Random Items of Interest

This is a first. Normally I only post stuff that is directly related to some activity that I did or was a part of; however it has come to my attention that sometimes great internet finds need to be shared with the larger audience.

Therefore I present to you the new, but infrequent “Random Items of Interest”. I promise I will try to keep it on topic about outdoors and what-not; however if you know me you know I always bring in about four hundred unrelated topics to try to describe a situation. So we will see where this goes:

#1 Item today:Matt Holden in Backcountry Magazine:

• My buddy Matt Holden has been recently published in Backcountry Magazine with a badass photo of him skiing while he was in Japan last winter. Featured none the less on the Table of Contents page. Photo taken by http://www.marcdurand.com/

#2: Collection of Recent Badass Ski Trip Reports by People I Don’t Know:

• Some Peaks Surrounding Crested Butte:
  • http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148393
• Off of the backside of Beaver Creek (who knew?):
  • http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148388
• Awesome Hut Trip in British Columbia, Canada (need to do this one day):
  • http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148329
  • Chalet for rent: http://www.skigolden.com/
• Ever Wanted to Ski Kyrgyzstan?
  • Awesome: http://kyrgyzstanplan.blogspot.com/

#3: Collection of Some Amazing Photography Found on the Web:

• Collection of Best User Photos based around Off-Camera Lighting from http://strobist.blogspot.com/
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidhobby/favorites/show/
  • Click around and check out the 250+ photos here. None of them suck, in fact most of them are insanely awesome. You can spend some serious time looking at all of these.
• Recent Photo Contest from National Geographic
  • http://traveler.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/photo-contest-winners-photography

Well that is all for now. Please let me know if anything here was worth the look or if you find anything else and I can post it up.

With that I leave you some more visual and auditory pleasure(?) (follow link for full HD version)

Cut Chemist – 1st Big Break from eyestorm on Vimeo.