Living, Playing & Writing in the Outdoors
If you know Jackson Hole, you know Corbet’s Couloir- the legendary, epic chute that earns bragging rights around the world. This spring, Cam McCaul and Casey Brown attempted the first-ever Mountain Bike descent of this beastly double black. // From TGR’s 2017 ski film Rogue Elements, presented by REI
Black Diamond Athlete Carlo Traversi writes, “the depth of your will can only be explored through experience.” And so he came up with the idea to do a triple 14 challenge—to climb a V14, 5.14, and a 14er in one day.
With new ascents, new feats of strengths and new discoveries constantly raising the bar, a climber’s perception of what’s possible is always shifting. But perhaps the greatest proponent behind the ever-evolving standards of what’s truly challenging lies within one simple act … that of giving it a darn good try.
——-Black Diamond
Want to know why skiers and snowboarders flock to Whistler Blackcomb? The apres has its draw but, no, there’s a deeper connection. Magnetic, a 30-minute marketing endeavor by the Resort, focuses on that undeniable attraction; that hypnotic power of the area that keeps athletes coming back again and again.
Filmed entirely and solely at Whistler Blackcomb, the film will be the resort’s flagship piece of content for the 2017.18 winter season. The movie features athletes with connections to the Whistler area and filmed by local, high caliber talent.
Origin Design & Communications, a full-service, creative and marketing agency specializing in outdoor sports and tourism, created the concept with the award-winning outdoor/adventure and commercial video producer Jeff Thomas directing the project.
The film will be released free online this fall but here’s a peek at the trailer:
If you’ve ever done three tram laps at The Bird, you can appreciate the simplicity and relief that comes from a chairlift ride and the proverbial footrest. Younguns would argue that they “hate that thing”; they bonk you on the head coming down, you struggle to raise them in time to eject and bro-brahs see them as a sign of weakness. However, as we ski bums age the pride takes a backseat to commonsense.
Coloradan Lionel Starr created this hilarious riff on the ‘bar’ for the annual Telluride TV Video Awards.
Cirque Lab takes viewers into the world of Cirque du Soleil training. In this episode freestyle, acrobatic, slopestyle, and halfpipe Canadian skiers try their flips and jumps on the Russian swing.
At first they use safety lines, but as they quickly adapt to the apparatus, they get into some their more intricate moves as the Russian swing takes on a whole new dimension.
In #CIRQUESHOP: The Workshop Series presented by C:LAB, Cirque du Soleil explores a new acrobatic repertoire by reaching out to athletes from different disciplines. See what happens when two different cultures come together – circus arts and extreme sports.