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• Laying Down Lines and Saving L Laying Down Lines and Saving Lives in Cooke City

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    Words by Michael Sudmeier
    Images by Sam Pope
    
    
    Some things in life are subject to change. And this is especially true for those who spend time in the backcountry. While recently filming near Cooke City, Montana for Way of Life, TGR athletes and filmers had to continually adapt to new challenges—including saving a man’s life. The plans for the trip had been simple enough—film some late spring ski descents at the end of April. The start of the trip, however, was filled with pow days, cold temperatures, and assisting with a rescue.
    
    
    
    Before heading into the backcountry, the crew convened in Cooke City and geared up for the trip.
    
    
    “I thought it was going to be mainly mountaineering missions—skiing couloirs and things like that,” explained Todd Ligare. He was joined by TGR athletes John Spriggs and Griffin Post, as well as a production and support team that included Dan Gibeau, Sam Pope, Hennie van Jaarsveld, Corey Seeman, and Steve Popovich. Despite anticipating spring conditions, “It felt like a mid-winter trip in late April, which was awesome,” offered Spriggs. He and the group named the project Nightmare Camp—a play on TGR’s Fantasy Camp, which had wrapped up a few weeks prior in Alaska.
    
    
    After members of the crew skied a few lines on their first day, a snowmobiler approached them, searching for assistance and a means to contact rescue and medical personnel. “You could tell he was dealing with a heavy situation, but he seemed calm and was dealing with it appropriately,” explained Ligare. “He basically asked if we had a way to contact help.”
    
    
    The man’s friend had stopped breathing after his vest became tangled in his sled. “Basically, the [patient] had a protective vest on, and he was hill climbing,” explained Post. “Through an unfortunate series of events, his handlebars went through his protective vest and hung him.” The man had rushed to aid his friend, but his response time was delayed due to the steep slope on which the injured snowmobiler was perched. Initially, the snowmobiler was not breathing. Once freed from his sled, however, he resumed breathing but remained unconscious.
    
    
    
    Whether exploring new zones or assisting with a rescue, the group relied heavily on its sleds.
    
    
    Tapping into rescue and medical training they receive at the start of each season, the crew from TGR sprung into action. Ligare sought out the crew’s satellite phone and medical equipment while Pope traveled to the injured sledder. Once at site of the incident, Pope and a snowboarder who was also in the area provided initial care for the patient. According to Pope, they “created a flat spot for [the patient], cleared his airway, stabilized his head, and put some layers under and on him to provide insulation from the snow.”
    
    
    After retrieving the group’s satellite phone, Ligare—now joined by Post—sought out higher ground in order to contact Park County Search and Rescue. Post remained in contact with rescuers while Ligare, Gibeau, and Spriggs brought the group’s medical kit and sked, a collapsible rescue stretcher, to the scene. The group helped Pope further stabilize the patient and initiated a high angle rescue to lower him down the slope. They also took turns traveling to Post, relaying updates to rescuers. Seeman, who had been in town servicing a snowmobile, led rescue personnel Ben Zavora and Jan Gaertner, President of the Cooke City EMS, to the patient.
    
    
    By the time Gaertner and Zavora arrived, the team had not only lowered the patient down the slope, but also prepared a landing zone for a helicopter. Gaertner and the team provided additional care and readied the patient for transport. “We packaged him, got him on some oxygen, and cleared his airway,” she explained. “I also put an AED on him [in the event his heart stopped]. He had quit breathing twice.” Fortunately, the weather briefly cooperated with rescuers. “We got there and the sky opened up and the sun came out. We got a helicopter in and when the helicopter left, the clouds came over and it started snowing again,” explained Gaertner.
    
    
    “I’ll tell you what, it was not his time to die,” offered Gaertner. She credits the team from TGR with ensuring this was the case. “The guys did an awesome job,” she explained. “They were so excited to use their skills and equipment. I would work with those guys any day.”
    
    
    
    In a letter to TGR, Jan Gaertner—President of the Cooke City EMS—thanked the crew for its assistance.
    
    
    For the team, the incident provided an opportunity to put into practice the skills they had cultivated through TGR’s annual safety summit, the International Pro Riders Workshop (IPRW). Although the curriculum is continually evolving, IPRW aims to help attendees successfully negotiate the challenges inevitable in backcountry travel. The course typically addresses assessing avalanche terrain, initiating first aid in a wilderness context, and leading rescue efforts.
    
