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Rubbing Is Racing

by Newschoolers
Jun 11th 2010 - 0 comments

As the sun rises over the mountain peaks, it's another early morning. Dawn patrol to pick a line and get it dialed before dropping in. Helmet: Check. ...

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Bobby's World

by Newschoolers
Jun 10th 2010 - 0 comments

In one short season, Bobby Brown has gone from a promising freshman phenom to being the man to beat in slopestyle or big air competition. Brown and ve...

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Hayaku

by Newschoolers
Jun 10th 2010 - 0 comments

This is a beautiful time lapse video featuring landscapes in Japan. It’s 8 minutes long and has received over 20,000 hits on vimeo in 10 days. Those are almost youtube numbers! Some of these shots are absolute mind blowers…

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Mt. Hood

by Newschoolers
Jun 9th 2010 - 0 comments

I caved and got a new camera. I had to learn how to use it so while I was up in Mt. Hood last week and messed around for...[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/91/28/9128.jpeg[/IMG]

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Non-stop BBQ

by Newschoolers
Jun 9th 2010 - 0 comments

It's been a non-stop BBQ here in Tahoe. Loving the sun and summertime. Made it out on my mountain bike the other day for...[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/91/23/9123.jpeg[/IMG]

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A Hot Fifteen with Hayden Price

by Newschoolers
Jun 9th 2010 - 0 comments

1) A/S/L24, male, SLC, UT.2) What does it mean to be Hayden Price I am a spiritual being having a human experience.3) Ca...[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/91/20/9120.jpeg[/IMG]

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The Steele Story

by Newschoolers
Jun 9th 2010 - 0 comments

First off thanks to my fantastic wife for blogging a little but for me. I am hoping that I can convince her to run my blog for me, I found her writting to be succinct and enjoyable to read. Since we had so many still cameras along on this trip I ended up not taking many pictures at all and simply filming; so the bulk of this will be shared via video. We left Revelstoke at 2 pm to the waving hands of 5 children and 5 wives/girlfriends, from there we bee-lined it up to Haines Junction/Kluane Lake. We drove in shifts of 200km and rotated throughout the nights getting there in 33 hours. ALong the way we saw many many animals, mouse,deer,black bear, grizzly, beavers, foxes, and so many beautiful vistas. 2 flat tires and 2600kms later we arrived at Kluane Lake. We probable did not need to rush since we ended up waiting a day for clear weather, but its better to be there waiting than miss an available window. Icefields discovery eventually flew us in on May 25th and we landed at 9900 feet. Three flights and lots of gear had us setting up our camp and getting used to the elevation. Its a funny thing, I quite often climb to above 10 000 feet and do not feel the elevation but somehow we were all feeling it at our basecamp. So we settled in and got our camp all set up. There is such an intense amount of glaciation up here, so many lines that are just no skiable since thery are riddled with crevasses and hanging seracs. Georgeous though. On May 26th we headed out with day bags and climbed up a ridge to gain some views and get used to traveling in this rugged country.  We skied off a little bump that offered a steep 1000 foot  corn descent. From there we headed up to an unknown summit that was 12 400 feet, higher than anything we had climbed all year, but tiny in this range. Super fun day; and completely calm. No wind, perfect views to Mt-Logan and all around. We all felt the altitude and returned to our tent ready to relax.  May 27th we headed up with big bags to ferry some loads to our higher camp and get an idea of what was ahead. Distances look weird up there, something that appears close and small happens to be 14 kms away and 4000 feet up. No matter how you look at it, it seems small, but no matter how you skin it takes forever.We ferried 5 days of food and a tent up to 12000 feet and climbed to 13000. May 28th, we relaxed at base camp till 5 pm and headed up to our advance camp. And slept at 12000 feet. May 29th we awoke at 4.20 am and climbed the bump to 14 300 feet, realizing that we were still not acclimatized enough we dropped our heaviest gear and skied back to camp and to our sleeping bags. Back at camp by 8am we had a day of relaxation, I headed out for a bit of extra vertical and skied off a few of the smaller bumps and glaciated peaks. Appearing huge they were only 300-900feet tall. May 30th we left camp at 9 am and headed back up the bump, grabbing our gear we skied down to a high col and started up Steele. For the first time there were clouds and snow so again we dropped our heavy gear and headed back to camp. May 31st we made it out of camp by 8 and most of us were finally feeling decent. Up over the bump and down to the col. We grabbed our gear and actually started up Steele. The first 800 feet we skinned and soon enough we were looking straight up to the top.  The line had hints of blue and we wondered whether we could ski it.

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MTB World Cup DH #2

by Newschoolers
Jun 8th 2010 - 0 comments

Fort Williams UK, the season is underway and a few new faces are showing up on the result sheet. Sam Hill is injured and Gee is on a roll… Minnaar won the title last year and he’s back on track. This 7 minute video has some great action on the gnarly downhill course, along with [...]

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Pocket Wizard Multimax ? new 7.5 firmware in long range mode

by Newschoolers
Jun 8th 2010 - 0 comments

A little while ago Pocket Wizard announced the new v7.5 firmware for their new Multimax units that have the USB port for firmware updates.  Included with the new firmware are a few useful features: Long and short range mode Noise sniffer Signal strength meter Radio relay (Repeater mode) Since I just got the new Multimax’s at the tail end of my [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/90/77/9077.jpeg[/IMG]