Oct 17

Junkboarding Gets Some Press

Here’s a great story about our friend Dave Bouchard and “junkboarding” – the act of skiing on skis cut from a junked buy roche diazepam online snowboard – that was recently published in Vermont’s Seven Days newspaper and was penned by Kirk Kardashian. LINK

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Oct 16

Amazing skiing footage from the 1926 Der heilige Berg (“The Holy Mountain”)

Clip from “The Holy Mountain”, German silent film starring Leni Riefenstahl and Luis Trenker, directed by Arnold Fanck. Camera work and montage editing is very advanced for the time.

Oct 01

More on New Englander Dave Watson’s K2 Descent

Thanks to Adam Howard at Backcountry Magazine for this story about Watson’s skiing adventure on K2 this past summer…LINK


This is a photo of K2’s north face and a route followed by the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition.
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Sep 28

Canoe and Skiing in Vermont

Skiing in the pastures and gladed hillsides right alongside many rivers in the northeast can be an incredible adventure. To make the most of this terrain, we’ve been waiting for just the right river and snow conditions, strapping our skis to the thwarts of our trusty canoes, and floating downriver… Here’s a story we published in the Patagonia Catalog – Winter 08/09.

Follow this LINK to view the story in PDF format. Or click here to view the story on the Patagonia website.

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Sep 27

Helmet Cam Avalanche Burial

This video (captured via helmet cam by a skier who triggers and then gets buried by a significant avalance) drives home the importance of knowing your limits (knowledge and skill wise) when sliding on snow in the backcountry… This avalanche occurred in Alaska, but avalanches like this regularly occur in the backcountry throughout mountain ranges of the northeastern US and Canada. Make sure to read the story below the video for reference, too. LINK