June 25th, 2008

Flow

Grand Cascapedia Fishing Atlantic salmon

Pictures by Scotty Craighead
Words by Scotty Craighead and John J. Craighead

This June, as always, my family and I went salmon fishing on the Grand Cascapedia River in Quebec. While writing an article about our trip for the Snaz, I stumbled upon a poem written by my grandfather, John J. Craighead, entitled The Grand Cascapedia. I’d fished with my Grandfather on this river before but didn’t know this poem existed. I thought I would braid his and my words together.

Atlantic Salmon are increasingly rare, so we don’t keep the salmon we catch (though we will keep other species, for lunch.) This year, zero salmon were released because zero were caught.

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June 24th, 2008

Good Times

Jimmy Chin David A. Gonzales Timex Return to the Outdoors Video Jackson Hole

Sick!

The Return to the Outdoors web video campaign that Jimmy Chin and I are producing for the Conservation Alliance and Timex made yesterday’s New York Times.

Our next video, starring Timmy O’Neil, is coming soon!

June 23rd, 2008

Badass Mutha’

Grand Teton ski skiing Jimmy Chin Kit DesLauriers

Words and photos by Jimmy Chin

“Can you put the rack away while I pump?”

Kit pushed aside crampons and ice axes as she fished her arm deep to the bottom of the pack. “Sure….uh, no problem,” I replied. We were just below Teepe Glacier, and had stopped to rest, eat, and . . . pump after skiing the Grand. While I took apart the climbing rack and stuffed it away, Kit sat facing Nez Perce, quietly pumping breast milk.

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June 20th, 2008

What are you doing now?

facebook status updates

David has a love-hate relationship with Facebook status updates.

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June 17th, 2008

The Ace

Portland Ace Hotel

Where do you move if you can no longer hack the Hole?

Formerly, those sick of Jackson’s small town ways would move to Boulder, where they could get a mountain fix and a toasted bagel, not to mention a real job that didn’t necessarily involve real estate commissions.

But Boulder is so Y2K. Nowadays, it seems that abandoning the Hole means moving to Portland, Oregon, which attracts reformed mountain-towners like a great big rusty magnet. Portland is the new Boulder. Maybe even the new San Francisco. Here, arty/athletic types can live in a bustling, diverse, culturally rich, leafy burg full of healthy trendaloids like themselves, and actually afford rent. The town is lousy with hipsters, who have all adopted a Metrosexual Bike Messenger fashion sense. Don’t move to Portland unless you’ve got some skinny-ass black jeans, chunky nerd goggles, an assortment of dark-colored funny hats, a Powerbook, and a fixed-gear road bike.

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June 16th, 2008

Party in Faraway Mountains

Montagnards Vietnam Lauren Whaley

Words and pictures by Lauren M. Whaley, who is currently in the hinterlands of Vietnam.

The Montagnards know how to party.

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June 12th, 2008

The Jackson Hole Fire Festival


June 20 - 21. Summer Solstice. Drums and fire. Sounds like fun.

June 12th, 2008

Insert Season Here.

- Hey! Long time, no see!
- No kidding! What’ve you been up to?
- Oh, you know, not much. Working a lot.

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June 10th, 2008

Lauren’s Sketchy Motor-Taxi Ride in Vietnam


From Hanoi, Vietnam comes a video from longtime Snazzer Lauren M. Whaley, who is midway through her 2008 Southeast Asia Tour and already plotting another.

Love the mask, L. Goes great with the mullet.

May 25th, 2008

Cute Overload

Jackson Hole fox foxes the snaz David Gonzales

She is the Angelina Jolie of Jackson Hole — the sharp-featured, slim hipped little redhead herding her brood of bushy-tailed kits around the Snow King Avenue meadow, her every movement dutifully recorded by the foxarrazi.

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