Backbone Media's Spinal Tap
Backbone 2010 goes something like this so far:
Ski Day, conference calls, NYC, FAM trip, FB and mobile apps, Vail, Crested Butte, ice climbing, Steamboat, avy class, Beaver Creek, Fort Collins, 1% iTunes, Shot Show, Monarch Cat Skiing, truck crash (walk away), OR, Dawn Patrol, dog commute, SIA, Bluebird, On-Snow, Rando Race, ISPO, hut trip, Olympics, [...]
Backbone Media and the American Alpine Club want to know which types of activities would encourage more climbers to join the AAC. Backbone is a long-time supporter of the AAC, and we are encouraging climbers to participate in the survey: CLICK HERE.
If you’re a climber, this is your chance to help shape the club’s direction [...]
Lunch times at Backbone are interesting affairs. Admittedly, we are a bit spoiled. The bike path is groomed for Nordic. The local rodeo grounds have been converted into an ice rink. Just up the road toward Redstone is some world class ice climbing.
Hearing that conditions are fat – Greg and I headed up there [...]
Cloudveil Mountain Ambassador Craig DeMartino’s video from the Denver Post. Check out the full article HERE.
Craig’s Ambassador Bio-I’ve been a climber most of my life, but in 2002 while climbing with a friend in Rocky Mountain National Park, I was dropped 100 feet due to a miscommunication. The fall resulted in the loss of my [...]
Bill Crouse works for Black Diamond doing international sales.
Bill spends a lot of time in the thin air – on planes and with his climbing as well.
Bill rarely knows what time zone he is in – but still manages to sneak in quick mountain missions in between trips to Asia, Russia, Oz and locally.
Last summer [...]
This past January, I was at the OR Show walking media through Black Diamond’s new line for Winter ‘09. One of the highlights was the new BD stainless-steel crampons – the Cyborg, Sabretooth and Serac. The advantages of stainless over chro-moly are numerous – significant weight savings, durability, no rust, less snow balling and bad-ass [...]
Every mountaineer should do this in their driveway.
Definitely one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. Watch how it is made by clicking the link.
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Yes, we ski, climb, bike, run and fish. We also get our fair share of marathon sales and RnD meetings holed up in conference rooms.
So, at a recent BD RnD meeting – they sent us on a field trip. Lunch time Day 2 we hiked all the way past Design and Quality Assurance to check [...]
Why, you ask? Because of brilliant journalism such as this.
Photo from Christoph Bangert
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APPENZELL, Switzerland — The Swiss like their secrecy, particularly in banking. At other times, they are more open. Take hiking.
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In recent years, it has become fashionable for a growing number of Swiss [...]
As a twenty-something woman, I cannot help but notice the stellar reality programming that is aimed at my demographic on prime-time channels lately. The Bachelor, The Hills, that one with the celebrity addicts, and isn’t there still the show with Flava Flave trying to find love? I do kinda of like that midget family [...]
