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Video: Ever Seen a Subaru Launch a 70-foot Kicker?

By Adam Soldinger • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Features, Video

Check out this clip from DC’s snowboarding video “Mtn. Lab 1.5″ featuring Ken Block and his pimped out Subaru rally car in Snow Park Resort, NZ. I’m not in the market for a new car but when the time comes and I need something that can handle the snow, I might just have to [...]



Video: Adventure Film Works – “Hustle & Snow” (2006)

By Adam Soldinger • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Video

Gotta love this clip from Adventure Film Works’ 2006 film, “Hustle & Snow”, featuring a continuous stream of skier and boarders riding The Fingers at Squaw Valley. These filmmakers are Tahoe locals which makes it even easier to appreciate. God…just watching this is making me itch like crazy to get up there again. [...]



Video: Big Mountain Skier Dies (Note: the video is the happy kind)

By Adam Soldinger • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: News, Video

Sad news out of the extreme skiing world…Billy Poole, who was being filmed for a Warren Miller documentary, died from injuries he sustained after jumping off a cliff in the Wolverine Cirque area of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah. At 28, Poole was already being sponsored by the Salt Lake City-based gear manufacturer Black [...]



Video: Jamie Pierre’s World Record Cliff Huck

By Adam Soldinger • Jan 20th, 2008 • Category: Video

If you’ve never seen this, you must. In this clip from Teton Gravity’s 2006 film “Anomaly”, freeskier Jamie Pierre sets the world record for tallest cliff jump (w/out a parachute) by hucking this monster 255 foot drop near Grand Targhee in Wyoming. That’s 85 yards top to bottom…almost a full football field of [...]



Video: TGR Helps Kick Off The Season

By Adam Soldinger • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: Video

Well, I guess the timing of my first post couldn’t be any better. Tahoe’s been getting crushed with heavy snowfall for the past several days and some resorts (um, Kirkwood) are reporting up to and over 11 feet of accumulation already! Best part is, it’s supposed to keep on comin’!
Anyway, I’d like to [...]