Always producing a solid mix of urban and big mountain riding…with the usual stonking line up…

Lives Of The Artists: Follow Me Down is a documentary about artists on extraordinary adventures. Two of them, freeriders Jeremy Jones and Xavier De Le Rue, go on a maddening pursuit into Antarctica to snowboard down some of the most dangerous and unexplored terrain on earth. It also features James Lavelle as he tours with UNKLE across the world visiting Tokyo, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and London, giving us a glimpse into the energy and ambition behind these creative personalities.

Cant. stop. thinking. about. snow…

Cockburn finding the stash on the best pow day of NZ09…

Another really good line up and some sweet looking chasecam style footage…D-Pad Session…

MPORA Action Sports >>

With Nicolas Müller, Bryan Iguchi, Wolle Nyvelt, Luke Mitrani and Jake Blauvelt this looks good…

All the way back to the Subject:Haakonsen movie, Volcom movies have always had a pretty different feel to them…

The Dobre Hombres also looks like it is loaded with some good footage and talent:

Bluebird ‘Dobre Hombres’ Teaser >>

After the hottest november in 150 years in Sydney, it has got VERY cold the last few day…

“Sydney has shivered through its coldest June day in 27 years, with the mercury plummeting to 4.7 degrees in the city.

Not since 1983 has a colder June temperature been recorded according to the Bureau of Meteorology.”

Rest of report here.

We braved a snorkle for some exercise and I actually thought the water wasnt too bad…turns out it was 16 degrees, a good 8-10 degrees warmer than the air temperature!

The southern hemisphere winter snow season has begun this weekend at resorts in Australia and New Zealand, with both having pretty good opening days… We are planning a trip down to the Aussie resorts although I dont have high expectations as the resorts are not very high and apparently get VERY busy…they have also had the highest average lift prices in the world for the last few years…

This was opening day 2009 – View from the top of Cardrona looking towards Wanaka:

Some early season dumps in Australia and the impending southern winter coupled with the news today that we may not be able to stay here beyond the end of the year have left me thinking about snow a lot recently…

Round up vid from my mate Brians trip to Alaska…yes I want to go next year!

Other posts from the trip here.

Yea I know its been in the action sports news loads since he did it…this is the only edit released so far…

The Triple Cork from torstein horgmo on Vimeo.

When I’m lacking inspiration and feeling like there are far too many things wrong with the world, I like to go trawling the web for images to reinvigorate my creativity…

Loving this work from Jeremy Koreski on Vancouver island…

So many good images here!

A few of my favourites from past years:

Go here for photographer credits and more of previous years entries…