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Black Diamond’s Trifecta

Penn’s been a busy man of late highlighting Black Diamond’s Power Series and Efficiency Series coming in Fall ‘10. Check out the super fun “Justice” named Gear of the Year in Outside Magazine, the fat and light “Drift” and the great go-to ski the “Aspect”.

The Salt Lake Tribune managed to stop Penn long enough to [...]

Bill's Phone

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 [...]

Happy Halloween

It started innocently enough – a bowl of candy and Sue in a Witch outfit. Then Mavis wanted to borrow my West Highland Terrier, Skadi, to be Toto as an accessory to her Dorothy outfit.
Next thing you know JLD is in a baby blue POC speed suit, with a Julia custom helmet and BD Megawatt [...]

Outside Honors BD With Consecutive "Gear of the Year" Honors

Outside Magazine honored Black Diamond Equipment with a 2009 winter “Gear of the Year” award. This marks the second straight year that Outside has presented a GOY to Black Diamond. Taking top honors, the Bandit AvaLung is a lightweight, minimalist avy-tools pack for out-of-gate resort skiing/riding and feature’s Black Diamond’ own proprietary AvaLung [...]

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 [...]

The 'Tang' of Quotes

There are two schools of thought on writing quotes in press releases.
First, there’s the traditional, Bull Durham approach:
Crash Davis: It’s time to work on your interviews.
Nuke LaLoosh: My interviews? What do I gotta do?
Crash Davis: You’re gonna have to learn your clichés. You’re gonna have to study them, you’re gonna have to know them. [...]