With bleeding cuticles, Christian Folk (from Outdoor Research) is pictured here in the crux of the 5.10 start to Ragged Edges at Red Rocks, Nevada.  The Red Rocks Rendezvous climbing festival begins this week and climbers are flocking to Vegas from all around.

The Visual Adventures contingent will be represented by Jason and Lisa, on behalf of Outdoor Research.  Lisa Nelson will be teaching a backcountry cooking course, and Jason Nelson will be teaching a multi-pitch efficiency clinic.  Jason and Lisa will also be talent for some photo shoots prior to the event with photographer Bryan Smith.

The weather is getting warmer, and it’s promising to be a great event.  We hope to see you there!

On our way from Bishop to Las Vegas we checked out Death Valley. We arrived at the sand dunes around sunset. We had a great time playing in the sand and Jason was able to get some beautiful pictures.

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Visual Adventures was recently contracted by Dayzign Graphics to create three interactive flash slideshows for Kahtoola, an outdoor company that makes snowshoes, and crampons.  Working on flash projects often provides me with opportunities to challenge and develop my Flash skills.  First I needed to design a slide-show that would slide sideways and included a product image which would extend beyond the square frame.  Logistically, this can’t really be done in that way without getting really complicated.  I suggested another solution that performed the needed function with efficiency and grace, having the product fade in over the sliding images.  This project required a fair amount of actionscipt code and time but the end result was a success.

Links to the flash slideshows:

• http://www.kahtoola.com/
• http://www.kahtoola.com/snowshoes.php
• http://www.kahtoola.com/microspikes.php
• http://www.kahtoola.com/crampons.php

March 19-20, Las Vegas Baby!

Jason Nelson and Lisa Nelson of Visual Adventures will be attending the Red Rocks Rendezvous as athletes for Outdoor Research for their fourth consecutive year.  They will be teaching clinics (which specific ones are still TBD) and participating in the festivities.

The Red Rocks Rendezvous is hosted by Mountain Gear each year to get climbers together, introduce new people to the sport, provide and opportunity for the pros and amateurs to mingle, have a good time, and raise money for various good causes.

For more information, visit the link below.

http://www.mountaingear.com/events/default.aspx?EventID=18

Jason Nelson of Visual Adventures has a number of photos published in this years Ouray Visitor’s Guide.  Here are the highlights:

Top left photo is of Lisa Nelson rappeling at the Waterfall Wall in Ouray.


Top left page spread of Ouray’s Forth of July water fights.


Historic Day inset on left page of miner is Bruce Nelson taking a mine tour at the Bachelor Mine in Ouray.


Top left page, inset of Jason Nelson and Alan Cook getting psyched up for a ski and climb and Mt. Sneffles.

Kitty Calhoun on "Odda Brutha" at the Ouray Ice Park

Here are some pics I took of Lisa Nelson and Kitty Calhoun doing some mixed lines at the Ouray Ice Park. Hope you enjoy! Lisa is leading “Salsa Lisa” and Kitty is on “Odda Brutha”.  Images are Copyright Jason Nelson / Visual Adventures.

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It’s Friday and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate it than with a photo of a beautiful girl in a garden.  I love photographing beautiful people and places.   This afternoon left a lasting image in my mind. Stunning. Enjoy the pic.

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We are currently wrapping up the redesign of the Ouray Mountain Sports site.  The client pretty much gave us full creative control and this is what we came up with.  We are very proud of how it came together.  Before long we’ll be adding and Interspire Shopping Cart to the site so that clients can purchase items online.

You can click here to view the Ouray Mountain Sports website.

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It was about a year ago we were in Boquete, Panama hiking through the jungle with the hopes of coming up upon some exotic animals. I think the only animal we saw was a little lizard. Later we did get to see lots of cool animals in Costa Rica.

This time of year you can’t help but dream of warm tropical places.

Lisa and I went for a ski in the Black Canyon National Monument to check out an ice climb called Gandalf’s Beard.  Seeing as we were in the Black Canyon with 2,000 ft. rock walls everywhere, I dreamed of a giganitc ice flow cascading down the steep cliffs.  Instead we found a short easy pitch of ice at the top of a measly gully.  The ice was only about 150′ tall and WI3.  The skiing to get the climb was fairly substantial however, 4 miles each way. We did the skiing real fast as we had to be somewhere leaving us with a good workout.

Gandalf’s Beard Ice Climb