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2009 Huck Finn series news!

Welcome back!
We have had a great summer, lots of wakeboarding, mountain biking, kite boarding, and some travel for the lucky ones!
There’s a few new twists for this season, as always we would like you to get online www.usasa.org JOIN and get your membership for the Huck Finn series PRIOR to Oct 25th, this will [...]

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Boyne Highlands Spring Board Meeting

[ April 12, 2008 to April 13, 2008. ] 4/12/08 to 4/13/08
Boyne Highlands

Join us at Boyne Highlands for what has become a spring tradition. The Spring Board Meeting is your last chance to get your terrain park fix before hanging up your board or skis for the long summer. Master pipe cutter and terrain park shaper, Jason Wagner, will once again be [...]

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Cascade Mountain / Midwest Open

[ March 1, 2008; ] Name: Midwest Open
2 Hit Big Air, Quarterpipe, Rail Jam
Host: Cascade Mountain
Date:Saturday, March 1, 2008
Time:9:00am - 6:00pm
Location:Cascade Mountain
Street: W10441 Cascade Mountain Road
City/Town:Portage, WI
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Contact Info
Phone: 608.742.5588
Email: events@cascademountain.com

And it begins… Blood. Sweat. Tears. Nerves. Not enough sleep. Bad weather. Worse Hotels. And yet some of the best and most progressive skiing and snowboarding around. The Midwest Open 2008 presented by Cascade [...]

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Snowboarding: A Breif History

1929: The first known account of someone making a board is tied to M.J. “Jack” Burchett, who in 1929 secured his feet to a piece of wood with clothesline and horse reins.
1964: Muskegon engineer Sherman Poppen develops a “Snurfer” for his daughter Wendy. Sporting a rope at its nose and crude metal prongs for foot [...]

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Nub’s Nob / Middle Earth 2008

[ February 2, 2008; February 3, 2008; ] K2 presents the 2008 USASA Great Lakes Snow Series

Middle Earth Snow Series @ Nub’s Nob Feb. 2-3

Superpipe:
Saturday, Feb. 2nd Registration @ 8:30-9:15 am; course inspection 9-10:15am; Riders Meeting 10:15 am; 10:30 am Comp. begins

Slopestyle:
Sunday, Feb. 3rd Registration @ 8:30-9:15 am; course inspection 9-10:15am; Riders Meeting 10:15 am; 10:30 am Comp. begins

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Boyne Highlands / Middle Earth 2008

K2 presents the 2008 USASA Great Lakes Snow Series
Middle Earth series @ Boyne Highlands, Petoskey, MI
Registration Information: (all competitors must be current members of USASA)
All events are $20.
Times:
Boardercross: Friday, Jan. 25 @ 10:00 – 11:00 am; course inspection 10-11:30 am; Riders Meeting 11:30 am at finish line; Race begins at 12:00 noon.
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