    
    According to Cofounder Todd Jones, TGR developed its IPRW program because “we recognized that we’re out in a really dangerous and inhospitable environment that demands high levels of training and expertise. That training can make the difference between a fairly standard rescue and a really bad situation.”
    
    
    
    IPRW ensures TGR's team is prepared for backcountry emergencies.  Luckily, no emergencies resulted from the crew killing this line.
    
    
    The rescue in Cooke City served as a testament to the training’s success. In a thank you letter to TGR, Gaertner wrote, “Your skiers were the first responders on the scene, and because of their training and communications [they] saved this man’s life.” According to Spriggs, the high angle rescue that the team performed was “exactly what we learned at IPRW.” Gaertner noted that the team was especially successful in executing the skills it had developed at the workshop. “It’s one thing to get the training,” she explained. “It’s another thing to be able to act on it—and all those guys were able to act calmly and efficiently and do what they were taught to do.”
    
    
    During its time in the Cooke City area, the TGR crew checked in with Gaertner to receive updates on the patient’s status. After several days in a coma, the man was released from the hospital. He is expected to make a full recovery. This, according to Ligare, “is a miracle—or at least not typical.” After all, the man had stopped breathing twice throughout the incident.
    
    
    The rescue with which the team assisted provided an unusual prelude to the trip—and the adventures only continued. At the start of their filming, “it snowed two feet so we just skied pow for days,” revealed Post. “It was unseasonably cold for the first four days and we had some of the best snow of the year.” 
    
    
    For the ten day trip, the crew established a base camp from which they began sledding and touring each morning. “We basically had a little village out in the woods and camped there and didn’t come back to town,” explained Post. “We were really much more immersed in the mountains than trips where you just go out for the day.” 
    
    
    
    The crew was better at skiing than cooking, as evidenced by its reliance on precooked dinners.
    
    
    Although the group had a large dome tent, plenty of food, and a propane stove and heater, being immersed in the mountains was not especially luxurious. Temperatures one evening hovered near twenty below. For dinner, the crew had “two different options of precooked meals that we would heat up: Mexican or Thai. The big joke every night was ‘what do you guys want for dinner?’” explained Pope. As the days progressed, the crew also established a second camp from which it could access more remote zones.
    
    
    
    There's nothing like the smell of a campfire--especially one accompanied by the smell of wet socks and boots.
    
    
    According to the team, its base camp provided quick access to terrain but was not without its challenges. “The camping adds a whole new layer of logistics to deal with—drying clothes, charging batteries, and dumping footage,” Pope explained. The group’s proximity to its target terrain helped fuel the intensity of the experience. “The trip was probably the most full throttle trip I have ever been on,” revealed Post. “We were just so busy—we would get up at six pretty much every morning, put our ski boots on by seven-thirty or eight, and we’d pretty much be skiing and in our ski boots until eight at night.”
    
    
    As the temperatures warmed up towards the end of the trip, the crew was also able to ski several couloirs. After being shut down on one couloir due to rapidly softening snow and wet slides, the team was able to ski the couloir on its final day. “The snow conditions were super variable,” revealed Pope. “But to me, that’s the impressive thing about professional skiers—they make it look easy no matter what the conditions.” But this should come as no surprise. After all, they can even make saving a life look easy.
    
    
    
    The crew kicked back in Cooke City at the trip's conclusion.
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• Car Camping Spot Car Camping Spot

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• Ski Camping In Valdez - Behind Ski Camping In Valdez - Behind the Line Season 5 Episode 6

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    In Season 5 Episode 6 of Teton Gravity Research's web series Behind The Line, Ralph Backstrom, Todd Ligare, and Griffin Post take snowmachines deep into the crevasse riddled mountains surrounding Valdez, Alaska and set up camp for a couple of weeks. With the goal of hiking and descending some gnarly lines, the team encounters many challenges that may prevent them from completing their mission.
    
    Behind The Line is a series that features a unique line, jump, or session from the filming of Teton Gravity Research's 2012 ski and snowboard film, The Dream Factory. Watch as athletes take a look back at these insane moments and discuss them, providing an in-depth look Behind The Line of The Dream Factory.
    
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• Video: Steelhead And Spines - Video: Steelhead And Spines - The Provo Brothers

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    The following video text and photos comes from the Provo brothers' trip to ski and fish Alaska. Jesus Christ, looks like they nailed it - and it was their first time to AK. Way to crush, boys! Watch this video and go get after it this season.
    
