WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010: Freeskiing pioneer and longtime Lake Tahoe local CR Johnson was killed today in Squaw Valley, Calif. Full story...
Yet another Legend/icon/hero Passes away. Thanks for all the inspiration over the years, you were truly a great skier an...[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/47/66/4766.jpeg[/IMG]
As I was driving home from a recent trip to Montana, I got a call from my roomate telling me the news of CR Johnson’s untimely death while skiing at Squaw Valley, his home resort. Just like last year when news of Shane McConkey’s death came through, I immediately got on the phone with some [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/47/62/4762.jpeg[/IMG]
Congratulations to NBC and Microsoft who have teamed up to create a super-ultra-mega, suck-ass partnership. When I discovered yesterday that my class schedule conflicted with the airing of the USA v. Switzerland hockey match-up today, I was quite upset. My bitterness quickly subsided, however, as I was informed NBC offered live streaming coverage of the event [...]
Rest in peace my friend. Your determination, dedication, optimism and talent will forever impact all of us that were fortunate enough to share time with you. While you may no longer be with us, you’ll never be forgotten.[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/47/50/4750.jpeg[/IMG]
A portrait of Halifax skiing in video, music, and spoken word.
All day yesterday I kept thinking, that if the skin track was in, I should attempt a speed ski of Mt-Begbie; not a speed ski as in skiing with a little kite, but a fast as I can up and down speed ski. I have no idea what my previous record was but I felt that I could set a new one that would be pretty fast. So with ski crampons on for some of the woods and my fast set up; Dynafit TLT5's(next years boot), seven summit ski and titanium dynafit bindings, I began running uphill. All went really well, our skin track was windslabbed over in the alpine but the boot pack was still in up the ridge. In 2.5 hours I was on the summit and ready to ski down. Wicked turns down the NE face, through the cliff band and out. back to the truck. 2 hours 55 minutes round trip. 7100 feet. It felt great, I could probable take off 10 minutes but pretty happy to have broken 3 hrs.?
Winter is back on… the clouds rolled in today and the temperature has dropped. I’ll be waxing my skis during the Canada vs Germany hockey game tonight. This high quality short teaser of Whistler locals Matt Elliott and Brett Crabtree on their home terrain has put me back into ‘The Snowy’ frame of mind.
This week is Gay Ski Week in Telluride, CO. No, snowboarders, that isn't just every week in skiing. Judy Shepard, who started the Matthew Shepard Fou...
Mt-Begbie is Revelstokes signature mountain, well for some, for others it is the Revelstoke Mountain resort. Anyhow behind begbie sits a sharks fin of a peak that slices the sky line, Mt- Tilley. I have summitted Tilley but it was many years ago and a huge effort. Jeff suggested we try and summit both peaks in a day, which would also be a huge effort but a great link up. We headed up Mt-Begbie, leaving the trailhead at 7 and summitting by 12. The climb up Begbie is always super fun, and I love heading up into this little chimney that pokes you out onto the summit ridge. Here's Jeff pulling out of the chimney.We skied down the south ridge and onto the NW Glacier. As always a great descent; it has not snowed in a week but the snow is still nice and shreddable. From there we skied down into Wap creek, we helped out some sledders who needed a knife to cut their belt off and replace it. Then we started heading up the south face of Tilley, I was apprehensive that this approach would work. Yet it worked out perfectly, a great ridge had us touring almost to the summit, with a little rock move to summit this 8691 foot mountain. This is not a great photo of the mountain, it was taken in late may a few years ago. But it is the north side that hosts a few great lines, lines that will wait till another day since we skied back down the south and headed around Begbie and back to the truck. 11500 ft 305494
After a month and a half in the US I have to say it´s good to be back in Norway. I´ve only been home since friday and be...
Here’s the video from my ContourHD POV cam this past weekend at Aspen Highlands. Conditions were amazing. I’m headed to Copper Mountain this weekend, it’s going to be strange not being in Aspen…
All photos courtesy of Jason Eichhorst (woot!)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/47/02/4702.png[/IMG]
Exporting a video from this weekend in Aspen. I’ll post it up when it’s done encoding.[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/47/00/4700.png[/IMG]
The 2010 winter olympic lockdown ensues as the warmest february on record continues… This once in a lifetime phenomenon has opened up the opportunity to ride the squamish trails under ideal conditions. So the mountain bike season begins, and is promising to be spectacular!
Spent another weekend in Aspen skiing at Aspen Highlands. We had two straight pow days. Conditions were all-time. I was fortunate enough to ski around with a couple of patrollers, get first drop on some amazing terrain and have endless face-shots all weekend. Shot video and photos. I’ll [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/46/66/4666.jpeg[/IMG]
The last time Griffin Post stood on top of the podium at the Subaru U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships in Crested Butte, he was an unknown 22-year-old competing in his second career event...
Big ups to Mr. Michael Clarke who celebrated his 21st this weekend. It was a rather anti-climactic event, however, as the poor guy is hot off of knee surgery and didn’t feel like getting too wild. Thus, to accommodate Michael’s wishes, we celebrated the big day by hanging in, watching movies, and eating lots of [...]
Got a nice little review on FEEDTHEHABIT.COM this morning. Thanks boys![IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/45/87/4587.png[/IMG]
