Well, well, well. It looks like Tanner Hall will be competing in both Slope Style and Half Pipe this year at the NEW AST Winter Dew Tour. It has been a while since Mr. Hall has been seen in both the half pipe and in slope style. Tanner will be sharing this honor with a couple other skiers that call themselves the best in the world. Simon Dumont, Sammy Carlson, Peter Olenick, Jossi Wells, AJ Kemppainen and Colby West will all be duel eventers this season although it is not yet said what stops they will be visiting.

Men’s Ski Superpipe	Women’s Ski Superpipe	Men’s Ski Slopestyle	Women’s Ski Slopestyle
Christian Allen	Sarah Burke	Anders Backe	Ashley Battersby
Xavier Bertoni	Jessica Cumming	Bobby Brown	Virginie Faivre
Sammy Carlson	Roz Groenewoud	Sammy Carlson	Keri Herman
Justin Dorey	Jen Hudak	Philip Casabon	Anna Segal
Matt Duhamel	Angeli Vanlaanen	Michael Clarke	Kaya Turski
Simon Dumont		Thomas Dolplads
Sean Field		Simon Dumont
Tanner Hall		Charles Gagnier
Matt Hayward		Tanner Hall
AJ Kemppainen		Russ Henshaw
Marshall LaCroix		JF Houle
Kalle Leinonen		AJ Kemppainen
Peter Olenick		Kalle Leinonen
Tucker Perkins		Peter Olenick
Mike Riddle		Tanner Rainville
Taylor Seaton		Matt Walker
Lyndon Sheehan		Tom Wallisch
JP Solberg		Jossi Wells
Jossi Wells		Colby West
Colby West		Jacob Wester

Via: EXPN Skiing

To be honest, this post will be minimally related to Tanner Hall. Nevertheless, he’s a swell guy, a talented skier, and his name gets googled enough that it must be a good idea to put his name in the head, title, and body of a post at least every now and then. In the latest Tanner news, Hall judged the London Freeze Big Air as recently as two weeks ago. In a quick break from the rigors of adjudication, Tanner showed the crowd and staff that he knows his way around the business end of a shovel, too. Not that that’s a surprise, given his high regard for backcountry skiing.

A blog post and photo gallery feature information from the event, pictorial representations of the thrilling action thereof, and candid photos of “Maneater”-live-minus-Oates casting a most discerning, frogskin-clad eye on the contest. Chris O’Connell also made clever use of regional vernacular and idioms in his engaging account of his experience, impression of the event on Armada’s website. Get with (behind) the times and check it out.

In other Tanner Hall news, Dakine has just picked up Tanner and his little partner in Massive crime, Sean Pettit. Or is it that they’ve picked up Dakine? I don’t know. But stay on the lookout for T-Hall-Dakine collab product someday soon. In a related story, the economy hangs on the horns of a dye-lemma as the pigment industry braces itself for a projected shortage of red, yellow, and green textile dyes.

Thanks for the traffic boost, Tannerhall.com.

TannerHall.com is moving so slow I think the website might be stoned. I heard stories about old hippies that would take a hit and blow smoke into the engine of their VW bus to get it to start. Tanner Hall may have blew a little too much smoke into his server. I guess he could be building hype but soon people will stop checking to see if this thing is live. For now enjoy the reggae music playing in the background and don’t do anything that Tanner wouldn’t do. Put that J down and go for a run, ski season will be here sooner than you think.


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Remember last year when FreeSkier’s Pod Cast had an eposode of cribs with Tanner Hall? We toured his Park City home and watched a summer training day at the SLC Olympic Park. Well Tanner has finally decided people might want to know what he is doing this season so TannerHall.com will be going live soon. For now here is another video edit from Olympic Park. Click here to Watch Tanner Halls Summer Video Edit.

A few weeks ago we ran a “Ask Tanner a Question, Win a T-shirt” contest. It took a bit, but we finally caught up with him post New Zealand and post premiere tour. Shot in the kitchen of his palatial Park City estate, Tanner gets on the Straight Talk Express. Look out JM!



Via Redbullskiing.com

There’s no doubt Boulder, CO is a town that is at the core of ski culture in the US, so what better place to drop one of the sickest ski movies of all time? As expected, Tanner’s fans came out in droves to take in the first showing ever of his new film. Red Bull and Vodka flowed all night long and copious amounts of swag were dispensed by Tanner and the Red Bull crew. Everyone left the venue with stickers, posters, T-shirts, bandanas, and the latest issue of Powder Magazine. Before everyone had even left the venue, The Massive was drawing high praise from ski fans on internet forums. Via Redbullskiing.com.
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Tanner Hall, on his Armada Pipe Cleaner Skis,feels the pressure from his fellow pipe competitors and gets his ass around twice in the pipe. New Zealand is the perfect training ground for T-Hall to dial in the tricks he picks up in the off season at the SLC Olympic training facility. The Winter X-Games will be here before we know it. SkiersRealm is still waiting for RedBull to post up the video. Check Back for updates.

Click here, to check out the entire gallery of exclusive RedBull media photos.



UPDATE: Tanner Hall Double Flips on Video.




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In case you haven’t noticed, The Massive site that lives within RedBullSkiing.com is up and running. Not only can you click in to get all the latest information on Tanner Hall and the other skiers featured in The Massive, but you can get tour updates, peep the trailer, and most importantly enter to win a trip to the Park City premiere so you’re there with Tanner when the biggest movie of all time hits.
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Summer is only a few weeks away, what are your plans? The glacier up on Mt Hood is deeper than it has been in a billion years, and guess what Windells is planning to do with it? Windells will build the biggest jump Mt Hood has ever seen along with a MASSIVE Hip Jump. With that said, here is a little update of hot off the press news.


Pep Fujas and Chris Benchentler have confirmed their arrival to coach session 4 July 6th-13th. Pep and Chris will not just be hanging out at camp; they will be members of Windells coaching staff to help you learn all of the steezy tricks which they are so well known for. Plans are brewing to have an outdoor nimbus premier upon their arrival.


Tanner Hall will be coming during Session 2 to shoot the intro for his upcoming film project, MASSIVE. He will be filming on Mt. Hoods biggest hip to date. Tanner cannot wait to ski Windells Private Terrain Park including the 8 new rails and boxes that RebBull so generously will be donating to the summer shred cause.


If you want to be a part of any of this, then act fast becase spots are limited. Aside from that, Mt Hood received 70 feet of snow this year, which broke a billion year record. This summer at Windells is going to be incredible. Visit www.windells.com for more info.


Windells Summer Sessions:
Session 1: June 3 - 13
Session 2: June 16 - 23
Session 3: June 26 - July 3
Session 4: July 6 - July 13
Session 5: July 16 - Jul 23
Session 6: July 26 - August 2
Session 7: August 5 - 11


Don’t forget to request your favorite pro to be your personal coach!