    Our addiction to mountains and rivers has always had us looking north to Alaska, where big fish and mountains existed on a level we had only experienced in our dreams. As the winter of 2012 continued to disappoint in the lower 48, it was obvious that Alaska was being buried in snow. It seemed like the time was right, that maybe after 10 years of “practice” in Utah, we were ready for our journey north. We hit the road in March, putting everything we had into our first and for all we knew, our last adventure to Alaska, with two things on our mind, steelhead and spines.
    
    We joined forces with three of our friends from Utah, for a ski-plane assisted camping expedition in the heart of south eastern Alaska's backcountry. Over 50 miles by wing from the nearest road, our pilot dropped the 5 of us off on a big lonely glacier encircled by jagged mountains, and in the spirit of adventure, wished us good luck. We would need it. From that point on, the feeling of being completely alone in a wild and unknown land for the first time in our lives penetrated every cell in our bodies. Only one person in our group had ever been to Alaska, Chris Coulter. On day 8 when he suddenly left to work in Haines as a heli guide, the feeling of isolation crept deeper into our minds, and it had never felt so good.
    
    We chose to do this trip without any guides, plans, itineraries, or rules simply because we wanted to have our own experience. We wanted it to be raw, unknown, and we wanted it to be an adventure. Of course, the style we chose made things much more difficult for us than they could have been, but the feeling of accomplishment was immense. We found glorious spines to ride, and stumbled upon one of the best runs of wild Steelhead in the world. Returning home safely from our first journey to Alaska signified a successful mission, along with the wonderful new memories from the greatest riding and fishing experiences of our lives.
    
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• Camping in AK at Night Camping in AK at Night

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• DCP Solo in Chile - Part 2 - T DCP Solo in Chile - Part 2 - The North Face

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    DCP continues his Chilean adventure, camping and riding chutes in the remote Andes, then heli-ing some epic conditions and terrain.
    
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• Video: This Is Valdez - Ralph Video: This Is Valdez - Ralph Backstrom's GoPro Edit

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    Snowboarder Ralph Backstrom slays it in our newest film, The Dream Factory.

    The above video clip is an edit Backstrom made from his GoPro footage.

    Read what he has to say:

    "I, Ralph Backstrom, had the pleasure of spending 2 months in Valdez, Alaska last winter filming with Teton Gravity Research for their film The Dream Factory. Snowboarding steep and deep pow [and capturing it on film] was the main focus of the trip, and helicopters, snowmobiles, and hiking were the means used to shred as much powder as possible. Shooting guns, snowmobile glacier travel, hiking spines, and winter camping seemed to take up the rest of the time."
    
    "This was shot exclusively on the GoPro Hero 2. I know the Hero 3 is all the rage these days, but the 2 is still a damn good camera! Some was shot in 1080/30fps, some in 720/60fps. The heli port time lapse was 1 shot/2 secs, and I did the pan in FCP. The winter camping lapse at the end was also a 2 sec interval, but the pan came by chance when I shot it, due to the snow around my mount melting."
    
    Filmed and edited by Ralph Backstrom (@ralphbackstrom on Twitter/Instagram)
    
    Music: Default, by Django Django from their album Django Django

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• En Route Camp BC En Route Camp BC

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    En Route Camp B.C. follows Anthony Boronowski, Julien Regnier and Eliel Hindert on a snow camping mission up into Callaghan, British Columbia.
    
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    Nimbus Independent was started in 2007 by Eric Pollard in collaboration with Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, and Chris Benchetler. The four like minded skiers began Nimbus to bring a different perspective to skiing.
    
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• Glacier Cribs - Jeremy Jones F Glacier Cribs - Jeremy Jones Further Unplugged Episode 12

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    In episode 12 of Jeremy Jones' Further Unplugged, the Teton Gravity Research crew is camped on the Bagley Ice Field in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska. When you're camping on a glacier for a month, you're living situation is much different than almost anywhere else in the world. Small creature comforts like the right book, sleeping bag,  or set of headphones can make all the difference when you're out there. Here, we take a look at how snowboarders Ryland Bell, Lucas Debari and Jeremy Jones live in the mountains - MTV Cribs style.
    
    Jeremy Jones' Further Unplugged takes you behind the scenes of Teton Gravity Research's two-year snowboarding film, Further. Get an inside glimpse of what goes on between the lines as Jones and other top riders including Terje Haakonsen, Xavier De Le Rue and Josh Dirksen travel to exotic locations such as Japan, the Arctic Circle and the Wrangell-St. Elias Wilderness. Challenges arise around every corner as this crew attempts to push their minds and bodies further.


