explore the mountains with your friends
What a strange place to ski, you never know what the day will bring. After hanging out for over a week in weather that pulses in and out leaving blue skies over the valley and clagg over the mountains, this morning brings promise.
Yesterday the forecast for today seemed spotty, now suddenly its time to head to the hanger, who knows what will happen next, no one knows, we just go.
There has been a revolution in AT equipment finally giving alpine backcountry touring skiers a dependable, bomber, user friendly system to access the goods. It comes in the form of a binding adapter, that works with nearly all alpine bindings on the market. I have been using The MFD All-Time for a year now (in prototype stage) and my life has changed.
Vars France hosted the LineCatcher for the third year, and again the level of skiing was elevated. An amazing event went down, and the comradery and vibe between the riders was full of stoke and genuine positivity. The terrain in the vars area is paradise for skiing, they have one of the best parks in Europe, huge couliors within short hikes, and tons of natural jump locations.
With the new snow in the mountains all around the west, cold temperatures creeping in, and storms on the horizon I thought it was a good time to share some stoke. I put together a helmet cam vid from some mid winter fun last year while shredding in Jackson.
Near our hostel there is a road with lots of murals on it, here are a few of my favorite pieces.
This one is my favorite, the placement has a nice effect
I feel super lucky to get to head down south to Argentina for a Atomic photo shoot. The crew is Dana Flahr, Tim durtshi, myself and Adam Clark shooting photos. We rolled into town and met up with Mark Lasseter founder of Southamericaski.com who has been helping us out with logistics while we explore Bariloche. The skiing has been spring like but it has been a blast, any turns made in the summer are great, so we have been stoked.
Buenos Aries Argentina from the air
ice cream culture in S.A.
A little bike video from some summer roadtrips…
Utah is full of amazing places, there is a place in the south that is called Virgin, or Zion, and we call it paradise. Red dirt spines drip down from mesas in all directions. Huge rock formations create walls and pillars of stone that are breathtakingly dramatic. Etched into the landscape are nearly unrecognizable trails that lead down cliff band after cliff band as if mountain goats created them. The mountain goats that created these trails are bikers, with a warped sense of whats possible.
Virgin Utah is the Alaska of mt bike spine riding…
Shuttle rig loaded up…
Dustin Schaad and I shuttling up …
freeriding aint free…
Dustin Schaad sending it off a sweet hip
This one is me hitting the hip, fun fun fun…
camping good times…
Summer fun in Oregon means going mt biking in the woods. This is one of the funnest spots ive ever biked, this day was good…
