Had some friends down from Belgium this weekend, and after their 8 hour drive down, they hit the snow jackpot. I hit the Belgian beer jackpot as they brought down a fine selection of Belgium’s finest beer. Took them out to the Belgian bar in Salzburg in the evening for some more Belgian beer (after the local Austrian Brewery of course). Did you know Belgium has over 135 breweries producing more than 700 different beers? Neither did but I like beer so I was impressed. They were impressed with the snow too so we showed them around a couple of the finest Spots for snowboarding in Salzburgland.  Took the GoPro Camera out for a couple of runs and finally got some nice snow and sunshine. Will try to put together an edit this week.

Benny welcoming Kenson to Sportgastein.

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First test with the new GoPro camera. The good news is the camera is wicked, the bad news is I had the camera on a ski pole in the morning which looks pretty cool but it is kind of  a hassle to carry around. In the afternoon I had the camera attached to my helmet which is great to ride with, but the video is kind of dull. It will be better if you follow someone to have some more going on in the frame I guess.

I didn’t play with the speed at all, although it looks almost fast forward at times, just cut different bits of vid together. In hindsight I think it could be way shorter, (especially the first riding shot) but it’s a first test so not really worth the hassle of re-editing etc. I’m still trying to figure out the best render/compression settings, and came across some articles about it after I made this so should be better quality next time. I filmed this up in Muehlbach, Austria with some peeps from work.

A new GoPro Just arrived from Amazon, along with 30cm of pow overnight on top of the rest. Cant wait to try this thing out.

Meanwhile, following up on the post a few down:

WSJ Reports, “The Next Crisis: Prepare for Peak Oil”
The Wall Street Journal today has an article about the work of Britain’s Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security that goes well beyond summarizing what the task force said in its report. The article starts out:

The Next Crisis: Prepare for Peak Oil

As Europe’s leaders gather in Brussels today, they have only one crisis in mind: the debts that threaten the stability of the European Union. They are unlikely to be in any mood to listen to warnings about a different crisis that is looming and that could cause massive disruption.

A shortage of oil could be a real problem for the world within a fairly short period of time.

From the oil drum…

We caught the first lift and some fresh tracks before work. Forgot me hat though.

I took the camera out for the last run on the top bit you see in the photo above, just held it in my hand riding to take some video so it’s a little shaky. Funny how that slope, which is pretty steep, looks kind of flat in the vid. Anyway, I made a (quick) short edit, starts slow but speeds up.

Still progressing like mad, can hardly even figure out what they are doing anymore! More photos on Newschoolers.com. Some vids here.

The Moon was so bright because it was at perigee, the part of the Moon’s eliptical orbit closest to Earth. This favorable geometry made the Moon appear 14% wider and 30% brighter than lesser moons of 2010.

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Stones Throw Podcast 55 – Where’s Stoney? (Opens in iTunes)

House Shoes & J.Rocc put together a collection of Strong Arm Steady & Madlib tracks on the eve of the release date for their album In Search of Stoney Jackson.  Some of these songs are off the album, others are not. Strong Arm hosts the mix.

Daron Rahlves ripping some of the most impressive lines I ever seen. BIG mountains. I stuck it below the fold because it was autoplaying and MSP put no controls on it… Sick vid MSP, but it would be better to put it on Vimeo too.

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Never been before and it’s only an hour and 20mins away. Looks like a pretty cool spot so we are heading over to check it out tomorrow.

Yes, yes! Hmm, seems there is the biggest downhill event of the year there this weekend, on to plan B.

We went to Sportgastein hoping for some powder but it was totally blown out. Ended up just cruising the pistes which was pretty fun anyway as the weather was amazing.

the pistes were hard so you picked up mad speed.

one and only attempt offpiste.

PTSP 180 horse shadow

Benny making something from nothing

Wohoo, lunchtime!