I seem to remember reading somewhere that Led Zeppelin never licenses their music for movies or TV shows. Oh well, I’m sure Currents filed the necessary paperwork. I’d like to think that Led Zeppelin would approve of the project’s harmonic integration of kayaking and education about clean water. Either way, pretty cool video.
via Adventure Blog
I came across this video on Patagonia’s blog, The Cleanest Line. It’s a look at how Fletcher Chouinard Designs builds a big wave surfboard from start to finish, but it also offers a glimpse into the messy environmental production of boards. And FCD employs the greenest methods out there - I can’t image the workshops of some of the places churning out boards.
Friend of The Goat, Jerrod sent in a photo of this super rad vending machine. I spotted this beauty at Chaco Canyon National Historic Park. So cheesy, yet so refreshing. I zoomed in trying to see which selections are available - looks like the Chaco Canyon NPS has a huge stockpile of New Coke in one of their fallout shelters.
ESPN dispatched pro skier Cody Townsend to look into Jeremy Evans’ book, In Search of Powder: A Story of America’s Disappearing Ski Bum. What they ended up with was one former ski bum reminiscing about his own life as a ski bum while writing an article about a guy who wrote a whole book on the same topic. It’s an interesting read.
During his travels while researching his book, Evans says, “I discovered something more intriguing than the harmonious kaleidoscope, the paradox of intense debauchery, love, drug use, and the beauty that swirls in these towns. What I discovered is that the ski bum is a dying breed.” In the book, he lists rising real estate costs, an increasing immigrant workforce and corporate-owned resorts as reasons for the ski bum’s decline.
via Flylow
The groundskeeper at the Fernwood Resort in Bushkill got some bad news when he opened the paper last week. Turns out that a bear he’d been feeding and tamed got shot by a hunter while running around the countryside. You can’t really blame a hunter for shooting a record-breaking 875-pound bear that wanders across his path, in fact, he probably did everyone a favor by taking an animal that had no fear of humans. Police say the hunter legally took the animal, but they make no mention of fining the man who fed the massive bear, named Bozo, for most of its life.
Utah police think they know who the fugitive is who’s been hiding out near Moab after getting into a shootout with a state park ranger. Hundreds of police from three states are combing about 15sq miles using K9 teams, a helicopter equipped with infrared, and several tracking experts. Weather conspired against them, but the man they say the man they’re after lacks the backcountry skills to stay lost. He’s officially named a person of interest. Hopefully he’ll get his fill of wide open spaces while on the run.
The Colorado resort Wolf Creek announced yesterday that their ski patrol director was killed in an avalanche at 10:30 a.m. They did not release the circumstances of the tragedy, and said they’re “working to protect others” at the time. The resort gets a lot of early season snow, and they were reporting a 53-inch base with 13 inches of fresh on top. Our condolences to his friends and family.
via Outside
Whose right is it to name a mountain? And what if that mountain is named after a war hero and ‘pacifier’ of the Navajo? If local residents of a San Luis Valley town in Colorado get their way, Kit Carson will lose one of his namesakes. They’re making a push to rename Kit Carson Mountain as ‘Mount Crestone’ claiming that the Carson name was a mistake and everyone in the area calls it Mount Crestone anyway. They’ve run into some trouble with the U.S. Forest Service, some climbers, and they’ve kicked up a debate over Kit Carson.
via OutThere
A beekeeper in Colorado was admitted to the hospital with an injured foot and hand from a shotgun blast. He told the doctors and police that he’d accidentally shot himself while cleaning his shotgun. When police went to his house to take a look at the scene, they found a shotgun attached to a tripwire surrounded by blood. The beekeeper had set it up in front of his beehives near his house to keep a pesky bear away that had been knocking over his gear. Police opened the box and found one spent shotgun shell inside the gun. The only thing worse than getting shot by your own shotgun booby trap is getting arrested for accidentally getting shot by your own booby trap.
