For Immediate Release and More Immediate Reading: Joining Forces with Surface Skis!

For Immediate Release?at Your Convenience March 25th-ish, 2012 SALT LAKE CITY, UT. ? Surface Skis, creator of lightweight touring skis for Granolas, alpine and powder skis for First-Tram-ers, and park skis for ?Rats, is happily rounding out its roster of youthful, mainly short-statured team skiers with Utah-based backcountry vagabond Brody Leven. Headquartered with a back-alley [...]

More Sunlight=More Climbing

It was awesome to get out for some 9-to-5-friendly climbs with Tim in Big Cottonwood Tuesday night. We started by each leading Goodro’s Wall before walking down the street for a quick run up Steort’s Ridge. It was super fun.  Tim’s the person with whom I learned to climb 5 or 6 years ago and [...]

NW Couloir of the Pfeifferhorn: April 7, 2012

Rappelling silently, I glanced over my shoulder as Jay, anchored to his ice axe, snapped photos from a nearby rock nook that guarded him from falling rocks, ice, and slough.  Thirty seconds later, I was anchored alongside the rest of the crew: Surface Brandbassador Hayden Price, Surface Creative Genius Jason Eichhorst, and Tahoe splitboarder Abe [...]

A Cardiff Day with Kalen, Jay, and a Phantom Flat Fixie Tire

Privileged to know such active people, I headed out with Jason Eichhorst and Surface Skis team rider Kalen Thorine on a short tour in Little Cottonwood Canyon.  We skinned up pole line pass for a while and hit the top of Cardiff Peak.  From there, we dropped north for a run and then headed back [...]

Welcome Back. Sorry, I Fell Asleep for 2 Months.

It?s hard for me to even tell when brodyleven.com disappeared from your view. For over a year, I spent hours each day updating this blog, ensuring that a daily story was available for the loyal readers that continually dismiss the rest of their lives? duties for 5 minutes.  A willingness to immerse oneself in a [...]

Revisiting China?s Forbidden City (Ain?t That Forbidden. At All.)

?Why would they block off the middle of the stairway?  Doesn’t that seem, like, not conducive to effectively moving the 50 gazillion Chinese people here?? I ask my pretty-much-Chinese friend, Tony, while approaching the Forbidden City?s first majestically ornate stairset.  ?It obviously decreases walkflow and disallows–” ?You see how there aren?t even any stairs in [...]

In the Meantime

brodyleven.com is in an exciting stage of transition, and will relaunch very soon with an entirely new, more user-friendly layout.  Be sure to keep checking back.  In the mean time, click on the categories on the right side of the screen to read about stuff you haven’t already. Have you read: Signs are Supposed to [...]

Video: Powder Skiing

This was put together by tjvideography.com for canyonsresort.com. I hope you enjoy it.

I Can Barely Watch This

https://vimeo.com/38078462 Thanks to my friend Trent at the Utah Avalanche Center (.org) for putting this together.

Brody Trying To WakerSki, part 2

According to my web “dashboard” numbers, many of you can’t seem to get enough of the story of me sucking (BADLY) at wakeboarding and waterskiing. To continue to spur your excitement for watching me injure myself, I present with yet another rendition of Brody Trying To WakerSki. This summer 2011 episode comes to you straight [...]

I Can Barely Watch This

https://vimeo.com/38078462 Thanks to my friend Trent at the Utah Avalanche Center (.org) for putting this together. Continue reading →

Video: Powder Skiing

In the Meantime

brodyleven.com is in a stage of transition, and will relaunch very soon with an entire new, more user-friendly layout.  Be sure to keep checking back.  In the mean time, click on the categories on the right side of the screen … Continue reading →

Revisiting China?s Forbidden City (Ain?t That Forbidden. At All.)

?Why would they block off the middle of the stairway?  Doesn’t that seem, like, not conducive to effectively moving the 50 gazillion Chinese people here?? I ask my pretty-much-Chinese friend, Tony, while approaching the Forbidden City?s first majestically ornate stairset.  … Continue reading →

Brody Trying To WakerSki, part 2

According to my web “dashboard” numbers, many of you can’t seem to get enough of the story of me sucking (BADLY) at wakeboarding and waterskiing. To continue to spur your excitement for watching me injure myself, I present with yet … Continue reading →

The Last X? Days in (Approximately) 16 Pictures and 1 Video

VIDEO OF WEIRDO The last few weeks. Went to the SIA (Snowsports Industries America) Snow Show 2012 tradeshow. There, I was featured on a big banner. (top right, bottom middle, orange jacket). It was in Denver, another spot where the … Continue reading →

Utah Avalanche Center?s Advanced Avalanche Skills Workshop

In (relatively blinding) light of the recent close calls, accidents, and the interesting “Colorado” or “continental” snowpack that backcountry travelers in the Wastach Mountains are currently entertaining, the Utah Avalanche Center hosted an Advanced Avalanche Skills Workshop in early February.   It was … Continue reading →

How to Get Injured Wakeboarding and/or Waterskiing: Be Me.

Watersports in my life, until recently, have been limited to water ramping–which requires all of 20-feet of in-pool life-jacket-assisted “swimming” with boots and skis on your feet–and sailing, in which you barely ever touch the water.  With my relatively recent … Continue reading →

Deep Danger

Be careful or don't go. or, just don't go. Continue reading →

?Ski Utah?? I Do That.

Last week, Canyons Resort released a video that Justin Olsen made with telemark athletes Weston D, Shaun Raskin, and I.  It features a bunch of that snow that has made Utah so famous. To advertise it, I ended up with the cover … Continue reading →