LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Photo: Ghiglia
Nothing beats an evening surf sesh.

Photo: Aspen
Spring time in the mountains goes off!

Sleep till your heart (or head) is content.

Winter cabin fever can make you look like this guy -
scary.

Summer cometh - thou shalt rejoice!This Sunday we spring forward. At least one benefit from the Bush administration was the expansion of Daylight Savings for four weeks per year (three weeks earlier in the spring and one week later in the fall).

We acknowledge that downsides exist but here we focus on the positive.

Stay gold right?

1. Post work surfs (or enter other activity here ____)

For those in school or who work in an office, there's nothing worse than getting out for the day and it being dark or close to it. I get fat in the winter because I don't like getting up early and rely on evening light for my exercise. There's no better way to wash away a day of stress and aggravation than a sunset surf. Believe it.

2. Better Apres Ski

If you're in the mountains having an extra three weeks of evening light in the spring is a huge benefit to apres ski culture. Now you can enjoy your frothy post riding libation or the annual pond skim contest in a comfortable golden hue of twilight rather than the cold midwinter chill of night.

3. Sleeping In Gets Easier

Since it's Friday as I write this, I likely will go out tonight. Of course it wouldn't be a fun night out were it not accompanied by a not so fun morning, so the darker it is before 10 am on Saturday AM the easier it will be to sleep through the worst part of my hangover.

4. Cabin Fever is Over

The dark days of winter can have a dire effect on one's psychi. Trapped indoors, held hostage by the dark forces of Nature, there's no telling what depression combined with a bottle of whiskey can do. With extra daylight you have the excuse you need to get outside and avoid the darkside of the Force.

5. Summer is Coming

Longer days mean warmer temperatures are on the horizon so that's generally a good thing. Warmer water, spring skiing, beer, BBQ and and best of all - bikinis. Need I say more...

Add your thoughts in the comments section below...

Liquid hot magma.

Finished product.

Since the Burton US Open of Snowboarding is underway we've been spending a fair bit of time on Burton.com watching the webcast - while there we found this little gem about the making of the US Open trophies at a local glass blowing studio.

Glass blowing is big in Vermont. They smoke a lot up there so glass pipes are always in demand, plus Kevin Pearce's father is Simon Pearce, who's made a fortune selling high-end glass wear, and also Vermont is full of "cottage industry" stories.

Whether it's baking bread, roasting coffee, brewing beer, stuffing teddy bears or marketing snowboards, the State seems to attract DIY types despite it's non-business friendly left-leading tax policies.

Anyway, we're glad that Burton chose to hook up some local glass blowers with the job of making these US Open trophies rather than having them made in China.

For more made in Vermont info check out the Craig Kelly R&D Facility story we did back in January.

Grenade Games comes to Bear March 25-27

A few months ago we interviewed Danny Kass while he was taping the Daily Habit for Fuel TV. There he broke the news to us that Grenade Games would be returning to southern California.

Today Danny provides us with more details on just what we can expect from the greatest snowboard contest of the year - if you like your contests to include Chinese Downhill, getting wasted and lots of Monster Energy.

Big ups on the 7-11 logo Kass.

Grenade Games 7: A Message from Danny Kass from Grenade Inc. on Vimeo.

Go to BNQT.com for more videos.

Quik Pro Highlights 2011 - awww yeeeahhh mate!

The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast has now come to a close. Kelly won, the sun shone, and we all wished that for those two weeks, we could all be Australian. Fortunately the good folks at Quiksilver have provided us a 27-minute ticket back to the Goldy via this Fuel TV-worthy web show called the Snack Pack.

Lots of edible goodies to nibble on to hopefully tide us over till the next ASP tour event.

Thanks for the tucka, mate!