Snow Surge Forums Launched

Hello

We have been working behind the scenes recently at Snow Surge and are proud to announce the launch of our Snow Surge Forums.

For a few weeks now we have been working on setting up the forum with full integration and it is now up. You can find a link in the navigation at the top of all pages and you can also bookmark the page www.snowsurge.com/forum

We will be doing heavy advertising of the forums over the next few weeks and recommend that you start posting right away to get ahead of the game. You can talk about skiing and snowboarding in great detail on the forum and when you get bored you can lay back and talk about anything in the lounge.

Make sure that you read the forum rules, then get prepared for some serious talking

Regards

-The Snow Surge Team

Snow Park NZ

In Lake Wanaka, Snow Park New Zealand will be the first and only resort offering night skiing and riding during winter 2008. The resort will give visitors ample time on the mountains and a unique chance to ride on snow under the floodlights.

Various installments have been made along the terrain park; eight floodlights giving skiers and riders complete access to the east-side Box-run. On Tuesday and Friday evenings from 5 pm to 9 pm, the beginner and intermediate boxes, rails and jumps, will be available for everyone all through July and August.

In collaboration with the Mountain Dew Night Sessions, Snow Park will host a six-night amateur snowboard rail jam series. This will eventually lead to a grand finale which will have $6,000 USD and $3,000 USD up for grabs for men and women respectively.

The manager of Snow Park NZ, Sam Lee, recently said, “For skiers and riders who are time short during the day, they can pop up to Snow Park in the evening to get their turns in. Being on snow at night under flood lights is quite thrilling, and with relatively un-crowded slopes and a hot meal available in the Woolshed it will be a great alternative Friday night out.” He seems extremely enthusiastic about being able to offer skiers and riders ample time on the mountain.

In order to add spice to the offer, the Woolshed Restaurant and Bar will serve hot food to all the riders, and local bands and DJ’s will provide heart-pumping music on Tuesday and Friday nights. This will be available throughout the entire season.

Night skiing and riding will be available as an add-on to the day pass to both kids and adults. The passes are priced at $35 for adults and $20 for kids. Night riding and skiing will be included in the all-season pass.

So for all the snow sports enthusiasts out there, keep July and August open for Snow Park New Zealand.

Boost Mobile Sno Sho

The Boost Mobile Sno Sho is all set to kick off this 2008 on Terrain Park in Perisher Blue’s Front Valley on Saturday, August 30^th. The Boost Mobile Sno Sho breaks away from the routine snowboarding events and encourages the world’s best snowboarders, extreme maneuvers, illuminating lights, longest rail slides and some intense audience action. Wildcard entry into the event is open to the public with registration going up on the 15th July on www.boostsnosho.com.au. The Wildcard event will be on Friday 29th August.

This will be the Sno Sho’s fourth year running, and they also currently hold the 3 star TTR badge. The Sno Sho comprises of many of the boost team riders including Max Cookes, Mitch Allan and Jye Kearney. Nineteen Australian and inernational invitees are a part of this massive show as well.

Some of the main events that have been scheduled for the August Sno Sho are the 100 metre World’s Longset Rail ‘Game Sho’ style snowboarding event, Big Air Gap and 27 set Stair Jam Rail. A total of 24 snowboarders will participate in these various events, inclusive of two wild-card entries. The winner will walk away with a handsome prize of $30,000 USD.

The Main Event will begin at 6.00 PM on August 30^th, 2008. The Main Event consists of two plays; the ‘World’s Longest Rail Slide’ and the ‘SNOSHO’. In play one, the rider that slides longest along the 100 metre and 75 metre rails will walk away with a cash prize of $10,000 USD. The current record-holder is Jasper Backer (58.5 metres), and even has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

After plays one and two get over, there will be a ‘Jam Session’. This Jam Session will be 30 minutes long and allows the riders to choose from one of two courses; Big Air or Jam Rail. Within the time given, all 24 riders have to compete and try and fish out as many attempts as possible. The top two combined scores are taken, and the six highest-scoring riders will be taken into the Boost Sno Sho Finale.

The Finale will be filled with lots of entertainment and fun. The six riders will have to successfully complete five tricks, which will be selected from what is known as the ‘Sho Wheel’. If the rider successfully completes the given trick, he/she will receive a ‘thumbs up’ from the judges. Each successful trick will earn the rider a letter from the word ‘BOOST’. And the first rider to spell out B-O-O-S-T, will walk away with the huge $30,000 USD cash prize.

So we just have to wait a few more months until this ‘sho’ hits Perisher Blue.

Snow Surge Advances

We are proud to announce some major advances in Snow Surge, just a few days after it’s launch. We also have some big plans for Snow Surge, so keep reading.

The first thing that I (Calum Neilson, Snow Surge Owner) would like to talk about is what we have already done. After spending quite a bit on a decent wordpress theme for the news site and some more on a custom logo the site is coming together design wise. All features are now workings and everything seems to be set up.

We have added all the usual to the Snow Surge site including a contact form, privacy policy and about page. We have also made a few news posts, roughly two per day so far. We hope to keep this amount of posting up or even make more news posts when there is more news.

Now, I shall tell you about our future plans, of which there is many. The first of our plans is to expand our writers base so that we have a larger number of freelance writers who will work for Snow Surge. This means that you can expect to see news posted even faster and more news being posted.

Secondly we plan to partner with several snowboarding and skiing shops to offer our readers discounts on products. We are in discussion with several different online snow sport shops and let me assure you it will be worth it. Some of the shops might be offering up to 30% off full products such as skis and boards, now that’s worth it.

The final planned advancement that I have in mind at the current moment is the introduction of a skiing and snowboarding discussion forum. I already have experience in setting up and managing an active forum because I have already done it at www.computalk.net

We hope to have the forum fully integrated with the main Snow Surge website. It will share the same design/theme/template and we even hope to bridge the two scripts so that you will be able to use your forum account to post comments at Snow Surge and vice versa. We are currently working on this with our developers and you can expect to see a forum within one or two months.

So things are looking good for Snow Surge at the moment, with all the good news and future plans. Please make sure that if you have any recommendations that you contact us.

Snow Surge

Snow Surge is a new startup news website that hopes to provide you with the latest skiing and snowboarding news hot off the press.

We hope that Snow Surge will continue to grow and keep on providing up to date and accurate news in the winter sports area. We welcome all user recommendations and hope that you do not hesitate to contact us.