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While the shadowy figures of mountain started to fill with detail and texture in the growing alpenglow, the full moon set behind the Black Tusk

Deep Winter 2013 -Reuben Krabbe from Reuben Krabbe on Vimeo.

Thanks to everyone involved. Austin Ross, James McSkimming, Tatum Monod, Rupert Davies. Assisting by Michael Overbeck, audio by Keith White

Self Portrait, Tenquille Lake, Singletrack UK Mag
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This idea rings true specifically for one story of the 2012 publishing season. A solo trip to Tenquille Lake Hut, an adventure, self written, self ridden, and documented by self portrait photography. I undertook the trip in the fall of 2011, with just the right mix of preparation, ignorance, energy, and fortitude. A quest for solitude and introspective time in the mountains with two of my constant companions: bikes and cameras. The story spells out the process of my trip, but looking back the trip seems forecast a thirst for exploring the world of mountain biking outside of bike parks.
The story found itself among the pages of the UK’s magazine SingleTrack.

Andrew Gunn, Whistler BC, Dirt UK
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In 2012 Whistler based writer Seb Kemp asked me to work with him on a project with Dirt UK that documents the rich underbelly of the riding scenes in Pemberton, Kamloops, and Whistler. The stories tore me away from the sugar coated candy of bike park mountain biking, and placed me on pedals exploring my adopted home of British Columbia

Eliel Hindert, Whistler Backcountry, Backcountry Photo Annual
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The winter of 2011-2012 was a wildly different year from the one which preceded it. I previously lived part time in a minivan, exploring Revelstoke and Whistler. In this past year I’ve had the supreme luxury of a shower and warm bed to call home. Its a welcome change from the life of peanut butter jam sandwiches for three meals a day in a van.

Arriving at the rampage site building was already underway and I worked on a pre-event photo series for Pinkbike.Click the photo below

Builders were working on trail and stunts in areas of the site which I would see as unridable, areas with such high exposure, loose dirt, or incredibly technical moves I couldn’t contemplate riding myself. However as the build process and the event progressed, the culture shock wares off, my vision and risk acceptance became distorted, and more of it started to make sense. You could etch the line into the dirt, it was possible to make that transfer. Slowly I had become one of the insane desert rats, building and shaping inconceivable lines through soft red dirt and shale.

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The issue also includes a double page spread of Sarah Leishman and Katrina Strand, and further, a single page of Katrina.

Switchback is an up and coming magazine in North America, it may be a little tough to find on the shelf in Canada, but I’m sure you’ll see a whole lot more of this mag in the future.

Our team consisted of two long time personal friends and remarkable athletes Stephen Matthews and Sarah Leishman. Two established guys who aren’t afraid to step up to the plate for big hits Geoff Gulevich and Kenny Smith. And two mountain biking inspirations, Will Craig and Jackson Goldstone.

Our concept for the competition -synthesis- looked at the way mountain biking brings together nature, people, and technology into a beautiful composite. Our examination of the idea of synthesis went beyond the three elements, to look at the way our sport captures the minds and souls of people from different places, backgrounds, disciplines, ages, and incorporates them in a single culture.

Deep Summer 2012 -Reuben Krabbe from Reuben Krabbe on Vimeo.

Thanks to all the athletes involved, my assistant/packhorse Paris Gore, the staff at the Whistler Medical Clinic for tending to both myself and Stephen Matthews who crashed during the shoot, and the staff at Crankworx for continuing to put on this amazing event.

Check out Bike Magazine’s coverage of the event here

I used to have one season’s gear active at once: the bike in storage when the skis were tuned, then skis locked away with my bike’s chain greased. However, last week in my adopted home of Whistler, I experienced all of the seasons in a single 48 hour period. I skied powder, then powdery slush, and after a short drive I was flying over warm moist dirt listening to the freewheel ratchet in the wind.

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I shouldn’t be so surprised to find my Albertan experience of the seasons to be inapplicable elsewhere. After all, cold never leaves entirely, winter simply spends it’s summers down south, as the two identities of mother nature carry out the yearly dance back and forth across the equator.

The vertical relief of the Coast Mountains, like latitude, determine which face of mother nature you see. A conundrum of every coast mountain outdoorsman fights through with when asked ‘What were the conditions like?’

Last summer was the most obvious of years to see these differences in perspectives on seasons. In late august I worked with Sarah Leishman and Katrina Strand in the alpine surrounding Whistler. Months after the lifts last turned for skiers we found snow under our tires traversing leftovers of La Nina’s masterful displays of winter.

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Simply a beautiful moment in Whistler’s backcountry.

Applying aloe vera brought around smells of spring and summer. Of lazy days at alpine lakes, of long warm days and bluebird skies, of… dare I say it? Bikes? But thats still all too far off. There are too many face shots, deep turns, backcountry tours and spring corn days to enjoy before I really switch gears.

We’ve waited too long for winter to get all worked up about summer. Rekindle your impatience, evoke the stoke, there is snow much skiing yet to be had.

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Austin Ross, on a downright ugly morning in Whistler. A kind of ugly we are all happy to wake up to.

A single landmark seems to hold elements of each perspective in it’s striking and dramatic nature. Popularly known now as The Black Tusk, it’s original name as given by the Squamish nation is t’ak’t'ak mu’yin tl’a in7in’a'xe7en which means: ‘Landing Place of the Thunderbird’.

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The outcropping of rock was formed by a long extinct volcano, a reminder of the length of geographic history which has shaped this landscape over thousands and millions of years. It’s differing names call to mind the diversity of peoples who have inhabited the region, naming the features of this land according to their history and culture. The shape encapsulates a lifestyle to which so many identify; a pursuit of adventure, exploration, personal achievement and conquest. From it’s summit, the horizons tell stories of industry and conservation battling throughout the resource rich forests, mountains, and streams.