Extra! Extra! Read All About It…Eventually
I’ve scribbled before about how I slog through 389789020924 stories a day to keep the GLTR news section fresh. What I may not have disclosed, but you’ve probably noticed, however, is that most teasers on our site have been edited to highlight the lady-related bits. Once you click through to the actual article, this info is likely to be buried near the end. And the chances of the woman in question’s name showing up in the “real” headline probably ain’t so good. Contest wrap-ups are the worst offenders — you’re usually clobbered by descriptions of Ricky Ripper’s super-sick winning run from the headline through the first eight paragraphs before Rita Ripper’s mere presence at the event is acknowledged. Click here to read the rest of the article →

Every now and again we get a question from a reader about one of our eight cherished sports. Rather than pretending we have all the answers, we send them to the girls who know best: the pros. – Ed. Click here to read the rest of the article →

Oakley is teaming up with Girls Learn to Ride, a Web site geared towards the action sports female which produces 800 sports educational clinics nationwide, to host a series of women’s wake, surf, mountain bike and snowboarding camps over the coming months.
Source: Oakley.com. For the full story, click here.

This is why I couldn’t write my column this week.

This is the other reason.

Starsky Communication Dynasty, anyone?

–Kim Stravers, Editorial Director

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Clothes Horses, Yes. Clothes Hangers, No More.
A week-and-a-half ago, I had oral surgery. Groggy from the IV drip, I blurrily scanned my post-op directions as my dude prepared to drive us two-and-a-half farm-filled hours back to Mammoth from Carson City. (See, we have a hospital here, and a dentist or two, and a robust physical therapy clinic where you can rehab every broken piece of your park-beaten kneecap, but you’re sort of out of luck if you need glasses, or braces, or your gums sawed open in the name of periodontics.) Apparently, I was to stick to a strict diet of smoothies, soup, and protein shakes for the next week, so as not to disturb the very delicate nature of my fresh wound. Click here to read the rest of the article →

Reunited, and It Feels So Good
After two weeks of knitting my brows over one injustice or another, I’m kinda worked. Good thing one of my favorite occasions in snowboarding rescued me from a run of the mean reds this weekend: The Contest. Click here to read the rest of the article →

Our Top(less) Story Tonight
As editorial director of this fine online publication, it’s my job (and pleasure) to scour headlines. Every day, I filter through scores of stories and select which bits make it to the GLTR News section. Keyword searches make this task a fair bit easier than it sounds; type in “women’s action sports” or “girls’ surfing” and an avalanche of results rumbles forth. Most of these articles are relevant, even interesting. Sometimes, however, the mighty power of the Boolean search fails me and turns up something so confounding, I contemplate reenacting that scene in Garden State where they scream into the chasm. Click here to read the rest of the article →

Part of living in a ski town is watching the annual October influx of eager young things parade into your ZIP code with shred-sticks in their hands, mountain-job season passes on lock, and a telling lack of sun damage. Though I’ve been in the mountains only a couple of years, I got here kinda late, so maybe I notice the under-25 set more readily than I would have if I’d been part of it when I moved here. Regardless, there’s a seasonal moment that never fails to smack of Matthew McConaughey’s oft-quoted line in Dazed and Confused: “I get older, they stay the same age.” Click here to read the rest of the article →

Hello. Welcome to what will hopefully become a regular letter from the editor(ial director). Click here to read the rest of the article →

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