Dates:
December 14^th-15^th-16^th, 2012

Location:
New Course Location! Registration and Event will be out of Sunrise Lodge and Sunrise Chair at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon.

Reason:
To raise money and stoke for our good friend and Derby competitor Tyler Eklund.

Format:
Snowboard Parallel Banked Slalom.

7 Divisions:
Mens Snowboard (14-49 years), Derby Elites Snowboard (invite only), Womens Snowboard (14-49 years), Groms Snowboard (13 and under), Older and Wiser Snowboard (50+ years), Splitboard (all ages), and Sit-Ski (all ages)

Racing and Party Schedule:
Friday will be a practice day on the Derby courses at Mt. Bachelor followed by the Dirksen Derby Kick-Off Party (all ages) and Broken Board Art Auction on Friday evening at 6pm at the Century Center in Bend, Oregon.
Racing will be held on Saturday 10:00am-2:00pm and Sunday 10:00am-2:00pm. Racing schedule is subject to change based on weather and snow conditions. Everyone should be available to race on Saturday and/or Sunday.

Price and Registration:
Pre-register online and receive a free limited edition Dirksen Derby beanie from Patagonia! The price will be $35 per division. Online registration starts on November 27^th, 2012 at www.MtBachelor.com or at the Mt. Bachelor Sunrise Lodge on Friday (9:00am-3:00pm), Saturday (7:30am-9:30am) or Sunday (7:30am-9:30am). Discounted lift tickets are available at registration. All Press must check in at registration for special Press Passes.

Thanks to all of the sponsors who make this event possible:
Patagonia, Mt. Bachelor, Salomon snowboards, Dakine, GoPro, Smith Optics, Skull Candy, Mountain House, Clif Bar, HydroFlask, Karakoram splitboard bindings, Crab Grab, Oregon Adaptive Sports, Drink Water, Äsmo snowsurfers, GummiLove, Parilla, Deck Tech, Rebound Physical Therapy, Side Effect, Skjersaa`s, Exit Real World, Aspect, Race Place.

More Information:
http://www.facebook.com/dirksen.derby

We have joke paralysis, but maybe you can come up with something including German rider Alex Tank and WWII?

SATURDAY

It was posted on Friday, but who cares: Access All Areas with Fredi Kalbermatten was our top post over the past seven days. Flow: The Life goes YoudaHoldaho. Todd Richards talks about his salad days. Japan has a white ribbon of death, too. The Gremlinz ride Kingvale. Spatziba has a great Kazuhiro Kokubo clip. ESPN calls, TJ Schneider anwers. TW Snow catches up with Gjermund Braaten. And Tom Sims appears on Powder and Rails.

SUNDAY

Darrel Mathes nails 11 tricks on a down rail. The Copper Grand Prix saw some good snowboarding. In more important event news, the Dirksen Derby begins. A whole bunch of riders appear in the second Sunday in the Park episode. Jussi Oksanen‘s In Color part gets remixed. Simon Chamberlain‘s part gets a different spin, too. And for the first time ever, a Dutch outdoor contest makes use of real snow.

MONDAY

We post the full Austrian Sanesation movie, Kareem El Rafie‘s video part, and Torah Bright‘s TTR edit. Oh, and Ben Bilocq and Jon Kooley in the Nitro movie. The Jib-Vid gets cancelled.   The Dirksen Derby continues. 9191‘s full Jackson Hole footage gets released. Whatever the Rails 2 Riches contest was, here’s the highlight video. Xavier De Le Rue‘s Timeline episodes are blocked from being embeded on our site. The Ästhetiker go springtime shredding, and so do the Pirates (in Sweden). Torstein Horgmo loves his board. Toddcast – the Movie Pt. 3 drops. And Yobeat shows how to save your lift ticket money.

Nobody had told Superman that the new baseplates were made of kryptonite.

TUESDAY

We post all Airblaster Family Portraits in one go, and the ‘mixed part‘ from the Nitro movie. YES goes Whistler. Horgmo and Austbo play a game of In Your Face. Johnny Miller gets a Day in the Life. The Dirksen Derby is finally over. Givinvids.com posts a noteworthy Forest Bailey clip. Alpental received a dump in time for their opening day. Sean Black turns gangsta. Here’s a sick edit of the Burton team filming themselves with Contour cams. More Bear Mountain shredding. And Halldor doesn’t stomp every trick (but maybe Eiki does).

WEDNESDAY

The O’Neill Evolution teaser drops. Ethan Morgan is a terrible filmmaker. TW Snow launches into a Sandbox week and post Jake Koia’s full part and Jake Kuzyk’s full part and Andrew Geeves’ full part. Chas Guldemond is also in the webisode game. Stevens, Beresford, Black et al shred Brighton. Torstein runs us through the Dew Tour slopestyle. Where were you, Colin Langlois? Gulli and Einar hit an ice rink. Here’s how you build a gipsy-style Go-Pro pole-mount. Roxy goes Kaunertal. And if you still haven’t learnt it – Zac Hale shows you how to do a Front 1.

The one thing snowboarding is missing is a figure skating scandal.

THURSDAY

The X Games Real Snow thing sounds good. Are opens with an Are opener. Prospecting Idaho episode 5 is just as good as the others. More Gremlinz here. Aron Holterman bags a cool desktop wallpaper. Ero One Films‘ bonus footage looks good. The Bombcake short movie is a killer. Mark McMorris is sending it here. More Sandbox stuff: Mike Pederson over here, Ryan Hall and Dwayne Wiebe here. Signal builds a Lego board. Here is the EB Edits: Episode 2. Here’s the Rail Gardens ‘The Movie Teaser.‘ And TW Snow tells you how to road trip.

FRIDAY

The lastest Gossip from the Good Life talks about doing seasons. The Angry Snowboarder has Spread the Love (full movie). The Analog feature comp is still going on. Eiki Helgason does a top to bottom run. Jamie Anderson oozes with style. The Forum team doesn’t handle flammable liquids with care. Here comes some Bear Mtn Mini Bar Madness. And JP Walker drops their Real Snow Teaser.

As I said, coming up next: ‘This Year in Snowboarding,’ starting on Monday. TWIS will be back in early January and once again it will be all about ‘And this is supposed to be snowboard journalism?’

Oh, and by the way, have you seen Klaus?