Each year National Geographic, the organization made famous by it’s yellow-bordered magazine covers, names an people’s choice Adventurer of the Year. Last year it was Spanish mountaineer Edurne Pasaban. This year NatGeo has nominated backcountry master Jeremy Jones.
National Geographic recognizes outstanding individuals who embody a unique spirit of adventure, and their remarkable achievements in exploration, conservation, humanitarianism, and adventure sports. A snowboard legend, Jones has been nominated for his evolving approach to riding big mountains through the use of splitboards in film projects produced by Teton Gravity Research (Deeper and recently-released Further), and his work to fight climate change through his nonprofit, Protect Our Winters (POW).
This is where you come in. People choice means we can all vote for Jeremy once a day from now until January 16, 2013. That means you can personally be responsible for 77 votes. If 2,000 people vote for Jeremy everyday between now and then he will win. Here’s the link. Start voting.
“We worked closely with the crew at Herschel Supply Co. to create two collaborative goggles that are as technical as they are timeless,” says Brent Sandor, SPY brand manager. “Dreaming up one of the cleanest design details we’ve ever seen—a pop of Herschel Supply Co.’s signature red on the lens groove of the goggle—this frame is visually distinct from anything else out there. They also built a bag that’s as unique as it is functional. Only Jamie [Cormack] and the crew at Herschel Supply Co. would have put this much thought into every aspect.”
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Burton Snowboards founder Jake Burton will be on a CNBC show called How I Made My Million on Friday night, November 16, 2012, explaining how he turned his ideas into an “extraordinary business.”
Despite little training in design or construction, he built his first snowboards inside a Vermont barn. A decade later, Burton would be selling his iconic boards in 33 countries, the dominant player in a fast-growing industry.
Tune in for the rest of the story on Friday night and who knows, maybe you’ll learn how to make your next million.
Haven’t been up to Tahoe’s Alpine Meadows in a while? Maybe this spring shred edit starring Toni Kerkela will cause you to think twice about it next time.
Beer cheers to Jonah Owen for finally getting a board sponsor with the Rome SDS.
During a season without a board sponsor, Jonah Owen spent last year on his own schedule completely killing it. He took to the streets and backcountry to stack footy and quite possibly take the “hardest-working snowboarder” award in 2012. This season he has already cashed in $10k from a 1st place finish at Hot Dawgz & Hand Rails at Bear Mountain, and checked off early pow runs during the first snow fall at Bachelor.
Here, let Nike and some energy drink with a cow on it rub your face in their big, bulbous, bulging wallets and show you how epic snowboarding looks when they spend way, way, too much money to “get the shot.”
Hey, I know let’s film Austin Smith juggling eggs in Phantom slo-mo. How rad will that be? Then you throw a boot in a snow storm with Danny Kass standing behind it throwing horns and going “Arrrrrggggghhhh.” Oh my gawd.
Former Snowboarder Magazine online editor (and award winning photographer) Laura Austin is curating a photographer show at the Lomography Gallery Store LA during the month of November 2012. The show is titled Everyone’s A Photographer. The show features images from Chad Muska, Corey Smith, Jared Eberhardt, Jeremy & Claire Weiss, Natas Kaupas, Ian Ruhter, Danny Zapalac, Jason Lee Parry, and Laura Austin herself.
The opening party for the show kicks off Friday night, November 2, 2012 at 7 PM and features free drinks from Pabst, Peligroso Tequila, and O.N.E. Coconut Water with DJ Aaron Castle and others spinning through out the night. The event is free but they’d like you to RSVP to store.losangeles@lomography.com.
In short, The Mad Ones is a snowboard video features the antics of Forest Bailey, Forrest Burki, Patrick McCarthy, Shaun McKay, Wyatt Stasinos, Nick Russell, Kael Martin, Bryan Fox, Mark Landvik, Lucas Debari, Nick Ennen, Scott Blum, Dan Liedahl, Alex Beebe, Will Lavigne, Jamie Lynn, Sebi Geiger, Marco Feichtner, Atsushi Hasegawa, Kohei Kudo, and Austin Hironaka. A project by Liam GallagherThe Mad Ones was apparently “inspired by the Beat Generation and specifically the writings of Jack Kerouac.”
Better get a cup of coffee ’cause this one’s 53 minutes long. If you prefer old media a limited run of DVD’s will reportedly be available soon for $15 each.
Sure, the San Francisco Giants may have won the 2012 World Series last night, but the really big news in NorCal was the Downtown Throwdown. Okay. Just kidding. It looks like a few people showed up to see snowboarding on the streets of San Francisco. Yobeat was there. Here’s what they saw.
Snowboard trainers Mitch Tölderer and Bibi Tölderer-Pekarek show us how to get ready for the new winter season. Remember: “He pulls heezs heelz on zee germ bool az far to heez buttock as possible.” And ya dis not too hard for us. It eez too sexy!
