By Dave Barnett

Images by Dave Barnett and Ian Altman

I’m believer of positive thinking. But in August I found myself wondering about the disconnect between believing in the bright side and giving it lip service. On a trip to the Lotus Flower Tower in Canada’s Cirque of the Unclimbables, Ian Altman and his multiple sclerosis showed me how unyielding persistence can bridge this gap.

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Nowadays, if you’re vying for a highly prized job at one of Jackson’s outdoor public relations firms, you better come up with something clever. And digital.

Way to drop a beat, Cozzens.

So I get this email this morning:

“I noticed that you are an avid slope-goer and that you love to blog about your slope experiences. I just wanted to introduce you to a new social network that just launched called Snowago. Snowago is a community for boarders, skiers, and telemarkers that love hitting their favorite resorts year round and sharing their experiences with fellow enthusiasts.”

Slope-goer? If you’re going to huck your New Media meat onto the Social Networking Bandwagon with a pastel-colored, skiing-flavored Facebook wannabe, you better come up with something better than that. Dude.

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Words and Pics by Lauren M. Whaley

“Every Under Armour product is doing something for you,” says America’s trendiest undie company. “It’s making you better.”

Funny thing is, I don’t feel better.

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Arden Oksanen and Trask McFarland release the first episode of a series of films they’re calling CASTEL (Culture Adventure Sport Travel Education Life), but which I like to call “Around the World with John Verdon.” And who better to lead us on an exploration of the world’s mountain cultures than the ripping, gregarious, philosopher/skid Verdon, Mayor of Teton Village?

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Local tea blender, The Dragon Lady, will emerge from her lair tonight to throw a tea party.

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Just saw in the Daily that the JH News and Guide is holding a catchphrase contest, in which the public can enter their own choice of catchphrase to replace the old, careworn, clichéd, inaccurate, but it-still-aint-broke-’cause-it-never-made-sense-in-the-first-place catchphrase, “Last of the Old West.”

The contest ends at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. I would provide a link to the contest, but searching for the keyword “catchphrase” on the News and Guide website results in nada. As in nothing.

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