Leavenworth Film Festival is now in its 4th year. While this is still young by most accounts, this event is growing in popularity and becoming better every time around. Each past festival has featured a [...]
Riding, history, science and murder! Read on… With my camper packed and mountain bike on rack, I headed out to shoot lasers across the Nevada desert. Yes really, lasers, but maybe not quite what you’re [...]
100 plus temperatures and smoke billowing through the Leavenworth valley = time for a road trip! So we packed up for a bike tour of the western US to escape the fires. The goal: ride [...]
Summer solstice is a special time for me. A sacred day you might say. But instead of every week, my Sunday occurs only once a year. In celebration of the sun on this day, I [...]
. No storms for what seems like forever. What’s a mountain rider to do with conditions like these? Well, one thing would be to think back a season and revisit some old ideas that formed [...]
. . Icicle TV contributor Rex Flake talks about his friend Oly Mingo’s recent film, Flow.- Oly Mingo’s latest film project Flow: The Elements of Freeride has been slated for the Banff Mountain Film Festival World [...]
On the periphery of the Cascade Mountain Wilderness a three-part harmony of trails winds through craggy dense metarocks that were once an ocean bottom. Thrust beneath North America, these rocks were squished and dehydrated before [...]
Reflecting on the relative size of things can make one feel very small. The measurements of a favorite trail, say, projected on the Cascades, extended to the western US, zoomed out to the entire North [...]
Seasons define the heart of a mountain community. Berry picking falls, snow-shredding winters, river-rushing springs and of course, dirt-dry riding summers. Funny that this precarious balance of seasons teeters on a simple 23-degree tip [...]
