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Here's a little stoke for you as we enter the meat of this long, hot summer. I hope you're finding sufficient ways to cope without the snow...or maybe you're ripping it up on Mt. Hood or Blackcomb Glacier right now. Either way, enjoy. Thanks to our homies at Freeskier.

We appreciate that Mondays suck for a good amount of skiers out there. Back to work or back to school, no matter where your dreadful duty lies, we got some sickness to kick off your week. First off, you can now download The Massive on iTunes for just $5.99. Pop that on your iPod Nano and watch covertly from your cubicle or desk in the back of Algebra-Trig. And, for those with more immediate needs, we got the hot video straight out of Bad Gastein, Austria from this year's Red Bull Play Streets event. Enjoy.

Make sure you save a bit of Valentine's Day love and treat yourself the day after to Tanner Hall's The Massive. Dropping Feb. 15th on iTunes for a value-packed price of $5.99, you get all the epic action from Tanner Hall, Sean and Callum Pettit, Dana Flahr, Ian McIntosh and more on your computer, iPod, and iPhone. You've been good to yourself this year. Go ahead, you deserve it.

If you haven't yet, check the trailer for The Massive.

You may remember back in April when the Rocky Mountain Sherpas partnered with Tanner Hall's The Massive to capture insane footage of the avalanche safety aspect surrounding the making a high-profile ski movie. Well, after a highly successful run of showing in Canada, the Fine Line is now available to everyone via DVD. They sent us the press release below and a sick collection of shots from the filming of The Fine Line.

Winter's here and before you know it, you might find yourself on top of a sick backcountry line wishing you knew more about avalanche safety. After a year of insanely hard work, The Fine Line: a 16mm Avalanche Education Film is ready to be shipped to your home. 

Avalanches are the dark reality of life in the mountains and it takes years of experience to predict when and where they're gonna pop. The Fine Line's in the business of helping you start the journey towards educating yourself.
 

Brought to you exclusively by RedBullSkiing.Com, you can download the two Cali P dubplate songs created by Cali for the soundtrack of Tanner Hall's The Massive. "Jah Rules The World" is featured in the Alaska segment of The Massive, while "Rule Deep" is featured in the closing Mt. Hood segment from the movie.

The songs and download instruction are located along the top right-hand side of RedBullSkiing.Com/TheMassive. Enjoy.

You thought you were all done with voting for a while, eh? Wrong! But hey, this one is painless. No lines, no attack adds (although I fully advocated some 30-second spots from our favorite pros, hilarity would surely ensue), and no need to miss your favorite shows to track results on cable news. The winners of Freeskier Magazine's First Annual Readers Poll will show up in a special awards issue later this winter.

Basically, the entire Red Bull Ski Team is nominated for one thing or another, and Tanner Hall's The Massive has a handful of nominations in the movie category. I'm not trying to sway you one way or the other, but this is good practice in the democratic process. You might need to get used to this kind of thing now that we're soon to have a President that might actually listen to you.

Go vote now!

The Massive madness in the Pacific Northwest began Wednesday night in Portland, Oregon. The scene was set at the Mission Theatre, a historic horseshoe shaped venue, and the crowd poured in to fill up both the upper and lower decks. Red Bull flowed like snowmelt in May, and many a The Massive fan enjoyed the still rare, but tasty, Red Bull Cola. The stage was lit up with a Red Bull DJ booth as the tunes kicked out for some pre-show partying.

A couple weeks ago, Jeremy Nobis attended Sports Creel's Founder's Day Festival in Spokane, WA. Tanner Hall and The Massive were on hand for a day filled with rail-sliding, autograph signing, and movie screening. The following day, Jeremy, Tanner, Micah from Sport's Creel and some friends hit the links for a leisurely Sunday round. Stepping up to a par 3, Nobis summoned his inner Tiger and, well, we'll let him tell the rest:

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*Words and Photos by Parker Hemingway

Saturday Morning started off with the Spinney Bent crew, Micah Gentemen from The Sports Creel, and myself loading the Spinney Bent truck and trailer with 251 bags of shredded ice (snow) for the rail jam. Each bag weighing around 30 pounds, and every person running and working as fast as they possibly could knowing that we were pressed for time. With the trailer axels bending we hit the freeway in a convoy showing up to Simon and his crew from Big Sky Board Sports ready to help in any way to make sure the rail jam was successful. Tim Russell showed up early and decided to pitch in on throwing snow and raking take off"s for the rail jam.  The set up was two Spinney Bent rails, one up down box, and then a two foot wide flat box.

Every rider was just stoked to be skiing in September and the new rail tricks that were learned over the summer were being thrown down within two warm up runs. Everybody was going off!  Pete Arneson and Billy Biolo were throwing 270 transfers from one take off to the opposite feature. Tanner and Jeremy were among the first of athletes to arrive and sat down immediately to a warm and receptive response from their fans. As soon as the two sat down word got out that Tanner and Jeremy had arrived and in the blink of an eye there was a line for poster signing. Every person grinning from ear to ear enjoying the September sun and the chance to meet the very athletes they look up to so much.

This story begins in LA, Santa Monica to be exact. Less than 12 hours after the Red Bull North American Headquarters premiere of The Massive and I'm sitting in LAX for my flight to Salt Lake City. I tried to catch an earlier flight to no avail, so I'm waiting for the next one when Tanner Hall strolls up to the gate area. I figured he'd be on this flight as he has the same destination I do: Park City for a premiere of The Massive just 24-hours after the one that has brought us to LA. And this is after four days in Montreal at IF3 the previous weekend and Boulder for the world premiere just a day prior to that. The days, airline flights, and parties are blending together.

But there's something different about going to Park City, for Tanner and for me. For Tanner because it's his home, his house is there, his friends are there. For me because I know I'm along for the ride to get to Tanner's house and chill out. We spent a week there in February while filming for The Massive and I can hear Tanner's plush leather couch calling me. We are both also aware that Darla Hall, Tanner's mom, is already there and whipping up home cooked goodness the likes of which we have not seen in a long time. Yes, Park City will be good.