Chris Davenport Talks Kästle
With ski season quickly approaching, who better to give you a brief overview of Kästle’s new 2009 line than Kästle’s Marketing Ambassador and professional skier, Chris Davenport.
Watch the video here.
FLOW Trailer
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
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Win a free pair of Black Diamond Skis
Teton based, rando-racer, always motivated skier Steve Romeo, is giving away a FREE pair of BD skis on his blog TetonAT.com
The winner will get to choose the skis of their choice by entering a contest centered around the Best Trip Report submitted by December 1, 2008. The winner will be selected on 12/15.
Rando Steve atop the Prong looking at the NF of the Grand
So, either get out there or get busy writing up the greatest, worst or most hilarious recent trip and share it on TetonAT.com
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MTV Takes Down Greenwashing
Straight from Treehugger this week is the new MTV Greenwashing video, a soapbox statement about the state of environmental marketing.
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Big Weekend of Racing for the Backbone Crew
Len on the podium with Lance and Max
Well, our downstairs office dweller and overnight cycling celebrity, Len Zanni, along with his teammates Lance Armstrong and Max Taam of Team Aspen, pulled of a huge victory at the 12 Hours of Snowmass yesterday. Len rode strong all day and definitely held up his end of the bargain on the team. At the last minute, Len was forced to ride the race’s final anchor lap and he successfully held off a strong late stage push from world champion Mike Kloser of Team Beaver Creak. Len got a standing ovation when he showed up at the office this morning.
Velo News has a great recap of the race, in which Len, “categorized himself as a B-level pro with a couple of kids” (we know better) and Lance brags about eating Honey Stinger. Quite the endorsement!
We’ll post a Verteblog exclusive interview with the one and only Len Zanni later today.
Ian and his wife Sari also had a good race, winning the co-ed trio division at the 12 Hours of Snowmass. Recap here.
Crystal Mill Falls
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Jess Smith, who had a great race at the Glenwood Triathlon last week, strapped on her trail shoes for the annual Lead King Loop, a beautiful but challenging 25K race that starts in the historic town of Marble and rolls through Lead King Basin, through the old mining town of Crystal, past Crystal Mill falls and back to Marble. Jess finished second in her age group and fourth overall!
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And finally, Mr. Scott Leonard, the better half of Mavis Fitzgerald and associate publisher of the Mountain Gazette, had a big weekend of racing at the 2008 Colorado Rally in Steamboat. He races for Team Salta/Checkpoint in Mavis’s old 1986 VW Golf (which now looks nothing like the car Mavis used to drive around town once Salta and Scott were finished modifying it). Scott and his partner had a strong finish against some of the sports’ best drivers, including superstar Travis Pastrana.
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MSP teaser – Dav and Stian skiing Classics in Europe
With frost on the windshield this morning this seemed appropriate.
Here’s a link to Chris Davenport and Stian Hagen from Matchstick Productions new film capturing their 08 project of skiing the Matterhorn, Eiger, Monte Rosa and Mont Blanc last spring.
Once loaded, click on Chris, Stian and the project first, then watch the Matterhorn video.