We just made this video for Princeton Tec, for use in their booth at the Outdoor Retailer tradeshow, where we’ll be shilling our wares the next few days.

The method used is known as light grafitti. It’s basically stop motion animation using flashlights, headlamps, a still camera, a camera flash, and some extremely patient friends. To say it’s time consuming is an understatement. Still, we hope to make more of these.

If you like the music, look for my album, “Club Snaz: Funking it Up in Two Thousand Great” coming out this summer. it’ll be downloadable straight to your Zune!

By Doug Workman

Seems like the Jackson Hole ski community has been at odds these days. Fights breaking out on The Pass, tempers flaring about the Rubberneck slide. . . even Montana folks mouthing off in cyberspace about how lame we are—too bad considering we are having one of the best seasons ever.

Today, however, I got to witness locals coming together to help one of our young guns after he hit a stump and shattered his leg in Granite Canyon. Felt good to see the Jackson Hole Air Force, Jackson Hole Ski Patrol, and Grand Teton National Park personnel coordinating with such speed and fluidity to help one of our own.

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I like to get to the pass last.

The evening run. The decide-to-go-at-the-last-minute, pull-your-shit-together, jump-in-the-car, ignore-the-four-on-the-clock run.

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Written and photographed by David Stubbs

Things seem to be coming to a head these days in the Jackson Hole backcountry.

Five feet of snow in the last week accompanied by strong winds have pushed avalanche conditions into the red zone, but the local talent continues to charge it, unwavering. The soft-spoken consensus: “We are going to need a local fatality to wake people up.” Snowmobilers dying in Afton and broken legs just don’t quite do it these days.

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Jackson Hole Snowboarder Magazine knows how to throw a party.

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There’s something happening on Saturday, January 19 that should appeal to all you snowbound sprocketheads — the Togwotee Winter Classic, a race for snowbikes.

What’s a snowbike? Good question.

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Thanks to KBG for another episode of Jackson Rigs, and for keeping the Snaz alive the last two weeks. In anticipation of the Outdoor Retailer tradeshow, the offices of the Snaz have been bustling like Santa’s workshop, minus the elves, the toys, the reindeer, and the underage foreign guest workers.

Keep coming back. We’ve got lots of good stuff on the docket. Videos, pics, party notices, and up close exposés of real estate firings involving miniskirts, thongs and snowboarding magazines. Like I said, good stuff.

My friend Ellen loved the last episode of Jackson Rigs, but said, “Hey, all the skids are dudes. It would be so much better if the next dirtbag was a chick.”

Welcome to the snaz, Ellen, where all your dreams come true. Thanks, KGB, for spreading the fairydust.

More episodes to come…

Check out Cloudveil’s blog for Jeff Wogoman’s take on Jackson Hole’s Annual Torchlight Parade, at Snow King Ski Resort.

The torchlight footage is from New Year’s Eve 2006 and 2007. The dancing footage is from New Year’s Eve 2005, and was shot at Ben Roth’s artistically cluttered studio.

Thanks to all for two snazzy years.