Busy times at Backbone.
Last Thursday saw Greg and Lindsay attend the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Nate was in Cali on biz and the rest of Backbone hosted the second annual Kickball World Championships in Boulder.
TW rolls in style
At Kickball casual, fun times with over 50 in attendance saw Skiing Mag trounce the Team Freelance/Freeload in the first round to meet “The Sons of Pitches” Backbone squad who dismantled the defending Champs Backpacker Magazine. For more pics go to our flickr page .
Pinch hitter and avid baserunner Jake Peruzzi
In the finals, Skiing prevailed with some rumored fuzzy math score keeping and impending darkness. Congrats to the Snow Warriors who take home the king sized trophy. Over the weekend events varied from installation of the new kegerator at Backbone World HQ, the American Alpine Club’s Craggin’ Classic in Golden and the 24 Hours of Moab, where Jess Smith reported Wyoming worthy wind and sand and grit that had a stucco like adherence to any exposed skin.
is this a victory or pray for snow dance?
Champions from last year, Dennis Lewon presents to 08 Champs Skiing mag
[...] is always good) is to play sports where no one has any skill. So in the fall, we throw a Kickball Championship with Boulder publications… and sometimes we engage in a little something I like to call [...]
[...] Backbone hosts about a dozen media trips annually all over the globe. We often partner with freelance event planner Kristan Clarke to organize a series of large scale New York showroom events. Recently, we have been in Iceland with Black Diamond amidst erupting volcanoes, in NYC with The North Face and Polartec, supplying products for a mainstream travel writers conference in Aspen, have staff members from Backbone visiting Outside Mag’s offices in Santa Fe, and are planning events such as the TEVA Mountain Games, Boa Lacing System in Keystone and Black Diamond and La Sportiva in the San Juans, CO., not to mention our annual Backbone Boulder Kickball Championship. [...]