If you haven’t seen TGR’s “Almost Live” series you are missing out. In this episode Seth, Sage and Roner are at North Cascade Heli and ski ‘The Gash.’ -Enjoy http://www.tetongravity.com/videos/Almost-Live-Episode3-North-Cascade-Heli-The-Gash-939551.htm
For the 4th time the Slopestyle and Freeride Camp organized by mountain-action and supported by K2 took place in the carnival vacation at the Krippenstein. Andi Neuhauser, founder and chief of mountain-action, was responsibility for the Backcountry and Chris Fischer´s Job was to coach the Kids in the Park and filming them. The weather couldn´t [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/50/08/5008.jpeg[/IMG]
Kids and Girls Comp went down today at the Austrian Freeski Open at the Kitzsteinhorn, for K2, it couldn’t have been any better, Anna Segal won the Girls category, Antti Ollila from Finland won the Kids comp, Aj Heikkinen, as well from Finland, got 3rd. Congratulations![IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/47/70/4770.jpeg[/IMG]
Sport Praxenthaler organized a Touring Test Day at Unternberg Ruhpolding (http://www.unternberg.de/), Germany. Lots of companies were there to get their stuff tested. Of course, Charlie and lots of K2 skis had to be there as well. I was helping out with designing the jump, which went pretty good. The kicker was actually just planned for the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/46/57/4657.jpeg[/IMG]
Last days in Engelberg I was recovering from the crashes, me and Matilda with our minor injuries! Then we drove forward to see another place and meet up with my sister Janette and the last days of the trip were sunny and great. Janette is the best person to ski with at the moment since she’s [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/45/47/4547.jpeg[/IMG]
Monarch Mountain invited the K2 crew to check out their Cat Skiing operation, to carve some classic Colorado corderoy, and to session their all-wooden features at the K2 Organic Terrain Park. After days of ripping the high country beyond the resort, it was time team riders Anna Segal, Sean Decker, Shea Flynn, and Birk Irving [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/43/85/4385.jpeg[/IMG]
Photographer Hannes Söderlund and me arrived in Munich and our journey has officially begun. We started of by visiting the K2 European head office in Pensberg fore some look around and to lend the BMW X1. Our first stop was Fiebergrbunn for the Freeride World Tour Qualifier. Once we arrived we went up for some warm [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/41/52/4152.jpeg[/IMG]
Last weekend, Gloryfy eyewear decided to host a hip competition at the Gerlospass in the end of the Zillervalley, Austria, and one of our Euro Team riders, Mike Hauser, took part. They competed in teams of 2 persons, so Mike was competing together with Matthias Egger. The hip was pretty huge, as you can see… In the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/38/25/3825.jpeg[/IMG]
With X Games and the SIA tradeshow behind us, the K2 crew assembled at Monarch Mountain, CO. Reggie and Zach Crist, Bryce Phillips, Luke Miller, and Shea Flynn, joined members of our K2 crew for a few days of filming and playing on the new skis from the 2010-11 K2 collection. Tuesday at Monarch was awesome [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/37/26/3726.jpeg[/IMG]
Tom Leitner, Felix Wiemers and myself flew to Bucharest, Romania, last Thursday, in order to go to Poiana Brasov, where another BMW X1 Tour Stop took place. Felix and Tom where showing the tour guests some action on the kicker, that was a little bit different to what they are used to. When we arrived, [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/35/95/3595.jpeg[/IMG]
Last week was the day! After getting some cool sticker job our 2 X1 were ready for pick up. We got invited to Munich into the BMW World for the official hand-over fo the keys and some introduction of the cars. If you still think all one gets is 4 wheels, a steering wheel, gear shift, a [...][IMG][/IMG]
One of our inhouse marketing guys got the chance of grabbing the keys of our X1 and went to the Youngblood camp up on Kitzsteinhorn this past weekend. Unfortunately no pics from the mountain as the camera froze, we heard it was 25 degrees (Celcius) below zero.[IMG][/IMG]
Hey, just got home from Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Mike Hauser (Factory Am Team), Roman Rohrmoser (Backside Pro Team), Alex Walch (K2 Snowboard Teamrider) and myself (Dani) went there for this weekend. The BMW X1 Live Tour had a stop in Kranjska Gora, so we went there to ski a bit and do some action + interviews for [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/24/40/2440.jpeg[/IMG]
Check out full interview and Helmet Cam of Chopo Diaz at the FWT in La Para at Macconkey’s Link to video[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/00/24/39/2439.png[/IMG]
Marcus from K2 Sweden just picked up his brand new BMW X1 after the sticker job. Now he can´t wait to get it ont he Swedish dirt roads. We are all very envious, but we should get more of those nice vehicles within the next few weeks. Watch out for our teamriders on the road![IMG][/IMG]
