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MAY/JUN 2019
NEWS|
SUBARU OUTSIDE GAMES
MOVES TO JULY
HIGH CASCADE SNOWBOARD CAMP
CELEBRATES 30 YEARS ON MT HOOD
ANNE LINTON & CHRIS HORNER TO
OFFER NEW TRAINING PROGRAMS
The 7th edition of the Subaru Outside
Games has moved from June to July 25-
28. Events take place all over Bend and
at Mt Bachelor. This July’s events include
a major concert, bouldering invitational,
mountain bike races and demos, local live
music, SUP celebration at Elk Lake, trials
clinics, K9 Kings, kayak races, demos, and
raft races, white water and surf comps,
river clean up, and Pickin’ and Paddling
fundraising music festival, amd much more.
The Outside Games is an association of already successful events and new ones. It all
happens over a four day period in July celebrating muscle powered sports. Some of the
beneficiaries include, Search & Rescue, Humane Society, Bend Endurance Academy,
COTA and the Bend Paddle Trail Alliance.
31 ST USASA NATIONALS WENT DOWN
AT COPPER MOUNTAIN
This past April, the largest annual snowboard and ski competition in the world took place
at Copper Mountain in Colorado with 2000 snowboarders and skiers. The event is so
large it needs to take place over two weeks. 32 regional series around America host
over 500 events. National qualifiers emerge from these regional competitions and then
meet in Colorado to compete in alpine, boardercross, skiercross, slopestyle, rail jam, and
halfpipe. The opening ceremony parade winds through Copper Village with hundreds of
kids, coaches, parents, industry reps, and spectators. In addition to a week of competition,
there is plenty of time to freeride, meet athletes from other parts of the country, attend
parties and dances, and enjoy the winter sports community which is the main feeder
for the US Olympic Team. Central Oregon USASA, run by Bend locals Adam and Kerry
Brown, organizes the local series where all competitions take place at Mt Bachelor. About
60 snowboarders and skiers qualified to compete in Copper from the CO USASA series.
See usasa.org for full list of results.
This August, HCSC will celebrate 30 years as the world’s largest and longest running
snowboard camp. The camp was originally founded by Bend snowboarders John Ingersoll
and John Calkins in 1989. Today, thirty years later and through many changes, the camp
continues as “We Are Camp”. WRC includes HCSC, Windells Ski and Skate Camp, and
Wy’ East Mountain Academy. The main campus in now all housed in Welches at the
original Windells location. What hasn’t changed is the camp’s mission statement: “Life
improvement through snowboarding and skateboarding.”
Each summer camp organizers promise this will be, “the best eight days of your life”. Over
the last 30 years everybody and anybody who has been involved in snowboarding and
freeskiing has ventured to Mt. Hood from all over the world. From gold medalists to the
grom from NYC, to the large number of Japanese snowboarders who come year after
year, sales reps, marketing teams, company owners, photographers, videographers, maga-
zine publishers, editors, writers, product testers, dreamers, and a few kooks here or there.
The 30-year celebration will take place August 3-5 at the Wy’East Campus, formally
Windells but still the “funnest place on earth” in Welches, Oregon.
BEND ROCK GYM EXPANDS OPENS
NEW 11,000 SQ FT BOULDERING GYM
VERT FEST RAISES $7000 FOR
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Big thanks to all those who braved the elements to partici-
pate, volunteer, spectate, demo equipment, provide demo
equipment, set up a vendor tent, or take part in a clinic. The
backcountry community wouldn’t be the what it is without
each and every one of you and VertFest is a spectacular
way to showcase (with high stoke levels!) what we have
created in Central Oregon! It also is one of COAC’s biggest
fundraisers and brought in over $7000 to support next
year’s Pro Observer Network and educational programs.
If everything goes as planned the new “West Gym” will open adjacent to the current home
of BRG. The space was formerly occupied by Bouncing off Walls, a children’s pay center.
The gym will add 50% more space to the current bouldering area. Inside there will be
bouldering for all levels from beginner to expert, and new training features. The boulder-
ing walls are being built by Bend climbing and hold company Entre-Prises. You can find
both facilities off Reed Market on SE Centennial Ct. bendrockgym.com
Anne Linton, a retired physician, is very active in getting more women cycling
through the Sunnyside groups rides. Anne has competed in endurance sports for some
time now including Ironman Triathlons. In addition to multi-sports, Linton has coached,
trained and competed in road racing, cyclocross, and endurance mountain bike racing.
