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Dry Pond at Night
Rode up to Dry Pond last night. The trails were perfect. Awesome damp tacky dirt, grippy snow, a tiny bit of ice. There were 4 or 5 teams of S&R guys coming down with headlamps. There were psychotic coyotes yowling at the full moon. I love night riding! »
Why
A cool film by Tahoe photographer/videographer Corey Rich -M »
The Smallest Mountain Bike
Greetings Bacon lovers. It’s time to get back in the spirit of the bacon strip. And since it’s still not snowing, I give you: happy dudes and dudettes riding bikes. If you have a video/pic or your little shredder, post it in the comments. This video is The Dude riding his Strider balance bike.... »
hands sweating profusely
heavy week for us strippers. time to decompress with this nice little ditty that Scot sent my way. Thanks! happy Friday. The Whole Enchilada: Top to Bottom – Moab, Utah from Phil Shep on Vimeo. »
Tahoe Vertical
Check out the Tahoe Vertical Challenge. A way to help raise money fot the Sierra Avalanche Center. -M The 2011 Backcountry Vertical Challenge represents Lake Tahoe’s first ever FREE, community-wide fundraising initiative to benefit the Sierra Avalanche Center. In a quest to attain operational dollars for Lake Tahoe’s local avalanche forecasting agency, Alpenglow Sports... »
R.I.P. Mike Colpo
I knew something was wrong when I saw a short, mysterious post about him on Facebook Friday. But J.R. called with the news. Mike Colpo passed away last week, quite unexpectedly, on a run along the Truckee River on December 7th 2011. I regret that I new Mike far less well than I would... »
Non-man-made snow
12/6, Snowy Range, WY…hahaha suckaz! »
Man Made Snow
We use to ski at Sierra Summit near Huntington Lake out of Fresno, CA. It was once and is again called China Peak, after the highest point on the resort. At the time they had a bunch of these cheesy info signs on the (fixed grip) lift towers like: It can be sunny in... »
French Rock Skiing
Speaking of not skiing on snow. While it’s comforting knowing that everyong is hurting for pow, I can’t help but wonder, don’t these guys have mountain bikes? -M The warmest weather in half a century means that many European ski resorts are without snow later in the year than any time in... »
JP Auclair should stunt double for James Bond
Finally, we have both a skier and a concept that can update the James Bond classic ski chase sceen between Telly Savalas’ Goons and Geore Lazonby in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. This is Skier JP Auclair doing some street skiing in Sherpas Cinema’s new film All.ICan. This is a really cool video. But it’s missing something.... »
$10 off at Liftopia
I have Klout, so I got some $10 discount codes to share for Liftopia. You may be wondering, What the fuck is Klout? Well I can tell you: It’s not important. What is important is skiing (should it ever snow enough to ski real snow). To get the discount, the first three people to... »