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Truecolorfilms new video

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Hey there!

The first season of True Color Films comes to an end and a new one is just a couple of weeks away.
During last winter Nicholas Wolken, Lisa Filzmoser, Alex Fischer and René Schnöller spent a couple of days shredding the beautiful Ötz valley.
They had a grate time scoping, slashing, jumping, tweaking, grilling and laughing together.
Check out the new video on our webpage.
www.truecolorfilms.com

..and stay tuned:
- Lisa´s knee is getting better every day and she will go on a surf trip and will be ready for the new season
- Alvaro’s shoulder is strong and stable and soon will be back on his board
- Nicholas will have some business news as well as René

enjoy the summer and get ready for the upcoming season…

peace

URŠKA SECOND AT THE JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP !

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200

On Saturday 21st August 2010 Junior World Championship – Women’s Slopestyle event finals (Lake Wanaka, New Zealand) went down and our Elan Chicas Team rider Urška Pribošič, Slovenia showed an outstanding performance.

The Judges were also impresed and rewarded her efforts with an amazing Second Place in the Women's Slopestyle category.

The day started great for Urška with a second place at the qualifications – a place that she defended in the finals.

This has been just one of the great results for Urška this year. After her debut at the Roxy Chicken Jam 2010 where she finished 15th, she went on and WON the Sista Sessions 2010 (Mayrhofen, Austria) and finished second at the 2010 European Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam Finals (Laax, Switzerland).

Congratulations Urska for the great results. Keep it going girl!

Final results 2010 FIS Junior World Champs Snowboard – Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle:

1. Enni Rukajarvi, FIN
2. Urska Pribosic, SLO
3. Samm Denena, CAD

Best photo of the summer 2010

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200

The summer is already in full swing and you're having lots of fun and hopefully some photos of that. If not, you still have time to capture your best moments on photo.
So whatever you do in summer.. shredding on glaciers or down under, having built your own summer setup, trampoline, water jumping or doing any other sports, maybe just chillin' or more likely party hard.. Post your pics..
Starting new season on Answer, one of the highlights of 10/11 collection would be insane, don't you think?!? With a new twin tip shape, aggressive profile and the combination of our Control Plus wood core, V2R sidewalls and Warp 8 base the Answer is dominant in the park, on the mountain and in the streets. So when you need one board to handle it all, while keeping freestyle perspective, that's the Answer.

We'll be giving away Answer and lots of goodies for the best photos and here is how you can get your hands on one of these gems:
•    Log in to our community and create a gallery of your “best photo of the summer” (maximum of 10 pics).

•    All pictures uploaded until the end of August will enter the contest.

•    As always: the Elan International Team and the P.Lab will judge the entries.

Winner of the "best summer riding" raffle

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Elan Snowboards is proudly presenting the winner of the "best summer riding" raffle - Alessandro Furlan from Italy. He convinced the team with his great shots of him kiteboarding – indeed summer is pure fun.
Alessandro is getting his well deserved award – the all new Prodigy R. It's the perfect accomplice for freestylers with a taste for park jibbing and covert rail missions. The board features our brand new Jib Rocker profile, which delivers enhanced board control and buttering ability.

Big congrats and have hips of fun shredding our fun tool!!

ELAN SNOWBOARDS CELEBRATES WITH DJ UMEK

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Elan Snowboards in cooperation with VBG Design Agency created a uniqly designed board for one of Slovenia's Greatest Music Artist, DJ Umek. Celebrating his achievements in the world of electronic music – DJ Umek is one of the most renowed artists not just in Slovenia but also on the European music scene – we created a unique board with his signature graphics that will fit not only his riding but also his lifestyle.

We surprized him with the board at the yearly musical event »Day Of Electronics« held in Ljublana's (Slovenia) outdor theater Križanke. Not to mention that on the same day he celebrated his Birthday !

