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Team Hiroshi - Città Di Milano sponsored by Helly Hansen conquers the Cagliari RC 44 Cup 27 Aprile, Cagliari The second event of the RC 44 Championship Tour 2008 took place in Cagliari (Sardinia Island), between April 23-27. Organised by Yacht Club Cagliari, with the support of the City of Cagliari, this regatta assembled some of the world's best sailors such as Ben Ainslie, James Spithill, Russell Coutts, Sébastien Col, Cameron Appleton and many more on board ten strict one design RC 44's. Team Hiroshi - Citta di Milano sponsored by Helly Hansen increases its lead in the 2008 Championship ...

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"Alaska virgins. After ten dozen last minute phone calls, desperate e-mails, and a lot of stress, I finally found myself sitting on the plane to Alaska. A dream was about to come true. I was going heliskiing in Haines, Alaska. I'd seen all the pictures, all the movie segments, but was it really as good as everyone claimed? After landing in Juneau, I could only confirm that all of my luggage had disappeared on the way, a really good start to the trip. Shortly after, I ran into Tanner Hall, who had suffered the same destiny. At least we were ...

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Nico Zacek, one of Germany's finest freeskiers, Suzuki team rider and head organizer of the event, had a big smile in his face. 30,000 cubic meters of snow was moved to build the monster over the last few weeks, and at the end the obstacle looked like an ancient castle. Nico had invited riders from six different countries in Europe to session this unique obstacle - and of course some well known filmers and photographers to capture the event. A big shout out to the shape crew of Schneestern, who built a perfect jump, which not only worked out fine, ...

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"The Suburban Rush Adventure Race, which Todd and I would be competing in as a team of two, was amazingly salvaged for us the night prior by a rather random act on my part. I was thinking about the race, and guessing (completely ignorantly) that the terrain would be easier, flatter and faster than most AR's that I had done. With this in mind I proceeded to my mountain bike and decided to up the tire pressure, which I really never, ever touch. I put an additional 10psi in each tire and went about putting together the rest of my ...

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The Expert Regatta was the first event borne from the new partnership between Helly Hansen and Fraglia Vela Riva del Garda. This is one of the most important sailing club in the North Italy and the best of Garda Lake. In this regatta more than 300 sailing boats came from 47 different countries and they raced in the last weekend to selected themselves for the Olympic Games. The best Italian crews competed in different classes: Zandonà-Trani in the male 470, Conti-Micol in the female 470 and Sibello brothers in the very fast 49er. Helly Hansen made a gift to each ...

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Thursday night was the Vancouver premiere of the Collective's new mountain bike movie Seasons. We are always looking for a reason to throw a party so we had a little social get together before the premiere. Some industry people including staff from the Collective, athletes from the movie came by including our own Andrew Shandro and Cam from NSMB, Radek from Pink Bike and Sterling Lawrence just to name a few. After a couple hours of drinking, eating, chatting and getting pumped up on watching ROAM (Collective's last movie) we headed down to the Commadore to a packed house. I ...

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"April 21, 2008 Helly Hansen's 2008 Ride of a Lifetime: Five retail winners from across North America were flown into Vancouver and taken to Whistler, BC for a 'Ride of a Lifetime'. This year's winners were: Kandie Kemp from Ski Tak Hut in Courtenay, BC Samuel Martin from La vie Dehors in Rimouski, QC Justin Richardson from Carling Tommy and Lefevbre in Ottawa, ON Melissa-Lynn Lachance from Sport Experts #529 in Montreal, QC Bart Petryna from Ski Barn in New Jersey. All the winners arrived in Vancouver on Thursday, April 17th and were limo'd up to Whistler in style. A ...

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Hey guys, There is still not o much happening here, at the Nine knights Event in Oberstdorf, because of the bad weather, but we have a cool videoblog from the spontanious jib session & a World Record!!! Lukki Brucic ollies over 5 Red Bull cans on a Rail

Hi all, Another amazing day in our awesome Elk Range. Penn and I rode the sleds in to just below Jim and Mike's cabin (where there is at least 10 feet of snow) and had a quick approach up to the base of the east face. Conditions were near perfect for the ski, but the climb required some effort. Got some great shots of Penn getting after it on a classic Elk Range steep face. Chris

Well, the ski season is finally over here at Red and after a slow start it turned out to be a good one. Simon Skied 94 days this season and only had to miss his 1/2 day kindergarten on 6 big powder days. He is still skiing at a level well above his age group and amazes everyone who sees him ski. In the Nancy Greene Ski League Zone Finals for 5-12 year olds, Simon finished 16th overall out of 90 racers and he beat all of the 8 yr and under kids.(and lots of the 9-12 year olds). It ...

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