Spring is in the air.

At lower elevations you can smell it; the rough scent of dirt re-emerging. In the mountains, the warmer temperatures are solidifying the snowpack, and baking the top layer into sun-ripened corn. However, all that sun means the snow we prayed so vigilantly for all winter is quickly filling creek beds, tugged downhill by our good friend gravity.

Rather than revel in stories of another season gone by, we decided to contact friends living up north—Alaska and Europe. Yes, Europe qualifies as the Great North. Check the latitude lines. (They're the ones that wrap around the globe.)

Doug Coombs, Evan Corral and Jacob Slot wouldn't consider putting away the skis in April. Oh no. Not with the amount of snow lurking in the High Country. Plus after months of early afternoon sunsets, they can finally see what they're skiing.


Speculation ran rampant last fall. Just what was G3 up to? Tinkering with the telemark binding was the trendy guess. As we all know now, the answer was skis, which seems obvious in retrospect considering Paul Parker had recently joined the G3 team.

So why the secrecy about the new line of G3 skis? G3 president Oliver Steffen fills in some of the blanks.    


Winners of the G3 $1,000 Gear Giveaway Revealed

Three lucky winners took home $1,000 in G3 skis and gear after attending a Tough Guy Production - Total Telemark IV – Incognito premiere this season.

Congratulations to:
Chris Haas of Medford, MA who uses G3's 80mm Skins with his new Baron's mounted with TARGA T/9's and XRace cartridges

Chris Olearain of Boise, ID who uses G3's 120mm Skins with his new Reverend's mounted with TARGAs and XRace cartridges

Amanda Clark of Truckee, CA who uses 130mm G3 Skins with her new Reverend's mounted with Targa's and XRace cartridges.


Home to secret military bases during the cold war and closed to foreigners until 1994, Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Siberia hosts a circle of four active volcanoes surrounding the Bogdanavich glacier. Read about a group of Australian mountaineer's unanticipated negotiations with Russian military and epic conditions threatening the first climb and ski descent of Eurasia's highest and active volcano.

Ten friends, eight days, six ascents. Two thumbs up! Follow Cam Shute and friends as they trek through the Howson range into the beautiful, unexplored mountains of Northern BC. The way Cam makes it sounds, you'd think it was just your average trip to the beach!

Sail north, way north, up the Coast of Greenland on Dodo's Delight with Scottish natives, Tash Wright and Polly Murray, visiting remote villages and achieving the first recorded ski tour of Hebert Island under extreme weather conditions and severe artic cold. An epic adventure shared.    


 

 We hope you've enjoyed the first season of G3News. If you've recently subscribed, look forward to periodic editions of G3News next season including exciting information on new products from G3, telemark and backcountry events, athlete updates, touring conditions worldwide and shared stories.

G3News is produced in conjunction with our editorial contributor Matt Samelson, former managing editor of Telemark Skier and Couloir magazines and supported with content from athletes and friends from around the globe.