Here are some facts about DJ Umek and his work:

DJ UMEK

For a long time, Slovenia is known for its great electronic parties, but as the local scene is of boutique dimensions, everyone, who wishes to take the art of mixing and producing to a professional level, has to go out there and enter the worldwide scene. Umek has done this step as early as in the middle of the 90s and so he became one of the most important techno players of the global techno scene, even before the end of the last millennium. Together with people, who shared the same views, he successfully captured the first era of researching and recreating the rules of the dance music in Recycled Loops, Consumer Recreation and Astrodisco platforms, which all put the sound of the Slovenian techno on the world map of electronic music.

In the beginning of the year 2007, Umek started a new 1605 Music Therapy - Sixteenofive, with which he marked the beginning of the second era of his music creation and what an era it is. 5 highly popular releases on the 1605 label with lots more planned in the next few months, a huge success of the »Day Of Electronics 09« - the main 1605 event in Krizanke (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for the third year in a row, a popular summer festival »Disconautica« (Koper, Slovenia) featuring 1605 Main Floor for the second year in a row and with over 50.000 attending people. Furthermore the 15 astonishing releases and remixes already released in 2009 are the best proof, that Umek stays focused on his primary goal – to make high quality productions that stand out from the rest and to bring this music closer to people all around the world.

The year 2009 also brought a fresh breeze in Umek’s booking department and so his new booking agency is Bullitt Bookings from the USA, that also takes care of some of the biggest names, like Dubfire, Nic Fanciulli, Shlomi Aber, Davide Squillace and many others.

Last year's releases like Is it / Longer Trail, Destructible Enviroment, S Cream, Designed Persona, You Might Hear Nothing and the latest club hit Work This Data, have caught the attention of Armada, Hell Yeah, Tronic, Dataworx and other biggest labels of the music industry and judging by Umek's tracks »Hablando« and »Slap«, released on his own label 1605, by the enormous amount of upcoming releases and the second (and first on 1605 label) album with his 10 great tracks “Responding To Dynamic”, Umek surely isn’t going to run out of creative fuel for quite some time.

The 2010 European Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam Finals

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Last weekend The 2010 European Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam Finals (Laax, Switzerland) went down, and our Elan Chicitas Team rider Urska Pribošič was ridding like a true Cowgirl !!!
The Judges were also impresed and rewarded her effort with an amazing SECOND PLACE in the Women's category.

This has been just one of the great results for Urška this year. After her debut at the Roxy Chicken Jam 2010 where she finished 15th, she went on and WON the Sista Sessions 2010 ( Mayrhofen, Austria)

Congratulations Urska for the great results. Keep it going girl !

Final results Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam:

1. Gina Somani
2. Urska Pribosic
3. Stephie Kauert
4. Basa Stevulova
5. Marion Hearty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gVOCmZFprc

Domen Bizjak third in London!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

London 01.11.2009:

Last weekend snowboarders have competed at the first FIS Big Air Competition in London. Among 50 competitors from 12 countries were also Elan Snowboards riders Domen Bizjak and Matevž Pristavec.

Both of our competitors qualified for the finals. In front of 15.000 spectators Domen Bizjak ended excellent third after three more than good jumps. „Even though recently I have pulled out some great jumps I have not imagined that I would end up third overall. During summer I have trained good and results are now here.“

Great result for Elan Snowboards was boosted with Matevž Pristavec ending fourth.

Congratulations to both our riders for one of the best results form Elan Snowboards!

Final Results:
1.    Stefan Gimpl ( AUT ),
2.    Gian-Luca Cavigelli ( SUI ),
3.    Domen Bizjak ( SLO ),
4.    Matevž Pristavec ( SLO ),

Win a brand new Prodigy-R LTD!

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The first glacier openings and demos of the 2010 season are already history and it’s time to get ready for a new shred-season. We at Elan know that good equipment is the key to lots of fun on the mountain and that’s why we like to give away one of our 09.10 collection highlights in our first win stuff raffle.

The Prodigy-R LTD is the perfect accomplice for freestylers with a taste for park jibbing and covert rail missions. The board features our brand new V-shaped Jib Rocker profile, which delivers enhanced board control and buttering ability.

