Tahoe Adventure Film Festival - Jeremy Jones awarded the Golden Camelot Award, 2008

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HISTORY 
 
The Tahoe Adventure Film Festival recognizes one athlete or filmmaker every year with our Golden Camalot Award.
The "camalot" is a caming devise made by Black Diamond Equipment and is used to protect climbers. The camalot has saved countless lives in the mountains around the world. The Golden Camalot is awarded with the highest respect to leaders in action and adventure sports for excellence, achievement, and leadership. The award is hand crafted completely with 18 caret gold, weighs almost 4 pounds, and is delivered the night of the festival by Brinks Security guards.The award is blessed by the Pope and the Dali Lama.

Outside Eco-All-Star, Jeremy Jones

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Al Needs Some Copilots

You don't need to have billions or hold office to make a big difference. Just check out how this year's nine eco-all-stars—from a Chilean dam buster to a snowboarder who's seen the light—are changing the world.

 

Jeremy Jones 

 

Big-Mountain Snowboarder

By: Abe Streep

"All skiers and boarders are polluters," says Jeremy Jones, snowboarding pioneer and star of 12 Teton Gravity Research movies. "But we pollute a lot less than we did five years ago." With his new Truckee, California–based nonprofit, Protect Our Winters (POW), Jones represents the ski-bum contingency in sounding the climate-change alarm. "A couple of years ago a friend suggested I start a climate-change foundation," says Jones. "I thought, I don't lead the perfect carbon-neutral life, so who am I to take the lead?" But after receiving his first few thousand dollars in grant money from his sponsor Rossignol, Jones officially launched POW last September. The organization is primarily educational, running no risk of pushing the limits of climate science—the home page, protectourwinters.org, offers tips on how skiers can reduce their carbon footprints (carpool to the mountain; walk and bike whenever possible). But in December, POW gave its first grant, a $4,000 donation to a solar-power program in a Wyoming school district, and will provide two more $25,000 grants this year. The grassroots approach is working—the 700-strong POW pulls in five new members per day, and, at press time, a European launch of the organization was slated for January. "Donations are coming from mountain-town locals," says Jones, who lived out of his car at the beginning of his pro career. "Climate change is no longer just being talked about by Sierra Club members and hybrid owners. Everybody wants colder winters."