    
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• Contour Sizzle Reel - Jeremy J Contour Sizzle Reel - Jeremy Jones Further Unplugged Episode 10

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    As premiere season heats up, here are some of the rowdiest and greatest moments that Jeremy Jones and his team captured with their Contour helmet cameras while filming with Teton Gravity Research for the movie Further. Straight from the rider's point of view, these moments represent the reality in climbing and riding that is rarely seen.
    
    Further Unplugged takes you behind the scenes of Jeremy Jones' two-year snowboarding film, Further. Get an inside glimpse of what goes on between the lines as Jones and other top riders including Terje Haakonsen, Mitch Toelderer and Josh Dirksen travel to exotic locations such as Japan, the Arctic Circle and the Wrangell-St. Elias Wilderness. Challenges arise around every corner as this crew attempts to push their minds and bodies further.
    
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• Sleeping Around And Skiing Aro Sleeping Around And Skiing Around From Whistler To Shasta

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    Per the skier norm, July preserved the problematic goggle tan. After two weeks in Whistler and a week in Hood, I giddily took off with Adam Clark on a short road trip to the top of some northwestern volcanoes.
    
    June 27, 2012: I am in the top bunk at a Whistler condo in British Columbia. I can hear David Wise, X Games gold medalist snoring.
    
    Jeremy Jones has been making fun of me on camera, and I like it. I just found out that Seb Toots and David Wise each won X Games medals this year, and I can see them both from my bed. Seb has a pile of new Red Bull hats for a pillow and his pro-model jackets for blankets. Jeremy Jones doesn’t make PB&J’s for lunch … so I’m never making PB&J’s for lunch ever again. #BeLikeJer

    X Games gold medalist Seb Toots and Brody Leven discuss the intricacies of Jeremy Jones' lunch at the Camp of Champions Compound in Whistler, British Columbia during the O'Neill Experience. Photo: O’Neill Snow.

    
    July 7, 2012: I am in the top bunk at a Whistler condo in British Columbia. I can hear Canadian Olympic snowboarder Antoine Truchon snoring.
    
    Campers don't get as excited for free stickers as I did at 13. The big jump line has more wu-tang and the sound systems have more Wu-Tang. Are these kids all training for the Olympics? Maybe Whistler is less rainy in the winter. My skins are lonely. Riding out of bounds with Jeremy and Iris has highlighted my trip.
    
    Iris Lazz, Brody Leven, and Jeremy Jones rack up during the O’Neill Experience at Whistler Blackcomb British Columbia. Photo: O’Neill Snow.

    
    July 11, 2012: I am in my tent at Windell's Guest Pro House back porch in Oregon. I can hear AK skier Landis Tanaka snoring.
    
    What an ideal day for my first Mt. Hood summit. Photographers Jay Eichhorst and Adam Clark were awesome partners for some summer snow climbing. It was strange rescuing that guy from the headwall. He didn’t belong there. While I’m happy I was able to ski 7,000 feet from the summit to the parking lot, it’s more important that we had enough climbing gear to lower him safely down the mountain. I’m now obsessed with skiing volcanoes. Good thing it’s only July.
    
    Brody Leven skis the headwall on Mount Hood in Oregon. Photo: Jason Eichhorst.

    Brody Leven and Adam Clark hike up Mount Hood with the next objective looming. Photo by Jason Eichhorst.  

    
    July 13, 2012: I am in my tent at 5,453 feet on Mt. Jefferson in Oregon. I can hear photographer Adam Clark snoring.

    Two huge bergschrunds are blocking the normal route. It's July — shouldn't boyfriends and one-pieces be the only things blocking me? The only shoes I’ve worn in 3 weeks are ski boots. Tomorrow is another 5,000 feet on top of the 5-plus miles we hiked to this bivy spot. Perhaps our 3 a.m. start will mask some of the guaranteed misery.

    Brody Leven stands hours, miles, and thousands of feet from the summit of Mount Jefferson. Photo by Adam Clark.
    
    Can we ski now? Photo: Adam Clark.

    
    July 15, 2012: I am in photographer Adam Clark's tent at the Smith Rock bivy site in Oregon. I can hear him snoring.
    
