Colorado Snow
Vail Resorts has announced the addition of downhill racing to it’s on-mountain EpicMix offering. The pattern is clear: last season EpicMix added photos to the product to allow visitors to take a photo and have it associated with their EpicMix account. This allowed the company to sell the photos to visitors where traditional photographers weren’t […]
Now that we’re officially getting into the summer sports (hiking, biking, trail running), I’ve published a few of my favorite tools for tracking my activities over at Buzz.
The world’s first smart ski poles that allows you to see and answer calls, get short text messages and access important terrain information all without taking your gloves off. Watch the video, this looks very impressive and looks like a great innovation into the snow sports industry. Pledge $120 now on Kickstarter to help make […]
Check out what’s going on around the various resorts in Ski Country over at the Hub, a new site dedicated to pulling in all the blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and video content from around the state.
Rachel and I recently had the opportunity to test and review the 2012 Mitsubishi Outlander GT S-AWC for a week. Overall, I was really impressed with the SUV and felt like it could be a suitable “Colorado car” for active families or couples. Driving in Town First things first, the Outlander works great around town. […]
Speaking of Vimeo, they put together a great 5-minute video recapping the Winter X Games Experience from last month. Check it out!
The Vimeo Video School has put together an excellent guide on shooting winter action sports (skiing, snowboarding) and takes their own lessons learned from shooting the Winter X-Games in Aspen. The guide is top-notch and broken into some great sections: preparation, positioning, gear, movement, communication.
Whoa, Freshy Map, where have you been all this time? Here’s a straight-forward concept: show a full-screen map with the weather overlaid. Then add simple metrics for each resort, add some prediction logic, graphs, and boom, you’ve got the ability to figure out where the snow is (and will be). I’ll keep playing with this […]