Anne Linton Coaching has forged a new partnership with retired professional cyclist and
Bend resident Chris Horner. Horner, a 22-year veteran of elite cycling, is an olympian,
Grand Tour winner at 41 years old, and seven time Tour de France participant. Together
the new group is called Linton Horner Coaching. Rounding out their coaching team is
Beth Ann Orton, a professional road and cyclocross racer since 2012, who also has a
medical background working as a physician assistant. She has worked in the field of
orthopedics, primary care and general vascular surgery.
LHC will offer a wide variety of services from group and private coaching to endurance,
personal training, and nutrition. Throughout the year they will offer camps locally, region-
ally, and internationally. A very popular camp took place locally from May 9-12 in the
Painted Hills area. An internationalcamp will take place in The French Alps June 8-16.
All training rides will be based out of the beautiful Chalet Alta Clusa and will return each
night for delicious meals, warm hot tubs soaks, and massages. Only eight lucky “campers”
will get this ultimate cycling experience in the world famous French Alps with world class
coaching. Still booking at: lintonhorner-coaching.com
SAGEBRUSH BUYS SKJERSAA’S
BECOMES YEAR ROUND SHOP
Sagebrush cy-
cles has moved
up the street into
the Skjersaa’s
store. The owner
of Sagebrush,
James Gritters,
recently bought
out Skjersaa’s
owner Jer-
emy Nelson. The
newly formed
retail store is
poised to take
the Bend sports
shop to the next
level. This will
also give synergy to the employees with stronger year round employment. Gritters likes to
pay his employees a higher rate than the industry standard so they too can enjoy the out-
door recreation opportunities in the Bend area and he can keep great loyal shop workers.
The goal for the combined shop is to serve the Bend community and continue the tradi-
tion of both locals shops as well as giving the out of town shopper a great personable
experience. The shop will continue to carry strong product lines. New will be Nordic skate
ski sales and rentals. Many more rentals for bikes, skis, and backcountry equipment will
be available.
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IAN BROWN AND BJORN BLANKEN-
SHIP WIN AT SEA OTTER CLASSIC
Bend cyclists took home
two top podiums from the
2019 Sea Otter Classic.
National Champion Ian
Brown won the 13-14
JR Men XC and Bjorn
Blankenship was first in
the 10-12 JR Men XC.
The Sea Otter Classic is
a bicycling and outdoor
festival. Each spring
since 1991, the race
takes place at the Mazda
Raceway Laguna Seca
in Monterey, California.
The four-day event is
considered the world’s
largest cycling festival
drawing nearly 10,000
professional and amatuer
athletes and 70,000 fans,
spectators, industry reps,
food and beer vendors
and anybody related to
the bike business.
This year, Bend Endurance Academy had a very strong showing and put up some impres-
sive results: Ian Brown 1st 13-14 JR MEN XC, Bjorn Blankenship 1st 10-12 JR MEN
XC, Natasha Visnack 12th 15-16 JR WOMEN XC / Natasha Visnack was 12th CAT 2
Women 15-18 XC (check) Elijah Krause 4th Enduro / 3rd DH Cat2 JR, Jake Olander
11th Circuit Race JR Men / 9th XC JR MEN Nyall Trout 19th Road Race 17-18 JR
MEN, Cooper Day 21st Enduro / 56th DH JR Men, Jack Billowitz 22nd DS / 7th XC /
31st DH 10-12, Tanner Wescott 8th DH Cat2 JR MEN /14th Enduro, Jesse Polay 11th
DH Cat2 JR MEN, Ethan Lair 42nd JR men Enduro, Henry Winnenberg 23rd Cat2 JR
Men XC, Zane Strait 26th cat2 JR MEN XC
CAMERON BEARD WINS 3 STAGE
NATIONAL SERIES RACE SAAR-LUX
CHALLENGE
Bend local, Cameron Beard recently won a two day, three stage race. Cam rode a decent
TT and took the solo stage win to take the overall lead. He kept the lead on the last
day and won the overall. The race is called the Saar-Lux challenge. It is a Luxembourg
national series race, with the first day in Schengen, Luxembourg and the second day in
Saarland, Germany. This is Cameron’s first win of a road race and overall title as a profes-
sional road cyclist.