The Orage Summer Contest Series –

Well as summer has officially come to a close and fall is peeking its head around the corner its time for us here at Orage to finalize the Orage Summer Contest Series, determine who’ll be walking away with the goods and power through into winter.

Over the last 3 months we’ve received some great submissions for all the contests and some less than great submissions also. Regardless of who owned it and who got owned we were proud to offer you something else to do during this sweatbox of a summer.

Now for your viewing pleasure we present to you your finalists of this years Orage Summer Contest Series. We’d expect nothing less than a little newschoolers.com trash talk so hop to it kiddies and get er done.

Part 1: Summer Camp Video Contest

Here’s the winning submission that came from Windells at Mount Hood Oregon sent to us by Will Start out of Spokane Washington.



And here's the winning submission that came from the Camp of Champion's in Whistler BC sent to us by Olivier Button out of Whistler BC.




Nice work boys. We'll be in touch with you in the next few weeks to make sure you collcet your prizing.

Part 2: Summer Heat Rail Jam

This experimental contest wasn’t bad but wasn’t great either. The idea was to allow skiers (you!) to submit images to us even if you didn’t have a video camera or point and shoot camera on hand. What better way to embrace technology than through the use of your cell phone right? Uh, sort of…What we ended up receiving was a bunch of B Grade submissions that were hardly legible. Oh well, lesson learned. Next time we’ll make this one little easier to follow along and until then we send our apologies…

Part 3: Ultimate Crossover Contest

For this fine contest we actually received more submissions than we thought we would. Turns out people are really proud of what they do in the off season and love to show us what's going down in their home town, state or province. Anyway, we narrowed it down to the submissions you can find on newschoolers.com at this link.

We'll need your help deciding who the winner will be so have a good look through them and make your choice. Mid October and just in time for shredding we'll announce your winner.

A big shout out to those of who who participated and even those of you that didn't. We'll be doing more of this stuff throughout the season so keep your eyes peeled and email us your entries. We're giving away a grip load of gear this year and we want you to have some.

Thanks!

Orage Anti Tour Conquered Avon, CT

The small town of Avon, Ct played host to Ski Sundown's Traveling Rail Jam this past weekend and Orage was on site to add fuel to the fire. We sent one of our very own, a man by the name of Intern Eric aka "Doaner" to pump up the crowd, toss out some free schwag and hook the short list of invited competitors up with prizing in hopes to push their rail mastery to the next level.

Depsite the original event date being postponed, a decent crowd was on hand the next day, aka yesterday aka sunday Sept 28, 2008 to witness all that Avon has to offer the early season shred scene.

Jarrod from near bye Ski Sundown set up a nice scaffold drop in and looted plenty of scraped snow from the local ice rink to keep the dozen or so jibbers jibbing... at least until the rain set in. And big E.D., the Doaner did what he was sent to do... in other words he harrased as many people in the crowd as he could in exchange for free Orage t shirts, bandanas and anything else we had to toss out. In the end, the crowd made out with tons of schwag and Doane got himself hooked up with hamburgers, soda and cotton candy.

Job well done Doane. And to the 3 who threw down the hardest on the rail set, enjoy your Orage gear.

And for those of you who did not make it to Stop 2 of the Orage Anti Tour, we'll see you somewhere along the road to the Masters 6.

Orage Settled in and Thanks the If3

For those of you who weren’t able to drag yourselves out to the If3 in Montreal Quebec, you truly missed a great time. The boys from the If3 worked tirelessly to make all guests feel at home and we here at Orage are much obliged. Where else can you hang with your bro’s and pro’s, check out the latest and greatest in ski films and plain party your ass off? The If3!

Being that the If3 was in our own backyard, Orage had a hand in the festivities as well. For those of you who did attend, it was pretty easy to spot Orage on the second floor in what we dubbed the Orage Lounge. With Liberty skis posting up with us in the Lounge and pro’s, am’s and visitors alike all cramming in for a free bevvie and schwag bag, I think its fair to say we all enjoyed ourselves.

By the time day 3 came around we were all haggard and ready for a rest. Take a peek at the pics and make sure that for next years festival you post up!

T Hall and Tyler Hamlet from PBP help JP with his kendama skills.

Orage volunteers on hand and ready for the next wave of thirsty patrons.

