agr takes pride in maintaining the highest degree of journalistic excellence, so that you, the goodreeder, receive the most accurate, fair, and thorough stories that matter. We strive to never allow personal biases to influence the news reported. That said, there are somethings that just push our buttons.

Burton x Futura “Forest Camouflage” Series



Holy canoli, another damn collaboration. Everybody is doing collabs, even our toast: it collaborated with some raspberry jelly and came out amazing. But this collection from Burton tastes like putting dish soap on our toast. Actually, it tastes like putting a tree on a coat, which doesn’t taste good either. (via Highsnobiety.com)


In fact, the only tree that we can think of that tastes good is this one.

Since my cover was blown in the Three Valley Ski Center I had to change locale. Current whereabouts cannot be disclosed at this time, but be advised that Big Perm has taken my place in Chile as a somewhat satisfactory substitute. Mission objectives are still in progress as we’ve suffered some unexpected set backs. In the meantime, I’ve been trying to mingle with the locals at happy hour to figure out why Chileans are so bloody obsessed with Pisco.

El Colorado Happy Hour Fun from El Gato on Vimeo

Karl makes a great undercover agent too because he likes to freestyle which the Chileans also seem to enjoy.

While we ARE attempting to fulfill agr’s South American mission requirements, public help is always appreciated. After a snowboard binge of nearly 14 days, wet boots the whole time, AGR has contracted some foot fungus. Please contact us if you are aware of any remedies for curing stinky feet!

In contrast to the consensus of the scientific community, there is new evidence that climate change is a hoax created by granola-munching-treehuggers, Al Gore is a phony, and it is okay to kill animals.

-The Seattle Times reports: “Despite previous studies suggesting a warmer climate is already taking a bite out of Washington’s snowpack, there’s no clear evidence that human-induced climate change has caused a drop in 20th century snow levels, according to a new study by University of Washington scientists.” (via Seattle Times

This is great news for us because while everybody has been going green, we have been going black. We bought this for real cheap, and now everybody is going to want one…stack paper. Suckers.

If you weren’t already convinced of the radness of Travis Rice and Curt Morgan’s new film “That’s It, That’s All”, we have new evidence…

It now has a website: thatsit-thatsall.com

And we all know that if you have a website, you are awesome.

“That’s It, That’s All” is the new snowboard film produced by Travis Rice and Curt Morgan and presented by Quiksilver and Red Bull. It was shot in HD 35mm and super16 film in terrain such as New Zealand, Alaska, B.C., Munich, Tokyo, and Jackson Hole. TITA features Travis Rice, Nicolas Muller, Terje Hakonsen, Jeremy Jones, John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Pat Moore, Scotty Lago, Bryan Iguchi, Jake Blauvelt, Danny Kass, and many more…It is going to be silly and comes out September 2008.

Cruise on over to the website to enter a contest for a five-day Heliboard trip for two to Valdez Alaska with H20 Guides and more…

Summer.

Side Hits



“Sidehits”, starring Ben Lynch, courtesy of Kyle Norman.

We should have known…

The reason we were having such a difficult time tracking down agr Field Correspondent “Dr. Gillis” is because he was undercover!

We found Doc in the most unlikely of locales. But that’s what it takes to bring you fair and accurate news that agr is known for.

Though he isn’t snowboarding in South America, this is just as good. The Doc, aka “Cee“, is one of the cast of MTV’s reality TV series, “From G’s to Gents.”



Good work amigo. Your theme song is solid.

Hello World. Benivenidos a la internet.

Hell. We flew in, and for the first 13 days of the trip we have spent a total of 10 minutes on the internet. The saying goes
while traveling, the less time spent on the internet, the more fun you be havin’. But it feels damn good to have fingers glued to a keyboard again.

After 24 hours of landing we hooked up with the “Big Show”. He’s somewhat of a big deal down here as you can see above.  Straight out of the UK he’s been throwing down some serious old school hammers. Not to mention he hasn’t cut his hair in 6 years. We haven’t cut ours either.  He’s a slayer.

