Remember that clunky old, outdated basinski.com website? Well, out with the old and in with the new. Just like the start of a new ski/ride season, we here at Basin Sports have kicked off the season with a newly designed website! Like with the old basinski.com, Dave, or one of our staff members will be updating the ski report daily. We’ll also have five categories of blogging options that will be updated regularly, so bookmark us for that office lunchtime web surfing session! If you haven’t done so yet, like us on facebook or follow us on twitter for special deals we’re  running  for facebook friends or twitter followers.

As you can see we are still working out a few of the bugs with the pages under the Basin and Evolution, however we are working hard to have those resolved shortly.  Until then, enjoy the site pages that are available and please feel free to offer your feedback in our new comments section.  This is located under the post heading, “Welcome to the new BasinSki.com!”  Enjoy!!!

Vin Quenneville has worked at Basin Sports since he escaped Connecticut in 1997, managed Out of Bounds Snowboards since 2000 and launched Basinshopping.com in 2007. "I live for riding my bike in the summer and ripping tight tree lines in the winter." V.Q.

After pulling the store together for Brewfest and Columbus Day weekends, I saw a small window of opportunity to shoot out to British Columbia one last time before the winter season.  BC is my absolutely favorite zone in the world to ride my bike; the diversity of terrain out there is just mindblowing. Within a few hours you can go from the wet rainforest to the wide open desert terrain of the Interior.  This trip I wanted to spend a little more time in the place that gave birth to the freeride movement, Kamloops, BC.  My quest? To find one more sender that would push my limits farther than I have taken it before. I knew of a massive step down style jump that had just been filmed by a local film crew two months prior. I was super stoked to find that when I arrived in Kamloops, the sender was ready to ride.  We carefully watched the weather for the perfect day that had a large window of sunshine and low winds.  As it turned out, our 2nd to last day in town was that day.

After rolling out to my little secret spot, I did a few run ins and it was time to drop in.  As I rolled across the ridge line, my heart pounded and before I knew it I was on the sketchy, 15 inch wide run in.  Three hard pedal strokes,  a little compression for extra pop off of the lip and I was off.  The feeling was absolutely incredible.  I knew I all I needed to do was angle the bike to match the landing and set her down.  I STOMPED it.  I was by far the largest sender I have hit in my life.

Having that under my belt,  I was ready for bike season to be over.  Needless to say, I was pretty stoked to come home to a white Vermont!!!

Vin Quenneville has worked at Basin Sports since he escaped Connecticut in 1997, managed Out of Bounds Snowboards since 2000 and launched Basinshopping.com in 2007. "I live for riding my bike in the summer and ripping tight tree lines in the winter." V.Q.