Helly Hansen

40 days, 5 hours, 37 minutes and 57 seconds after thieir late start out from Quingdao, the nordic crew on board Ericcson 3 crossed the finish line in Rio as the first of the five boats on this leg's fleet. Shortly after on Thursday, the international crew on Ericsson 4 crossed the finish line in second place, strengthening their grip on the over all race leaderboard! Check out images and videos on www.ericssonracingteam.com and www.volvooceanrace.com All the teams are now getting ready for the in-port races that takes place in Rio on April 4th - before thei head off to ...

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Contact: Christina Erb, 319-310-1415, christina@hayterpr.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Biggest turnout of the series brings out local Vermont Skiers John Holcomb and Nathan Herman to take Gold at Helly Hansen’s Big Mountain Battle at Smugglers’ Notch Resort. DELTA, B.C. (March 23, 2009) – Thirty-seven teams showed up this past Saturday to race for gold at Helly Hansen Big Mountain Battle’s final stop. Resident skiers John Holcomb and Nathan Herman took gold in 2 hours and 22 minutes —just one minute ahead of second-place finishers, Smugglers’ Notch ski patrollers Jason Evans and Greg Cunningham. ...

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Contact: Christina Erb, 319-310-1415, christina@hayterpr.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Former Telemark Ski Rivals Matt Kuharic and Peter Wesman Take Gold at Helly Hansen Big Mountain Battle at WA’s Stevens Pass Ski Area DELTA, B.C. (March 2, 2009) – Former college telemark ski rivals Matt Kuharic, 28, and Peter Wesman, 30, beat out a field of mostly alpine-ski-equipped competitors to take gold in 2:16:00 at Helly Hansen Big Mountain Battle at WA’s Stevens Pass Ski Area. The race challenged two-person teams to an intense, four-hour-long, mountain-wide course designed by Helly Hansen’s big-mountain skier Chris Davenport. It wasn’t ...

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A great sunny day in Verbier today - the Bes des Rosses gave the riders a good challenge! HH rider Aurelien Ducroz won todays event and also the over all title as World Champion and winner of the 2009 Freeride World Tour. Just a few points behind, HH rider Reine Barkered impressed with massive airs and fluidity and captured the second place in todays event and also the second place on the Freeride World Tour.

Congratulations, dream team!!!

The circus has started! All the top freeriders in the world are gathered on the last and final stop of this years Freeride World Tour in Verbier.

Current leader of the tour, Aurelien Ducroz, and winner of the 2nd FWT event, Reine Barkered are ready to charge down the mythical Bec des Rosses, a 500m north face, in places some 55 degree sheer terrain with steep and narrow couloirs, high rock cliffs, changing snow and terrain!

Best of luck to both of you!

Japan managed to fit a trip to Japan into his busy schedule.  He went straight from shooting with Absinthe in Switerland to Japan and linked up with the folks of Helly Hansen Japan.

Sounds like next year's Absinthe movie should be amazing yet again.  Word on the street was that the session that went down prior to JP heading to Japan was all time.

It's Jake Knigge checking in from beautiful Breckenridge, Colorado. I spent the past three days riding and shooting with up-and-coming photographer Nick Adorni.We spent our first day shooting jumps and rails in Breckenridge's Freeway park. Nick posted up on one the jumps and snapped some sick shots. His fisheye produces really cool images.On our second day shooting we shot some handplants on a quarterpipe, some slides on a rainbow box, and some bonks on a triple-stacked tire jib. The rainbow box is pretty cool because you can see through it. Check out the pictures!Mother nature gave us about 5 inches ...

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WELCHES, Oregon (March 16, 2009) – Nimbus Independent is pleased to bring you the second installment of their short film series titled, “En Route – Austria,” presented by K2 Skis. This episode follows the Nimbus Crew to Austria, where they start out skiing bottomless powder in Krippenstein, then pack the cars in search of sunshine, try on some Lederhosen, experience large steins of beer and then rally to the Arlberg region. Enjoy this and addition photos, stories and videos from Nimbus at www.nimbusindependent.com. Use the new free HD and iPod downloads to view the whole webisode on your own computing ...

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Contact: Christina Erb, 319-310-1415, christina@hayterpr.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Local Ski School Instructors Steven Mulcahy and Stephen Beaver Take Gold at Helly Hansen Big Mountain Battle at B.C.’s Sun Peaks Resort. DELTA, B.C. (March 2, 2009) – The Helly Hansen Big Mountain Battle spurred rivalry among British Columbia’s Sun Peaks Resort resident skiers and mountain employees Feb. 28 as two 20-year-old ski school instructors, Steven Mulcahy and Stephen Beaver, took gold in 2:30:57. “There were a couple of other guys from ski school racing; we had to beat those guys,” said Steven Mulcahy. “We know the ...

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Contact: Christina Erb, 319-310-1415, christina@hayterpr.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Local Squaw Skiers John Morrison and Alan Riley Take Gold at Helly Hansen Big Mountain Battle at Squaw Valley USA DELTA, B.C. (February 23, 2009) – The Helly Hansen Big Mountain Battle brought a huge crowd to Squaw Valley USA as locals turned up to watch longtime resident skiers John Morrison and Alan Riley win the first stop of the Helly Hansen’s Big Mountain Battle. The race challenged two-person teams to an intense, big-mountain course designed by Helly Hansen’s big-mountain skier Chris Davenport. Each team was tracked ...

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