For the first couple days we were cruisin’ around. Mountain touring. No new snow = small park days and beer sippin’. As our hearts were jerked around with the falty snow forecasts of “www.snow-forecast.com”, the storm finally arrived late night last Tuesday. A glorious Wednesday. Blue skies and 2 feet of fresh. Unfortunately, a late night of partying the night before, and an unforgettable 3:30 am powder run home, we plugged in our camera charger to the wrong circuit and blew every fuse in the house. Hard to believe……… The best day of the trip so far went undocumented by photos.

After a few days of powder cowboys, the AGoodReed team began practicing for the “Freestyle Tour at Valle Nevado” presented by Rossignol and Lippi. Our newest addition to the team, Ralph began working with Mr. Gillis on tricks for the new competition. Just like any snowboarder out of Swisssaland, ie ISENSEVEN, he likes lots of fancy tricks. Ralph claims he knows the fellas from ISENSEVEN and when ever we reference the movie he gets a foul taste in his mouth because us Americans jock the movie.

Ralphy tailblocking the meadow of Valle Nevado.  Proper.  I guess spending 50+ hours in your snowboard boots doesn’t prevent you from competing in a big air and doing tailblocks.

Ralph taught Doctor Gillis Truckdrivers. The doctor stomped one in the competition on Saturday landing him in 3rd place. Ralph claimed that because he taught The Doctor the trick that he should buy him beers for the rest of the night….. just another irrational statement by our Swisssa friend.

The only picture we have of the truckdriver is this one.

The photographer for the competition was a local bystander. He may or may not have been blind. Sadly enough this was the best shot of the 20 photos he took.

After all was said and done. Doctor Gillis made the podium along with a local Chilean Tomas in second and a fellow Canadian Tamo in 1st. Prizes we silly. A pair of gloves, thermals and ONE Redbull. Just ONE Redbull……

We do a lot of hanging out in the parking lot. Looking for tickets on days we don’t want to purchase.

Mario ordering Barry to come about.

Amongst all the fun, we did run into a little accident. Our fearless Chilean Tour Guide Mario Hevia suffered the patented snowboard injury. Grade 3 shoulder separation. After a girl complained about breaking her arm during our last run… (Everyone knows you don’t jinx yourself like that), Mario separated his shoulder. A week off the snowboard and he’s back riding tomorrow. A salud to Mario.

That’s it and that’s all for now. Shout out to all the friends at home. And a farewell to Dr. Gillis. Have fun in LA bro bro! You won’t be disappointed in the substitute.

A first in agr history, we are speechless…

While we pride ourselves in not being impulsive consumers, this was too much…

“Michael J. Fox, ‘Marty Mcfly’ hero Mattel hoverboard from Back to the Future Part II & Part III“.

“This is one of the hero Mattel Hoverboards used by Michael J. Fox in his most famous role as ‘Marty McFly’ in the Robert Zemeckis classic 80s trilogy, Back to the Future. Two styles of Hoverboard were made for and employed in the film – lightweight boards of styrofoam construction and thick and durable wood-based props – this example is the latter, and is recognized as the best example of all wood Hoverboards to have survived the rigors of filming”…”It is in used but outstanding condition, and is very rare in that it is entirely complete and intact. Given the wood build and use of metal components, it looks and feels like a ‘real’ prop. This piece has the complete fully functional and rear ballbearing-mounted footpad that rotates 360 degrees, as well as the bottom ‘magnet plates’. Of the two styles of stickers used for the effects, this prop has the ‘photoboard’-style sticker affixed. In addition, there is other textured styling and hand painting. This Hoverboard also features the hole in the top, representing where the handlebars were that ‘Marty’ pulled off after borrowing the ‘toy’ from the little girl in the film. $30000 - $50000″ (via Ebay)

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