Single Track on New Zealand’s South Island
The skis are finally going away and we’re tuning up the mountain bikes this week. It’s not quite ‘go time’ here in Southcentral Alaska, but was reminded of a stint of riding we did down under. We took a solid week to sample the single track goods around Queenstown and Wanaka while shooting some work [...]
Three Season Campaign for Therm-a-Rest
Last summer we contracted with Cascade Designs to shoot a three-part campaign for the launch of their new sleeping bag line for Therm-a-Rest. One segment was shot in the Selkirk Mountains of Northern Idaho, another in a Washington pine forest and lastly a backcountry skiing set-up in Southcentral Alaska. The prototypes arrived in July and [...]
SKHOOP-ing Around Japan
This year started off with a shoot for the Swedish clothing line SKHOOP in the spectacular winter wonderland of northern Japan. Our mission was to produce work that showcased the active lifestyle and travel with a sense of adventure that the brand is known for. This was pretty easy to do in the small [...]
Favorite Moments of 2012
Wow! 2012 was a whirlwind of travel, adventures and good times. We got the opportunity to do assignment work in some places on our ‘dream list’; Sierra Nevada, Selkirks, New Zealand. There were also so many amazing adventures with good friends, such as climbing and skiing a steaming volcano out in the middle of Alaska’s [...]
Into the Beech Forests of New Zealand
Kiwi country is rightfully known the world over for majestic mountains and rivers. But we were also blown away by the Southern beech forests we hiked through to get to those mountains. These were some of the most ridiculously moss-draped woods we’d ever seen. And always present were the ever popular orange blazes marking the [...]
Welcome to our Yardsale
So this is how 99 percent of all our assignments start: the yard sale. We’ve traveled across an ocean with several duffle bags in tow. Various means of transportation have been employed and now we’re at a trailhead of some sort. In this case we’re lakeside in the delightful South Island town of Wanaka in [...]
Trail Running Montana’s Cabinet Mountains
It would be a huge understatement to say it was a challenging summer in Southcentral Alaska. Mega precip and the coldest July on record forced our hand. With a slew of contracts to fulfill, we made the call to move our ops to the Inland Northwest; Montana, Idaho, Washington. We found this trail in Western [...]
Alaska Trail Running for MontBell
Few outtakes from a trail running shoot we did this summer in Alaska’s Talkeetna Mountains for Japanese client MontBell. If you’ve ever seen their full catalog then you know that they make some crazy outdoor clothing (especially hats). But their down and performance clothing are some of the best on the market. Hope you’re getting [...]
San Rafael Slot Canyons
While on the road this spring, we managed to fit in a few days to explore some trails and slot canyons around Utah’s San Rafael Swell. Proved to be a great spot to produce some new work for Black Diamond’s line of daypacks, such as the 20-liter Blaze seen here deep in Little Wild Horse [...]
Desert Light & Desert Trails
Two things that never fail to inspire us. From a morning trail run in the middle of nowhere during our month-long stint in Arizona last fall.