While Mother Nature let her soft white powdery stuff rain down on Tahoe over the past weekend, Colorado has already been getting their fair share of the inaugural winter showers. Several storms over the past week and cold temps have given way to opening day! Get your boards waxed up and grab that stick of [...]

The Freeride World Tour has announced its schedule for the 2010 winter, with stops in Russia (Sochi), France (Chamonix/Mont Blanc), the U.S. (Squaw Valley) and Switzerland (Verbier):

Freeride World Tour, Season 3
Sochi – Chamonix-Mont Blanc – Squaw Valley USA – Verbier
The Freeride World Tour announces its third season. The world’s best skiers and snowboarders will yet [...]

Buckbean Brewing Company, Nevada’s largest production microbrewery, is challenging beer snobs to think outside the bottle.
The brewery is sponsoring the first ever CANFEST – Reno International Canned Beer Festival, the first international beer judging and tasting for canned beer, to take place at the Grand Sierra Resort, Oct. 23.
Buckbean is a homegrown Northern Nevada favorite [...]

Do you love the feel of snowboarding, but live in a warm weather climate? Well now you can carve your favorite hills like it is the dead of winter in your skivvies! Check out the Freebords with the 3G truck system. They are soooo sick!
PS – my birthday is saturday if you are feeling generous!

Real-time search engines made our list as one of the top 5 Twitter related trends to watch, not only because the demand for these tools has increased, but also because we’re seeing services like Tweetmeme and OneRiot innovate at lightning speed in this space.

Collecta, which launches today, is also tackling real-time search, but their search engine uses XMPP technology and works to keep pace with information as it happens — faster than we’ve ever seen before — on blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, news sites, and various other social sites.