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Filmer Jonny Conway with some Epic Bariloche Timelapses

by japollner
Oct 9th 2010 - 0 comments

Canadian and all-around ripper Jonny "Fat Boy" Conway was a real pleasure to have back around SASS this summer; despite his portly physique, the boy crushed shots day in and day out, slayed tree lines with a 60-pound camera pack, and even got some shots himself in the epic Session 2 snowboard edit (look for [...]

Line?s Traveling Circus New Season!

by japollner
Oct 6th 2010 - 0 comments

Our homies over at Line skis have been crushing it with the Traveling Circus webisode series (with several guest appearances by our very own Garrett Russell) the past two seasons and just launched the first episode from the new season.  While these boys missed the 10 feet of Santa Rosa pow we got in August, [...]

Johnny Paxson on GrindTV

by japollner
Oct 6th 2010 - 0 comments

Johnny Paxson, the Oregon slayer who came down to SASS this summer for the Dakine team shoot, is up on GrindTV with a video about the Rome team’s trip to Bear Mtn, aka the Skatepark of Snow.  One ballsy gap – check it ou!       SHARE!

SASS on the Green Guide Network

by japollner
Oct 4th 2010 - 0 comments

The Green Guide Network, a web portal for everything sustainable, recently caught up with SASS’s Sustainability Manager, Ryan Dunfee.  Ryan spent quite a bit of time this summer tearing through trash bags looking for plastic bottles with the GGN’s Casey Cochran, who caught up with Ryan at the end of his time down at SASS [...]

Fall Catch Up ? NYSFF & Deeper Tour

by japollner
Sep 30th 2010 - 0 comments

We’ve been out of touch for a little bit here at the SASS/SASS Global Travel HQ – mostly because it was a moving target.  A week in Buenos Aires, a week in New York City, and finally now a few days into our new office here in Hampton, New Hampshire with almost the whole crew [...]

SGT @ NY Surf Film Festival Sept. 24-26

by japollner
Sep 21st 2010 - 0 comments

As we expand our company and introduce SASS Global Travel to market, we’re able to get involved with sick surf events we’ve been eyeing for awhile.  The New York Surf Film Festival is one of those.  A three-day festival of short, documentary, and feature films all somehow related to surf, which this year includes movies [...]

SASS Ski Coaches on GrindTV

by japollner
Sep 20th 2010 - 0 comments

SASS coaches Michelle Parker, Garrett Russell and James Heim were all recently interviewed about the season shredding Bariloche by Grind’s Heather Hendricks.  Everybody was stoked on shredding pow and watching their clients KILL IT!  Check it out here:     One of SASS’s superb ski coaches, Michelle Parker, hiking Laguna. SHARE!

New Photos from Sessions 3 & 4 up on Facebook

by japollner
Sep 20th 2010 - 0 comments

We finally got around to running around our guides & clients’ facebook albums, blogs and websites.  Be sure to check out our Facebook page for all the new photos – mad kids were GTS’ing allll summer long!     Post-Santa Rosa: that’s what 10-12 feet looks like.  Marian Brown photo     With tons of [...]

James Heim Inception Interview on Powder?s website

by japollner
Sep 20th 2010 - 0 comments

SASS supah-stah coach and mega slayer James Heimer was recently interviewed by none other than SASS’s own Ryan Dunfee (did I also write this post – whoops!) about his performance as a stunt double in the recent thriller Inception for Powder magazine’s website.  Click the image below if you dare discover the complexities of the [...]

Contour HD review on Surfline.com

by japollner
Sep 19th 2010 - 0 comments

  The homeboys of the surfing internet, Surfline.com, just reviewed the ContourHD with the newly-released surf/wakeboard mount.  From the looks of it, they were stoked!  Check out the article here and be sure to pick one up for your next shacking.     SHARE!

Session 3 & 4 Ski Edit?

by japollner
Sep 16th 2010 - 0 comments

Our dear coach and knee-ambled ski coach Garrett "The Garrett Russell Experience" Russell has been spending his fair share of time behind the lens this summer, catching many of the cliff and line-abled ventures of the ski crew.  Clients, coaches and guides all threw down for this one… check it one time:     Session [...]

Randall Stacy in Crush Mode on Rome?s site!

by japollner
Sep 15th 2010 - 0 comments

SASS Guiding Intern and Dartmouth super-nerd Randall Stacy recently made it onto the Rome Snowboards website with a Chason Russell photo of him BA-BA-BOOSTING the Alta Lakes Observatory trussel.  Way to slay Randall – we’re pretty sure those nerds at D-ville won’t understand how ill that is, but we got your back!     Randall [...]

Argentinean Angst Part V with Ryan Dunfee

by japollner
Sep 12th 2010 - 0 comments

I suppose it’s no use pretending that I’m not writing a post about my own stuff, so I’ll come out of the shadows.  Mike Rogge just let me post the 5th installment of my series about SASS for Powder Magazine, "Argentinean Angst."  I bitch about the Santa Rosa storm ruining my weekend and other mishap..penings.  [...]

More Hardcore Than Thou

by japollner
Sep 12th 2010 - 0 comments

Head Guide Skylar Holgate and super shred Chris Coulter murdered shit in Bariloche this summer, finding more chutes, lines, and mandatory airs than anyone even knew existed.  They even had the composure (balls?) to film themselves while they were in the thick of it.  Click below to see why these guys blow clients’ minds every [...]

FunBlock Films crew at The Launch

by japollner
Sep 8th 2010 - 0 comments

Jackson Hole Freeride slayers and FunBlock Films talent Blake Paul and Cam Fitzpatrick crushed it this summer, from Laguna to the Palmero kickers to the huge Condor hip… these boys were throwing down hammers from sun-up to sundown.  Snowboarder Mag just posted a quick video from The Launch 2010 at Keystone, in which the  pair [...]

Chicas Only Contest

by japollner
Sep 7th 2010 - 0 comments

Last week, the annual Chicas Only contest, a full day of women’s-only park shredding, took place at Cerro Catedral with the help of SASS.  GrindTV’s Heather Hendricks covered the whole damn thing… click the image below for the artilce on Grind’s website.       SHARE!

Double Corks in Argentina

by japollner
Sep 5th 2010 - 0 comments

The crew getting after it in Bariloche in the Catedral backcountry… good thing we get to land in powder down here!     Shaolin Killer Master doubles! SHARE!

Celebrity Sightings at SASS!

by japollner
Sep 4th 2010 - 0 comments

Here at SASS Global Travel, we’re deep in the snowsports industry… shredding is what we live, breathe, and work for 24/7.  Nonetheless, when it comes time to do our annual dance in Argentina and the crews start rolling in, it’s good to take a moment to pause and reflect over all the big names (and [...]

Slaying trees ? caught on ContourHD

by japollner
Sep 4th 2010 - 0 comments

Thanks to our new partnership with Contour HD, the SASS crew has been able to document the full POV experience of crushing lines in Bariloche, Argentina.  These little HD cams are sick, super simple to use, and help us give you a better idea of how hard we crush it every summer.  Be sure to [...]