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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Skiing’
Meet Fielding
Fielding Miller, the man with two last names and newest member of the Carbondale office, comes to Backbone after some time at Freeskier in Boulder where they probably made him do stuff like eat dog food and drink beers out of his shoe. Fortunately, here at Backbone we eat fresh baked scones and sip beer [...]
Trains, Trams and T-Bars
Location – Reichenbach and Davos, Switzerland Team North America – Howie, Schnitz, Ogle, Adam, and 2mas. Team Europe – Thomas, Davos Dan, Erlend, Audun and Juju. Goal – We have come to Switzerland to make good Freeride, visit Fritschi, Black Diamond Europe, ski and have editors talk about skis, boots, bindings, trends and how the [...]
Monday Morning PR Quarterback
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. At Kickball casual, fun times with over 50 in attendance saw Skiing Mag trounce the Team Freelance/Freeload [...]
Fact or Fiction: Backbone truths, near truths and not exactly the truth.
Dennis Lewon to head up new Glamping Magazine Word on the street is that Dennis Lewon may leave his post at Backpacker to head up the recently launched Glamping magazine. Glamping is a form of glamorous camping as reported on in the USA Today, ABC News and the LA Times. Dennis was quoted saying, “I [...]
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 Best Trip Report submitted by December 1, 2008. The winner will be selected on 12/15. So, [...]
MSP teaser – Dav and Stian skiing Classics in Europe
With frost on the windshield this morning this seemed appropriate. Here’s a link to Chris Davenport and Stian Hagen from Matchstick Productions new film capturing their 08 project of skiing the Matterhorn, Eiger, Monte Rosa and Mont Blanc last spring. Once loaded, click on Chris, Stian and the project first, then watch the Matterhorn video.
Shell Game
I learned to ski as a kid at a little hill in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia called Wintergreen. It’s a classic East Coast ski resort where the lodge is on the top of the mountain and they hand out trash bags at the base of the lifts so you don’t get soaked by [...]
