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 [...]
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Settling Into the South: Part Deux
Just a quick Backbone employee update from the land where history lives, Charleston, South Carolina. Dax Kelm has settled into his new Southern digs and is working full steam ahead getting ready to run the trade show gauntlet kicking off with Winter Outdoor Retailer, SIA and ending with ISPO. If you happen to be in [...]
Ski Here Now
Black Diamond just announced a new web video series coming this winter titled Ski Here Now. The three episodes will be released one each in December, January, and February and feature BD athletes Ptor Spricenieks, Tor Eggeboe, Nicolas Aubert, Martin Webrant, and David Pitschmann skiing in France and Switzerland. Here is a preview, or as [...]
Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America
A few years back, Backbone was promoting Ski the 14ers book, by Chris Davenport and Art Burrows. Ski the 14ers was the culmination of Dav’s epic goal of skiing all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000′ peaks in a year. For you ski historians out there Lou Dawson was the first person to complete this task, in [...]
VholdR and ContourHD – exploding the myth of press release professionalism
In our little alternate universe here in Carbondale press releases follow a predetermined ebb and flow defined by brevity and succint facts. That’s kinda how a release needs to be delivered to our audience – they’re busy, and beside that, who really wants a barrage of exclamation-point saturated sophomoric drivel from overly-caffeinated, prone-to-fits-of-Daffy-Duck-like-enthusiasm 12-year-olds? I [...]
Backbone News
A bunch of stuff going on… SmartWool, New Belgium and Aspen Skiing Company win Best Places to Work in Outside Magazine, for 3rd and 2nd times, respectively. Skiing is wrapping up. Spring is here with good road riding in the RF valley in between snow storms and powder tours. Backbone recently was named one of [...]
Clips of Faith – Films Needed
This summer our good friends at New Belgium Brewing are launching a film and beer tour called Clips of Faith (a pun on their tasty Lips of Faith batch beers). They’re looking for “amateur filmmakers, activists, aspiring actors and accidental brilliance in video” to submit films that are 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. [...]
An Unlikely Black Diamond Ski Convert
When I first told a friend I was going to work at Backbone, he said, “You better get used to the idea of skiing Black Diamond skis.” Nawww, I thought, those things are too planky. Turns out lots has changed about Black Diamond skis in the past few years, and the current selection is nothing [...]
Pepsi Refresh Project- Vote for Big City Mountaineers
Big City Mountaineers has qualified for the Pepsi Refresh Project. Help them win $25,000 and send 50 under-resourced urban teens on week long wilderness trips. All you gotta do is vote here: http://www.refresheverything.com/bigcitymountaineers
Black Diamond Octane Pack Wins Outside China Gear of the Year!
Our Chinese is not so good, but certainly this is great news! Some other noteworthy coverage with the BD Contour Elliptic Shock trekking poles and the BD Fever glove and Icon headlamp!
