just free skiing, wasn't really going to do it for me. ...I think this is going to be the biggest thing to happen for skiing and ski competition in a long time.''

John Meyer - The Denver Post

Watch Daron racing Skiercross at The Honda Ski Tour '07!

Simon says

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:49:57 -0800

Simon lit the world on fire in just his first year of competitive skiing in the 2003 X-Games. In 2004 he wins X-Games Gold and instantly becomes considered the best pipe rider in the world and again repeats in 2005. His sudden rise to stardom landed him in major segments of all the top ski movies on the market.

Be sure to check him out throwing down this year at The Honda Ski Tour, the newest ski competition on the circuit. It's going to be the Loudest Show on Snow!

Long live CR

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:52:14 -0800

Six time Winter X-Games competitor in both Slopestyle and Superpipe. He was awarded Trick of the Year at Powder Magazine's Super Park. CR took the 2006 season off to recover from a back-country accident wich occurred in 2005. Catch him at The Ski Tour in 2007.

"The Ski Tour is a real athlete driven event. With the best prize money, the best athletes involved, and the best venues and entertainment, The Ski Tour will prove to the best ski competitions yet." CR Johnson

Cross-it!

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:06:25 -0800

The Ski Tour represents the hottest evolution in gravity sports entertainment. Offering the richest purse in elite-level individual ski competition, The Ski Tour features Skiercross (projected to be a 2010 Olympic event) and Skier Halfpipe set against the backdrop of an epic music, arts and mountain culture festival. In 2007, The Ski Tour will drop in on four legendary North American resorts ˆ Sun Valley, Breckenridge, Aspen/Snowmass and Squaw Valley ˆ and millions of network TV viewers across the country. Don‚t miss The Ski Tour ˆ it‚s the Loudest Show on Snow!

The Ski Tour

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:09:56 -0800

Waiting Game

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:27:57 -0800

Half a skier’s life is spent rushing about—to the mountain early on a powder day; to the heli-pad when bluebird conditions are expected; to a resort halfway across the country on a storm-chasing road trip. The other half is spent waiting forever once you get there -waiting for the tram to open, for the skies to clear, for the roads to become passable.

And the waiting is the hardest part. Because the anticipation of the next face shot, of an uncut heli run, and of an approaching storm is enough to drive a group of skiers to devote their entire lives to the pursuit of a sport, to the pursuit of a lifestyle—and this lifestyle includes countless hours spent in lift lines, in RVs on the side of the road and in the parking lot of a helicopter operation twitching during down days waiting for that next indescribable moment when it all make sense…this is the waiting game.