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How about some mid winter stoke? Head on over to the store for 30% off LP Collection outerwear! Canadian customers check out District Shop to avoid shipping and customs!

Check out this grade AAA edit done by our good friends at 4REEL media. Maks Gorham schooling the world on smooth. Photo Jay Badgley

Classic Morning with Maks Gorham from Cameron Payne on Vimeo.

Of course, there are big things happening at LDC. Most recently we are extremely stoked to be welcoming Karl Fostvedt and Maks Gorham to the LDC family.

Karl has been a good friend of ours for a while and is a natural born skier and athlete. He absolutely rips. Double flips to double stagers- that's Krazy Karl. Look for him shredding in the greater SLC area and be sure to say what's up!

We also stoked to be working with Maks Gorham this season. Maks is one of the most humble guys you will ever meet but don't let that fool you; Maks destroys. On the average day you can find him lapping through Breck or Keystone, doing shit you've never seen before. Look for Maks on the hill and in next year's STEPT Productions flick. This guy is the future.

That's a big jump. Maks.

20% off all LP outerwear! Do you beleive it? No! It can't be! Well I'm here to tell you that it is. Head on over to the store to capitalize on this opportunity. Haven't you always wanted to dress up like Will Berman anyway?

We are already sold out of many pieces so grab what you want ASAP before you're throwing up candy in a back alley this Monday, lamenting your lack of decisiveness.

This sale will run an arbitrary length of time as decided by us. It won't last long and that's really all we know right now.

Yesterday was my first day skiing. It was amazing. Nothing short of amazing. 12 hours of driving? Yes. $33 dollar tickets? Heck yes. Face shots? You bet ya.

At 4am we left Summit County, it began to snow.

 4:30am, it started snowing really really hard. White-out conditions for the next 3 hours, what hell are we thinking?

 5 hours after leaving Summit County we arrive at Wolf Creek, aka powder land. Stoke level through the roof.

We arrived at Wolf Creek and it was magnificent. Snow everywhere, lifts just starting to turn up. People were stoked, we were stoked. Here unfortunately the action shots run a bit dry. To be completely honest we were more into shredding as much pow as possible than stopping for photo ops. Here are some of the on hill shots we did manage to get.

There was a little snow, actually there was a lot of snow.

The Crew: Angela

Elliott

Jake

Me, hangin' loose

People told me Wolf Creek didn't have any steeps, this blind, steep-as-hell, rollover begs to differ.

They even had a rail, would you imagine that...

Grade A Wolf Creek terrain

After some bombing, they opened up this ridge later in the day. We got to ski some bigger lines and hit a fun natural jump. Doesn't look like opening day at your mountain? Bummer.

But before we knew it, the day was over. The lifts turned off and we began to feel how sore we actually were. I can safely say that it was the best opening day I have ever experienced. It felt like a mid winter powder day. The atmosphere was great and the snow was even better.

So sadly we piled back into the Grand Viagra (see below) for the drive back. What we drove through in a white-out 13 hours earlier turned out to be one of the most spectacular stretches of road I have driven in Colorado. A great end to a great day!

The trusty Grand Viagra. She gets the job done.

Like I said, there was a lot of snow.

This great shot was definitely not taken from a moving car, certainly not.

The Blanca massif in the beautiful Sangre de Cristo's.

Southern Colorado is sick.

The gratuitous car driving into the alpenglow blog closer.

Big Thanks to Wolf Creek Ski Resort and the crew (especially Elliott for driving 3 hours of pitch black white-out blizzard at 4 in the morning). Hopefully this is a sign of things to come for the season!

4FRNT just dropped their team movie from last season. Check it out!

Featuring Will Berman, rail slider extraordinaire

Will Berman had the chance to get deep into British Columbia to ski Retallack Mountain Lodge in March this past season.

The trip was brought about by team 4FRNT's performance at the 2010 Orage Masters in Whistler, which provided them with a week long trip of the deepest snow, best service, and Roman Candle fights that would make General Patton blush.

Visiting a place like Retallack is sure to altar the skier in you forever. Between seemingly endless glades and cliff drops galore, all accessed by snow cat, it is safe to say that this trip will not be forgotten, but relived. 

Luckly Will had the foresight to strap a GoPro to his chest in order to capture the adventure and here is what he got: http://vimeo.com/29360355 Get ready for winter!

So we have been absolutely up to our necks in outerwear this week and as a result have been working quite hard. You will probably notice the face-lift we have given the site and the new Look Book on the front page. We are extremely stoked to release the Look Book, we think it does a great job of showcasing the outerwear, click below to check it out!

We have also been dipping our toes in a few new social media adventures. We have recently sent up a Tumblr page. I don't know about you guys but I had no idea what Tumblr was until last week which is unfortunate because it is actually really cool. Tumblr is a short form blogging site where you can post all sorts of stuff from photos and videos to overheard conversations.

Our Tumblr will be updated daily with snippets of life at LD. Both Kevin and I, along with the occasional team member, will be posting whatever suits there fancy. You can check it out here or in our new fancy sidebar on right (click on Logan Imlach dropping cliffs, darkness style). Either way be sure to head over and subscribe!

We are also contemplating plunging into the deep dark depths of something called "Twitter". We'll let you know what happens there; we are fairly intimidated by the whole concept to be quite honest.

Check out this sick edit of Timmy killing it this summer, big thanks to Tim, John Ware and 4bi9 Media!

Hype. In your mailbox before you know it. LDC 2011-2012.