It's 2008 and snowboarding is still a no-no sport at four U.S. ski resorts. Two of the four are on federal forest land and Burton snowboards owner, Jake Burton, thinks that as federally funded snow tops, they should be available to all taxpayers, snowboarders included.
This past November, Burton launched the “Poach for Freedom” challenge, which asks snowboarders to upload videotape of themselves carving up the forbidden mountains. Burton is ponying up $5K for the most creative video from each resort. Not enough skrilla to convince you to trespass? Seattle-based winter sportswear retailer evo is adding an extra $1,250 extra per resort.
Things aren't going so well for the competition though, as Burton is the only one who's submitted a video so far. Eek. Are these mountains that hard to get on to, or are snowboarders that apathetic? Maybe it's because nowhere on the site could I find where these forbidden mountains are...
[via PSFK]
