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Snowboarding Reader Meetup Tomorrow: Custom Gizmodo Zune Giveaway

The little reader meetup on Saturday April 5th (that's TOMORROW!) continues to grow. Alpine Meadows is hosting us, treating us to breakfast, putting up a big Gizmodo banner, and giving our volunteer Red One camera crew a snowmobiled chaperon. Olympus is sending us a waterproof 1030 cam to demo. And Brian from the Zune team is coming out with some demo Zunes preloaded with good music to shred to. (I've picked a few tracks, but the Zune team's own music experts are dialing in a playlist, too.) Even better they're giving away a few Zunes with custom drawn Gizmodo logos. Who would have thought this little event would get so much love?

• Nokia is bringing a ton of N95s for us to use.

• Smith Optics will be bringing some of their new hot swappable goggles and fan driven turbo goggles to test out, along with a bluetooth helmet and I think lots and lots of headbands. (Slope style counts.)

• JBL is giving away headphones.

• VuDu is giving away a box.

• I'll have a Garmin Colorado preloaded with Ski trail maps. Overkill compared to a paper map, but potentially useful for off-piste adventures and worth checking out in person.

• Zune'll come along with a few loaners preloaded with Gizmodo approved snow shredding tracks and those custom Giz Zunes to give away.

• I'll have one loaner of the Vholdr outdoor camcorder.

• Nacski might be setting up a bus ride system from SF.

• Silverado Systems is going to bring a pair of RED One cams to document the day

• I'll bring a Dash GPS.

• Olympus is sending a water and shockproof 1030 to test.

If you want to come as a reader or as someone who wants to demo some gear, drop me an email. It would be great to meet in person.

[Photo by Planetxau — Some rights reserved]

7:29 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Brian Lam
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Redwraithvienna at 04:05 PM on 04/01/08
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no Mr.T ? How can it be !
Sheemo44 at 04:07 PM on 04/01/08
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im not coming unless mr T. is there
ideaman2020 at 04:09 PM on 04/01/08
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Mr T ain't got time for all your jibber jabber!
kittenman at 04:09 PM on 04/01/08
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lol guys, it's a April 1st hoax, hahahaha....

laughing from NY T_T
extremer at 04:14 PM on 04/01/08
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lmfao you guys almost got me...
lafond66 at 04:14 PM on 04/01/08
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Yo, when's the NYC Giz meet up?
Mr_LaZy at 04:16 PM on 04/01/08
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April Fools... BIYATCH XP.
davebg5 at 04:17 PM on 04/01/08
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I wish I could join you guys, but the torn achilles that I brought home from my Feb trip to Jackson Hole just keeps telling me to feed it more Vicodin.
PeteUALaw at 04:19 PM on 04/01/08
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Really want to go, but I will be in Vermont for the weekend.
Way at 04:22 PM on 04/01/08
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BLAM missed the memo. He's likely too busy moving to a new pad and organizing the Gizmeeto.
Moriya at 04:35 PM on 04/01/08
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@kittenman:
Actually, it's not.
[gizmodo.com]

This looks super tempting - if the bus from SF works out I'm all over it.
jtwaverly at 04:52 PM on 04/01/08
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Damn...why don't I live in California?
jcrockerman at 04:53 PM on 04/01/08
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uhm....it's not an April Fool's joke...he's been going on about this meet-up for quite a while now....it's on my birthday...april 5th
Kaiser-Machead at 05:00 PM on 04/01/08
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@Redwraithvienna: Actually, he's in there, down the slope with the blue speech balloon.
innout3x3 at 05:24 PM on 04/01/08
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I love the American Idol like writing. I would love to go ski with you guys if I had time to drive up old highway 395 to Mammoth. Last time, I almost ran over a coyote. Good Times.
bigMoneyMIKE at 05:31 PM on 04/01/08
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I PITY THE FOO' who cant juz CHILL in The T-Tub, with the LAY-DEEZ while all you SUCKA'Z out there SKIING and stuff. WHAT you talking about HANNIBAL? I dont have to SKI, I can just TEST the GEAR? Then IM' IN!

I love it when A PLAN COMES TOGETHER!
ps: Ice Cube is the new BA Barraccus, John Singleton directing, June 2009 release, paramount pictures presents: the A Team! This is not a joke.
zenpoet at 05:43 PM on 04/01/08
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I will only go if I can ride with nutbastard, and he promises to smoke 13 cigs in a row while espousing the benefits of a government sanctioned free market economy for drugs.

