ORAGE BLOG
A Month Visiting America
MAY 07 / 08
Photos & story by Austrian team rider Josh Absenger
I enjoyed 1 Month in Lake Tahoe and Mt. Hood Oregon. I started the trip with 3 friends one fotographer and a filmer at the 2nd of april. After 2 days visiting San Francisco, the Fam went to Tahoe Vista. Our Cabin, called Cozy Cabin was just awesome. We partied just a few times there-haha!
Alcatraz island in the background
Scene of the Winter Olympics Squaw Valley and Northstar were the targets of us.
Let´s talk about Squaw. This Resort offers a small but fine Terrainpark. Included are a small beginner kickerline, pro kickerline, superpipe, railgarden, and a jibpark.
Second park was Northstar at Tahoe. Norstar has an inmense number of fun obstacle like staircases, cars to slide, a lot of different rails, and a few good kickers. The run ends with an amazing superpipe. Great!
After 3 weeks we decided to drive to Mt. Hood Oregon. A snowstorm brought cold temperatures and a landscape like in a deep winter. We was waiting 4 better, but there was no improvement in the weather. I flight back to sunny California. A Giants Game was in the Art Park in San Francisco. It was such a burner.
See you next Winter in Cali.
Josh Absenger
Austria
I enjoyed 1 Month in Lake Tahoe and Mt. Hood Oregon. I started the trip with 3 friends one fotographer and a filmer at the 2nd of april. After 2 days visiting San Francisco, the Fam went to Tahoe Vista. Our Cabin, called Cozy Cabin was just awesome. We partied just a few times there-haha!
Alcatraz island in the background
Scene of the Winter Olympics Squaw Valley and Northstar were the targets of us.
Let´s talk about Squaw. This Resort offers a small but fine Terrainpark. Included are a small beginner kickerline, pro kickerline, superpipe, railgarden, and a jibpark.
Second park was Northstar at Tahoe. Norstar has an inmense number of fun obstacle like staircases, cars to slide, a lot of different rails, and a few good kickers. The run ends with an amazing superpipe. Great!
After 3 weeks we decided to drive to Mt. Hood Oregon. A snowstorm brought cold temperatures and a landscape like in a deep winter. We was waiting 4 better, but there was no improvement in the weather. I flight back to sunny California. A Giants Game was in the Art Park in San Francisco. It was such a burner.
See you next Winter in Cali.
Josh Absenger
Austria
Posted by Orage at 8:40 AM PST
Orage Pro/Am Team Update
MAY 01 / 08
Photos & story by Orage Team Manager Cody Lynge
With the winter season already complete in some areas and nearly complete in others, one might think that the Orage team too has packed it in for the year. Not true! Orage's athletes ski professionally all year round and just like any other person with any other job, do so nearly 365 days a year. That's not say that many of Orage's athletes don't take a little down time but it does mean that as soon as winter is complete in the Northern Hemisphere they'll head to one of the many North American summer camps to coach and hone their skills and from there will likely head to the Southern Hemisphere for yet another winter. Endless winters are the things that passionate skiers dream of and its why many of us still look to the summer for our winter fix.
Michelle Parker
With JP and Michelle coming straight out of Alaska after being there for several months filming with Poor Boyz, TJ re-habbing hard daily with an expected return date some time this summer to our young and talented team of amateurs all vying for their shot at one last Spring shoot at Mount Hood or Idaho's Schweitzer Pass, there is no question that this team of skiers, professional and amateur alike are collectively owning skiing right now.
For those of you who haven't been able to keep up to date on the team this winter see below for a list of highlights you might find interesting:
JP Auclair
1. JP goes off the grid in Japan and Alaska to develop what is said to be one of the stand out ski film parts of the year.
2. Michelle Parker comes back from a disappointing knee injury only to be welcomed by PBP as the premiere female skier in the film.
3. TJ Schiller prior to his January injury podiums twice and even through injury stays in the spotlight by conducting interviews, Masters Course builds and attending more P & P stops than any other Orage pro.
Phil Casabon
4. Phil Casabon has a break out year and podiums at both the US Open and Orage European Freeski Open by Swatch. He also joins the Orage team on their two major trips of the year, earning him a possible spotlight in next year's Freeskier Magazine, heads to China with Armada, is invited to the Jon Olsson Super Sessions and places third with team Armada at the Masters. There's no question, Phil is beginning to learn what it's all about to go pro.
5. Rosalind Groenewoud podium's at everything all over the world including the US Open, Nippon Open, OEFOBS and countless more World Cup events that earned her a 2nd overall on the World Cup Halfpipe circuit.
6. Additional Orage amateurs begin to shine as they join the Orage team in Switzerland for the Orage European Freeski Open by Swatch and link up again in Whistler during the TWSSF and the Orage Masters.
Tobi Reindl
7. Shortly after his trip to Switzerland a broken vertibre put an abrupt end to Tobi Reindls winter season. We wish Tobi a speedy recovery and hope to see him back on snow later this summer.
With Orage's athletes rocking the new lifestyle collection there's also no question that regardless of where they go, they'll be going in style. Stay tuned throughout the summer as Orage's team heads to Whistler to join forces with Camp of Champions, travels down under to lap it up in Wanaka New Zealand or visits South America's Chile and Argentina. It's winter somewhere.
