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 Speculation
ran rampant last fall. Just what was G3 up to?
Tinkering with the telemark binding was the
trendy guess. As we all know now, the answer was
skis, which seems obvious in retrospect
considering Paul Parker had recently joined the
G3 team. So why the secrecy about the new line
of G3 skis? G3 president Oliver Steffen fills in
some of the blanks. 
Winners of
the G3 $1,000 Gear Giveaway Revealed
Three lucky winners took home $1,000 in G3 skis
and gear after attending a Tough Guy Production
- Total Telemark IV – Incognito premiere this
season.
Congratulations to:
Chris Haas of Medford, MA who uses G3's 80mm
Skins with his new Baron's mounted
with TARGA T/9's and XRace cartridges
Chris Olearain of Boise, ID who uses G3's 120mm
Skins with his new Reverend's mounted with
TARGAs and XRace cartridges
Amanda Clark of Truckee, CA who uses 130mm G3
Skins with her new Reverend's mounted with
Targa's and XRace cartridges.
Home to secret military bases during the cold
war and closed to foreigners until 1994,
Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Siberia
hosts a circle of four active volcanoes
surrounding the Bogdanavich glacier. Read about
a group of Australian mountaineer's
unanticipated negotiations with Russian military
and epic conditions threatening the first climb
and ski descent of Eurasia's highest and active
volcano.
Ten friends, eight days, six ascents. Two thumbs
up! Follow Cam Shute and friends as they
trek through the Howson range
into the beautiful, unexplored mountains of
Northern BC. The way Cam makes it sounds, you'd
think it was just your average trip to the
beach!
Sail north, way north, up the
Coast of Greenland on Dodo's Delight
with Scottish natives, Tash Wright and Polly
Murray, visiting remote villages and achieving
the first recorded ski tour of Hebert Island
under extreme weather conditions and severe
artic cold. An
epic adventure shared.
 Spring
is in the air.
At lower elevations you can smell it; the rough
scent of dirt re-emerging.
In
the mountains, the warmer temperatures are
solidifying
the snowpack,
and baking the top layer
into sun-ripened corn. However,
all that sun means the snow we prayed
so vigilantly for all winter is quickly filling
creek beds,
tugged downhill
by our
good friend gravity.
Rather than revel in stories of another season
gone by, we decided to
contact friends living up north—Alaska and
Europe. Yes,
Europe qualifies as the Great North.
Check the latitude lines. (They're the ones that
wrap around the globe.)
Doug Coombs,
Evan Corral and
Jacob Slot wouldn't consider
putting away the skis in April. Oh no. Not with
the amount of snow lurking in the High Country.
Plus after months of early afternoon sunsets,
they can finally see what they're skiing.
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