GoPro

There’s a lot of POVs on the market. In fact, here at unofficial we’ve covered most of them and even though we particularly like the GoPro, there are some advantages … Read More

From RAIN to POW to McConkey’s

The pouring rain last night didn’t get me too fired up.  Waking up to 2 inches of slop in the valley didn’t make me wanna leave the house.  Waiting inside Dave’s Deli like a wimp (because I didn’t wanna wait in the rain and whipping wind with 50 others in KT line) didn’t exactly make my blood boil for sick pow.  But, I gotta admit the snow was prettygoddamn good today.    Once I actually got on the mountain the snow was actually damn fun.  The fresh stuff was sweet, the tracked up snow was hacky, and the beat up snow was set up like f#$king cement!  Some big sh#t went down today.  Including McConkey’s (it’s only December 6th Humans)!!!!!!!!!!  Some dude hit McConkey’s and I didn’t see it but, I was able to interview a guy who saw.    “He came off the top, jumped, then a big jump, landed, but it wasn’t tight.  Maybe it was my angle but it looked like he missed the trees by this much(holding his hands out about 2 feet wide).”  So, yeah, I guess, that, it’s, uh, ON!

Perhaps the most telling sign of the coming of winter isn’t the light dusting of snow on the highest peaks, but rather the beginning of premier season across the country. … Read More

FLASHBACK _91 Octane – A necessary component to a day filled with steep lines, trenchtown turns and big smiles.

Photos: Jason Abraham,
Words: George Hjelte
Video: Greg Lindsey.

Lets be honest, Hiking Sucks! As much as you might lie to yourself, and say the exercise and the feeling of earning your turns is part of the fun, its not. Skiing down hill is what we live for. Our philosophy is why take two runs in a day of backcountry skiing, when you can take twenty.
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Skip to the 1:12 minute mark to watch Ian McIntosh Charge hard in AK and end up with a broken Femur.

We all heard about how Ian broke his femur this spring in Alaska. Here is your early chance to watch it live.  Ian is healing up well and he’ll be back next year ready to charge.

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Mr Elliot Davis found this video and sent it my way. The fist 1:00 of this video are super funny. I can’t believe the Seagull Steals this guys GoPro. With all the GoProing going on out there things like this are bound to start happening on the regulars. I can’t wait to see more disasters and also the creative things that people will come up with in the not to distant future.

I am sure that more then a few people reading this post lost their helmet cam this season. It seems that just about every day on the hill this season I would hear some broski telling a friend “I’m bumming dude. Lost my helmet cam this morning.”

Yesterday was probably the deepest day of the year here in Telluride, even though the lifts shut down over three weeks ago. After a few days of pretty consistent snow fall, it absolutely dumped yesterday leaving the mountain blanketed in over 2 feet of fresh pow. Skinning up the mountain was amazing with white out conditions
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When I first started watching this clip, I thought it was just another run of the mill POV shot.  Things get a little better as the pitch steepens, and the skier is elevated on a pretty sweet looking spine, then all of a sudden the spine ends.  Alright, I guess that was a pretty sweet ski base after all, nicely done.  Then he turns and looks back as he’s gliding down and HOLY S*#T!!!  Check it out

My day consisted of a few hikes around the Blackcomb sidecountry. Andrew Strain and I started with a run on DOA where we found some great snow and cool rocks covered in rime making for artsy photos. We then tried to get some action photos but it turns out the shot we got has already been used as a cover. After DOA we toured over to Spearhead peak where we found good snow in the shady areas.

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