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Puyehue Volcano Update

by japollner
Jun 7th 2011 - 0 comments

Special Update From SASS Global Travel For the first time since 1960, the Puyehue Volcano in neighboring Chile experienced an eruption event this past weekend. Luckily, with over six weeks to go until the start of our program, this shouldn’t have an impact on our…Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/95/20/39520.png[/IMG]

Adam Garon- Why I Love Cannon Mountain, NH

by japollner
Jun 7th 2011 - 0 comments

HOME MOUNTAIN: Cannon Mountain, NH A Home Mountain is not a home mountain, if you can?t drive there and back faster than taking a run, with lift time included. However, I have managed to find a home mountain, that being Cannon MTN in New Hampshire.…Rating: 5.7/10 (3 votes cast)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/95/18/39518.png[/IMG]

Sarah Anderton-Why I Love Big Boulder Resort PA

by japollner
Jun 7th 2011 - 0 comments

HOME MOUNTAIN: Big Boulder Resort, PA Born in Florida, it was hard to wrap my head around what my dad would talk about as his favorite feeling in the world, on thin little blades, clipping through the snow. Then when I was 8 we moved…Rating: 5.5/10 (2 votes cast)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/95/16/39516.png[/IMG]

Keaton Britt ? Why I Love Sol Vista, CO

by japollner
Jun 7th 2011 - 0 comments

HOME MOUNTAIN: Sol Vista, CO Why do I love my mountain? Because I’ve made it my own. I know every inch of slopes, and most of the stuff in between. I can take any trail and ride it blind folded. I love it because it…Rating: 5.0/10 (2 votes cast)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/95/14/39514.png[/IMG]

Classics: Translocation Snowboarding

by japollner
Jun 7th 2011 - 0 comments

We love this video – classic Andrew Burns and Bowl-u shredding, 16 mil, and an awesome travel piece on Bariloche.  Our Head Videographer Jon Conway put this one together back in ’08, enjoy and show some love for his new digital studio, Dojo Magic Studio…Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/03/95/12/39512.png[/IMG]

Ski Review: Surface Life Life 191

by japollner
Nov 2nd 2010 - 0 comments

  Travis "T-Bird" Eliasen is a full-time guide for Silverton Mtn. and South America Snow Sessions.  While down for the epic Bariloche season this summer, T-Bird pulled the Surface New Lifes out of the SASS quiver and never quite returned them.     T-Bird crushing pow in the Bariloche backcountry back in August   What? [...]

New Video up for SASS Global Japan

by japollner
Oct 27th 2010 - 0 comments

So two years ago, when I was messing around at the vallet desk while I was working in Aspen, I watched a video about skiing in Niseko, Japan, after which point I nearly quit my job to be on Skype full-time calling kichens in Niseko for interviews and to plan my next season in Japan. [...]

Snow in the San Juans!

by japollner
Oct 27th 2010 - 0 comments

  You’ve been hearing reports about pow days from Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and even Maine (sort of), and now Ben Eng from Frequency Snowboard Mag has even scored in the San Juan Mountains a stone’s throw away from the Treasure Mtn. Hut’s terrain… looks like we’re busting out the splitboard early this year!     [...]

SASS ?Fun Boy? Lucas Moore Havin? a Good Time?

by japollner
Oct 25th 2010 - 0 comments

SASS Head Counselor Lucas "Fun Boy" Moore crushed it this summer, making it onto the hill to run the program almost every day for two months straight – talk about dedication.  In between running our database and systems, crushing lines in the Gondi trees, bringing adult clients on an on-mountain pub crawl, and keeping everyone [...]

Chris Quinn wins the Santa Rosa Storming contest!

by japollner
Oct 20th 2010 - 0 comments

    South America Snow Sessions annonces Santa Rosa Storming Winner SASS hooks up VIP Session client Chris Quinn with a brand new setup for 2011   October 13th, 2010 – North Hampton, NH – South America Snow Sessions is proud to announce the winner of the Santa Rosa Storming contest, which was given at [...]

New Season of Roxy Refreshments

by japollner
Oct 20th 2010 - 0 comments

  This gem just popped up on Youtube -- the teaser for the 2010/2011 season of the Roxy Refreshments webisode series with our good friends Robyn Van Gyn and Erin Comstock, as well as the rest of the Roxy slayers who were down at SASS this summer -- Torah Bright, Kjersti Buaas, Lisa Wiilk, and [...]

Nor?Easter baby!

by japollner
Oct 18th 2010 - 0 comments

Well, despite howling 40 mph winds that pushed you down the beach like a conveyor belt, kept the faces from breaking, and blinded you with sea spray as you tried to paddle for a wave, we had two days of big surf this weekend and the SASS Global crew spent the better part of Saturday negotiating [...]

Press Release: 2010 Sustainability Projects

by japollner
Oct 14th 2010 - 0 comments

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SOUTH AMERICA SNOW SESSIONS (SASS) ORCHESTRATES COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFORTS DURING FIRST SEASON OF PROJECTS IN SOUTH AMERICA   Sustainability and community service projects in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina bring plastic-bottle greenhouses and a biodiesel reactor to local schools and community recycling programs.   October 11, 2010 – Hampton, NH [...]

Deeper Tour Keeps Rolling!

by japollner
Oct 13th 2010 - 0 comments

Well Jeremy Jones’ two-year project, Deeper, keeps rolling around snow-starved towns across the country to wonderous applause – this is the movie of the year!  Too bad only David has seen it, and at Red Rocks for that matter (gosh!).  Well we’ve been seriously anticipating this event, and we’ll finally get our own peek at [...]

Squaw Valley Snow Science Workshop

by japollner
Oct 13th 2010 - 0 comments

The 2010 International Snow Science Workshop takes place at the Resort at Squaw Creek in Squaw Valley, CA this Sunday through Friday, October 17-22.  Lel Tone, who did an excellent job running the Sierra Nevada College AIARE Level 1 course this summer at SASS, will be giving one of the keynote speeches!  If you’re a [...]

SASS Officially Launches SASS Global Travel!!

by japollner
Oct 13th 2010 - 0 comments

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   South America Snow Sessions Launches SASS Global Travel   SASS Global Travel connects action sports enthusiasts with adventure travel throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Japan, The Dominican Republic and beyond.   October 12, 2010 – North Hampton, NH –SouthAmericaSnowSessions (SASS), the leading action sports adventure travel company for [...]