Trash the Wedding dress!!!

We got the idea to Trash my Wedding dress from a magazine article we read about 3 months prior to our wedding in June 2009 and realized that it was a brilliant idea. I'm not much of a dress girl but my mom and dad bought me the perfect wedding dress; everything I had ever imagined for my special day. Since they bought the dress we thought it was very important to get their blessing to destroy it. Mom was skeptical at first, then I told her that by the time we have kids the dress will be out of style. They talked about it and decided it was a great idea so then we began the planning process. We kept setting dates with our photographer and plans seemed to keep falling though so we decided to do it on our one year anniversary. 

The idea to Trash my dress while riding our mountainboards was the perfect way to capture our lifestyle. We started our day at sunrise in Leadville, Colorado up in the mining district and ended with a perfect double rainbow in Evergreen, CO. Our day included a visit to many amazing places; we cut the dress at Clinton Reservoir, Longboarded 10 mile canyon, got bloody on the Silverplume Trail and got dirty at the Dirt Park in Empire, Colorado.

I want to Thank my husband for being so amazing. I would also like to Thank my parents; Mick & Laurie Becker for buying me the perfect dress, Your the best!! Thank you PowerBar, Altitude Sickness boardshop, DirtstarArmy.com, Osiris, SRH, PrettyTough, MBS, and DrRyde.com. Thanks to Dan Dworkin and Carley Grier for spending 15 hours with us helping in every way. Last but certainly not least we would like to thank our photographer Jim Morris from Red Wolf Studios for capturing the most amazing memories that we will always cherish. 

Melissa Ponce de Leon

Summit Daily Article:

http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20100705/SUMMITUP/100709915/1078&ParentProfile=1055

Trash the Dress Slideshow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94STld1NAHk&feature=sub



2010 Riders' Festival

Thanks to everyone who made it to the 2010 Riders' Festival at the Dirt Empire Dirtpark in Empire, Co. It was great to see all of the familiar faces and also some new people at the newly designed Park. VitaminWater made an appearance and shared some free product with everyone, Thanks Jen and Jack!! Powerbar also provided us with product for everyone. Thanks to Lewis Sweet Shop for the Burgers, Piccis for the Beer, Hard Rock for the spaghetti dinner and Empire Gas for the free fuel cards. A special thanks to the Town of Empire and our new mayor Wendy Koch. Matty K, Carl, Billy Goat Moving Company, Gags @ Never Summer Industires, Peter Wurster @ Unity Snowboards, Thank you all.  

  The event was awesome! About 20+ people attended the gathering over the weekend and people traveled from as far as Amarillo, TX to join us!(Great meeting Mike and Garrett). The games and skills challenges added entertainment to the already fun Riders' Festival. Joseph Ponce de Leon won the Goal Kick(kick a size 1 soccer ball into the open end of a kicker while on your board) and Cole Ship won the Dirt Challenge(like "skate" on a mountainboard) and the Switch Slalom for the pro division. Free riding was also part of the agenda so we took a few runs on the Historic SilverPlume Trail. Everyone had a great time!  New Riders' made an appearance at our event and we encourage everyone to continue bringing new people to these gatherings. We hope everyone enjoyed the event as much as we did. See you all for the "Trash the Dress" Party. 

Altitude Sickness Boardshop Team



Mountainboarders band together to help find skate crowd culprits.

The Denver Post has 250,000 unique online visitors per day on average.
With approx 750,000 print readers every day and over 1 million print readers on Sunday,
imagine how quickly the assailants can be found with just ONE print article.

This online article reached #1 read among Denver readers, and #2 among ALL COLORADO READERS in less than 10 hours.
 

Friends from other states have helped track down witnesses by watching facebook and twitter accounts. Investigators are receiving leads to follow. Good work Team.

Read the article HERE: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14899385

Skate mob attacks two pro riders in Denver Colorado

From the desk of Van Dewitt:

My two closest friends in Colorado where attacked by 20+ skateboarders at the Denver skate park on 4/14/2010 around 8-9PM. The attackers ranged in age from mid teens to mid twenties all wielded skate boards as deadly weapons. One of our teammates suffered severe injury's fractured L2 and L3 vertebrae in his back - fractured elbow,brain swelling and bruising from repeated blows from the skateboards.

What you can do:

• Its only a matter of time be for some one brags about what happened. Lets find them...Please help search the web for any witnesses or clues to the assailants that assaulted the two riders. Twitter, myspace, and facebook may be a good start.

• Contact the Denver police department and express your outrage about the lack of proper security in the Denver skate park. This was not the first assault this month and it wont be the last unless we speak up!!! Denver Police Administration: (720) 913-2000 Press 1 and ask for district 6.

• We should all contacting the Colorado local Media / News. Its only a matter of time before some one is killed if we don't act!

Please, every rider that reads this message, PLEASE contact the Police and the Denver News and help our friends!!!!!

READ THE DENVER POST ARTICLE HERE: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14899385

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