    Mellow rock climbing makes the ideal rest day and Smith Rock caters perfectly. Jefferson ended up being a big push yesterday, a 14.5-hour summit day. It didn’t even involve that much skiing, since we stashed our skis at the 9,000-foot ridge. My favorite climbing was beyond that, en route to the summit. Carrying a second ice axe and rope allowed me to be confident travelling through the ice, snow, and rock. The lightening, hail, thunder, and rain added some tension and often kept me moving when I should have been removing crampons on more difficult rock pitches. The constant scraping of crampon-clad ski boots on fifth-class rock both scars the mountain and is frighteningly unnerving. But even more unsettling are buzzing ropes, humming GoPros, and vibrating snow pickets when you’re the highest person in the state during a storm. #humanlighteningrod
    
    Brody Leven chilling at Smith Rock between skiing volcanoes in Oregon. Photo: Adam Clark.

    
    July 17, 2012: I am in photographer Adam Clark's tent at Mount Shasta’s Brewer Creek Trailhead in California. I can hear him snoring.
    
    Two a.m. alarms should get us to the summit by 10 a.m., 7,000 feet from car to summit. Jefferson was far, at 6,000 feet, but its summit also sits at a much lower elevation. I haven’t been over 14,000 feet in almost two years. Hood was easy. Jefferson was technical. Shasta looks straightforward with minimal crevasses.
    
    Brody Leven climbs the rime to the summit of Mount Shasta. Photo: Adam Clark.

    Brody Leven near the summit of California’s Mt. Shasta, the second highest volcano in the United States. Photo: Adam Clark.
    
    
    July 18, 2012: I am in Adam’s tent at a random Forest Service Road in California. I can hear him snoring.
    
    Why did Shasta feel so huge? Was it the elevation? Why did it appear so small from the road? Was it the dearth of nearby mountains? I’m tired. Today was another 12-hour summit day. Three volcano summits this week. Skied from the only two with snow on them. Skiing in July is as good as ever.
    
    Brody Leven will sleep when he's dead. Until then, he will ski. Photo: Adam Clark.

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• Summer ski Camping in Californ Summer ski Camping in California. Photo by Adam Clark.

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    Summer ski Camping in California. Photo by Adam Clark.
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• Jeremy Jones Further Camp in A Jeremy Jones Further Camp in AK

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• Skiers Throw Down At Beartooth Skiers Throw Down At Beartooth Summer Session

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    The first competitor dropped in double fisting beers. He stomped his air over a cliff, then busted a “screamin’ seaman” off a booter near the base. Thirty bros applauded from the cornice above. Below, a siren rang out from the judges’ stand, prompting the next skier to drop before the first competitor even finished.
    
    “We’re running it like this for the next three hours,” judge Trevor Leaf said.

    A Beartooth Summer Session competitor takes one of the bigger airs of the day Saturday on the upper section of Red Lodge International Summer Ski And Snowboard Camp. One of his skis clipped a rock, but stayed on. He double fist-pump claimed it. Photo by Drew Wajer.
    
    And so it went Saturday at ON3P Skis’ second annual Beartooth Summer Sessions big mountain freestyle skiing event. The competition took place at Red Lodge International Summer Ski And Snowboard Camp — a rugged, remote, tiny nugget of an area with 900-vert and two Poma lifts located off the top of Beartooth Pass in Wyoming, just northeast of Yellowstone National Park.
    
    The event featured a jam-session format where each competitor got three runs. Skiers would drop from a cornice in to a 40-degree face peppered with rocks and cliffs and make their way to a park that featured a couple of booters, a hip jump and a few rails. Skiers were judged on a combined score from the big mountain and freestyle terrain.

    The park featured a couple of booters, a hip jump, and a few rails. Photo by Drew Wajer.
    
    Who won?
    
    “No official results yet,” ON3P’s Kip Kirol said Tuesday. “I started tallying them but they are such chicken scratch I need to confirm a few things.”
    
    In the end, it doesn’t really matter who won — the whole event was an amateur throw down of progressive ski trickery way out in the hills, far away from cell phone reception. Picture a homegrown Red Bull Cold Rush or Red Bull Supernatural type of event happening in June on corn snow. What you have is a rendezvous of 20-year-old Rocky Mountain redneck ski thugs who are more passionate about the sport than a lot of people who make a decent living off it. In short, it was core. Core as fuck.

    ON3P's Trevor Leaf was the great orator of the event. Photo by Drew Wajer.
    
