POC Magazine - Jeremy Jones

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One Step Further

Big Mountain Snowboarder Jeremy Jones is preparing to tackle his most challenging summit yet. 

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Degree Adrenaline Lab - Jeremy Jones Feature "Adventurer"

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Created by the Discovery Channel, the Men Degree Adrenaline Lab is hosted by Bear Grylls. 

Adrenaline Lab features the "World's Most Extreme Adventurers".

 

National Geographic "Extreme Expeditions" Features Jeremy Jones and "Deeper"

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Extreme Expeditions

From snowboarding to caving, rock climbing to ice climbing, these six films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival highlight unique, adrenaline-charged expeditions by extreme explorers.

Meet the Filmmakers and Athletes from Extreme Expeditions

Jeremy Jones, Athlete

There are a number of words to describe Jeremy Jones: environmentalist, big mountain free rider, film star, husband, father and now entrepreneur and board designer. As the preeminent big-mountain free rider of today, visions of Jones about to drop from the peak of a knife ridgeline are ingrained in the minds of every snowboard film fan. Legend status is locked down for the 34-year-old as the eight-time Snowboarder Magazine “Big Mountain Rider of the Year,” winner of numerous big mountain and extreme contests, over two dozen awe inspiring video parts in the library including five in 2008 alone.

For the Squaw Valley-local’s new film project, Deeper, he’s traveling the globe from interior Alaska to Antarctica in search of new lines reached on his own steam. Both major ventures, Jones Snowboards and Deeper, relate in their principles back to Protect Our Winters, the non-profit Jones founded in 2007 dedicated to reversing the global warming crisis by uniting the winter sports community and focusing our collective efforts towards a common goal.


The Film: Deeper
Deeper tracks professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones and other top free riders as they travel to some of the best and most dangerous locations to snowboard.

For more information, visit http://www.tetongravity.com/deeper/

Further Unplugged #1 / ESPN

Jeremy Jones unplugs

The first of twelve "Further Unplugged" webisodes takes us to Japan

Last year Jeremy Jones took us "Deeper" -- into the wilds of Alaska, the heart of the Alps and the steeps of Antarctica -- but that was only the warm-up. Now the big mountain snowboarding pioneer is poised to shred right off the map in "Further," the second installment of the backcountry snowboarding video trilogy from Teton Gravity Research that will debut in the fall of 2012.
Jones and the TGR crew had a stellar season filming last winter, bagging productive trips to Japan, the Arctic Circle and the California High Sierra. Good weather and even better company bolstered Jones' success, with the likes of Terje, Josh Dirksen and Forrest Shearer riding along with Jones on the expeditions.

Those who can't wait to feast their eyes on these rarefied backcountry adventures are in luck, as the TGR "Unplugged" videos are back in action. The teaser series will offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the challenges Jones and the crew face as they venture into the unknowns of the alpine.

LightcapDirksen, Shearer and Jones cherish the sun filming "Further" in Hakuba, Japan.

 

Press play on the first episode, "Exploring Japan," and you'll join Jones, Dirksen and Shearer as they mob through hip deep Ja'Pow and battle gale force winds splitboarding in the Kita Alps above Hakuba, Japan. With the help of local backcountry guide, 'Yeti' Dave, the crew gets a taste of the terrain before setting their sights on bigger, badder lines. For a quick lowdown on the mission, we caught up with Shearer for a couple questions:

ESPN: How would you describe the terrain in Hakuba?
Shearer: It was pretty similar to the Wasatch range in Utah in a sense. There was great forested terrain just outside the resort boundaries, but the high alpine lines we were after were more challenging to get to. Picking lines was tough as the avy danger on the open terrain was serious. Storms hit the high peaks hard so the snow conditions were constantly changing.

Heavy winds seemed to change a few plans on the trip. How was it dealing with the wind?
It was crazy. Gusts would blow you straight over and the wind-packed snow was difficult enough to climb up as it was. The winds were probably 60 plus mph one of the times we tried to push up the ridge. We turned back pretty quick at that point. It was not a good day to be climbing any higher.
Look out for a new "Further Unplugged" episode every month until the film drops Fall 2012.

 

Fitness Magazine - Online Interview

http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/blogs/fitstop/2011/11/02/fitness/snowboard-star-jeremy-jones-aims-to-protect-our-winters/

Snowboard Star Jeremy Jones Aims to Protect Our Winters

Written by Alyssa Belanger, editorial intern

Jeremy Jones has conquered the slopes as a snowboarding superstar, and now he’s set his sights on the environment. He created Protect Our Winters (POW), an organization bringing awareness to climate change issues that impact a wide variety of industries that rely on the cooler climates of mountainous communities—from snowboarding to wineries like Alamos Wines, which he also supports.

In his new movie Further, set to release next year, Jeremy and his team takes viewers along as he explores some of the world’s most beautiful and extreme terrain in the Arctic Circle, Japan, the High Sierra and the Pickett Range. Jeremy’s body and mind were forced to face some of nature’s most unimaginable tests during this journey.

Jeremy gave me the scoop on POW, his film and his fitness secrets.

Huffington Post picks up POW and Jeremy Jones Op-Ad

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-jones

Snowboarders and Winemakers Team Up to 'Protect Our Winters'

I am among the 21 million skiers and snowboarders in the US anxiously awaiting the start of the upcoming ski season. After almost two decades, I still get excited by the first snowfall and my first ride of the season, despite the sport being my livelihood. There is also a more serious side to my life as a pro snowboarder: the role of being a climate activist.

Protect Our Winters (POW) is a nonprofit organization I started in 2007 to unite and mobilize the global snow sports community against climate change. I wanted to get the conversation going about how it affects the winter sports community on so many levels, not only the environmental implications but the economic repercussions as well.

What many of us out there may not know is that the winter sports industry, which generates $66 billion a year in revenue, depends on consistently snowy winters to maintain over 600,000 jobs within our industry, at the resorts and throughout our mountain communities. Some would say we're doing this to protect our powder days, but those powder days are serious business for hundreds of thousands of people. And, while I may have cameras following me when I ride, Protect Our Winters has a direct mission. POW was founded on the idea that the collective power of the winter sports community is massive, and if we can all work together, the end result can be revolutionary.

My new-found role has recently taken me to Washington, DC where I met with members of the House and Senate for a second time. I am realizing that as a pro snowboarder, I have an amazing opportunity to be a role model for others in the winter sports community and use my position to inspire others to be climate activists too; this includes individuals, but also my corporate sponsors.