At long last, winter is here! With fresh snowfall in the mountains, this Friday December 5th Echo Mountain will officially be open for the season! From now through Dec 19th pre-season pricing applies with daily lift tickets starting at $24 for children 6 to 14 years old and only $29 for those 15 and up.

Classes or a day job keeping from making turns this season? Five days a week, Echo Mountain is open late with evening riding available from 3pm to 9pm. Opening day is just 2 days away and we’re all jonesing to get on the snow, so be sure to make it up to Echo Mountain this Friday and help us kick off this season right!

Also happening this weekend is the Sims Pro Series Camp at Echo Mountain. Join Sims Pros including Steve Fisher, Erich Dummer, and Colin Langlois for this all-ability snowboard camp. Registration is just $45 for season pass holders and $99 for those that don't have an Echo Mountain season pass.

Sims will be giving away tons of free swag including two 2 brand new snowboards and lunch will be provided by Qdoba Mexican Grill. For more information on the camp and to register online, please click "Camps" under the Ski & Ride School menu. See you this weekend!!!

See you soon
-The Echo Mountain Staff

Winners of the Three-Stop Rail Jam Contests Will Qualify for the 2009 Vans Cup at Mammoth

Cypress, CA (December 3, 2008) – Vans is proud to introduce The Vans Mini Cup, a new series of three rail jams going down this winter. The top rider from each Mini Cup stop will qualify for the rail jam at the 2009 Vans Cup at Mammoth, widely regarded as the West Coast’s most important professional snowboarding competition.

The first Mini Cup stop, presented by Satellite Boardshop, will take place at Winter Park Resort in Colorado on December 14, 2008, followed by jams at New Hampshire’s Loon Mountain presented by Eastern Boarder on January 10 and California's Bear Mountain presented by Leroys Boardshop and One Way Boardshop on February 14. The format features an open jam session, narrowing down to a 10-man final judged by the Vans Snow team. The winner from each stop will score an all-expense-paid trip to the Vans Cup at Mammoth and slot in the event’s invite-only Friday night rail jam.

The 5th Annual Vans Cup will be held at Mammoth Mountain February 27 through March 1, with nearly $200,000 up for grabs. The weekend kicks off with an invitational rail jam Friday night, where top riders throw down their best tricks for a chance at the coveted Vans Cup and a huge cash prize. The action continues Saturday with a Slopestyle comp and the Vans Cup caps off Sunday with the Superpipe finals.

A special thanks to Satellite Boardshop, Eastern Boarder, Leroys Boardshop and One Way Boardshop for their support!

For Mini Cup registration and additional contest information visit vanssnow.com/minicup today!

For more info, visit atmosphere-clothing.com.

DVS SNOW TEAM SIGNINGS THIS WEEKEND IN UTAH AT MILO SPORT, INDUSTRIAL RIDE SHOP & BC SURF AND SPORT.

Come hang out with the team, talk snow! Get autographs and receive tons of free product.

December 5th 5pm
Marc Frank Montoya, Stevie Bell, Jussi Oksanen
Milo Sport
3119 E. 3300 South
Salt lake City, UT 84109

December 6th 1pm
Marc Frank Montoya Stevie Bell Jussi Oksanen
Industrial Ride Shop
University Mall
575 University Pkwy # L189
Orem, UT 84907

December 6th 5pm
Marc Frank Montoya , Stevie Bell, Jussi Oksanen
BC Surf and Sport
Siuth Towne Mall
10450 S. State Street # 2408
Sandy, UT 84070

For more info got to DVSSNOW.COM.

Innsbruck/Austria – December 1st, 2008: The Swatch TTR World Tour is set to
detonate over the coming weeks with both the 6Star Nissan X-Trail Jam and 6Star Roxy Chicken Jam firing up and getting the season underway in the Northern Hemisphere. The Roxy Chicken Jam is taking place from December 12th to 13th, 2008 in Kaprun, Austria and as always, the world’s top female riders will be hitting the park and pushing women’s snowboarding to new heights. Meanwhile, round the other side of the globe in Japan, some of the TTR’s most progressive male riders will be gathering in Japan for the Nissan X-Trail Jam, an extreme battle of style and amplitude in the Colosseum that is the Tokyo Dome.

The women’s Roxy Chicken Jam has got a reputation as being one of the female riders’ favorite Swatch TTR event, delivering a park shaped with precision and guaranteed good times. A lot of the riders have been shredding the Southern hemisphere contests, they have been training hard since, putting in the hours, and are now super keen to get out there to step it up. This year, Europe’s big guns like Sina Candrian (SUI), Conny
Bleicher (GER), and Silvia Mittermüller (GER) will be flying the flag for Europe looking for those early season points, but it’s definitely not going to be a walk in the park for them, with previous TTR Champions Torah Bright (AUS), Cheryl Maas (NED) and Jamie Anderson (USA) in the mix, riders who always bring their A-game and stomp the big runs.

The men’s Nissan X-Trail Jam in Japan has a reputation as a totally crazy place, crazy fans, crazy jumps, and crazy riding, and if history is any indicator, we’re assured of seeing a showdown of epic proportions when the Swatch TTR superstars go head to head on December 12th – 14th, 2008. Current World No.1 Chas Guldemond will be out in force, especially after his banging Southern hemisphere season, and he’s amping for the event. “It’s pretty crazy, everybody’s got some pretty crazy tricks and when you get us on huge big jumps it’s going to be nuts”, he says. Also be watching out for Seb Toots (CAN) and Travis Rice (USA) as they attempt to stomp the trick everyone is talking about: the always spectacular Double Cork.

TTR will keep you updated from both events on a daily basis with news, interviews and blogs. Daily X-Trail Jam coverage begins Thursday, December 11th 2008 only on ttrworldtour.com. For a tease of what’s to come for the 2008 Nissan X-trail Jam, check the teaser.