Here is how you can get your hands on one of these gems:

• Log in to our community and create a gallery of your “best summer riding” shots (maximum of 10).

• All pictures uploaded until the 15th of February will enter the contest.

• As always: the Elan International Team and the P.Lab will judge the entries.

LOVE Teammovie "Loveolution"

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The Austrian Snow-, Skateboard and Streetwear Brand LOVE, is very proud to bring out their first Teammovie. The film was done in cooperation with blue tomato and is for sure one of the most different and entertaining Snow and Skate movies in 2009! Love Snow Teamriders: Marc Swoboda, Matevz Pristavec, Seppi Scholler, Thomas Feurstein, Dominik Wagner and Flo Mausser, where busy shooting all last year. From Big powder stuff shots at Arlberg or switzerland, massive park jumps in sLOVEnia, sweden or Superpark, or the Special "rainbow jib session", this movie is a good mix of powder, park and jibs! Skaters Xico Basabe, Allessandro Massotti and Thomas Vevjar also spent days and nights filming and you will see that it was worth it.
Besides this, the riders show that some of them also got other "hidden talents".. and the whole crew garanties that this is for sure the most entertaining movie in 2009 :)

The premiere will be on 24th of October in Vienna. (Full infos on flyer). MAKE SURE YOU COME; PARTY WILL BE AS CRAZY AS THE MOVIE! :)

Bloody board video premiere

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Our Elan International Team Rider Bruno Rivoire has been filming with a whole bunch of his french shred buddies from the national Vans and APO team and now it’s time to release their video. Riders featured are Arthur Longo, JJ Roux, Valérian Ducourtil, Franck Moissonier, Brynild Vulin and of course Bruno Rivoire amongst others. Premiers kick of on the 1st of October in Annecy and on the 7th of October in Paris.

More about this frechn project can be found on facebook
For a teaser of the flick just click here

Best Trick Contest – Winners selected!

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

After collecting all votes from our P.Lab members and team riders around the globe we are proud to announce the winners of our Best Trick Photo Contest. We have been asking for all kinds of creative stuff you do with your snowboard – pure, simple and fun! So with these criteria in their minds the judges took a close look at all trick galleries and here are the results:

1. Shred_360, picture #10
2. Currymartin, picture #1
3. Ticma, picture #3
4. Ziga11, picture #8
5. Agent-G, picture #2

Shred_360 is looking forward to a brand new pair of our teams most favorite bindings: the Neon! All other winners listed above will get a full Elan promo pack with stickers, a T-shirt and a cap.

That’s it for the season with our win stuff raffles. We will be back in September with monthly raffles and lots of cool prizes to win!

Benno Postert: First King of S.N.O.W.

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

After four month all participants elected the first King of S.N.O.W. After eight hard rounds German Artec Rookie Benno Postert took the lead and won 5.000,- USD plus a lot of coverage worldwide. The matter of fact is much more impressive, since Benno is out of the northern part of Germany and started snowboarding only three years ago! Congrats Benno!!
Second became Martin Kalliola out of Finland, who could stick his BS 900° at the final in La Plagne, France pretty good, but at the end it was not enough to take over the lead.

Here is the link to Benno´s tricks which brought to him 5.000,- USD:
http://snow.besttrick.com/contest/king-of-snow/userTricks/1F9hi2o0O/Benno-Postert

For a interview with Benno check out Onboard Magazine’s website:
http://onboardsnowboarding.com/features/category/interviews/interview-with-king-of-snow-winner/

Winner selected!

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Finally our team riders and the P.Lab have judged all uploaded powder shots for our 2009 “Best Powder Shot-Competition”. And now it’s official: Žiga Erlač from Slovenia is the lucky winner and will be rewarded with a brand new Elan Crest freeride board!
Check out Žiga’s gallery here.