That, and I still owe him a drink from about a month ago.
Spud387 at 05:53 PM on 04/01/08
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Next year, Whistler, BC, Canada. Do it! :)
scarbrtj at 05:57 PM on 04/01/08
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Oh no, Mr. T is faaaading awaaaayyyyy....
deadsylent at 06:06 PM on 04/01/08
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Crazy, I will actually already be up there. Might have to stop in.
Tek Elements at 06:15 PM on 04/01/08
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I'll be there suckas!
joker8baller at 06:32 PM on 04/01/08
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Any news/info on the Nacski bus ride? I'm kinda pending on that.
9xnet at 08:43 PM on 04/01/08
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Sounds like fun, wish i could come up. I was up in Mammoth over the past weekend and it was a great weekend with about 8" of fresh powder on sunday.
abek at 10:12 PM on 04/01/08
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Sounds awesome but I'll be in mammoth for the weekend! Come down south! I've been testing the image stabilization in my canon870 with followcams going over the 85 foot jump in mainpark.. i wonder if they'd let me take the RED
PynkFloydd at 11:19 PM on 04/01/08
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...wish I could make it. Chicago's keeping me on lock down.

I'd be interested in seeing pics and playlist from those custom Zunes. They just put up a Community Spotlight on Zune.net with all winter sports people. ...I wonder if they'll bring some ringers along?
CSlim at 12:04 AM on 04/02/08
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Yeah I'm all up on Whistler BC as well as a later date next year, prefereably over the summer so we students will already be out of school. U never did say if they get to keep the N95's cos that'll make me take a trip out there.
quikboy at 03:24 AM on 04/02/08
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I want the Zune.
spcmnspf at 01:48 PM on 04/02/08
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Did anyone else email him to be on the list but then not get any response?
cudthecrud at 07:52 PM on 04/04/08
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I'm on the email list.
Amiash is not allowed at 08:31 PM on 04/04/08
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can you use MS surface as Sled? you know, to determine the endurance, see if the Hardware can overrun snows.
chillywilly at 09:16 PM on 04/04/08
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I was just there in Tahoe last weekend. Bummer! Have fun and post pics of the event. Would love to see them.
kingburrito at 09:23 PM on 04/04/08
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That sounds awesome. Too bad I have a field trip this weekend... and my school is in LA... I drive a van (like... 200 bucks gas to Tahoe round trip).

Alpine is probably my favorite ski place and I haven't been in years.
adkitchen at 10:38 PM on 04/04/08
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If you guys drop by Sac afterwards... I can get everyone into a pretty cool night club called Momo's. VIP booth, bottle service and all... and it'll only cost you an embossed Zune. Of course this invite goes to the 21+.
Munch at 12:57 AM on 04/05/08
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You guys should come out here, to the Midwest. We can go cow tipping and stuff.
joker8baller at 01:46 AM on 04/05/08
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@spcmnspf:

I didn't get a response back, but I haven't been getting any emails.

Ah... I have my snowboard packed and ready depending on that Nacski ride ;)
nutbastard at 03:01 AM on 04/05/08
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Fuck yeah, i'm in teks cabin, rockin a beer back, just got back from reno, livin' it up.
nutbastard at 03:03 AM on 04/05/08
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@adkitchen:
who the hell would pay to go ANYWHERE in sac town?

mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha
saeder at 03:16 AM on 04/05/08
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God wish I could be joining ya'll! I was in Tahoe earlier this season and it was awesome, but I'll unfortunately be stuck in Texas doing a bit o' work! And if a groups heading to Whistler I could be convinced, hitting Whistler/Blackcomb is always a treat!
mcjake at 03:31 AM on 04/05/08
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I'll be 45 minutes away in Reno working on finalizing the plans for my wedding that is 14 days from now...Sigh, I guess that is important too.
Bash_ at 04:03 AM on 04/05/08
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Do something like this in Finland and I'll be there... Or austria xD
Tonicboy at 06:47 AM on 04/05/08
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Damn, Alpine Meadows is my mountain too, know it like the back of my hand. Too bad I can't make it.
Y at 08:00 AM on 04/05/08
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Well, it was a bit obvious that this was fake. Nokia would never give an American site "loads of N95s to use".
Collins1 at 09:07 AM on 04/05/08
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I'm getting sick and tired of people acting like Mr T is the funniest thing to hit the internet.
Haroon Malik at 11:41 AM on 04/05/08
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@Collins1: I pity you, fool!
quikboy at 08:45 PM on 04/05/08
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So want a Zune!
cudthecrud at 12:15 AM on 04/06/08
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Mr. T can came bask in the warmth of my face (it got sunburnt).
Mrbungleface at 02:07 PM on 04/07/08
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Hey, I was with NutBastard on the trip to alpine meadows, stayed at a totally awesome guys cabin... snowboarded some totally awesome (but extreme) hills, got to listen to a totally awesome Zune player... and drank a totally awesome amount of booze, and just had a totally awesome time all together

thanks to all who made it out, and contributed to the cool vibes, thanks zune for lended me a zune player to rock out too while i got lost in the snow... this was perfect way to spend a weekend... thanks nutbastard for letting me in on the fun

Jason