Unofficial Telluride

Thanks to Trevor Martin for the edit and the following words about the event…

A few great things about Valparaiso Chile: 

Telluridian Trevor Martin Racing Down South

Drawing crowds of more than 10,000 screaming fans and international competitors from around the globe, this is a mountain bike race like none other in the history. This year marked the 10th  event that has run annually since it’s first race; a marketing gimmick for a local cycling magazine. Each year that passes brings larger crowds, larger jumps and more sponsors taking claim in the events success. 

Stair Gap About To Cause Some Issues...

This year was my third trip to central Chile for the Valparaiso Cerro Abajo and I feel I couldn’t have been more prepared for it. I have placed as good as 20th in past competitions and was aiming for a crack at the top 10 this year. I felt strong during the morning’s practice until disaster struck while trying to dial in a challenging stair gap midway through the course. This part of the course held one of the more challenging options with a descent time advantage to double a stair set. This advantage comes with higher consequences as well which I fully felt the wrath of. Upon landing the gap, there are four or five sets of steep, tight stairs that lead to the street at the bottom. The stairs were a little more than I was prepared to handle at the speed I was traveling and I ended up getting bucked forward near the last set. At that point I was merely hanging on and preparing for the inevitable impact at the bottom of the stairs. My bike veered offline ever so slightly and my right hand, still clenching the handle bar, landed on top of the metal handrail, crushing my fingers and the break lever. Before I could blink, I knew the time had come to let go, tuck, roll and hope for the best.

Trevor About To Go For A Ride

Amazingly, I was on my feet sliding backwards looking up the course just as quickly as I had hit the ground. Despite my index finger being absolutely crushed from the handrail I survived relatively unharmed. The front wheel of the bike was destroyed in the impact and my finger had little to no function. A local woman spectating the action quickly ran inside her house, about 10 feet away and came back with a bandage, gauze and ice. The locals had me back on my bike in a matter of minutes with an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm and applause when I waived that I will survive. 

For a full speed spectators view of Trevor’s crash and all the other crazy features check out PinkBike.com for their event video.

Our man Casey Riva bagged this footage for Unofficial on Monday after our nice little 9 inch storm. While the snow looked a little wind hammered and not as deep as our friends up in Steamboat, it seems that Casey enjoyed himself out there crushing everything in sight!

Nice work Casey and thanks for the footage…way to kill it!

Justin is a local Telluride ripper currently skiing and going to school in the Salt Lake area. He is a nasty all around skier and will be taking his park skills to the big mountain this year, competing on the Freeskiing World Tour. Last week I had a blast filming Justin sessioning Telluride’s Hoot Brown Park…enjoy the edit!

This is a sweet, artistic short film from NOWNESS.com featuring French pro snowboarder William Hughes shreding the hills of Tignes, France at night wearing a one-off L.E.D. light suit. The video was directed by fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton and was shot on the amazing RED EPIC camera.

This is total eye candy and a really cool concept…kind of like Tron meets snowboarding! I can’t imagine how hard this video must have been to shoot and ride for.

L.E.D. Snowboarding from NOWNESS.com

The following quote from the filmmaker was taken from NOWNESS.com, “I was really drawn to the idea of a lone character made of light surfing through darkness,” says Sutton of his costume choice. “I’ve always been excited by unusual ways of lighting things, so it seemed like an exciting idea to make the subject of the film the only light source.”

Check out this other cool video from Jacob Sutton featuring a unique lighting source as well and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros…

Yesterday was a bittersweet pow day here in Telluride, amazing conditions and snow darkened by an unfortunate fatal avalanche claiming the life of longtime local Nate Soules.

With over 2 feet of new snow this week falling on top of our highly volatile, weak snow pack…the avy danger is as high as it’s been all season. Please stay safe out there, ski conservatively and choose your terrain wisely.

Casey Riva stepped it up yesterday dropping a rather large cliff up in Black Iron Bowl in an area known as Pee Wee’s and as always he stomped the S#%T out of it! Nice work buddy…

Casey Riva getting crazy up in Pee Wee's playhouse - Telluride, CO

With a 65 inch base, Telluride is skiing amazing right now with endless powder days and even more snow in sight! We are getting spoiled by all the awesome snow recently but don’t forget how truly lucky we are.

R.I.P Nate, our deepest sympathies go out to your family, friends, and loved ones.

The Watch Newspaper is reporting that Nate Soules, a longtime local was killed today in Telluride resulting from an avalanche in lower Bear Creek. He was wearing a beacon, an … Read More

Come out and party with local bike pro Trevor Martin and help raise some cash for his trip to Valparaiso, Chile to race in this years Valparaiso Cerro Abajo Urban … Read More

Telluride’s Sheridan Opera House will play host to Greg Stump and two ski film premieres the next few nights.   The highly anticipated and much delayed world premiere of Greg … Read More

Check out this banger park edit featuring Gus Kenworthy throwing down in Breck’s park from Goodie Pocket Films. Enjoy the amazing flippy, spinny skills of Gus and the pro video/editing skills of Goodie Pocket’s George Knowles…both local Telluride kids.

Lot’s of Double Corks, rail slaying and downright terrain park domination in this 3 minute clip…Gus is really making a name for himself shreding so hard!

The following link is a post from last March featuring a Goodie Pocket edit of Gus killing Telluride’s park titled ‘Puppies!’

Gus Kenworthy Throwing Down in Telluride’s Park

Today was an amazing, surprise powder day in Telluride with periods of blue skies in the morning and dumping snow in the afternoon.

After 1-5″ of new snow was forecast from this storm, more than a foot of fresh snow ended up falling on the mountain turning into one of the best days of the season! This afternoon was DEEP!

With Telluride’s base depth approaching 60 inches and recent storms coming in with no wind, the resort is skiing awesome right now with great coverage on the Gold Hill ridge and chutes and up the Palmyra ridgeline. Huge props to Patrol who have done an amazing job recently getting more and more terrain open and skiing safe.

We are currently in a great weather cycle and hopefully these storms keep rolling through the area. The San Juans are going off right now…