    The solid crew of competitors made a weekend out of it, camping at a Westmintser Spires Church Camp in Red Lodge, Montana, watching pig racing at a bar in Bear Creek at night and skiing during the day.
    
    “Basically the whole idea was to keep everyone as cohesive as possible without forcing anything,” Kip Kirol said. “What I was trying to do was for it to be like a summer camp where you’re not paying for après. Just a really really cheap, bad-ass ski experience.”

    Pig racing in Montana. Photo by Drew Wajer.
    
    Although ON3P is based out of Portland, Oregon, they throw the event on Beartooth Pass because it offers steep, rocky terrain, allowing for the “big mountain” portion of the event. On top of that, it’s a fun road trip for the ON3P crew.
    
    “We got back last night,” Kirol said. “It was great. The ride home was good. We stopped in Hood River and stomped on Sammy Carlson’s trampoline.”

    Kip Kirol of ON3P Skis. Photo by Drew Wajer. 
    
    Although relatively obscure, Red Lodge International Summer Ski And Snowboard Camp has been operating on Beartooth Pass since 1968, co-owner and operations manager Austin Hart said. Over the years, its name has changed several times. Many locals still refer to it as Red Lodge Race Camp, he said. Next season, Hart hopes to change the name to something shorter: Beartooth Basin, perhaps.

    Looking out at the whole ski area from the top. Photo by Drew Wajer.
    
    The area is typically open to the public from Memorial Day Weekend to the Fourth of July, although this year the last day of operations will be July 1. The hill has hosted racers, mogul skiers, and even acted as a training ground for Tanner Hall.
    
    Hart, who is 27 years old, took over his uncle Rob Hart’s share of the ski area in 2009 after Rob Hart died in a skiing accident.
    
    “I kind of got thrown into it,” Hart said. “ But I feel like a pretty lucky to employ my friends and ski around all June.”

    A skier drops in to big mountain section of the course, with the park below. Courtesy photo. 
    
    Hart wants ON3P to come back next year.
    
    “It’s awesome dude, I love it,” Hart said. “We need these events to bring the crowd who wants to ski there. It’s definitely a big mountain free ride venue. The ON3P guys brought a lot of energy into it. I’m stoked on those guys. They’re cool.”

    Photo by Drew Wajer.

    This is the top of the mountain, which acts as a "base" area. ON3P gave away almost $7,000 worth of swag from Trew, Saga, Bloom and more to about 30 people. Photo by Drew Wajer.
    
    The Bear's Tooth on Beartooth Pass. Photo by Drew Wajer.

    Peace! Photo by Drew Wajer.

    For more, visit www.on3pskis.com and rlissc.com
    

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• Chugach Camping Mission - Almo Chugach Camping Mission - Almost Live Season 4 Episode 11

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    In season 4 episode 11 of Teton Gravity Research’s web series Almost Live, skiers Todd Ligare and Griffin Post team up with snowboarder Ralph Backstrom for an epic snowmobile-accessed shred mission in the Chugach Mountains. The boys start out of Robe Lake Lodge in Valdez and then snowmobile to their basecamp on a glacier near Cordova. There, they hike the surrounding peaks to score the goods for TGR’s newest film, The Dream Factory.
    
    Teton Gravity Research’s Almost Live series takes you around the globe with the TGR production team and athletes. Get an inside look at what goes into first descents, building and hitting massive backcountry jumps, traveling throughout the most exotic locales on the planet, and the lives of the world's top riders. Almost Live plants you on location with the TGR crew. You will be able to track the crew’s progress throughout the season, and watch the drama unfold.
    
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• Skiing And Surfing New Zealand Skiing And Surfing New Zealand’s South Island Part 1

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    Go to New Zealand. You can surf, ski, mountain bike and climb in the same trip.
    
    Words and photos by Brennan Lagasse.
    
    The plan was simple. Why not rent a camper van, roll with the weather, loaded with gear to get into whatever, whenever, and see what happens? New Zealand’s South Island is home to world-class rock climbing, surfing, and mountain biking. It’s also home to some of the best skiing in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s a trip best done as a couple, or with a couple of friends, but it’s way more accessible than you might think. It’s really a must-do trip for any adventure traveler out there, especially if you’re down to tap into a slice of winter during the always too long North American summer.
    