With the winter season already complete in some areas and nearly complete in others, one might think that the Orage team too has packed it in for the year. Not true! Orage's athletes ski professionally all year round and just like any other person with any other job, do so nearly 365 days a year. That's not say that many of Orage's athletes don't take a little down time but it does mean that as soon as winter is complete in the Northern Hemisphere they'll head to one of the many North American summer camps to coach and hone their skills and from there will likely head to the Southern Hemisphere for yet another winter. Endless winters are the things that passionate skiers dream of and its why many of us still look to the summer for our winter fix.
Michelle Parker
With JP and Michelle coming straight out of Alaska after being there for several months filming with Poor Boyz, TJ re-habbing hard daily with an expected return date some time this summer to our young and talented team of amateurs all vying for their shot at one last Spring shoot at Mount Hood or Idaho's Schweitzer Pass, there is no question that this team of skiers, professional and amateur alike are collectively owning skiing right now.
For those of you who haven't been able to keep up to date on the team this winter see below for a list of highlights you might find interesting:
JP Auclair
1. JP goes off the grid in Japan and Alaska to develop what is said to be one of the stand out ski film parts of the year.
2. Michelle Parker comes back from a disappointing knee injury only to be welcomed by PBP as the premiere female skier in the film.
3. TJ Schiller prior to his January injury podiums twice and even through injury stays in the spotlight by conducting interviews, Masters Course builds and attending more P & P stops than any other Orage pro.
Phil Casabon
4. Phil Casabon has a break out year and podiums at both the US Open and Orage European Freeski Open by Swatch. He also joins the Orage team on their two major trips of the year, earning him a possible spotlight in next year's Freeskier Magazine, heads to China with Armada, is invited to the Jon Olsson Super Sessions and places third with team Armada at the Masters. There's no question, Phil is beginning to learn what it's all about to go pro.
5. Rosalind Groenewoud podium's at everything all over the world including the US Open, Nippon Open, OEFOBS and countless more World Cup events that earned her a 2nd overall on the World Cup Halfpipe circuit.
6. Additional Orage amateurs begin to shine as they join the Orage team in Switzerland for the Orage European Freeski Open by Swatch and link up again in Whistler during the TWSSF and the Orage Masters.
Tobi Reindl
7. Shortly after his trip to Switzerland a broken vertibre put an abrupt end to Tobi Reindls winter season. We wish Tobi a speedy recovery and hope to see him back on snow later this summer.
With Orage's athletes rocking the new lifestyle collection there's also no question that regardless of where they go, they'll be going in style. Stay tuned throughout the summer as Orage's team heads to Whistler to join forces with Camp of Champions, travels down under to lap it up in Wanaka New Zealand or visits South America's Chile and Argentina. It's winter somewhere.
Posted by Orage at 12:27 PM PST
Total Fight Masters Slopestyle - Grandvalira, Andorra
APRIL 23 / 08
Photos and story by Orage AM team rider Jaime P. Briones
We made it! Total Fight Masters slopestyle was great! better weather this season, great feelings and high level! Siiiick course in Grandvalira's ElTarter Park.
The podium: 1st - Oskari Raitanen (FIN), 2nd - Jaime P Briones (ESP), 3rd - Benedikt Mayr (GER), 4th - Tobias Tristcher (AUT)
Jaime - Switch 9 mute
I placed 2nd and was great to be on the podium with such great riders. It was an excellent contest, fights were awesome, some 1run fights, some 2run fights too, very exciting sometimes and the crowd had great fun, as always!
It was the first time that the spanish guys showed such a good level and got to fight against some good internationals so I'm really stoked about the whole contest!!Its the best contest here by far! price money was big enough for raitanen's new labtop and jaime's trip to NZ! I dont know what beni's doing with it!
Luka Melloni
After the whole thing was done, I got back to Barcelona, had dinner with my friends on the way, brought home all my car mates and got home late, a coke in my hand and a huge smile in my face!
I hope next year a lot more riders will come and GRANDVALIRA will set again such a nice slopestyle course. for more pics of the course, visit www.alltheski.com
We made it! Total Fight Masters slopestyle was great! better weather this season, great feelings and high level! Siiiick course in Grandvalira's ElTarter Park.
The podium: 1st - Oskari Raitanen (FIN), 2nd - Jaime P Briones (ESP), 3rd - Benedikt Mayr (GER), 4th - Tobias Tristcher (AUT)
Jaime - Switch 9 mute
I placed 2nd and was great to be on the podium with such great riders. It was an excellent contest, fights were awesome, some 1run fights, some 2run fights too, very exciting sometimes and the crowd had great fun, as always!
It was the first time that the spanish guys showed such a good level and got to fight against some good internationals so I'm really stoked about the whole contest!!Its the best contest here by far! price money was big enough for raitanen's new labtop and jaime's trip to NZ! I dont know what beni's doing with it!
Luka Melloni
After the whole thing was done, I got back to Barcelona, had dinner with my friends on the way, brought home all my car mates and got home late, a coke in my hand and a huge smile in my face!
I hope next year a lot more riders will come and GRANDVALIRA will set again such a nice slopestyle course. for more pics of the course, visit www.alltheski.com
Posted by Jaime P Briones at 12:23 PM PST
