So yesterday we had our company party out at Mt. Hood Skibowl. We left the office around two and rolled out in our sweet Betty Rides van. . .
you know your jealous. .
Janet getting in the holiday spirit. .
Stunna Santa Tim. .
Juli and Kristin enjoying candy canes. .
nom nom nom
Us at Skibowl testing out some new BR Gear..
janet striking a pose. It's hard not to in those killer pants
Kate just taking a break. .
Ski bowl was awesome, had some good snow and it was a pretty clear night. We also stopped by the Ratskellar in gov. camp afterwords for some pizza and drinks. Soo good : P
We hope everyone else is gettin their holiday cheer on! Tis the season!
. . our rider Charlotte Trundle is lucky enough to enjoy two winters a year! She spends winter at the New Zealand Winter Snowpark and then moves to Gatineau, Quebec to ride Edelweiss during the winter here, while also traveling around the US and Canada for competitions.
She spends a lot of time competing and training. She usually snowboards about 300 days a year! Some of her 2009 competition results unclude:
1st place Echo Mountain Traffic Jam, US; 2nd place Cricket Campus Boulder Rail Jam, US; 3rd place Mammoth Peanut Butter rail Jam, US; 2nd place Remarkables Slopestyle, NZ; 2nd Place Snowpark Mountain Dew Stairset Comp; NZ and most recently she came in 1st at the Volcom PBRJ in New Zealand and 1st place in the Gravite Rail Jam in Gatineau, Quebec.
Char jibbin the Mt. Dew Stairset
Gravite Rail Jam
1st at Volcom PBRJ in NZ
She was also runner up in the Nikita video competition, here’s her video:
In addition she had a weekly segment on Freeze TV that was shown in Australia and New Zealand.
This girl is BUSY!!!! We can’t wait to see what she has in store for the season. . well seasons.
Billabong’s Big Air and Style competition went down earlier this month on Saturday Dec. 5th. There were a lot of insane tricks and huge air being pulled that night.. but one thing that was missing was the women!
Well Billabong rider Anne-Flore Marxer (as well as friends Sarka Pancochova, Cheryl Maas, Tanja Detomas, Lisa Filzmoser, Jenny Jones, Jamie Anderson, Kimmy Fasani, Hana Beaman, Leanne Pelosi, Bev Vuilleumier & Marie-France Roy) thought that was a bit unfair and wanted to see women compete as well… and we agree!!!
Here’s a petition she put up to have a women’s competition at next years event. So please, if you’d like to see some women throw down at next years comp, follow the link to “sign” the petition!
So while we’re loving this years products right now…. we’re getting really excited for next years as well! We have our catalog put together and it’s being printed at Image Works in Portland, OR. Here’s a sneak peek cover shot. . .
Taylor Bacci on our catalogue cover
The printers is really awesome to work with and they’re working on being more eco-friendly. They actually heat their building by rerouting the heat put off by the press equipment directly back into their building, also known as closed loop manufacturing.
We’re also trying to hold up our end of the eco-friendliness. . By going to a locally owned green printer we keep the dollars spent locally and save money in shipping which in turn saves on gas, transportation, etc. and supports the local economy. We also chose FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified paper.
This is Kristin from Betty Rides, she did the majority of the catalogue and did an AMAZING job! This is her with one of the dogs from Image Works. She’ll definitely be chillin and taking a well-deserved break during the christmas holiday.
Well if you ever have a print job, hit up Danielle Riskey at Image Pressworks in Portland/Gresham area off Airport Way !
We are pleased to add another rider to our Team, Danika Duffy from Manhattan Beach, CA. She Rides at Mammoth in California and were pretty stoked to have a rider out there now. She’s definitely got some good shred skills, most recently placing first in the women’s division at the Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam at Mammoth on Sunday December 13.
Danika on the left
She also killed it last year at the USASA National Championships at Copper Mountain placing 1st in Slopestyle and Second in Halfpipe!
She also placed in numerous events as a junior and has a lot of competition experience. We’re stoked to add her to our team and can’t wait to see her shine this season!
This is Butterfly, ( our Chinese distributor ) and Matt Kass our old sales manager, and Janet, at ASR
Butterfly, a Beijing native, is killing it with betty Rides in the People’s Republic of China and we are stoked !
So all these iphone apps are making me want one really bad. Like the commercial says, there’s an app for almost anything, and it seems like there is. Companies are now starting to create there own apps to showcase products and pictures and what have you. Snowboard companies are also jumping on the bandwagon with some pretty cool stuff.
Dakine iphone app 3.0
Dakine has an improved iphone app (free) where you can sort through content by the user’s interests such as ski, snowboard, surf, skate, windsurf, kiteboard, mountain bike, music and girl’s. You can browse products, check out team rider profiles, photos and videos, get surf and snow reports and it even features a music section, wow.
Ride snowboards also has an app with much of the same features, including a dealer locator.
Another cool app is iTrailmap, you can download trail maps for over 750 resorts, there’s also a paid version with 3-D imaging and GPS tracking.
There are numerous apps for snow conditions including Ski & Snow Report from Skireport.com; Ski Lodge is another app that has snow reports, maps and weather information for close to 400 resorts in North America and also has live camera feeds and GPS tracking, but does come at a price of $4.99
There’s also quite a few snowboarding game apps such as Slope Rider which has 13 courses, freestyle trick mode and race mode. Another one is Crazy Snowboard with 13 characters and 30 missions, even a halloween edition with zombies. .? Snowboarding Tnt is also available, it’s a fast paced downhill challenge of dodging obstacles and performing tricks by tilting and twisting your phone.
Win this soft and super warm lucky plaid nicole parka in chocolate! Send us a picture or video (preferably video) of you doing a board trick (preferably snowboard but we’ll take skateboard or skis). The catch is you must be sporting a Santa hat while your at it! Spread the holiday cheer! Go to our website http://www.bettyrides.com/home to submit your entries, can’t wait to see them!!
