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are 110% pure win! Two weeks ago, 65 out, thoughts had turned to surfing, kayaking and other beach sports. This week, 6+ inches of fresh everyday, spring what? End of March/April are shaping up to be the Jan/Feb we didn’t have! Also, it’s Craig Kelly’s birthday today. Learn yourself young’ens. Was poking around the interwebs this morn’, seeing if any of the usual shops had the Tracker 2 in stock, and noticed REI has some pretty good deals right now on their beacons. Maybe not the cheapest you can find online (though I didn’t search around to verify), but certainly the cheapest you’ll find at a shop that will stand behind everything they sell. As always give you local shops a chance at the sale before going online. Get a new beacon and get your spring tour on! UPDATE: Check this widget out to quickly/easily find any sales
 Ortovox S1 - $370 (reg $499)  Ortovox Patroller - $214.93 (reg $289)  Pieps DSP - $329.93 (reg $450)  BCA Tracker - $214.93 (reg $290) UPDATE 10/14/11: As this post is still getting traffic but is from an old sale I put a gear finder search box up on the top right rail to help you find any items on sale. Just go up there, type in what you’re looking for and click search and a list of items and prices matching your criteria will show up. Should help you quickly find what you want and at a price you want it at! Love this pic  Schralph Macchio drops and a crop from the same  Schralph Macchio close up Do not adjust your screen, that IS a whippet in his right hand. Sometimes I think the French take their reputation to heart a bit too much and sit around eating brie while cooking up new new ideas to try to kill themselves. Fortunately for us these Chamonix cheese eating sessions occasionally pay off with sick vids like this. Speed riding? Sick. Speed riding over an avy you intentionally set off? Wholenutherlevel. Due to a domain registration epic fail splitboard.com is no longer what it was and what WAS splitboard.com has been moved to splitboardlife.com. Update your links accordingly so you can keep up with the crazy trip reports and gear setup 411. UPDATE: Disregard this post. Chris aka BCRider managed to strongarm a ho and get the OG domain back. Nice work Mr. BCRider, I owe you a beer next time I see you. Well, we finally launched yesterday! My co-founder Ben was able to conquer his nerves and look like a comfortable pro giving the pitch. Sadly, we didn’t make it to day two of the SXSW Accelerator program, but we feel pretty good about where we stand in regard to solving an actual problem AND having a full-fledged business model (as one of my mentors said to me way back when ‘acquisition is not a strategy’). There isn’t anyone taking a good look at cross-platform recommendations v. your social graph, and we feel we’re positioning ourselves well because as smartphone feature sets continue their commoditization (touchscreen, GPS, accelerometers, etc.) the versions of an app from one device to another will not differ as massively as they do now. The launch will be good for a few reasons, the biggest ones being I think I’ll be able to start sleeping a bit more AND start getting this blog back on it’s intended focus – fun stuff in the outdoors, especially those fun things that involve snow. We know there are still a few bugs, and we need to grow our app catalog, but we’ll start iterating on features quickly now that most of the nitty gritty interconnective tendons of 0′s and 1′s have been taken care of. Take a look at the site and hit me with feedback either in the comments here or just ping me justin at mobspot dot com. Should be a fun ride, and I’m looking forward to getting this block away from terms like aws and apk and back to terms like rocker and camber!
 Oh jeez Fortunately wasn’t here in Austin, this was in Hawaii two years ago with Charles and the crew. Saw this over at Jonny’s site. Serious LOL material here. 1) Skier pushes kids down Yeah, for some reason yesterday’s embed failed (fixed now). This one doesn’t. In the words of Rodney King (or was it Reginald Denny?) “Can’t we all just get along?” and if we can’t I beg of you “If your bark is worse than your bite stop barking”. The dad in the vid reminds me of most of the guys in the Bay area come to think of it – alpha male right up til they aren’t.
#1 Skier Dad from Family Tree on Vimeo. Travel day summarized: -PDX is the special ed of TSA workers
As much as I >>hate<< Thule I’ve got to say that their kayak rack held up to the crazy weather (mini-tornado getting on fwy in Northwest, gale force across the bridge, snow on the other side) better than the Yakimas did.  I hate Thule, but in this case they won |
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