2. Place, Patrick Rauter (Image Nr.: 2);
3. Place, Mateja Kordič (Image Nr.: 3);
4. Place, Nejc Slatner (Image Nr.: 10);
4. Place, Edo Senica (Image Nr.: 1);

Now, while the powder is melting and spring riding is on it’s way we just started a new photo contest and put up a brand new Neon “blue” binding up for grabs. Want to know how to win this sweet high tech binding? Go to the win stuff section of our website for all the contest details.

Elan Chicas Notebook Competition Winners Announced!

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Elan Snowboards is proud to announce the name of the winner of the Elan Chicas Notebook competition: a lengthy round of applause and a standing ovation go out to Neža Peterca, from Mengeš, Slovenija.

Now in its second year, the ever-popular Elan Chicas Notebook competition once again invited visitors to www.elanchicas.com to upload scans or images of their most creative diary and notebook pages.

After receiving tons of entries throughout the two-month competition window, the Elan Chicas team riders – including Lisa Filzmoser, Conny Bleicher and Dominique Vallée – spent a good few hours sifting through all of the entries and debating the merits of the best submissions before singling out Neža as the overall winner.

Impressed by the extraordinary depth and quality of entries, Elan Chicas team rider Dominique Vallée said: “It was so tough picking out just one winner, but unfortunately that’s what we had to do. Neža’s entry was inspiring and creative, and captured perfectly the spirit of the Elan Chicas program. She’s a worthy winner, that’s for sure!”

As a reward for her winning efforts, Neža will spend an exciting day at the Elan Snowboards headquarters where she’ll experience a personal tour of the Elan Snowboards factory. While she’s there, Neža will also enjoy an opportunity to meet the Chicas crew and designers, and will assume a credited role in the creation of the new Elan Chicas notebook, in which her entry will take pride of place on the inside front cover!

Fellow Chicas team rider and judge Conny Bleicher was equally blown away by the imagination of the entries, saying: “It’s never easy picking a winner when the standard is so high, so it was great that we could also select 19 runner-up entrants. Those 19 submissions will be featured in the next Elan Chicas notebook, while every single entrant in the competition will also receive a free copy of the notebook! It’s our special way of saying thank you for taking part in this inspiring competition!”

Elan Chicas Camp review

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

From 7th till 8th March the Jurassik Snowpark in Folgaria / Italy hosted the first ever Elan Chicas snowboard camp. Together with our international team riders Lisa Filzmoser, Conny Bleicher and Dominique Valleé and Chicitas riders Urška Pribošič and Matilda Pilfalk a team of enthusiastic girls were riding , being coached in the park and as well testing some of our new 2010/11 Chicas boards.
At the end of the camp obvious progress was visible in the riding of all attending girls, but even more important a big smile was to be seen on each girls face.
For more pictures of the Chicas Camp check out the picture gallery..

Free Elan Chicas Camp!

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

From 7th till 8th March the fabulous Jurassik Snowpark in Folgaria / Italy will host the first Elan Chicas snowboard camp!

The Elan Chicas International Team with Lisa Filzmoser, Conny Bleicher and Dominique Vallée will be riding the park and offer their coaching to everybody who likes to get some tips form the pros. Elan Chicas demo boards are up for some free testing too!
Attendance at the camp is free of charge. To register just drop an e-mail to snow_time@yahoo.it.

After you have practiced your skills during the first day in the park you have the chance to take part in the night rail contest, kicking of at Saturday evening. The after contest party at the Juhn Club in Folgaria rounds up the package in style.

Don’t miss this chance and be part of the first free Elan Chicas snowboard camp with all your favorite pros!

For some infos on the park go to www.jurassiksnowpark.it

Win a brand new Elan Crest

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

It’s time to hook you guys up with a serious freeride board. Check out our latest win stuff raffle and find out how to get your hands on one of the most advanced freeride boards out there.

On sale: Playboard Travel Issue with free White Ever DVD!

