The SOL Groove Vol. 1 Num. 14
(April 30, 1997)

Hey, It's the Last Day of April

Yes, even though part of the nation is still getting pummled with snow (Colorado), and others are underwater (North Dakota), and while the West Coast is rocking (Northridge) we at the Groove still manage to get our little meme out to the snowboard world. It's a squeek that's heard around the snowboard world but this week it's more or a roar.

Last issue we said we were making the Groove shorter, then we heard from Alfonso A. Barba who said, "Enjoyed my first version of The Groove. I wish it was longer." So to keep Alfonso happy we loaded this one up.

CORRECTION SECTION
Before we get into the "what's new" section of the longer, deeper Groove 14 we need to make a couple corrections. Caroline R. Brown was nice enough to point out that "the last four times that you've had Devun Walsh's name in your articles, it's been spelled, "Devin", which is...well...wrong." Thanks Caroline and we're sorry. From now on Devan's name will be spelled, "Deven." We mean, "Devun." Damn.

Everyone who tried to get to the "ALL-NEW" SOL Manufacturer Directory using the URL we published in the Groove 13 (Dave Sorensen and Claude Labrecque to name two), will be happy to know that it wasn't your browser. It was our's. Thinking it wouldn't really matter we clipped nearly a mile of useless jargon right off the end of the URL. Now, after having suffered through a long lecture by one of the InterZine tech weenies we understand more than we needed to know about "uniform resource locators."

The proper "uniform resource locator" for the SOL Manufacturer Directory

WHAT'S NEW SECTION
Volumns of Vegetate Verbage

Mt. Hood Meadows (in Oregon) holds a snowboard contest each year to raise money for wild flowers. Apparently, management wants to plant pretty wild flowers in the areas that were clear cut to make room for ski runs. That seems like such a wonderful cause that we sent SOL Associate Editor Shanti Sosienski to check it out.

Idaho Road Show

Ross Peterson wrote a story about a road trip through Idaho. Angie Silvy took pictures. We put it up on the web. That leaves one thing: you reading it. What are you waiting for. Get on it. (Please remember: Ross Peterson would like to be known as a "rider" not a "writer." Okay?)

Both Legs Work Like A Charm

Hypothesis: you can carve better by using both legs to pressure your edge. Jack Michaud wrote a much longer, more indepth version of the prior sentence in SOL's Carve section. If carving floats your boat then paddle on over.

Copper Mountain Team Super Cross

Team BoarderCross at Copper Mountain! Big money prizes. Action. Crashes. Yeah, huh!

Sound Check

Snow Job at Mt. Hood Meadows

We've never had to knock on wood, but we know someone who has so we're going to Snow Job to check out the $20,000 North American Snowboard Series Big Air Finals and see The Mighty (say it again) Mighty Bosstones, Social Distortion, Third Eye Blind & Manray at Mt. Hood Meadows on May 3. We'll have updates through out the day as well as backstage photos (we're that cool) and maybe some interviews with some people. We sure do hope the crowds don't trample any of those wild flowers.

INDUSTRY NEWS
Airwalk Quad

Airwalk has re-work their Quad binding and now it looks real solid. Check it out and let us know what you think about it.

Ooooh, Oooh, Witchy Snowboard See How High They Fly-I-I-I

Sims has some new boards that they're calling Project Hex. They have aluminum honeycomb tip and tail inserts and endgrain suma wood cores. They have a lower swing weight and come in 146, 148, 153, and 158 cm sizes. The Sims PR person says, "Basically you can spin like a top and ride like the Devil."

That's all for the super long version of the Groove. Good-Bye.

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The Groove 14 was brought to you by Jones Soda Co. makers of the amazing Blue Bubble Gum soda.