SASS has teamed up with the International Snowboard Training Center and Snowgrind to offer an Olympic level BX training course accessed by its own triple chair. The program is led by Ross Hindman, 2009 USSA Domestic Coach of the year with an all star cast of coaches. Space is very limited and going quickly.

View ISTC Brochure (PDF)

Catedral Alta Patagonia, SASS and Snowgrind are excited to announce that once again the Catedral Nubes Terrain Park crew led by Snowgrind owner, Josh Lampert, will be rolling out a full terrain park in Argentina for the Southern Hemisphere winter season. Bigger and badder than ever.

Josh Lampert is one of the most respected park builders in the world and has executed countless projects and events involving terrain park and pipe design with clients such as Red Bull, Burton, Oakley, Zaugg, Timberline, Stowe, Sunday River, Loon, Heavenly and many more. Check out a few photos from what the crew was able to get up last year in just a few weeks and then use your imagination about what will be possible this year with twice the cat time.

Planned are 2 triple lines, tons of jibs, a big air jump or channel gap and tons of more surprise features throughout the season. The park triple chair and no crowds let everyone get tons of laps or choose to take a big loop top to bottom. Start by dropping some rocks or making big pow turns on the way down to the park, run your park line continue into the Nubes gully … drop into the trees for the lower half, head down to the gondola and head up to do it again. This is the WINTER to remember!

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More photos of the SASS Snowgrind Park, 2008

SASS Staffers John, Luke and Travis have been working very hard to get things ready to go this Summer!  With multiple trips to Argentina underway, the hotel is looking great and the mountains are starting to get snow!

SASS Staffers worked hard this spring as they were based in the Lake Tahoe area to bring the best to our campers. SASS campers may now receive college credit through Sierra Nevada College while attending SASS sessions. Credits are easy to transfer and a great way to build up college transcripts for campers ages 15 and older.

For more information please visit the SASS Education page.

Article in Transworld.

Article in Powder Mag.

The SASS crew converged from all parts of the US to represent at the USASA Nationals at Copper Mountain.  Led by Erica Sponberg and Brian Sullivan, SASS gave away tons of free swag, held info nights and grew the SASS family.

SASS Camper Randall Stacey Fires up the Crowd on the Mic

Travis Moore John Wilbur and the SASS family were everywhere in Summit County for the USSA Rev Tour warming up by crushing a USASA contest the weekend before.

Ian Kirk led the SMS crew through slope and pipe. Randall, Tikos, Beauchemin, Jen Cohen, Cam Howe made it happen all week. Travis Moore with his crew of Sean Ryan, Garrison Rufa, Jacob, Shayna & Micela Aaronsen. Brady Nielsen and Ally Carroll the list just keeps going.

Garrett Russell and Mauri Cambilla came through for a few days on their way to slay lines in Silverton and Telluride.

It was cool to see such a strong contest turn out of the SASS crew and we are excited to get everyone back down to kill it even harder this summer!

Jacob Aaronsen at only 13 years old was able to qualify 14th out of 120 athletes.

Lynn Neil took 3rd in Slopestyle.

Sean Ryan won the USASA  Slopestyle.

Eric Beauchmin took 3rd in the USASA Slopestyle.

SASS is happy to announce our new full page ADs running in the latest issues of Freeskier & Snowboard-Mag that just hit subscribers boxes.

Check it out a preview below but get the mags for the real deal!

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At SASS we have some of the sickest tree lines ever. From Jay Peak to Baker we get people who know woods and they are never dissapointed in what we have to offer.

Bobby Witty sending one of our favorite spots with the crew looking on in the middle of a top to bottom pow run in July.

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Some of the best days can be crushing lines up top all morning and then building a tree jib to relax and hike with the crew in the middle of the woods. There are transitions and features all around us, at SASS one of our favorite things to do is to find them.

Pep Fujas relaxing in one of the many tree lines at Cerro Catedral in August.

Eric Beauchemin killing it on the ‘09 Young Blood

Photo: Ashley Barker

SASS is proudly locked and loaded with Forum’s ‘09 gear. Stacked with the latest boards, boots, binding and softgoods, campers are chomping at the bit and lining up to test it out. Luckily they can !! At SASS’s exclusive South American demo center !! AHH! Sooo rad !!!! Poppin’ colors, premier equipment, everyone is neon blinded on next years product.

Luke Shelley from South America Snow Sessions had this to say about the announcement:

“SASS couldn’t be happier with our decision to partner with Forum. It is a logical fit that the premiere Freeride & Backcountry Freestyle camp in the world be associated with the Forum brand that is positioned on the cutting edge of the snowboard industry.”

Check it for yourself at www.forumsnowboards.com !!!

South America Snow Sessions has arrived. We’ve made it. We’re here. We have officially landed in San Carlos de Bariloche, the most beautiful place in the world in the heart of Patagonia.

24 of the brightest young skier and snowboarders bounced into Buenos Aires and landed at, an Estancia, traditional Argentinian Ranch where everyone was able play. Bikes, horses, a killer soccer game, tennis, volleyball and ostriches.  Some even got their very first taste of the local food. As we played the Asador was cooking up fresh meat slow roasted on an open fire. Berdo, SASS Coach, ” The ranch was pretty cool, a different experience for the kids. A foreign country, foreign meat, different from anything at home.” 

Argentina, bright sunny day, new and old friends all transmitting the snow stoke. Who could ask for anything more? …. Well, how about a giant double decker bus pimped with TVs and lazy boys and lined with observation windows. This was our chariot that was to take us to one of the world’s ski and snowboard meccas

.6 hours of snowboard and ski videos, 8 hours sleep, and 3 hours of your face plastered up against the window drooling over the scenery later, we unloaded, unpacked, and nestled into our new home, Hosteria de la Luna, overlooking an enormous lake surround by ginormous snow capped mountains… and so it all begins…  

eesa lux layering and South America Snow Sessions announce the Lux Sessions winner for 2008!

eesa - the brand that created the lux layering category and South America Snow Sessions (SASS) - the premier snow camp in the southern hemisphere, teamed up to provide a once in-a-lifetime opportunity for one guy or gal to keep the dream alive by flying them to Argentina for an all-expense paid 17-day session* at SASS. Yep, that’s right, eesa provides the head-to-toe kit plus a flight to Argentina and SASS provides the accommodations, meals, lift tickets and terrain for the greatest 17-day shred journey of their life!

In the end it came down to a bit of luck, some hard work and a mad dose of creativity in the form of a hand-built pop-up book complete with a story that rhymed and all around kick-assness. The winner is Britta Byer of California. Britta will be attending session 5 August 22nd to September 7th, experiencing all the shred that SASS has to offer and the lux eesa provides. Congratulations Britta!! Here is a look at her pop-up box winning entry…although the pictures dont do it justice.