That's right...TJ's face on a button.

Francis, Sean Petit and Johnny D from PBP pose for the lens..

Vanular's in the house!

Orage's Max Hill hangs with Doug Bishop and Mike Rogge from Newschoolers...who's the creeper in the back? (Sorry, I forget the name of the guy in the green - he's with Liberty I'm pretty sure)

Symm Symma....you and Margetts look to be killin it!

Ok, that's JP with the bar tender....we thought we were funny.

Callum Petit in awe...

T Hall with some fans....oh, and the clapper! Yeah clappers. The Massive is off the hizzy.

Hey Voleurz...

Jp, open your eyes...we're all friends here.

Benchy and his darling.....Hunti Yeti killed it bud...

The boys with their favorite pro Michelle.

Casabreezy...where were you all night....?

Team Orage Marie Christine, Nowel and Katherine just relaxin...

The Orage Anti Tour Invades AVON, CT This Weekend

For those of you living in the Connecticut area... specifically the town of Avon feel free to come chill with Orage and crew as the Orage Anti Tour stop by Avon Day. Not only do we love the town of Avon we also support some of the local dealers such as The Ski Market and also a good fellow by the name of Fluff. Jarrod "Fluff" Moss just so happens to be the fearless leader of Ski Sundowns Terrain Park and has personally taken on the challenge of turning Avon day into an early season jib jam.

Heroic efforts such as these deserve the support of Orage. We'll be on site stoking the crowd with tons of free goodies, giving away killer 08 product and accepting names on our sign up list for anyone interested in winning a free trip to the Orage Masters 6 going down this April in lovely Whistler BC at the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival. To get in on the action find our tent... its big and black, you can't miss it. And give Intern Eric a High 5 when you see him.

As you may recall, i mentioned a jib jam a few lines back. Jarrod and Ski Sundown will be on site hosting an invitational rail contest with warmups and prelims going down throughout the day ending with the finals starting at 5:30 pm.

So don't miss out on the celebration of all things Avon, Orage and early season metal madness.

See you in Avon this Saturday September 27. If by chance mother nature doesn't shine the light down on us, a rainday is scheduled for Sunday Sept 28, 2008

For more information on the event, drive to Avon, Ct this Saturday.

See you there.

Orage Parties with UVM

For those of you who hung with Orage at the IF3 up in Montreal last weekend... thanks for coming.

For the 300+ of you who hung with us at the UVM premier of Hunting Yeti and Journal in Burlington... thanks for coming. It was great chilling with you and Pollard and what was even better was putting back a few cold ones at Nectars afterwards.

We look forward to seeing you again somewhere along the long and winding road we like to call the Orage Anti Tour... aka: skiing's one and only free for all, anything goes ski tour whose sole purpose is to hit as many ski events of all shapes and sizes from now until the Orage Masters 6 this April in lovely Whistler BC at the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival.

Stay tuned to orage.com for more details on Anti Tour stops. We're most likely coming to a town near you.

One last thing, you'll want to do whatever you can to make it to a tour stop or two... we're giving away a few trips to the Masters... don't miss your chance for a free trip to the one and only Anti Comp... aka The Orage Masters.

See you soon,

8 Page JP Auclair Feature Article

For those of you still sleeping after the Orage Free Beer Festival in downtown Burlington go get yourselves a coffee and a copy of Freeskiers October Issue. Then open it to page 104 to digest an 8 Page Jp Auclair Feature Article.

Yes he's a living legend, but he's also a traveler, a surfer, a pioneer, a japanese yo yo champion and has recently completed his second season of mountain guide school in AK making JP one of the sports most well rounded athletes, personalities and ambassadors.

Enjoy

Free Beers On Orage in Burlington, VT

In support of Line Skis' Sunday Night Movie Series hosted at UVM (University of VT) this Sunday Night September 14, we command you to stop by Nectars in downtown Burlington for some free beers and good times compliments of Orage.

Once you've meet and bro'd down with actor, producer and ski star Eric Pollard and have witnessed some of the raddest ski footage from Nimbus' "Hunting Yeti"and Theory 3's "Journal" at UVM's University Heights Ampitheatre head down town to Nectars. Orage and Line will be getting our groove from 10pm til...

Good Times, Free Stuff and Ski Season Preperation will be in abundance.