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Max Hammer, Griffin Post, Mark Carter, and Angel Collinson embark on a multi-day camping mission to ski and snowboard big lines in Grand Teton National Park.
How to make your own hot tub with barely more than a garden hose, tarp, copper piping, and a fire.
The insane story of Rick Sylvester's 1972 ski BASE jump of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
TGR's Almost Ablaze is a global odyssey combining state-of-the-art cinematography and the most progressive riding on The Planet.
The 10 Types of People You Meet In Mountain Towns
TGR looks at the difference between big-mountain comps and film segments for those looking to make it big...
Action Sports - Ski, Snowboard, Bike, Movies
In recent history, the term “resort” has come to describe more and more of the places where we ski and snowboard. Where ski areas, ski hills, and mountains once appropriately presented the snow sliding experience as a relatively bare-bones and self-determined adventure in the hardy climes of nature’s winter, marketing departments, possible due to stagnating visitation, have sought to rebrand their facilities as resorts, giving potential visitors the mind’s eye image of being pampered at a spa or having all of their cares and wants massaged by the fingertips of an army of wait staff intent on delivering them to a specific parking spot, ferrying them merrily to a station where bright-cheeked men with a strange resemblance to Santa Claus buckle their boots for them, and delivering a Bloody Mary at the snap of a finger a la Sandals Saint Lucia.
As we troll along Virginian Avenue in West Jackson searching for a place to park, it’s plainly obvious we are no longer in ski country. From the cockpit of my cute little diesel German wagon, I can actually see the underside of the dozens of lifted oversized pickups that line the avenue like some sort of motorcade for the leader of some backwoods Montana militia. We squeak in between two such personal tanks and, upon exiting the vehicle, surmise that the top of our ski rack is barely as high as the license plates on the vehicles in front of and behind us. I think about putting together some sort of sign to display on my dash so someone doesn’t mistake my VW for a Prius and intentionally run it over, but just decide to go ahead and drink anyways.
If anyone is on one (as they say) this season as far as skiing in-bounds goes, Idaho native Sander Hadley is the prime candidate. Basing his campaign out of Alta and the mountain's jump-laden Wildcat chair in particular, Sander has been absolutely demolishing natural jumps, hand-drags, tree taps, backflips, nosebutters, stump bonks, and all kinds of other airborne nonsense in Little Cottonwood Canyon whether there's soft snow on the ground or not.
The Freeride World Tour 2014's relocated 4th stop, which was moved to Snowbird after a lack of snow at the traditional Kirkwood venue, continues to be postponed for the opposite reason: too much snow. 22 inches arrived to start the weekend, delaying the start of the big-mountain contest due to snow safety concerns, and another storm due to arrive tomorrow is pushing back the start of the contest even further.
Nonetheless, that didn't prevent wildcard entry Sage Cattabriga-Alosa from tearing all around Snowbird, one of his home mountains, and showing the camera what he'd be bringing to the Baldy venue once it finally gets cleared for competition. Namely the chance to throw silky Sage tricks off every bump and drop on the mountain...
From Bob Costas to USA Today to Shaun White and Putin, we look back on the best and worst of the mainstream media's coverage of the Sochi Olympics.
Base Camp is a new semi-frequent photo column where we check out the cabins, lean-tos, igloos, tents, and RVs where mountain-minded folk base their adventures out of. To kick off the series, we check out the truckbed camper of friends James Roh and Joey Howell, who stopped through the TGR headquarters the other week during the Jackson Hole stop of their winter splitboarding on the road, which in a few weeks should leave them sitting pretty in the high Alaskan peaks. Follow their journey athttp://www.thepowderpilgrimage.com
We've been hearing a lot about the huge slopestyle course and the dogged halfpipe at Sochi the past two weeks, andabout victories and losses on hardpack snow, and even solid ice (on purpose!). But that's not to say that skiing and snowboarding's contest jokes to sneak in some laps on what is quickly being recognized as some of the best lift-accessed terrain in the world at newly-developed ski areas like Rhosa Khutor, where the slope and pipe venues were hosted, to Krasnaya Polyana.
It has been truly a bizarre day to be a woman at the Sochi Olympics. One the one hand, news got out that female members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot, who were in prison until Putin decided to clean up Russia's image in the Oympic run-up, were beaten with whips by Cossack police officers or militias, or something. On the other, the women's ski halfpipe finals, an event that owes its existence to a skier who pioneered the right to play for women in action sports, Sarah Burke, went down for the first time in history today. These Olympics have provided more than a few examples of cognitive dissidence, but I digress.
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Welcome back to another episode of TGR's Sochi Olympic screenshot journalism thanks to NBC's live streaming of the events! This time, we cover the highly-anticipated men's final of the ski halfpipe event.
The days of the classic Teletubby look of a bulky POV camera mounted to the helmet are numbered... instead Sage captures his early winter shredding the Alps during the jump-infused big mountain comp known as the Swatch Skier's Cup (Team Americas wins again!) with the low-pro Action Cam.
With climate change threatening the plentitude of consistent powder days, will snow biking be all the rage on TGR come 2050? A couple potential Winter Olympic events could include:
