Archive for April, 2011
This week’s Friday Photo winner is Doug Davis, who submitted this beautiful shot of what he described as, “Beth Baker running among the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park.”
Send us your shots for April’s Friday Photo Theme: Trail Running! And our winners will win an entirely re-vamped trail running… Read the rest
Watch paddlers Sam Freihofer and Todd Wells drop the 82 feet of Metlkao Falls on Oregon’s Eagle Creek. Though this is the tallest attempted drop by two-man kayak, it doesn’t officially beat out the record set by Anton Immler and Steve Fisher (which was a 70 foot plunge) because in… Read the rest
In November 2008, filmmakers from the Boulder, CO-based adventure film company, Sender Films captured Swiss carpenter and climber Ueli Steck‘s successful attempt to set the solo speed record on the North Face of Eiger (13,025 ft) in the Bernese Alps. Spoiler alert: He does it in two hours and forty… Read the rest
At this year’s SUP for a Pup one-day event, held near the Kaenon Polarized headquarters in Newport Beach, CA., approximately $11,000 was raised for the local non-profit animal rescue, A Wish for Animals (AWFA), and 15 dogs were adopted.
Three years ago, Kaenon Polarized Sports Marketing Director Chris Wyman started… Read the rest
We love the YogaSlackers–and that this, for them, is just ‘playing around.’ They make the most incredible poses, like scorpion, look easy to do while balancing on another person’s two arms… If that’s not bad-ass, we don’t know what is.
If you haven’t done so already, you can check out… Read the rest
Earth Day is fast approaching. And though it isn’t quite April 22nd yet, there’s no harm in celebrating the planet early, so we’re here to show you a trailer for an incredibly powerful, melancholic documentary film, The Last Continent.
The Last Continent … Read the restdocuments a group of scientists for 430
Walls are often hard. That’s a pretty basic fact. But sometimes we have to be reminded.
From Dave: (Crunch.)
From Paul: (Smash.)
From John: (Smack! Wait…did he just do that on purpose?)… Read the rest
Check out this video of 16-year-old climbing prodigy, Enzo Oddo, prAna’s youngest ambassador. He hails from Nice, France and, prior to the trip he took this February to Bishop, California, he had never been on a trip for the sole purpose of bouldering. Despite the foreign terrain and tough climbs,… Read the rest
This film, Highlining California, looks altogether nerve-wracking, inspirational and beautiful. This is, obviously, just the trailer, but the film itself will carry viewers on a journey with five slackliners from Yosemite to San Francisco–on a total of 12 highlines, 5 longlines and over 20 other slacklines. From the Highlining … Read the rest
On Sunday, April 30th between 11:30 and 3 p.m., up to 120 skiers and snowboarders will convene at Mt. Hood Meadows for the epic 5th Annual Snow-Kona Pond Skim. Once there, participants will attempt to rack up enough speed on their way down the hill to make it across the… Read the rest
SMOD, the Malian-based trio, represents a new genre of world music. The group plays a combination of rap, folk and traditional Malian styles while singing powerful lyrics about African politics and corruption. As NPR put it on their ‘5 African Artists to Watch‘ section, “This young group’s self-titled debut … Read the rest
This video immediately throws the Don’t look down idiom to the wind. The portions filmed by helmet cam are nerve-wracking to watch if you have even a small fear of heights–but give a great… Read the rest slackliner’s eye view, nonetheless.
Recently, Time, Wired, The Daily Mail… Read the rest and several other publications wrote about a bizarre phenomenon caused by last year’s unprecedented flooding in Pakistan. The monsoon, which began in July 2010, didn’t only disrupt the lives of over 20 million people, but also caused millions of arachnids to take
This week’s Friday Photo winner is Garrett Grove, who submitted this beautiful shot of “Bridget Grove running through Yoho National Park” in Canada.
Send us your shots for April’s Friday Photo Theme: Trail Running! And our winners will win an entirely re-vamped trail running wardrobe, including a pair of men’s… Read the rest
The 5Point Film Festival began in 2007 as a way to–through film–celebrate and inspire adventure of all kinds while promoting recreation with a conscience. As its fourth annual event draws nearer, event founder, Julie Kennedy, comments on what the 5Point Festival is, and has become. “Our vision this year–and every… Read the rest
