When Kara Armano takes to the water, fish dive for cover and grown men quiver in their waders. Our resident conqueror of all things slimy and scaly is featured in AnglersTonic.com’s “Images of the Year”.
Posts under ‘Backbone Adventures’
Dax in Decline
The venerable Dax Kelm profiled on the back cover of Decline magazine. It’s all downhill from here… (click image to enlarge).
It All Adds Up
Fall is our slow time. Time to relax. Unless you think about it. Fall planning gets cranked up and a quick look at our Google Calendar tells a different story. In the last month~ish, Backbone has been in Boulder multiple times, Portland, Ventura, Austria, NYC, Santa Fe, Fort Collins, Moab, Phoenix, Pierre (that’d be South [...]
Me and the Bee on TV
It’s not everyday that the world’s top cyclists roll through your backyard (well, unless you count Lance, and Tejay van Gardneren who both spend a bunch of time in Aspen, oh and Danny Pate and…nevermind). Anyway, a couple months ago, when the USA Pro Cycling Challenge announced the Gunnison to Aspen stage route over Independence [...]
Intern Impressions: 10th Annual Teva Mountain Games
I’ve never been a big competition climber myself, but the chance to watch the 2011 IFSC World Cup finals at the 2011 Teva Mountain Games (TMG) was too good to pass up. As a new intern at Backbone, I arrived at Carbondale just as the build-up and excitement for the Games was coming to a [...]
Revo Costa Rica Media Trip
This past week, I had the pleasure of heading out on a media trip on behalf of Revo Sunglasses to the gorgeous Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. The location was unbelievable, the food was five-star, the activities were bucket listers, and the group made it feel like a vacation with close friends. Check out some [...]
Backbone China, NYC and Boston
Here are a few quick travel updates from Backbone as we prep for: (a) Riding our bikes (b) Entering sales meeting season (c) Patiently awaiting the corn harvest (d) All of the above If you answered (d) – all of the above – great job and hope you are well rested after various Backbone staff [...]
Backbone in the Big Apple
Backbone is headed to the big city. We look forward to seeing all our media friends in NYC at our Fall showroom next week!
Plum of a Party at the X-Games
Thanks to everyone who came out for the first annual Backbone Media Lounge at the X-Games!
Contour is Cranking
Our friends over at Contour have so much cool stuff going on these days it’s hard to keep up. First of all, they introduced the first camera to integrate HD video with GPS tracking. Now you can watch your video while tracking location, speed and altitude – cool! Just a few scant weeks later, Contour [...]
