Ski Jump Contest Ends

Admin wrote this on Friday, July 24th, 2009

The Life Ski Jump App iPhone contest Cloudveil hosted with The Adventure Life ended a little while back, and we never publicized it. That’s clearly not giving credit to Tobias Pecival, who killed it with [...]

Bill’s Phone

Penn Newhard wrote this on Friday, July 17th, 2009

Bill Crouse works for Black Diamond doing international sales.
Bill spends a lot of time in the thin air: sitting on planes, climbing on mountains.

Crouse guiding Everest (5th Summit)
Bill rarely knows what time zone he is [...]

Use Your iPhone to Win Cloudveil Gear

Sarah Hubbard wrote this on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Cloudveil and the TheAdventureLife.org have paired up for a little interactive iPhone fun.
Between now and July 13, download the free iPhone application Ski Jump Lite and start practicing.
If you log the longest jump, you could [...]

The Slowest Mo

Admin wrote this on Friday, May 8th, 2009

Plastered all over the Internets yesterday: The slowest motion camera Captured Never Before Shot (And Never Before Seen With The Naked Human eye) Intricacies of Ocean Waves. Shot as a teaser for the BBC’s [...]

Immersion Sports

Lauren M. Whaley wrote this on Monday, November 24th, 2008

Among its dish on the internettiness of our facebooky-bloggy-image-crazed culture, Sunday’s New York Time Magazine The Screens Issue, featured a crazy genius multimedia project called Immersion.
Photographer Robbie Cooper shot video of kids’ faces as they [...]

Telemark Tips: Dr. Paré and the T-8000

JedZilla wrote this on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

With ice forming in the mountains and down jackets emerging from storage, we thought JedZilla’s post on telemarking would be perfect. Only about three months until Jackson Hole Mountain Resort opens for the 2008/2009 winter [...]

The Rope Gun of the future!

Scotty Wood wrote this on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

It seems that the big brains down at Stanford University in California are building the next generation rope gun. A robot that gently balances it weight between it legs and arms to nail the crux [...]

Praying for snow just got more techy

Scotty Wood wrote this on Friday, January 4th, 2008

Once again we’re back at writing about Google Earth. In the past, we’ve written about trip planning in Google Earth and getting Topo maps in Google (can’t forget NASA’s Google Earth like Tool World Wind [...]

TopoGoogle

David Swift wrote this on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Science has proven that the accumulated weight of National Geographics will eventually trigger Doomsday. Imagine how at risk that makes fault-ridden, adventure-reading loving Jackson Hole.
However, it may well be our collective accumulation of topological maps [...]

Outside Gear of the Year

Wogo wrote this on Monday, October 15th, 2007

Although we don’t do a lot of self-congratulatory back slapping on The Mountain Culture, we’re very excited to announce that Cloudveil’s Koven Plus Jacket has received Outside Magazine’s Gear of the Year award in Storm [...]