Terje: Black Medal
Updown Magazine presents… drum roll please (you can do this out loud or in your head but I’d personally prefer out loud) — now stop, and silence… the Terje interview! That’s right, we’re big time now, baby. It only took two weeks of relentless email harassment and four or five missed Skype chats, but we kept our nose to the ground and pulled it off. Terje Haaksonen, the man, the living legend, sat down with us from across the world... Read More
Blotto: Goodbye Saas…now to Norskeland
The Saas Fee mission is over…what a good time chilling at The Blick with the Kalbermatten family and the beloved folks from Aspen! The taxi showed up, we all said our goodbyes, then Martin and I loaded up the rental car and pointed it to Zurich. After a couple of coffees, some roadside photos, a few ollies and easy driving conditions, I dropped Martin in ZRH and went back to the Zurich Airport (flughafen) to catch my flight to Oslo. I land around... Read More
Blotto: Keep Tahoe ______
Everywhere you go around Lake Tahoe, peeps are repping these Keep Tahoe Blue stickers…or some sort of quirky spin-off/translation. Wonder where I can pick one of these up for my rental car, I want to fit in. Click “Continue…” for more. Read More Read More
Blotto: Ogden SLC and Park City
The last couple of days have been adventurous…from the locations to the riding to the injury report. By now you’ve heard about Kevin Pearce and Danny Davis…the picture above is our good friend and shred Alex Andrews, fresh back from the hospital after getting his spleen removed. A fluke snowboarding fall (on a tiny park rail) resulted in a ruptured spleen. Alex is in good spirits and knows he’ll be back in a couple months’... Read More
Blotto: The Adventures of KP, Vol 2
The adventures of KP continues…this time we find Kevin at Northstar at Tahoe joining the Burton Team for the filming of the big B. This weeklong photo shoot was the final chapter in a season long escapade of backcountry adventures, urban missions, park jumps and half pipes, all for the making of The B. The B structure was a giant undertaking by the crew at Snow Park Technologies (SPT)…the feature was 22 feet tall, 75 feet wide and 100 feet long…taking... Read More
