Speaking of Mountains, in three minutes with Lance Mountain you’ll learn more than spending a week with a stack of old skate mags. The highlight of this episode of Free Lunch is Lance talking about his father’s Museum of Military Memorabilia.
About half the collection is British military. Dazzling dress uniforms for the British Dragoons, Hussars and Lancers stand at attention. One case contains bandsmen’s uniforms from each of the five regiments of foot guards of the Household Division, more commonly known as the Life Guards.
British Columbia Canada’s Red Mountain is nearly doubling their in-bounds terrain this season with an addition of 997 acres.
The 997-acre expansion on Grey alone is about the same size as the revered Mt. Baker Ski Area in Washington. To put this in perspective, total acreage with our new terrain on Grey makes RED larger than Jackson Hole, Wyoming. With the new zone, RED is elevated to the top three-percent (3%) of all resorts in North America for skiable acres (2,682!), while keeping its independent soul and escaping the stuffy (and expensive) trappings of many of the Mega Resorts.
For the 2012-13 season the Grey Zone will be accessed by an Alpina Sherpa sled, but during the summer of 2013 the resort is putting in a Poma Quad Chair. That means the civilians are coming. Better get it while you can this winter. Follow the jump for the official word from Red Mountain. [click to continue…]
Vans is letting out another little clip from their upcoming surf promotion video presentation Gettin’ Classic Volume 2. The film-marketing viral teaser posted here (completely free of charge to Vans) features 2 John Florence bombing a Fijian monster wave of catastrophic consequence. The Vans promotional film (in which video representations of sponsored athletes will induce consumers to feel the need to buy more products from the VF Corporation) premieres world-wide on October 3, 2012. Watch for it if you dare.
CCS was there in Long Beach, California last week when the world got to see David Gonzalez and Possessed To Skate for the first time. They also caught a big of it on video for the rest of us.
For those who haven’t had the opportunity to crowd around a light-table with The Skateboard Mag’s legendary skateboard photographer Grant Brittain as he goes through slides, this profile on Push.ca is about as close as you’ll ever get. It is part one of their Photographer Series and we can’t think of a better photographer to start with. Watch and learn.
