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With the season's newest ski flicks fresh on the brain, the time is ripe for dropping your vote for the 2010 Powder Reader's Poll. Last season, the people spoke and brought four Red Bull athletes into the top ranks. Tanner Hall nabbed the number two spot, just behind ski icon/demigod Seth Morrisson. Shane McConkey slightly beat out the Red Bull teammate, and Powder Poll top ten newcomer, Simon Dumont for the 8th place spot. And lastly, but not leastly, Grete Eliassen was sitting pretty (pun intended) in the number three spot in the lady's ranks.

Results always get released during the Powder Magazine Video Awards, and this season will be no different as the PVAs again make their mark in late January in Aspen. And, just so you know, your vote for the 2010 Powder Reader's Poll not only gains you the satisfaction of being a proactive member of our ski community, but it also gets you an entry into the contest that will bring you to Aspen for four days for the show. PVAs happen to be the same time as Winter X Games, so it's like winning three trips in one (Assspen, PVAs, and X Games, get it?)! AND, as a bonus for linking to the voting through RedBullSkiing.Com, Powder Associate Editor Johnny Stifter has agreed to be the personal ski valet to the winners of the contest for their entire trip, should they come through RedBullSkiing.com! What a guy!

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Shane McConkey has pretty much solidified his skiing alter ego as a BASE jumper in the off season. Being that the states are experiencing a pretty dry early season (except you lucky dogs in CO and AK), McConkey saw fit to bust on down to Mexico and really get off the beaten path and rough it. Check out his update below:

Some of us on the Red Bull Air Force recently returned from a really great trip to the state of Mexico in the country of Mexico near the city of Mexico City. It was really Mexican and it was a blast! We were there to shoot a multi sport TV show for the Mexican sports channel Televisa. Kind of like our ESPN. It was a show funded by the state of Mexico to help promote tourism in that area. Altius, the company hired to produce the show did a hell of a job juggling many different sports and trying to nail all the shots they needed in a less than a week. There were mountain bikers, break dancers, free runners (Parkour), Kirby one of our Red Bull Air Race pilots and then there was Mike Swanson, Jon DeVore, Miles Daisher and myself there to do some base jumping, skydiving, wing suit flights, mountain flying and swooping.

Continue Reading Shane's Thrilling Tale On The Team Page!

Nobody does Summer quite like Shane McConkey: Wingsuiting in Norway, skiing in Chile, and jumping into a 2000 foot pit in China: it's scary to think what he'll think up to do on skis this winter. I recently caught wind of an epic video from Shane's China trip, and caught up with the man himself to find out how he spent his summer.

Shane, I just saw that BASE video. I'm scared to ask what else you've been up to this summer.

When ski season ends for me I pretty much go full on into my other base jumping job. I do demos and projects for Red Bull.  This summer I spent some time in Norway flying my wing suit off the big cliffs there. I also entered a base jumping wing suit speed flying competition called the World Base Race. I got second. That was really cool. I usually go skiing in Portillo Chile every August. I help coach at Chris Davenport's "Ski With The Superstars" camp. I love it down there. Portillo is a beautiful place, the skiing is excellent and all our clients in the camp are pretty low maintenance and fun to ski with. I also got to go to China in October with 25 other base jumpers. We got invited to go jump down into this very unique terrain feature there called the Heaven Pit. Its a 2,000 foot deep ring of cliffs that narrows as you get closer to the bottom. At the bottom there is a cave in one of the walls with a very large entrance slit, about 300 feet high. There is a cable strung across the cliffs at the top. We all jumped from the cable down into the pit and landed inside the cave. It was very cool. Pictures attached. We also got to check out the Great Wall of China and the Yangze River and the Three Gorges area as well as the Three Gorges Dam. Right now I'm in Mexico for a little family time with my wife and daughter before ski season kicks in and I'm not around enough.

Red Bull Ski Teamers Shane McConkey and Sean Pettit appeared yesterday on the Today Show, pumping up the New York premier of Matchstick Production's new movie, "Claim." Check it out!

Lots of stuff always going on over at the Team page at RedBullSkiing.com. This is the place where little things about your favorite Red Bull skiers live. Just today we got some news from the world of Simon Dumont and Tanner Hall: A raging party at Freeskier HQ and some water ramp and tramp footy you have to see to believe.

 Go check it out!

We're in the thick of it. Summer. While you're chillin' at the river or shredding trail on your mountain bike, the movie makers, who's jobs you're violently jealous of, are tucked away in their dark, dank dens of edit. Many won't see sunlight until the September premieres, and will only emerge at night to seek out "my precious," aka cans of Red Bull.

First up, we have Matchstick Productions "Claim." They say it's the greatest ski movie ever. We don't know, we haven't seen it, but when a movie features Red Bull skiers Simon Dumont, Jon Olsson, Sean Pettit, and Shane McConkey, well, let's just say it's a damn good start.