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Ok, I never thought this would happen. i'm quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger “I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat, and the time for action is now.” Lots of cool things happening to me right now - Clif Bar and I will be doing a Cooling tour of US ski areas together. National Geographic, Toyota and I are working on a "Agents of Change - New Environmentalists"

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Ok, I never thought this would happen. i'm quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger “I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat, and the time for action is now.” Lots of cool things happening to me right now - Clif Bar and I will be doing a Cooling tour of US ski areas together. National Geographic, Toyota and I are working on a "Agents of Change - New Environmentalists"

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I'm just back from a mind-blowing experience - training with Al Gore and his Climate Project staff for 2 1/2 days in and around Nashville, Tennessee. I was part of the first 50 people picked out of the 1000 of the cavalry sent out to spread the word and take us to that critical tipping point, much like that of the Civil Rights grassroots movement years ago. I am full of new hope, having trained

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Well the weather just continues to be strange! We have now gotten two snowstorms this september, with another one on the way today. I'm paranoid because my ski sale to benefit ORE and Global Cooling is this Saturdaty, and there is a 30% chance of snow! ah well, that is life in the mountains. The Town of Crested Butte is getting closer this week to pass my and ORE's recommendations for

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Big News! I have been selected to train with Al Gore for his Climate Project, Sept 24-26th, in Nashville, TN. I and 50 others from around the country will be trained to give the presentation that was shown in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” movie. I plan to incorporate the presentation into my multi media global adventure show during “Alison Gannett’s Global Cooing Tour” this winter. I will be

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New Colorado trail bike touring adventure for me this holiday weekend. Started in Fairplay, rode the highway to Kenosha Pass (not fun and too much traffic). Started the singlerack of the Col. Trail there - some of the best singletrack I have ridden ever! The trail is smooth and curvy - reminds me of Doctors Park in CB, large grained sand and aspens. The climb to Georgia Pass is enjoyable and all

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It is a hard thing trying to do nothing. It rained most of the weekend, which paralyses us Colorado folks! I canceled that waste of money-nothing on ever cable subscription after the seemed at the time exciting Tour de France. Without the brain numbing device to kill time in foul weather, I was forced into paying bills and cleaning the house, two of my not-so-favorite activities. I even went on a

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Crested Butte just got its first snow of the season - well actually Treasure and Treasury peaks received an isolated freak storm yesterday, leaving their skyline white as cold be. Talk at social events suddenly turned from biking and climbing to skiing. As much as i love skiing, i'm not quite ready yet, and cannot stop thinking about surfing. Although, i must admit my dreams converted to winter

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Just back from Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake. lots of innovative new products and an exciting amount of green products (although I wish I could say more products were enviro, but hey, every year gets better). Patagonia's underwear recycling program is now in full swing - so you can recycle your old capilene into new capilene when it wears out. And now the new capiline is treated with

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Hello readers, been getting quite a few questions and comments on the ski resorts that have closed for summer skiing. I gathered my information from several websites, and the resorts that are listed as being closed or recently closed for glacier skiing are: Solden – Renttenbach and Tiefenbach, Austria Alp d’Huez, France Les Diablerets, Switzerland Alagna, italy St. Moritz, Switzerland Verbier,

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Ok, maybe my theme of global warming and biking is getting a bit bland. but heh, good adventures and good info, right? this weeks adventure was the Colorado Trail - from Molas to Durango. My boyfriend, Jason, had wanted to do the trip with his guy friends from Austin, Texas, but I could not be left out of this adventure and invited myself along. I touted myself as being able to plan the shuttle,

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Some quick tips to save money and Carbon Dioxide! Windpower – Sign up for Windpower! 200 KWH of green power will save 1,200 lbs of coal, and 2,400 lbs of Carbon Dioxide. Lighting: Replace bulbs with compact fluorescents. Not only will save 1300 lbs of carbon per bulb, but they will save you $38 - $232 over the life of

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Back to the bike this weekend. The infamous no entry, no prizes, and no map 100 mile underground race took place on Saturday under sunny skies. Regardless of its low-keyness, this race is held in high regard and considered one of the toughest 100 milers due to the large amount of single track and high altitude. I felt like shit for the first 9 hours, with one superman slip-n-slide crash into a

