The God of Skiing: Introduction

Their stories are trapped like butterflies under ice. And their exploits and adventures disappear over the years in the wind. In the high mountain towns they gather the sun on their faces like poor playboys, drunk in the bars at night, never worrying about anything except when it will snow and when they might feel the warmth of someone else’s skin. They travel through blue air and black clouds across the cold peaks of Montana, Switzerland, the Himalayas and Patagonia, alone and unknown, up against the sky like lost angels looking for their broken wings. Read more

POW – Protect Our Winters Sunday Shout Out

Global Snowfall (Shred White and Blue)—Just wanted to give the first official Shred White and Blue Sunday Shout Out to big mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones’ own Protect Our Winters (POW) environmental action campaign.

There have been a lot of good marriages between action sports and the environment of late, from the OE (original environmentalist) template of the Surfrider Foundation to the mossy snow feel of the footage from Sweetgrass Productions latest films. Like them, what I like best about POW is that they are all staying so close to their grassroots.

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