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Kungsleden (the Kings Trail), a 450 km trial through Lapland in northern Sweden, passing through several national parks, a unesco world heritage site, and a swedish national treasure. While this spectacular route is usually backpacked or skied, Krissy Moehl, Luke Nelson and I are going to trail running the northern section of this trail. After a couple of months of planning and prep work it's finally happening.

Over next week, we are running from Vakkotavare to Abikso, via Kebnekaise. Running hut to hut allows us to go super light, carrying only the bare necessities, and purchasing the food we need at the huts along the way. I'm shooting stills, and we will be posting updates when we get cell service along the way. follow #runthekingstrail and #swedishlapland for our feed. Thanks to Swedish Tourism (STF), Swedish Lapland, Flora, Clif, Trail Butter, Patagonia, Buff, and Trail Runner for support for this adventure.

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OR shoot in the Cascades

 

Last spring I had the opportunity to travel to the Cascades for a Ski Mountaineering adventure with my old friend Martin Volken and Forest McBrian. Our goal was to ski and climb around Sahale Peak, in the Forbidden Peak zone, and generate still and motion images for Outdoor Research. The motion content from the field in this video, along with a few images in this OR blog post are some of the visuals that resulted - more to come. 

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super short POV skiing Wilson Peak on Memorial day. Classic Colorado steeps in good pow high on the north face. So good!

Unskied Lines in the Andes - Slideshow at Neptune's

Come on out to Neptunes tomorrow evening for a slideshow by Donny Roth - "Unskied Lines in the Andes", where Donny will share stories and my photographs from our ski traverse in a remote corner of the Chilean Andes earlier this fall. Land of big condors, fiery sunsets and big untouched mountains. Hope to see you there (Dec 6th, 8 pm).  

Alpine Ice!

Rob on the first pitch of Fields Chimney - classic ice and mixed on Longs Peak

Semi-early starts and great group of guys out climbing and shooting! Rob's recent blog post about our outings over on Elevation Outdoors - check it out (yeah, as you'll see, I bribed Rob to write this - but the fluffer services is all Rob). 

Lumpy Waters!

 

you can also watch it on 1080p HD here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bmgq4bfA5U

We want Lumpy! Lumpy waters, sea kayaking symposium on the Oregon Coast - always a great time! This year the weather gods offered up some rowdy surf (sea states?!), rain, some short lived and unexpected sunshine and just great paddling. My 2nd year attending lumpy, last year to shoot photos, and this year to shoot video - hope you enjoy. Thanks to all the students, coaches and the crew at Alder Creek in Portland. 

Snow Storms

Moon rise and building storm over eastern Indian Peaks

Love the first winter storms rolling in over the peaks. Great time for getting out in changing season, dramatic weather, snow mixed with fall colors and good shooting (or complete shut-down). 

 

Storms and first snows over Mt Audubon

 

Gavin and I got out the other evening for some storm-chasing trail running (read: dramatic light-chasing), but got mostly wind, cold, some hail, lightning and a wicked rainbow... but no golden beams of light... Oh well. 

 

Gavin galloping for the barn with weather moving in

Beautful evening, always fun to get out in bad (good) weather with like-minded friends. 

 

USA Pro Challenge in Boulder!

Tommy D, Tejay reacting to Christian putting the hammer down on Lee Hill

Really fun to see a big bike race in person - even better to be able to jump on the bike and ride 30 mins to the course. My favortie moment was seeing Jens Voigh gassing it in the breakway a few minutes ahead of the yellow jersey group above.

Gotta say I'm pyshed (and surprised) that the race was finally allowed to get this event through Boulder and the controversial finnish up Flagstaff given the all the pissing and moaning by parts of the city council and the very vocal nimbys, bike-hater crowd and the anti-bike city council here in Boulder. Tomorrow - time trail in Denver in a wide open race, should be good!

Jared and Matt on Nolan's 14

Matt and Jared running the summit ridge of Missouri Mtn

Jared Campbell and Matt Hart cruising along the summit ridge of Missouri mountain at dawn, during their run of all the 14ers in the Sawatch range known as Nolan's 14. Perhaps another way of putting is, this is about 20 hours into Nolan's 14, with 14er no 5 of 14 in one push, slightly less then half of the 44000 vertical feet they ran, hiked, scrambled, bushwacked and crawled during their traverse of the highest peaks in the range. 

Jared working on his slog-fest of the year award

Jared suffering on the last major climb of the effort, going up the north gully between Tabeguache (no 13) and Shavano (no 14), with Antero (no 12) in the background. At this point, Jared had not be able to keep food down for a while (about 3 14ers worth) and he was digging really deep to keep going. Had I known what was going through his head at this point, maybe I would have not stuck a camera in his face... (to read Jared's powerful account, check out the Tabeguache section of his blog, actually take the time to read both Matt's and Jared's blogs). They ended up finishing Nolan's on Sunday night, right at dusk, after 58 hours and 58 minutes, 45331 vertical ft and 105 miles. Incredibly stout and proud effort. I shot ton's of video to try and tell their story - so keep an eye out for a web video, hopefully soon if I can find someone to help me edit the stuff down. I leave with you the profile of the run stolen from Jared's blog:

Canoe and Kayak Spread

Conor paddling along the limestone beach of Rock Island,part of Florida's magnificent, undeveloped and surprising Hidden Coast

Full spread in the current issue of Canoe and Kayak - from a recent assignment to shoot a feature story about Florida's Hidden Coast and Big Bend SaltWater Paddling Trail with writer Conor Mihell. The full story will run in the December issue of C&K.