World Snowboard Tour Partner with Mountain Rideshare to encourage carpooling to the WST Series

The World Snowboard Tour recentlypartnered with mountain specific carpooling website Mountain Rideshare www.mountainrideshare.comwith a move towards encouraging cost effective, sustainable and social travelto their events all over the globe.

“Travel to and from Ski Resorts is one of the biggest contributors to CO2output created by snowboarders and It makes total sense for vehicles to travelat full capacity if at all they can.

We’re going to work with the guys at Mountain Rideshare to setup carpools toevery World Snowboard Tour event. This will make it easy for those to sharetravel costs and perhaps meet new people. There’s a chance that we’ll get evenmore spectators who might not have made it otherwise.

As an industry that relies onsnow continuing to fall, for business and pleasure, we need to do all in ourpower to protect our winters!”
Jack Reeves - World Snowboard Tour

At a time when fuel prices arethe highest they’ve ever been, climate change on every governments agenda andthe fact that the web and social media have changed the way we do things andmeet people, there has never been a better time to promote and use a websitelike Mountain Rideshare.
A little background on MRSCreated by Tosh (Dinesh Jethwa) asnowboarder based in Chamonix, France for the last 15 winters. Tosh is a webdesigner who runs a little company called Contagious Creative from Cham in thewinter and London in the summer.

Mountain Rideshare was conceived when studying back in 1999/2002. I leftdoing seasons to live in London for 3 years while doing my degree in DigitalArts.

There was no way that I was not gonna snowboard so whenever there was a stormin sight I would do my best to get out to Cham. Last minute flights were wellout of reach but if I could hook up with someone and jump in their car, itwould save us both money.  A by productof this of course is the fact that it was more eco friendly than flying too.A  Win Win situation!
Sometimes I was lucky andmanaged to get a ride to the pow pow by calling mates in the snowboardingworld, but but often I was not. I realised If I needed something like this,then so did others.… Hello Mountain Rideshare!
The site is now on version 2,there’s always something to do to make it bigger and better but the currentfunctionality of the site is serving its purpose well. People all over theworld have been using Mountain Rideshare to connect and share rides, which is reallyencouraging.

I’m super stoked on the partnership with the World Snowboard Tour as this willreally validate and encourage carpooling to the world wide community ofsnowboarders. In turn I hope that even more people start to use the site toshare space in vehicles when taking part in mountain related travel. We need tospeak to the masses to make the site really work for people and hope that thesite gets the support not only from the snowboarding industry but from themountain industry as a whole.
Thanks to Jack & Moritzfrom WST/TTR for their time and help!DineshJethwa AKA Tosh  - Creator of MountainRideshare
So next time you’re planningheading to a snowboard event or even a road trip to the hills, why not carpoolwith Mountain Rideshare? If you’ve got space in your ride... POST IT. If youneed a ride... REQUEST IT

...Ridesharing is Caring!