Mount Baker Skiing and Snowboarding

Mount Baker Highway, Ski and Snowboarding Area. Mount Baker: Skiers come from all over the world to ski at Mount Baker. This majestic peak offers ski trails for the novice to expert skier, snowboard parks, and mountain wide maintained jumps. Sit back after a long day on the slopes, and enjoy a fine wine or cup of hot cocoa at one of the mountain’s two lodges.

The Mt Baker Stepup Jump is a sick kicker we build in the Mt Baker Backcountry and one of the biggest Step ups around the Northwest. Every year at the end of the season we build this jump and have the crew out to hit it. The Wildcard crew of Patrick McCarthy, Andy Bergin Sperry, Jay Kelly, Morgan Rose and others went out the build the jump big and large.

Overnight: Bellingham gives visitors a break from the ordinary. Surrounded by magnificent natural scenery, this small city offers unique galleries, hiking, arts, theater, charming restaurants, and shopping. Take a whale watching trip or sip espresso and watch the ferries traveling to British Columbia.

Snowboarding

Snowboarding a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. Snowboarding is a popular winter sport that involves riding a single board down a ski slope or on a half pipe snow ramp.

 

Compared with injuries resulting from traditional alpine skiing, snowboarding injuries occur more frequently in the upper extremities and ankles and less frequently in the knees. Different types of snowboard equipment, rider stance and snowboarding activity tend to result in different types of injury. Snowboarder's ankle, a fracture of the lateral talus, must be considered in a snowboarder with a "severe ankle sprain" that has not responded to treatment. Risk of injury may be lowered by using protective equipment, such as a helmet and wrist guards.

Everyone has it's own hobby, it may be for fun or recreation, what matter most it's what we like to do. Snowboarding is one of the hottest extremely dangerous sport. It is really hot especially for those teenagers who are looking for some more thrill. Check this snowboarding adventure lens for more details and additional knowledge.

One of the most exciting and thrilling sports is the snowboarding. This would be the most exhilarating adventure sports of your life. Snowboarding is similar to skiing, it is just inspired by the sport surfing and skateboarding.

Chris Sharma Climbing

The Players are the best American athletes of the modern rock climbing era. Dave Graham, Chris Sharma, Emily Harrington, Daniel Woods, Lisa Rands, Joe Kinder, Alex Puccio, Chris Lindner, and Ethan Pringle each embody the progression of their sport. This showcase of action packed HD footage reveals each player's ability to make climbing at the pinnacle of their sport a daily routine. Featuring all disciplines of climbing, this is your chance to witness the swagger behind each players' style and explore the lifestyles they are pioneering all across the globe.

Chris Sharma In professional climbing, where talent burns hot and fast, a decade is a long time. Ankles snap. Shoulders pop from sockets. Fingers calcify. And those rare talents that don't succumb to nagging injuries often falter beneath the mental pressure.

Picking projects at your physical and mental limits means constant exposure to the reality of failure. The struggle crushes many, weeding out the strong-fingered charlatans from the lifers. Above it all reigns Chris Sharma, 26, an athlete endowed with unparalleled physical strength and mental tenacity, dominating world sport climbing and bouldering for the last dozen years.

Last July, six years after his historic ascent of Realization the first confirmed 5.15a in the world Sharma returned to Ceüse to tick another monster, Three Degrees of Separation, redpointed on July 23. This 5.14d follows desperate climbing up tufas and micro crimps to series of three spectacular, all points off dynos, a hyper dynamic line one French climber deemed "c'est moderne." For someone who's spent the last decade on the road, the Ceüse trip was a coming home of sorts. Close friend David Graham, who became the first American to repeat Realization, on July 30, was there, as well as climber Ethan Pringle (who became the third American to repeat Realization).

Bouldering

Bouldering is one of the most effective way to improve both power and technique. The style of Bouldering unique to the sport. The routes are typically short and require high strength, vs endurance as in lead or top roping. The routes are interesting, dynamic and powerful, and do not require ropes or a harness or belay partner. Due to the lack of traditional protection, the height of routes is in the range of 12' or 4m. Many Climbers prefer this to any other form of the sport. Now, almost all indoor walls and gyms offer a Bouldering cave or dedicated area within the gym. Bouldering has evolved and matured into its own style and category of the sport.

Bouldering requires the least amount of Climbing gear. All you need for Bouldering is:

• Rock climbing shoes
• Chalk bags
• and a padded place to land or crash pads

Featuring Juliane Wurm bouldering in Fontainebleau, France. Shot with a Lumix GH2 and the Wanderlust "PinWide" pinhole "lens" as well as a 26mm toy lens and the Panasonic 7-14mm lens.

Boulder World Cup 2011 Log Dragomer

Anna Stohr and Glairon Mondet Guillaume were the undisputed winners of the second Boulder World Cup of 2011 that will be always remembered for its funky route setting, especially for the girls.

The uncoated panels allowed for some truly remarkable problems that spanned from demanding rather old school but highly refined climbing skills to the most new school jumps.

The problems only had one thing in common: they were all awkward! As chief route setter Percy Bishton put it: "A nightmare for the competitors, but hey, I'm not paid for being nice!" For the audience That was one of the best Boulder World Cups ever!

Touring Bikes

For most of us on our daily rides, the bike is a flamboyant companion. You stand on the pedals and feel it sprint underneath you. You lean into a corner and feel its reassuring steering geometry. You surge up a hill, and the bike is an eager partner. You see a pothole, you jump the bike over the pothole, and all is well.

When you add a sizable amount of touring gear, the relationship changes. The bike is still there, but it’s less flamboyant. Loaded with panniers, it’s more like a slow moving workhorse. It corners a bit more slowly (but still with that reassuring feeling) because you’re riding more slowly. It laughs if you try to sprint or climb quickly. And you can forget about jumping potholes. But the bike stays with you for thousands of miles.

The same bike can have both those personalities. A good touring bike will be your spry fun riding around home bike and your uncomplaining pack mule on an extended adventure.

If you decide you want to purchase a touring bike, you’ll probably have to order it because most shops keep zero to one touring bikes in stock, and Murphy’s Law dictates that they will not stock one in your size. Now here’s the big secret, and the reason why I’m comfortable telling you to not sweat the lack of a test ride: they all ride very similarly to one another.

TRAVELING WITH THE BIKE

You Can Take It With You Travelling with your bike is easier than ever before. Whether you travel by car, ride the rails or take to the friendly skies, your bike can come along for the ride.

DRIVING WITH YOUR BIKE

Bicycle carrier systems come in a broad range of syles to fi t virtually every type of automobile. When selecting a system, consider these factors:

• The size of your vehicle.
• The number, size and weight of your bikes Sure, you can fi t more bikes on the roof of a Suburban, but do you really want to lift them all up there?
• Where your vehicle is stored Will it fi t in the garage with the rack attached and/or the bikes up top?
• Mobility Do you need to frequently remove the rack or swap it between vehicles?
• Budget Carrier systems vary in price, based opon features and style.

Once you confirm your requirements, check out the different types of carriers available:

ROOF RACKS

Good for all sizes of bicycles, and essential for tandems.

Keeps bikes secured, without contacting each other or your vehicle.