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I spent this entire rainy weekend researching global warming. Here is some of the information I compiled..... Seven resorts in Europe have closed glacial summer skiing in just the last two years- and blame global warming. The latest UN report on climate change warns that within 50 years over 200 ski resorts may have to close due to climate change. Another European report predicts a 2-4 degree

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Hard for me to get in the patriotic mood this year with all the political bullshit going on right now, but our parade was sure fun. i particularly enjoyed the float with our mayor, Alan Bernholtz, and the Monkey's downhill mountain bike team. They set up a dirt jump off the cab of a truck over a gas-ignited fire pit. My sister and her 5 month old twins were in town, which gave me a welcome relief

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This weekend I was speaking to 300 kids in Colorado Springs with my "Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History" powerpoint show and movies of my adventures. The emphasis of this show was to find your passion and follow your dreams, and I was also able to do a workshop with the kids after the show. We worked on writing timelines of our lives - looking at critical points in our lives, how they shape

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This past week I've been spending most of my time working at my Non-profit, the Office for Resource Efficiency, or ORE. My main projects right not are doing the solar design and energy efficiency consulting for Crested Butte Mountain Resort's affordable housing project at Prospect, and working on the town codes for the Town of Crested Butte. For the codes, we are trying to allow super efficient

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It's been a long few weeks of deadlines - my stories for Powder Magazine on the India and the Chile story for the Patagonia Catalog were due. Long hours at the computer, but I am enjoying writing these days. Back in High School, I really hated to write and loved math. Never would I have imagined that it would become part of my career. I was sure that I would be an engineer or something of that

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Well, I'd say summer is officially here. Temperatures are soaring and the mountain bike trails are melting about two weeks earlier than normal. Snodgrass, Upper Loop, Upper Upper, Whetstone, Strand, Ferris, Deer Creek, and Lower Loop are already open. I plunged right into the season, riding Doctor’s Park on Saturday – with only 4 or so snow patches and rippin downhill singletrack. On Sunday, my

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Greetings from middle america, home of the smallest ski areas that I have ever seen. The resorts here in Minnesota make my childhood resort of Crotched Mtn, New Hampshire look positively gigantic. Hyland Park is so small that the ski jump towers above summit, actually as big as the entire ant hill. The entire length of the hill also doubles as the landing of the ski jump. However, the passion of

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Jet lag has subsided, and i'm ready to write again. There is still tons of snow in Crested Butte, which is quite a shocker after the green summer-like conditions in Europe. I was not quite ready to be immersed in full winter again! Last Wednesday it was full down coat weather all day long. Snow line is about 1000 feet above town right now, but there are still snow banks around my neighborhood. It

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It is quite a shocker to leave New Delhi and arrive in Frankfurt Germany. Diametrically opposed opposites, I would say, one a seething mass of chaos and the other, precise, engineered and organized. I am here as a US member of the Head/Tyrolia Women’s Team which is made up of 11 women, one each from each major country around the world that Head does business in. We are now really meshing in our

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Each visit to Asia makes my heart grow even fonder – I am now downright in love with Sri Lanka. I have left the east coast and have travelled inland to the city of Kandy. The drive meandered through rice paddies, stately palm trees, jolly green giant Mara trees, and prehistoric Banyon trees drop their roots from the sky. The lush jungle is reminiscent of Hawaii meets Bali. Elephants meander

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After some fabulous cultural exploration in rural India, visiting friends, watching the colorful festival in Vashist among pulsing drumming and swishing deities, shopping the mayhem of Delhi, and henna-ing our hands, I hopped on a plane to Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon. The heat hit me like a tidal wave, bad joke in these times, although a bit too cliché. I surveyed the zillion taxi driver

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The snow transformed itself this week - winter turned to spring overnight and we went from skiing chugatch powder to colorado corn. My co-guide Jamie and I planned some tours to see as many valley's as possible each day- and cheating again with an addditional heli lift in the middle of each day to change scenery and pop up again to 16,000 feet. Scott Smith and Lynsey Dyer and I have been shooting

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