Everyone and their brother has a plan to start a T-shirt company that they think will be the new Beanie Babies craze. Casual Industrees at least has the wherewithal to put together a website and start trying to sell their designs. This summer skier/snowboarder T-shirt lets everyone else who works in the hospital cafeteria know [ more... ]

Tags: Clothing, Skiing, Snowboarding
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The Danish company HeatGear is rolling out this little water boiler called the Heat Stick. It slips inside your Nalgene and heats it to 198F in a matter of a few minutes. The HeatStick runs off a gas canister and warms the water through 70% infrared radiation and 30% convection. It was originally developed for [ more... ]

Tags: Backpacking, Camping
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A little bit of particle board and duct tape can turn a dumpster formerly used to store medical waste into a funky-smelling mini ramp. Instead of draining the neighbor’s pool while they’re on vacation, you can drag the dumpster they ordered for home renovations into your backyard and skate with impunity. via NOTCOT

Tags: Siberia
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It’s going to be too expensive for even those wealthy Canadians with their solid gold Looney coins to head to Jackson Hole for a weekend of skiing. Jackson just released their rates for the coming season, and a day lift ticket is going to run $85. What the hell? Do they all come with a [ more... ]

Tags: Skiing, Snowboarding
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Darth Messenger on the right of the group was interviewed for this Wired story about the declining need for bike messengers. “There is really not much left. It’s dying,” says Matt Flores, co-owner of Wheels of Justice, a San Francisco courier service. Flores recently halved his full-time bikers — “document clerks,” as he calls them [ more... ]

Tags: Cycling, mammut
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The chunks cut out of the middle of your bike seat that are supposed to keep your junk operational without help from the pills that every spam e-mailer seems to be selling might be getting another use. Selle SMP is selling the SMP 4TheBike Shorts next summer that will feature zipper flies. The zipper is [ more... ]

Tags: Cycling, Kirkwood
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Don’t let those sneaky bastards at Nike charge you $30 for a new RFID chip and battery when yours conks out. After all, those things are dirt cheap, and everyone knows that Nike makes their child laborers in China eat old Nike+ receiver pods on their lunch breaks—just kidding! They don’t get lunch breaks! Instructibles [ more... ]

Tags: Trail Running
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That smiley son-of-a-bitch Jake has been burned by some mocking impostors, and Life is Good won’t be taking their crap anymore. The T-shirt company came down on two retailers by saying they’d lose their Life is Good accounts if they continued to carry the cynical knockoff called Life is Crap. Geraci at Base Camp Communications [ more... ]

Tags: Clothing
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Drinking Red Bull without Loud Truck Energy Gummies is like eating Oreos without milk—and they’ll all work your heart hard enough to make it explode after a few years. Loud Truck makes this caffeine-packed candy chockfull of vitamin B12 and C for people who want the energy but don’t want to have to put up [ more... ]

Tags: Food and Drinks
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Snowboard Magazine has a look at the full line of Scott’s goggles for 2008/09, and the standout is their Alibi, though I don’t think it comes with this fruity lens. You’d have one brown eye and one blue—like those people with an extra a chromosome that lends their eyes two sharp colors. You know who [ more... ]

Tags: Skiing, Snowboarding
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