    Start by searching around for plane tickets and find the best fare you can that’ll get you into the largest city on the South Island — Christchurch. You can make rental car reservations in advance, or you can just wing it, show up, and make a call when you arrive. One thing to take note of — the New Zealand Agricultural Inspectors don’t take too kindly to certain foreign foods and other items brought into their country. What about the Wild Salmon Jerky you brought? Yeah, better let’em know about it, or you could start your trip with a completely unnecessary fine like I once did.
    
    New Zealand caters to tourists, but adventure tourists are its specialty. While there are several options for wheels if you chose to rent a ride for your journey, I recommend a camper van like the “Backpacker”, which is essentially like a VW Westfalia that’s brand new and on steroids. They’re easy to drive, easy to live out of, and will house most any toys you choose to bring along for your travels.
    
    Van life.
    
    Christchurch is a cool city. Rich in history and Kiwi culture, “the garden city” is also home to fabulous gardens strewn about the city limits that make for great leisurely down days of sight seeing. However, if the multi-sport opportunities are what’s calling, check in with the local snow conditions up in the Arthur’s Pass area, a relatively short drive from Christchurch, and hope that conditions are favorable enough that you can click right in and experience the distinctly Kiwi ski scene known as the “club fields.”
    
    From mountains to the ocean, New Zealand's south island has it in spades.
    
    That was my and my lady’s plan when we arrived, only the report we received was not that sweet. Rain at the high elevations and no end in sight for a couple of days meant Arthur’s Pass would have to wait a few days. If we were just here to ski this may have presented a bigger problem, but with that report also came that a clean swell was lighting up the east coast and apparently one of the better breaks in the country, Kaikoura, should be delivering as a result.
    
    The no-vibe vibe is a good vibe.
    
    Stoked to get our surf on and armed with local advice, we pointed ourselves north. After a gorgeous rural drive along the rugged coast, passing winery after winery, and sheep after sheep, we arrived to a spot straight out of the Lord of the Rings. Huge white-capped mountains hung high overhead, and out in the water was a point-break peeling so perfectly I mistook it for a total clone of California’s Malibu. The difference? Absolutely no one was out. It was actually a tad eerie. We wondered why no one would be here when the waves looked so good, so much so that I actually started to question if we were at the wrong spot. We weren’t. After some time in the water we were finally joined by a few others. The group collectively reveled in our good fortune, and all agreed that this is what travel is all about. Adapting to the weather, situations beyond your control, and surrendering to the flow. Surfing a break like Kaikoura, albeit with a wetsuit, is what adapting to adventure in New Zealand can bring the open traveler. Perfect waves, no crowd, and no vibe.
    
    Perfect waves peeling in.
    
    But just like the skiers we are — sticking around became limiting. There’s so much to see and do on New Zealand’s South Island that after a couple of days camping for free, right on the ocean, we still had to venture out and get to some snow. So we took off with our map and looped back toward Arthur’s Pass in hopes to score.

    Of course there's tons of sheep.
    
    Arthur’s Pass is gem. The mountain scenery is matched with pristine forests and innumerable kilometers of hiking trails, known as “tramping” to the Kiwi’s. Our plan was to visit the Broken River Ski Club and possibly Craigieburn, but there was a spot along the way that had to be checked first. Castle Hill is a rock climber’s paradise. Limestone boulders and crags dot a surreal landscape as the snowy Southern Alps fill the skyline. Although there’s many roped climbing opportunities in the area it’s the bouldering that’s world-class. Grassy landings and hundreds if not thousands of problems await the eager climber. The thing is, unless you’re a total badass don’t get bummed when you can’t pull down on a grade you’re used to killing back home in the states. This place is an ego killer, but at the same time provides another incredible spot worth checking out whether it’s to go for a tramp, do some yoga, or find a nemesis problem that’ll haunt you for years and years until you finally come back and send it. 
    
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    The funny thing about the way our trip lined in the beginning was of course we were in New Zealand to experience all it had to offer, but we were also fired up to ski. A few days into our multi-week trip we hadn’t even touched snow yet, but were so overwhelmed by the gracious people, intense mountain and ocean scenery, and the sublime climbing at Castle Hill that we didn’t feel like we were missing out on anything. That is, until we finally made it to Broken River and experienced the distinctly cultural skiing experience only found in the Kiwi club fields.
    
    New Zealand's southern alps.
    
    Stay tuned for part 2 next week.

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• Untracked Baja Mexico – Blast Untracked Baja Mexico – Blast From The Past Episode 14

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    In episode 14 of Teton Gravity Research's web series Blast From The Past, surfers Brian Conley and Ola Eleogram jump in the ultimate car-camping rig dubbed the 'Hurricane Hunter' and tear up the entire coastline of the Baja California peninsula. This segment is from "Untracked" a television series TGR made for FuelTV in the mid-2000s.
    
