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Legends of Tahoe Snowboarding coming to Donner Ski Ranch March 14
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Tom Burt rides the lift at Donner Ski Ranch at the 2008 Legends of Tahoe Snowboarding event.
Tahoe Legends of Snowboarding “Vintage Snowboard Freeride”
Donner Ski Ranch, Norden, California
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Local snowboarding legends and old-school rippers alike are invited to Donner Ski Ranch — which sold the very first lift ticket to a snowboarder in California — on Saturday, March 14, for a friendly competition and rockin' after-party.
Event Schedule:
Registration: 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM (In the lodge, back room main floor)
Legends/Early Pros Freeride: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Palisades -2 runs – best score)
Vintage Clothing Costume Contest : 1:00 PM
Music by Riverbottom Nightmare: 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Music by Chunks of Metal: 2:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Awards (contest and legends) : 3:00 PM
Music by Chunks of Metal: 3:30 PM
Freeride Classes:
Legends/Early Pro: must have competed in one of the following:
a. 1983 – 89 World Championships
b. 1983 – 89 US Open
c. 1985 – Sierra Snowboarding Championships, Soda Springs, CA
d. 1986 – Subaru Snowboarding Championships, Donner Ski Ranch
e. 1987 – 89 California State Snowboarding Series or Ragen’ at the Ranch Snowboard Series.
f. Any OP PRO snowboarding events or the US Open, 1989 or earlier.
g. You were invited because you’re a legend. Approved by race committee: Don Bostick, Mike Chantry and Tom Collins.
Entry Fee: $20.00 towards the purse
Public: you started snowboarding in 1990 or later, you’re not a legend but you’re important and you’re rad! Prize will be awarded to top riders, all ages invited!
Snowboards: pre-1993 or earlier! Must be approved by Mike Chantry.
We are not so concerned about bindings.
A tough road to acceptance
In 1985, only 39 of about 600 resorts nationwide allowed snowboarding.
By the late 1980s, most Tahoe resorts had ended their resistance, but it wasn’t until the winter of 1995-96 that Alpine Meadows lifted its ban on snowboarders. Donner Ski Ranch reportedly was the first resort in the state to sell a lift ticket to a snowboarder.
“It was in 1980 and a guy with a snowboard came up to my office and asked if he could buy a lift ticket,” said Norm Sayler, former owner of Donner Ski Ranch. “I told him ‘Yeah, go downstairs and buy one.’ And he told me that they wouldn’t sell him one. So I called up the lift ticket person and that person said, ‘He’s got a snowboard.’ And I said ‘He’s got $10. Sell him a ticket. I want that money.’”
While the modern beginnings of the snowboard took shape in the late 1970s, the first real ski technology was applied to the snowboard in 1980. That’s when Jake Burton applied P-Tex and other modifications similar to that of a ski to his snowboards.
Slideshow from 2008 Legends of Tahoe Snowboarding
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