Orage Master’s Trip Giveaway || Winner Announcement

….the moment you’ve all been waiting for!!!!!  We have drawn a winner for the Orage Master’s Trip Giveaway!  Congratulations to Mike Brenner, from California! We want to sweep you and your fiance up for a weekend rally to Whistler with the evo crew to check out the Masters IN PERSON!!!! We will reach out to you via multiple forms of communication, but if you see this first, please hit us back ASAP!!!

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest!  We love you all long time and will be pumping out more contests in the future so stay tuned!  We will be posting a photo/video recap of the trip and the Master’s following the weekend so dont forget to check back! If for some reason Mike does not respond within a reasonable amount of time or is found ineligible we will draw the runner up… he’d have to be crazy not to respond though right?

Seattle Store Closed Tuesday 4/13 for Store Inventory!

Ugggggh, we hate to do it but we will be closed Tuesday April 13th to conduct our annual store inventory. We will reopen Wednesday at 11:00 AM.  Hopefully it will be an epic POW day so you’re out on the hill anyways!  Thanks for hanging in there and we will see you on Thursday!

Greasebus Seattle video recap!

EvoFest III is coming to evo on May 1st!!

evoFest III is coming to evo on May 1st!!

DJ Soulrane on the ones and twos, Urban art featuring graffiti art by Charms Won, Vivian Hsu Photography, Pubs & Dkoy…art prints available at the event!!

B-boy/b-girl 1vs1 Footwork/Power/All Sytles Battles (Trophies and $$$ for the winners).

Exhibitions: Naj (Fraggle Rock) Seattle VS. Cricket (Extra Credit) San Fran

Check out photos and videos from the last couple years! Click here!

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Win a Trip to the Orage Masters in Whistler!!!!!

Win a trip for you & a guest to the 7th Annual Orage Masters event in Whistler BC during the Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival! We will fly you in to Seattle and sweep you away to Whistler VIP style so leave the keys @ home cause we’ve got transportation, lodging, lift tickets and All Access VIP passes for the event covered… PLUS you’ll get hooked up with a ton of sweet Orage product!!!

What is the Orage Masters? The ski industry’s one and only, infamous Anti-Comp is a slopestyle event like no other… with its “break all the rules attitude”, costume-clad competitors, on hill shenanigans, co-ed team format being the “funnest” comp on the planet!

To learn more and to enter CLICK HERE!!!!!

evo’s Megan Middleton hits up the Showcase Showdown and some Whistler POW!

SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN, BLACKCOMB, WENT OFF THIS WEEKEND!!

Blackcomb, April 4th, 2010 – The 13th Annual Showcase Showdown got crazy in the Nintendo Highest Level Terrain Park this Saturday. For the first time in its 13-year history, the all-day event took place in the park rather than the base area. It featured a combo of big air and a blast from the Showdown’s past; wall-ride with re-entry feature. The event was a BLAST and definitely one to make it out to next year!

Molly and I arrived in Whistler Friday night. We met up with Priscilla Levac (owner of Cilla, first layers for women) and Natasha Zurek for sushi and wine at SushiVillage (my favorite food on earth). Great food and conversation left us sitting in our booth for hours. We chatted about everything from Priscilla’s company, Cilla, to Molly’s new puppy, Penny!

Arising early on Saturday morning, we packed up and headed to registration. Waffle sticks and check-in took up the first hour at Showcase Snowboard Shop – good call Showcase! As we headed up the Blackcomb Gondola, the mountain was stormy and visibility was nil. We were in the fog as we headed up the last chair to the park; the good news, there was POW all over the mountain. As we cut over to the HL Park, we boosted into a window of sunshine. Brad Broughton, Showcase Team Manager, and the Whistler Blackcomb Terrain Park Team, and Groomers shaped the booter and features all morning. The course looked clean, BIG, and fun AFTER the hard work of shoveling POW was finished!

The course consisted of an initial jump, not judged, the first jump (choice of 45ft popper or 65ft floater) to wall-ride re-entry. One practice run because of a late start and the contest was underway. I took the 45ft popper, with most the other ladies, in my practice run; it was wacky and difficult to clear. I took the 65-footer my first judged run; the jump was built well and very smooth. Speed was slow for the re-entry. Of course, I fell on the first jump (that is not judged) my second judged run ruining speed – Oh, I love contests. Needless to say, I didn’t make it to finals with a fall in each of my runs. It was a good time and a blast to finally hit a well-built BOOTER. BBQ was blazing, chili was bubbling, and tunes were blasting at the bottom of the park. Showcase definitely brought the “party to the park” as they planned.

Molly and I took off to shred the POW, soak in the sunshine, and well… experience a blizzard at the top of Seventh Heaven. We took killer tree runs with POW up to our knees at times. Two ladies free for an afternoon; couldn’t have been better. As we headed down the gondola, we debriefed on how nuts the day was. Sun, fog, pow, groomed park, huge booter, blizzard, Stevens Pass yesterday, and Blackcomb/Whistler today. I felt exhausted and confused as to what had just happened over the past 24 hours of my life. Rad.

CHECK OUT SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN NEXT YEAR! Whistler has some B.A. riders and an epic park!
THANK YOU TO THE SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN SPONSORS!!!!

- Story by Megan Middleton (Check out Megan’s full team profile!)

We love our interns!!

evo intern and rockstar Kerry is in a heated battle to sell the most Kona Longboard Lager at her “real job” at Joeys Restaurant! Winner of this contest will win a trip to Kona’s homeland, Hawaii!!  If you’re in the South Center, Tukwilla area, hit up Joeys and ask for Kerry! You’ve gotta order the Molten Chocolate Lava Souffle, OMG….*mouth is watering!* I just went down there the other day to see what i was missing out on since i hadn’t been to Joeys before and had some fish tacos, some gyoza, and they were even running around with some samples of some of their more popular dishes… i will definitely be back, who wants to go??  Lets go get some Konas so Kerry doesn’t have to drink them all herself!

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evo Interns Enter Spacecraft

evo interns take a look inside Spacecraft!!

Two days ago, I was writing descriptions about a shirt that was a thumbnail image in a catalog. Yesterday, I was in a large warehouse where the intricate design on said shirt was painted on a 3’x4’ box, leaning against a concrete wall covered in painted art and framed photography. Yesterday, I was in the Spacecraft world.

The four mighty evo web content interns together with their fearless leaders and the graphic designers stormed the Spacecraft offices to look behind the scenes of the company whose snow cat stickers line the streets of Seattle (and the lift poles of Stevens and the Summit), and we definitely weren’t disappointed.
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evo skaters know how to make an exit…

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evo Team Rider Randa Shahin || Roadtrip with Megan Ginter to Tahoe

Megan Ginter and I have been talking about taking a road trip together for a long time. Fortunately the cards all played out well and we were able to jump in the car together and start making our way down to Lake Tahoe, Ca. We chose to take the scenic route, through the cascades of Oregon, past Bend and Klamath Falls. The view on the way down was beautiful. We took advantage of a few places to stop and take a break while taking in the breath taking views.
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