Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - At present it may be U.S. resorts only, but Liftopia.com is attempting to get cheap ski-tickets to snow sports enthusiasts. Liftopia partners with leading resorts across the nation in an effort to get people like you to their slopes more often. We work directly with our[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Wonder if there’s any tickets left for the Dublin event tonight? From Outsider: Outsider & The North Face would like to invite you to the launch of the TGR Ski and Snowboard movie in 4 Dame Lane, in Dublin city center. Tickets are FREE and there will be s[...] Read More »

UPDATE: I just realised Eoin announced this would happen 1 year ago! LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - With a tagline of “The Other Desert Race”, Sleepmonsters emailed me this Canadian ultra race notice yesterday. I suspect some of you guys may have got it too, it’s the Rock & Ic[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - The big thing stopping me from back country or off piece snowboarding is all the horror stories you hear about people getting in an avalanche and eventually suffocating if the force of colliding snow didn’t already kill them. True, methods of avalanche p[...] Read More »

DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Climbing all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks is old hat, so a new generation of adventurers is gearing up for what could be mountaineering’s next great challenge — getting down them on skis. Heading into Nepal’s Himalayan mo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Ski Club of Ireland will re-open for the 2007/2008 Winter Season on Monday 3rd September 2007 for practice session and classes for all abilities. The dry slopes are located in Kilternan, Dublin, and boast two ski lifts, two nursery slopes, an intermediate slope an[...] Read More »

Rowan sent me on a link to MTBGuru, the work of a friend of his at PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre). This site is for Runners, Mountain Bikers, Road Cyclists, Hikers, Skiers & Mountaineers! You could consider the MTBGuru website as a worldwide directory of outdoor trips or rides; you can crea[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Congratulations to our man on the ground, Geared Up blogger Darran, who has been nominated by Whistler Chamber and American Express as Employee of the Year for Rogers Chocolates where he worked to fund his snow time! Darran has remarkable ability to put in just a littl[...] Read More »