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Hey folks! It’s time to grab some freebies. Check out the latest issue of Playboard Magazine (German Skate/Snowboard mag distributed in AUT, GER and SUI), which comes with a free DVD of one of our favorite snowboard flicks: White Ever! The film features Elan Riders like Lisa Filzmoser, Friedl May, Patrick Wöhrle and Thomas Kraehe. For a short trailer go to: www.lafamiglia.de. For more about Playboard check www.playboard.de

Elan riders dominate CAD-Tour in Ehrwald

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

On 17th of January Ehrwald, Austria hosted the „Chill and Destroy 3 star TTR Slopestyle Contest. It was the 2nd stop of the CAD Tour, a rookie series with 10 events hold in various resorts in Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria. The “BetterPark Ehrwald” with it’s solid set-up was the perfect stage for Elan international team rider Friedl May (GER) and Team Alps rider Patrick Wörle (AUT) to demonstrate their skills. At the end of a sunny day with some great riding from guys like Rudi Kröll (AUT), Alessandro Boyens (GER), Benny Deeg (GER), Ed Gunn (GBR), Chris Nightley (GBR) and Nelson Pratt (GBR) it was Friedl taking the crown and Patrick finishing with a 3rd rank.
Congratulation boys!
For more about the CAD-Tour and a video of the contest go here.

Vote for Lisa!

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Elan Chicas Teamrider Lisa Filzmoser is once again nominated for the "European Rider of the Year", a public voting run by German Snowboarder Monster Backside Magazine. Lisa is nominated in two categories: 'Female rider of the year' and 'Female video part of the year'. We all know you love Lisa so give her some props and go vote:

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Thanks folks and keep it up!

Elan Chicas rider Morena Makar wins in Korea

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

From 12th – 13th of January the Korean resort of Konjiam was hosting the LG Serveone, a Asian Snowboard FIS Cup event. Elan Chicitas member Morena Makar from Croatia took the chance to practice her pipe riding skills for the upcoming FIS World Cup hosted in Gujo, Japan. At the end of the day these “practice session” ended in her fist contest victory of the 08.09 season. ‘’This was one of the best competitions I have ever attended! Really good organization, royal treatment of the riders – everything on a really high level!”, explains a happy Morena and continuous, “The pipe itself was not shaped perfectly so I decided for a safe run – and won! I’m really happy!!’’ Her winning run consisted of clean tricks such as FS Air, FS 360, Cab 360 and Air to Fakie. The 23-year old Morena left Korea with a big smile and 1600 Euros cash reward to participate in the FIS World Cup event in Japan.

Elan Chicas Notebook Contest!

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

After the big success of our “Elan Chicas Notebook Competition 1st Edition” last year, we are proud to announce the 2nd edition of this great creativity contest. The contest is running since December 15th and is open for submissions until 15th of February.

To enter the Chicas Notebook Competition, all you have to do is submit an image or a scanned picture of the best page from your personal diary or notebook. Whether your chosen page is super-creative, plain crazy, downright freaky, like your shopping list, or appointments during the day, etc…what ever you feel like, we want you to submit it now! All entries received will be uploaded to the Elan Chicas website and displayed in our online gallery.

Together with a personal credit in the Chicas Notebook, the winning participant is set to scoop an awesome day to Elan’s headquarters, meet the crowd, go for a tour of the Elan snowboards factory and a chance to meet the designers of the Chicas program.

For all the rules and more go to:
www.elanchicas.com

Artec teams up with Sony for 5th Design contest

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Win a personally designed snowboard and a Sony PSP-Set

Begunje, Slovenia, November 2008 – Artec Snowboards is proud to announce the launch of the 2009 Artec Snowboards Design Contest. We are proud to be teaming up with the generous folks at Sony Playstation again this year, and the stakes are as high as ever for the 5th edition of this innovative competition.

Here’s the deal: we’re looking for artistic souls to take on our creative challenge and design a snowboard topsheet graphic that ties in with our progressive design philosophy and technology. History tells us the winning entry will need to be truly inspired and original, so be creative and unleash your imagination.

