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MAR/APR 2019
ABOUT THE COVER:
PUBLISHER’S NOTE|
Last issue I failed to wish everybody a happy, healthy, and safe New Year. I guess It’s never too late to wish
our incredible advertisers and readers a great 2019!
I can still remember the first time I saw Sean Fitzsimons snowboard. He was a tiny little machine with
great style and a ton of extra pop in his game. Sean came to Bachelor from Hood River a few times to
compete in USASA comps and he pretty much always won his age group in both rail and slope.Tagging
along was one of Sean’s best buds another Hood ripper, Wyatt Foley. Wyatt’s dad happens to be Peter
Foley, a head coach at US Snowboarding. Now Sean has been selected to the US Slopestyle Rookie
Team based on his performance in Rev Tour and US Team camps. Sean is spending the winter traveling to
World Cups in Europe and competitions in the states.
The USA Bouldering Nationals has a new home for the next two years in Redmond. Every two years a
new location is awarded the championships. Usually, the venues are large climbing gyms. In Redmond, the
event took place at the Expo Center where Entre-Prises constructed two large climbing walls.
This past January was sixteen years since we lost snowboard legend Craig Kelly in an avalanche. Craig
had so much influence on the emerging sport in the late 80’s through his death in January 2003. To this
day, his presence can still be felt, in board design, outerwear style, riding style, photography, film produc-
tion, and trick innovation.
At the 2019 X-Games, longtime Burton Pro Snowboarder Kelly Clark called it a career after 20 years
of professional halfpipe competition. Kelly is the winningest action sports athlete with 137 podiums, 73
wins, Olympic gold and two bronzes, 10 X-Games golds, and a 2015 ESPY for best women action sports
athlete. Originally from West Dover, Vermont Kelly now calls Mammoth Lakes her home. Kelly is moving on
to a new phase in her snowboarding career with board design, spending more time on her snowboarding
foundation and will continue to progress womens snowboarding with Burton Snowboards. Kelly has writ-
ten a book, Inspire, and has a short film online now about her career two decades of riding called Rise.
Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The five time X-
Games champion is taking off the winter season to fight the cancer. Everybody here at Outdoor and the
Bend community wishes you a speedy recovery.
CONTENTS|
-Neil Korn
1443 NW Juniper Street
Bend, OR 97701
(541) 241-0305
PUBLISHER
Neil Korn
[email protected]
-Neil Korn
In the last five and a half years of publishing, we
have not had a more talked about cover. The cover
for January-February was shot by Pete Alport in early
December 2018. All everybody wanted to know
is, “where is this?”. The best answer I can give is
“Oregon Backcountry” because this is the wilderness
and you need to explore for yourself. Each issue we
debate and finally decide what photo will have the
most impact. We only have seven covers a year so
our intention is to stoke your fire for exploring and
enjoying the outdoors...in a safe way of course.
Sean [Fitzsimons] called me and said, “Meet me
downtown at 7pm - think I have something”
End of story.
-Richard Hallman
6NEWS
10GET2KNOW| SKI/BOARD TUNE TECHS
14ADVENTURE TRAVEL| SPAIN
16FEATURE| THE SEAN FITZSIMONS INTERVIEW
26POSTER| ASHLEY THORNTON BY JON TAPPER
28FILM| DEMETRI BALES
30GALLERY|2019 USA BOULDERING CHAMPS
32SKI MOUNTAINEERING
36GALLERY| USASA RAIL JAM
38ART| CHRISTINA McKEOWN
40FISHING
42FEATURE| THE NEXT GEN OF PHOTOGRAPHERS
48EVENTS
EDITOR
Chris Shredwards
[email protected]
SALES MANAGER
Neil Korn
[email protected]
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Brian Zager
[email protected]
SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR
Caleb Ely
Contributing Writers
Dr. Oliver Wisco
Edmond Wadeson
Chris Shredwards
Caleb Ely
Cliff Agocs/Oregon Ski Guides
Senior Contributing Photographers
Mike Albright
Pete Alport
Richard Hallman
Contributing Photographers
Caleb Ely
John McColgan
Eddy Kula
Robby Lloyd/lucidimages.me
Oregon Ski Guides
Jon Tapper
For advertising please contact our
Sales Manager, Neil Korn
at [email protected]
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