    Teton Gravity Research's Blast From The Past web series takes you back in time to revisit some of our favorite film segments from 15 years of actions sports filmmaking. From shredding Alaska spines set to Metallica to surfing El Salvador's endless beaches, Blast From The Past is your one stop for TGR's greatest film segments.

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• The sun goes down on the TGR c The sun goes down on the TGR camp in the Chugach mountains

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    The sun goes down on the TGR camp in the Chugach mountains
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• 7 Ways To Survive The Off Seas 7 Ways To Survive The Off Season

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    With the mountain closed, work on hold until the summer, and nothing obvious to do, off-season in resort towns can drive a sane person crazy.  No structure, no income, and seemingly no one around can really turn living the dream into an existential nightmare.  However, with some motivation and discipline, off-season can be one of the best times of the year to be in Jackson, Tahoe, or Telluride.

    You didn’t know that camping in a shitty tarp tent that lets mice in is free?
    
    1. Take Advantage Of Free Activities
    
    With most national and state parks not switching gears into high season until Memorial Day, May is an excellent time of year to check out some parks and camp and visit for free.  Golf courses are also either cheap or not officially open yet, meaning free greens fees!  And if you’re thinking about that trip to Moab, do it now.  Come July, you’ll be suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion along with caravans of out of shape tourists.
    
    2. Scavenge
    
    With the season over, everyone and their mom is getting the hell out of Dodge, and likely tossing a bunch of their winter gear in the hurry.  The people who just came for the winter have tossed a bunch of crap they couldn’t fit in their car on the way out of town, restaurants and stores are jettisoning blemished and broken equipment, and the rich people on the hill are probably chucking their skis just so they have an easier time getting to their golf clubs when they come back for summer.  Roll around town, grab what you see, put in some elbow grease, and voilà!  The local coffee shop’s busted espresso machine turns into a shining, functioning eBay sell and you cash out a bunch of used skis on this site’s own forums.  All off-season takes is a healthy amount of resourcefulness and an ability not to succumb to the mental toll all resort towns take on their residents when they turn into rainy ghost towns in the spring.

    “And the best part is, this isn’t even our house!”

    3. Poach A Hot Tub
    
    A ski bum rite of passage, the hot tub poach is most obviously taken advantage of in winter, when sore legs need the loosening effect of a bathtub of scalding chlorinated water.  However, security is also on its game during the high season.  Come May, they’re furlowed or taking a nap in their truck.  Take advantage and poach with minimal risk from the feds.

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    4. Start A Local Romance
    
    Now that the tourist bros who showered your town’s female population with shots all winter long are gone, your chances of hooking up with that one girl you’ve been eyeing from across the liftline are up considerably.  For those looking for a little more than a one-night stand, now that the town is whittled down to the permanent population, girls are going to take the prospect of you as a potential long-term mate more seriously.

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    5. Catch Your Dinner
    
    Most resort towns, in addition to their home mountain, also have a picturesque creek flowing through the valley.  There are very likely healthy, delicious, natural-fed fish in there as well.  Brush up on your fishing skills and get out on the shore to catch some free dinner.  It’s a perfect way to both pass a lot of time and cut down your costs, two primary concerns of the off-season.

    Get out there, there is plenty to see even without the snow.

    6. Set A Goal
    
    The off-season is a great time to slowly lose your mind, with the lack of commitments, schedule, or any real responsibilities of any kind.  To keep the mind nimble and make the best of your time, set some goals to hit before summer.  Hike all the trails within a fifteen minute drive, bike three hundred miles in May, watch the sunrise over town from the local vantage point, take your camera everywhere you go, read a book – whatever you gotta do to feel like you crossed some achievements off the list come summer.  It’ll take a lot of pressure off when you still want to do all those things but have to accommodate a high-season summer works schedule.
    
    7. Proclaim Yourself A True Local
    
    With the chaotic blend of tourists, first-timers, and others during the winter season, it’s pretty hard to tell who you’re sharing the lift with or sitting next to at the bar.  But the off-season whittles the local population down to the true locals who are there for the long haul.  Make some new friends knowing they’re actually going to stick around, and be proud that you’re sticking it out yourself.  Living in Aspen, I finally met all my neighbors and started some of my best friendships in the spring.

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