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Wow. The last month has been pretty super fantastic, filled mostly with friends and mountains and a ton of skiing. While I unpack and do laundry, enjoy the always-wonderful Surface Skis blog, where I just wrote an entry about skiing from the summit of Oregon’s highest mountain, Mt. Hood. The pictures, as is often the [...]
It’s not that I’m slacking, it’s that I’m…um…content-gathering. Yeah, for sure. That’s what I’m doing. This month-long skiing and climbing trip is a research and content-gathering R&D research reconnoissance trip to the Pacific Northwest. All for this website. Skiing volcanos and rock climbing and driving and hiking and sleeping in tents. I’ll be back in [...]
Although published few days in the past, a piece I wrote on Aspen Spora is currently being featured on the front page of Freeskier’s website. Aspen is not only an awesome young skier, but a very cool kid who I met in Whistler during the O’Neill Experience. Click here to check out the story, or [...]
I’m in Mt. Hood, Oregon. I left Whistler yesterday morning, enjoyed the 10.5-hour travel day (in opposition to a 6-hour drive), and am now at Surface Week at Mt. Hood. There’s so much good stuff…coming soon. For now, though, I have to head to help with a Surface Relay Race at the Windell’s Camp Campus. [...]
I’m posted up in Whistler, British Columbia with Team O’Neill to film for the O’Neill Experience, a web video documentary series about the athletes on O’Neill’s ski and snowboard team. Along with 6 snowboarders and 3 skiers, we have 3 O’Neill staffers, 1 PR person, 2 filmers and editors, 2 photographers, a photography assistant, and 5 [...]
[I originally wrote this in May as a piece for an online magazine to publish. No one picked it up, so I'm posting it here. Was it a waste of time?] Snow notwithstanding, we knew turns existed. Somewhere. Anywhere. With an after-dinner text, snow withdrawal masked by a glimmer of hope, and individual servings of [...]
https://vimeo.com/43042269 Thanks to GoPro for the cameras.
Skiing tomorrow. Steep corn to cliff. Rappel. Ski to car. @ 1 hour approach. You’re welcome to join. That was the text message. And, with just that, I was in. 5 minutes later, I got this one: Oh, this is Adam from tetonsandwasatch.com, by the way… We met at 6am at the Little Cottonwood Park-n-Ride. [...]
Check the story I wrote for Powder Magazine about Surface’s unique relationship with the National Resource Defense Council through their production of the Green Life skis. It’s currently being featured on the front page of Powder’s website. I’m really happy to have my first article published with Powder Mag online. Being able to write about a [...]
Last fall, fresh off a climbing trip to who-knows-where, I joined Luke, Tim, Red, and Brent on yet another trip. Without any real preference to where the car went, as long as it got us there without Red sitting on my lap for more than 8 hours, I would be happy. Rifle, Colorado fit well [...]
Freeskier Magazine is featuring a short, ironic story I wrote for them (about Planks Clothing) on the front page of their website. Head on over and check out Feel Good Fridays! http://www.freeskier.com/stories/feel-good-friday-dose-inspiration-mountains-11
As promised, my view of the Salt Lake Shootout, as seen through the lens of my iPhone.
All of the good guys were invited weeks in advance. I was simply lucky enough to receive a last-minute invitation into the Salt Lake Shootout, hosted by Ski Salt Lake (a Visit Salt Lake subsidiary). Joe Johnson (from Canyons Resort) got me a spot with just a few days to prepare for the competition. Fortunately, [...]
Between spring ski trips, I was fortunate to get out with Surface Ski?s Jason Eichhorst along with a rope, 3 ice axes, ski poles, a full rock rack, a harness, an Avalung, a helmet, Walk Frees, and a bike without any brakes. The agenda was to do a photo shoot to promote the release of Surface?s [...]
Sometime during the slow part of the winter (time clarification: this provides absolutely no reference to any specific timeframe in the “winter” of ’11-12), I was lucky to get out with Tim for a shoot about avalanche preparedness while backcountry skiing. My role was to emphasize the accessibility and safety of backcountry skiing on any [...]
Sometime during the slow part of the winter (time clarification: this provides absolutely no reference to any specific timeframe in the “winter” of ’11-12), I was lucky to get out with Tim for a shoot about avalanche preparedness while backcountry skiing. My role was to emphasize the accessibility and safety of backcountry skiing on any [...]
A good portion of that Cinco de Ski-Climb-Bike-o day, which I somehow manage to survive a few weeks ago, involved skiing. And although the very very vast majority of skiers in Utah had already hung their skis up for the season (with good reason, such as a severe dearth of snow, an abundance of rocks, long [...]
Two weeks ago, I didn’t even know the name of Lake Peak. And while that may not come as a surprise to you–mainly because you don’t care–it’s actually kind of telling. During my 6 winters here, I’ve spent enough days getting sufficiently lost in Utah’s backcountry and enough evenings geeking out in front of topo [...]
Grab your broken piñata from the recycling bin and crack open a can of black beans.
Questionably defacing the typically-beautiful front page of the Surface Skis blog today sits a group of young men, all of whom are prone to hiking on rocks in ski boots and receiving stone grinds from…stones. In May. On skis. On Sunday, we found the only snow left on Planet Earth for a fun day of [...]
For Immediate Release?at Your Convenience March 25th-ish, 2012 SALT LAKE CITY, UT. ? Surface Skis, creator of lightweight touring skis for Granolas, alpine and powder skis for First-Tram-ers, and park skis for ?Rats, is happily rounding out its roster of youthful, mainly short-statured team skiers with Utah-based backcountry vagabond Brody Leven. Headquartered with a back-alley [...]
It was awesome to get out for some 9-to-5-friendly climbs with Tim in Big Cottonwood Tuesday night. We started by each leading Goodro’s Wall before walking down the street for a quick run up Steort’s Ridge. It was super fun. Tim’s the person with whom I learned to climb 5 or 6 years ago and [...]
Rappelling silently, I glanced over my shoulder as Jay, anchored to his ice axe, snapped photos from a nearby rock nook that guarded him from falling rocks, ice, and slough. Thirty seconds later, I was anchored alongside the rest of the crew: Surface Brandbassador Hayden Price, Surface Creative Genius Jason Eichhorst, and Tahoe splitboarder Abe [...]
Privileged to know such active people, I headed out with Jason Eichhorst and Surface Skis team rider Kalen Thorine on a short tour in Little Cottonwood Canyon. We skinned up pole line pass for a while and hit the top of Cardiff Peak. From there, we dropped north for a run and then headed back [...]
It?s hard for me to even tell when brodyleven.com disappeared from your view. For over a year, I spent hours each day updating this blog, ensuring that a daily story was available for the loyal readers that continually dismiss the rest of their lives? duties for 5 minutes. A willingness to immerse oneself in a [...]