The winner of the Artec Snowboards Design Contest 2009, selected by a jury of Artec team riders and designers, will receive a one of a kind Artec snowboard featuring the winning topsheet graphic design.
Plus, the top dog will also walk away with a Sony PlayStation® Portable (PSP) Slim & Lite and the newest adventure for PSP - LocoRoco 2. That's a whole PSP mobile entertainment system right there, people.

Our 2nd and 3rd place finishers will also be in line to receive top prizes, with each of the runners-up receiving an Artec Snowboard and the latest Sony PSP game - LocoRoco 2. And check this: the top three designs will be exhibited in the Art Gallery at the Artec Snowboards booth at Ispo Winter 09.

Head over to artecsnowboards.com and download a blueprint design template and get to work. After finish the design you can simply upload it on line together with your personal data. Carefully read our Blueprint design guidelines to ensure you meet our specifications. There are no limits to how many graphics you can upload. The deadline for all graphic submissions is midnight on January 5th, 2009. Now go create something.

artecsnowboards.com is launched for the 08/09 season

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Ladies and Gentleman we are live! The new Artec site is officially launched and online now! The place to go for everything Artec, the new site features all the stats and specs on the new Artec collection, detailed information about our award winning technology and designs, and the lowdown on the Revolutionary Artec Blueprint program. Artecsnowboards.com also features all the latest details on our professional team including new interviews, photos, and video. So whether you want to learn about our patented Omega Sidecut, peep the new Cipher graphics, or Check out what Gabe, Laura, Nima, Gus and Johnny are up to, artecsnowboards.com is the spot that has it all.

Lisa Filzmoser

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Elan Chicas team rider Lisa Filzmoser has just being interviewed by methodmag.com. So if you want to read about her plans fort he upcoming season and learn a bit more about Lisa, her summer and her thoughts about all-girls snowboard contest just jump over to the methodmag webpage.

Outdoor Jibsession in Bottrop/ Germany

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Are you in the mood for some summer fun? Instead of heading to one of the glaciers in your area to ride some slush you are more than welcome to take part in the Alpincenter Outdoor Jibsession. The mini shred contest kicks off on August 16th at the outdoor beer garden of the “Alpincenter” (www.alpincenter.com) in Bottrop, Germany. The planed schedule looks like this:

12.00 h – Opening of the beergarden, accreditation for the riders 14.00 h – Warm up and contest (best of 3, head-on-head format) 20.00 h – Live music and party

The entrance to the beer garden is for free. For 25 Euros guests can also purchase an all-inclusive-ticket containing free soft drinks, beer, coffee and wine.

Špela Rihar, Winner of the elan chicas notebook competition, visits the elan hq!

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

After winning our first Elan Chicas Design Contest in April 2009 it was now time for Spela Rihar, from Slovenia to pick up her prize. Her day at the Elan headquarters started with a visit in the Elan office where she was introduced to the whole P.Lab. After checking the actual works and receiving a unique souvenir-package Product Manager Dragan Gojkovic and Marketing Manager Dorothee Cuny attended her to visit the Elan Snowboards factory in Fürnitz, Austria. Here Spela got the one-of-a-kind opportunity to follow the whole process of building a snowboard. She was even able to hand on some steps in the production-process by herself. After the lunch breaks it was time to continue the tour and head to the next stop: the Elan Chicas design agency VBG in Ljubljana. Spela was welcomed by the designers and had the chance for an ample talk about the whole design process of the boards, boots, bindings and all communication material. Loaded with lots of information and fresh ideas it was time for Spela to work on the finalization of the Elan Chicas Notebook. It was her task to set-up the order off all pages for the final production of the exceptional notebook. As Spela is studying design and communication the whole experience at the Elan headquarters was a useful and very interesting experience for her and she was very happy getting this chance.

Dominique Vallée interview

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Check out the website of our friends at FSM (Future Snowboarding Magazine) for a nice little interview of Elan Chicas team rider Dominique Vallée. If you did follow her blogs of the season you might know, that Dominique has been on the road a lot in the last couple of weeks. The guys from FSM met her in Carlsbad where she was visiting a friend and relaxing from a recent backcounty trip. To read the full interview just click here