Category: Fresh Tracks

Vermont’s Garmont Heading West

Garmont – maker of fine alpine and telemark ski boots – will soon be joining the ranks of formerly-Vermont-based outdoor companies that are now located elsewhere. During the remainder of 2011, the Williston, VT – based Garmont (maker of high quality alpine touring and telemark ski boots, running, trail and hiking footwear) will be moving …

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Submissions Wanted: 7th Annual Backcountry Film Festival

Calling all filmmakers with an eye for human-powered and backcountry adventure… The Winter Wildlands Alliance is seeking your films and shorts for their upcoming 7th Annual Backcountry Film Festival. The deadline is coming up this September. For more details and film submission info, please check out the festival website HERE. Got a film celebrating the …

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The Mountains Claim a Friend: Joel Levenberg,

Photo: Heading into the Never Summer Wilderness Area, Colorado – May 2002 The mountains claimed the life of a wonderful soul this past Saturday, May 21, 2011. Our longtime friend, Joel Levenberg, (third from the left w/snowboard) passed away after getting caught up in an avalanche on Colorado’s Torreys Peak. He was accompanied by two …

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Meathead Films Radio Interview on VPR

In case you missed it (like we did – b/c it was simply snowing too hard to think about anything else in mid-February), you can listen now to Geoff McDonald and Chris James, co-owners of the Vermont-based Meathead Films, talk about 10 years of making ski movies on Vermont Public Radio (VPR). Click HERE to …

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FREE Skiing At Sugarbush on May 1

That’s right, Sugarbush is celebrating skiing in May this year by offering F R E E lift-served skiing on the mountain on Sunday, May 1. French fries, however, may still require that you break out a $20 bill… If you haven’t hung up your boards just yet, and feel like enjoying some really fun top …

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