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US Open

by SASS-Global
Mar 14th 2011 - 0 comments

Piles of soaked outerwear, scratched goggles, tour equipment in a giant mess in the back of the tour car, and exhaustion so heavy we can barely open our eyes this Monday… yup, the 29th annual US Open went down and went down hard.  Despite the…

Powder Week

by SASS-Global
Mar 8th 2011 - 0 comments

Since I started contributing work to Powder Magazine this summer, I’ve had some cool opportunities – to do my first print article about my friend and one of our SASS Argentina coaches, Garrett Russell, and do write all kinds of rediculous dispatches from Argentina and…

Nat & Nicki at SGT Silverton

by SASS-Global
Mar 1st 2011 - 0 comments

Oh baby… after Nicki Slechta slayed her way to 4th overall for the season at the Snowbasin Dew Tour, her and fellow SASS coach Natalie Gough busted down to Silveton to hang with the decidedly more backcountry-focused humans of the SASS Global Travel.  Namely hanging…

Roxy Refreshments: SASS in Argentina

by SASS-Global
Feb 24th 2011 - 0 comments

This past August, we had the ladies from the Roxy snowboard team down to shoot for their catalog and shred pow.  Their line-up was stacked and included everyone from up and comers like Norwegian Silje Norendal to Olympian Torah Bright to long-time SASS amigas Robyn…

Weekend Update ? President?s Day

by SASS-Global
Feb 21st 2011 - 0 comments

A couple fun things to go over… Nicki spinning over the gap at the Killington stop of the Dew Tour.  Photo courtesy of the Winter Dew Tour A long-overdue congrats is owed to our main lady and SASS Argentina coach Nicki Slechta – in her…

One Hot Minute: Silverton

by SASS-Global
Feb 19th 2011 - 0 comments

Our friend Dustin Eldridge has been enjoying the stellar CO season along with the rest of the state, and was able to write us a little report about his trip to Silverton back in December.  Check it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3eh_z9nN0 Silverton Mountain is a pow hound?s dream,…

Weekend Update ? Feb. 14

by SASS-Global
Feb 15th 2011 - 0 comments

SASS Argentina Coach Brendon Drury getting shacked at Kirkwood.  Jason Abraham photo courtesy of Unofficial Squaw. Our main man and SASS Argentina guiding intern Randall Stacy took 3rd place and his first Rev Tour podium in slope this weekend, going cab 9 back 9 with…

Register for SASS & Win Stuff!

by SASS-Global
Feb 9th 2011 - 0 comments

That’s right ladies and gentlemen!  We’re so excited about the new SASS program we wanted to give away some goodies to the first few folks to drop the hammer and sign up! It’s very simple: be one of the first five (cinco) people to register…

South America Snow Sessions 2011 is Live!!!

by SASS-Global
Feb 8th 2011 - 0 comments

Well ladies and gentlemen, it’s a very special day for us here at the SASS Global Travel offices.  After four months of development work, we’re proud to announce the launch of the brand-new, new and improved, version 3.0, 4G South America Snow Sessions program!  We’ve…

Photo Fridays

by SASS-Global
Feb 4th 2011 - 0 comments

Just to get your weekend started and your stoke stocked up… Here’s our boy and Argentina coach Brendon Drury sending the diving board off the back of Sugar Bowl… boom!  Homie’s going HUGE on this one and Brendon is stepping up to some serious b/c…

Jamie Anderson in Argentina

by SASS-Global
Feb 1st 2011 - 0 comments

With the East Coast set to get another monster blizzard and shredders from all over the region giving themselves food poisoning to get out of work on Thursday, it’s time to get some pow shredding stoke going! Dew Tour champ Jamie Anderson came down this…

Weekend Update ? X Games Weekend

by SASS-Global
Jan 31st 2011 - 0 comments

Main Event Sugarbush went down this weekend – super fun course and a smaller field putting down runs despite the speed issues with the falling snow. The SGT tent was gettin’ mobbed all day thanks to our hourly prize raffles with our renewed partners RED…

Main Event Sugarbush Stop this Weekend!

by SASS-Global
Jan 28th 2011 - 0 comments

Ding ding ding!  Round 2 of the Main Event Snowboard Series is going down this weekend at snow-sacked Sugarbush, Vermont at Mt. Ellen. Going to be exciting to see who comes back after the Bretton Woods stop to stack points and earn that SGT trip! …

Humpday Top 3

by SASS-Global
Jan 26th 2011 - 0 comments

Wednesday again – only one more day until our TVs never leave ESPN for the rest of the week and all the rad badness, free taquitos, and Mountain Dew that is the Winter X Games goes down.  Been a few years since I snuck into…

SASSquatch vs. Dew Tour

by SASS-Global
Jan 24th 2011 - 0 comments

This weekend we packed the car up and headed up to Killington for the annual East Coast stop of the Dew Tour.  A move to Killington meant a steeper slopestyle course with bigger jumps and a new, 22-foot superpipe – one of the biggest set-ups…

Thirsty Thursdays with SGT

by SASS-Global
Jan 20th 2011 - 0 comments

People love consistency, and ski and snowboard sites are good about giving it to them.  Sundays in the Park, Photo Fridays, Hump Day Interviews, etc. are all good examples of organizing media output around a specific day of the week and a witty title.  Weekend…

Down With the Ship

by SASS-Global
Jan 19th 2011 - 0 comments

My cousin Derek Dunfee is a certified badass – he won the Biggest Paddle-In wave of the year at the Billabong XXL in 2009 and the Worst Wipeout in 2010 – both at Mavericks, with one near-50 foot monster that he dropped successfully and one…

Weekend Update with SGT

by SASS-Global
Jan 18th 2011 - 0 comments

Another busy & fun weekend for the SGT crew.  After a college event at Mt. Snow and some awesome park shredding at Carinthia Friday (Mineshaft-Prospector-Nitro-Lower Titanium is my jam!), I headed up to Bretton Woods to meet up with the rest of the crew for…