A Skier’s Journey

A Skier’s Journey

by MG Admin February 1, 2011 February - March 2011

Film: “A Skier’s Journey,” by Jordan Manley I thought I’d get in one last ski movie before Mud Season starts, and Jordan Manley’s is a good one (or three) to end on. This isn’t the standard hyper-expensive, multi-sponsor, mega-star affairs that are released every fall — it’s a series of three short films on Vimeo, [...]

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Kara Oke Dokie

Kara Oke Dokie

by Dawne Belloise February 1, 2011 February - March 2011

Up here in the thin air, sometimes all it takes to get people up and chirping is the promise of free booze offered by the bars hosting the sing-along.

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Life on the Mountain Music Road

Life on the Mountain Music Road

by Kimberly Nicoletti February 1, 2011 February - March 2011

Playing chicken Split Lip Rayfield, a “thrash-grass trio,” quickly learned that taking a live bantam hen from their farm in Kansas to mountain-town gigs ranging from Vail and Steamboat Springs to Jackson Hole and Utah resorts wasn’t such a good idea after all. They originally thought the chicken might drum up T-shirt and CD sales [...]

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Take A Seat

Take A Seat

by MG Admin February 1, 2011 Books

“Take A Seat,” by Dominic Gill In June 2006, Dominic Gill pedaled south from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, on a tandem bicycle loaded with video equipment and everything he needed to survive, but an empty seat on the back of the bike. He planned to bicycle the longest land route in the world, to the southernmost [...]

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Breaking Into the Backcountry

Breaking Into the Backcountry

by MG Admin February 1, 2011 Books

“Breaking Into the Backcountry,” by Steve Edwards In 2001, Steve Edwards, a 26-year-old Purdue University professor who had “never been much of an outdoorsman,” won a PEN/Northwest writing residency, earning him a seven-month stint as the caretaker of a backcountry homestead on Oregon’s Rogue River. He was a flatlander, a virgin fly-fisherman, 70 miles from [...]

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Jukebox Heroes

Jukebox Heroes

by Dawne Belloise January 12, 2011 January 2011

Jukebox Heroes Story and photo by Dawne Belloise “Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.” — Willie Nelson Back in Black screams to a deafening reverberation across the wooden floor, pumping barflies and hopefuls into a rhythmic raising of glasses to mouths. They stand [...]

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Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America

Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America

by MG Admin January 12, 2011 Books

Say you get five books in your library. I pick Hemingway’s “Moveable Feast,” “The Great Rock (and roll) Discography,” by Martin C. Strong, “The Lord of the Rings Trilogy” (counts as one, because that’s how Tolkien wrote it), Darwin’s “On The Origin of Species” and now this: “Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America.” In [...]

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In Search of Powder: A Story of America’s Disappearing Ski Bum

In Search of Powder: A Story of America’s Disappearing Ski Bum

by MG Admin January 12, 2011 Books

In the 2002 book, “Downhill Slide: Why the Corporate Ski Industry Is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment,” author Hal Clifford wrote (I’m paraphrasing here) that ski towns used to be cool because they attracted fringe elements like ski bums, hippies and artists, but then rich people found out about them, and of [...]

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The Dark Side: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the fixed heel

The Dark Side: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the fixed heel

by MG Admin January 12, 2011 Film

Maybe you know this joke: “How many tele skiers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three. One to do it and two to stand at the bottom and say, ‘Nice turns, bro.’” This video, made a few years ago by someone named “AT Anonymous” and sent in to TelemarkTips.com in 2003, has [...]

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Flatland Bands Find Trouble

Flatland Bands Find Trouble

by MG Admin January 12, 2011 January 2011
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