Happy New Year, Outdoorsy People!

Here's for a successful and joyful new year, full of outdoor adventures and new cool friends. Enjoy the party and have a nice holiday!

Thank you for stopping by and reading this outdoor blog and thanks for sharing your thoughts in the comments.

See you in 2011! :-)

Awesome Mountain Bike Video

The title says it all: If Only Every Mountain Biking Video Was Shot Like This...

I assume they used a glidecam (Steadicam) with a body vest and flying arm for shooting this footage. It looks that they also had flying cameras on steel cables running above the single track. I can only guess the amount of work behind this free ride MTB clip. Good job guys!

Download this drawing for your mountain bike T shirt or hoodie here.

Keep riding and wear your helmet. Cheers!

Happy New Year from Highball Blog

I hope the new year will bring lots of joy to you!

If I were to name what I want to get in 2010 the list would look like this:

• more friends to share my outdoor adventures with
  
• more sunny days during summer and more snow during winter
• more mountain bike trails to be discovered
• more climbing routes to be ascended
• more adrenaline
• more mountaineering tours
• more courage for whatever outdoor activity I'll be performing
  
• more wildlife encounters
  
• less injuries
• less pain in my knees
• less rainy days
• less flat tires on my bike
• less weight... I'm 69 kilos right now and I'm usually 65 (1.78 cm high)

Follow your dreams both on trail and off trail and remember to stay true to yourself. Here's to an adventurous lifestyle, full of thrilling outdoorsy moments! Cheers!

Merry Christmas from Highball Blog

A short message to wish you Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

I guess for many of us there's no better way to spend the winter holidays than doing what we like best: adventuring outdoors for our favorite extreme sports.

Be safe!

Keep Going - Snowboarding Print Design for Your Hoodie

My suggestion for printing your snowboarding hoodie

I have received a snowboard as a gift and that's how I got in touch with snowboarding. I'm not a master in this sport and most of the time, while riding, I resemble the guy in the print below. Lots of crashes, sore knees and wrists was my beginning but eventually I managed to get control of the board and enjoy riding the slopes.

There's a lot to learn for me at this moment and I also need a new board for this outdoor activity which is not only fun but also extreme. My current snowboard is for speed riding and this limits my possibility in learning tricks and techniques for powder riding or freestyle.

Enjoy your riding!

Download this drawing for your hoodie in

• SVG format
• GIF format
  

Download this drawing for your hoodie in

• SVG format
• GIF format

P.S.
Pamela Anderson snowboarding

Tough Enough - Climbing in Madagascar

Tough Enough, is the name of the 400 meter route in the Tsaranoro Valley in Madagascar first climbed by Arnaud Petit, Stéphanie Bodet, Sylvain Millet and Laurent Triay in 2008. Their only objective was to free the 10 pitches - many rated 8a and harder - on this African bigwall.

The climbing on the vertical granite wall was extremely difficult. The climbers gave it their all on the 380 meter route, with pitches rated between 7c and 8b+.
Tough Enough is an important milestone in contemporary free climbing. After a month on the route, the team was able to free all the pitches. It's up to the next generation of climbers to link all the pitches in a single push.

Source: Petzl

Tough Enough - climbing Madagascar
by Petzl-crew