Powder Highway Dispatch #1

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The world of skiing in the united states started with Sun Valley Idaho installing the first chairlift ever in 1936. Now K2 is trying to inspire a new generation into living their own adventures with the Powder Highway.

“There is nothing that can set you free like a good road trip.”

Bo Bridges – Winter X Games Aspen 2013

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As Bo Bridges would like to say… it is almost go time.

Winter X Games 2013 is now upon us. As usual – ESPN’s website is atrocious to find relevant information – but here is a direct link to the Schedule of Aired Events in Eastern Standard Time … calculate your own viewing experience.

If you are heading to Aspen to celebrate in the fun, here is the Schedule You Want To Look At which is the same link as above but you must click RESULTS on the secondary tab to see the event times (Only now in Mountain Standard Time). Makes a ton of sense right? Blah.

Skiing Events

Thursday, January 24th

  • 10:30-12:00pm — Men’s Ski SuperPipe Elimination

Friday, January 25th

  • 1:30-3:00pm — Men’s Ski Slopestyle Elimination
  • 6:30-7:45pm — Women’s Ski SuperPipe Final
  • 8:45-10:00pm — Men’s Ski SuperPipe Final

Saturday, January 26th

  • 7:00-9:00pm — Ski Big Air

Sunday, January 27th

  • 12:00-1:15pm — Men’s Ski Slopestyle Final
  • 1:45-3:00pm — Women’s Ski Slopestyle Final

Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

A Complete Recap of the Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

Wow – finally an in depth link at what happened during the Steven’s Pass Avalanche. This is a very in depth and thorough story using all forms of media. My heart goes out to the people involved in this tragedy and I can’t imagine the time it took to put such an incredible story together. Thank you for sharing – and be careful out there friends.

Warning – this will take some time to consume, but it is worth it.

Red Bull Kluge – The Athlete Machine

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Forgot to post this last weekend when I was browsing trending videos on the Apple TV.

What does 2 years planning, 12 machines, 11 athletes, 4 RED digital cinema cameras, 45 GoPros and 3,422 man hours look like?

11 athletes:

  1. Sean MacCormac – Red Bull Air Force
  2. Joey Brezinski – Skate
  3. Rickie Fowler – Golf
  4. Danny MacAskill – Biking
  5. Ryan Sheckler – Skate
  6. Drew Bezanson – BMX
  7. Bryce Menzies – Trophy Truck
  8. Rhys Millen – Drift
  9. Robbie Maddison – FMX
  10. Lolo Jones – Track and Field
  11. Pat Moore – Snowboarding

Notes:

Director of Photography – David G. Wilson
Project Manager – Ian Votteri
Director of Red Bull Media House – Nicholas Schrunk
Director of SYYN Labs – Adam Sadowsky

Technology – The Ultimate Arm

KLUGE – A witty, yet inelegant solution that succeeds in performing a particular task.

Go team.

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Happy 50 Years Vail

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“It was a lifestyle. A totally undefined lifestyle. And you were not judged at all on what you had been, or where you went to school, or whether you had a nickel… or a million bucks. None of it mattered. Everybody was evaluated for what kind of person they were… what kind of sense of humor they had. And it was a given that everybody was there because they loved the mountains.”
- John McBride

Happy 50th anniversary to Vail. I can’t say it you are like nothing else on earth, but I can definitely say that you are unique and I have enjoyed skiing you. Not as much as I have enjoyed skiing and growing up at my home mountain of Winter Park, Colorado – which celebrates 73 years of awesomeness this year – But I certainly am excited to take it down your backside on a hefty powder day.

HYDLE – TSOIGDH

In the history of HYDLE.com… this ridiculous “TSOIGDH” entry marks my 999th public blog post since May of 2009 – When I started this crazy world of blogging ideas, thoughts and Genius vs. Not Genius intermanents and social media successes or failures.

So for the sake of getting google credit for it…

“TSOIGDH” = TURNING SHIT ON IT’S GOD DAMN HEAD

Turning shit on it’s god damn head is going to be my 1 single inspiration for the next 999 blogpost entries. I can’t wait to open up my connection layer for all my loyal readers… so I can start finding out who you actually are.

Cheers to 999!

TSOIGDH