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October 2018

October 3, 2018October 3, 2018by samminnellLeave a Comment

October 2018

As usual it has been a while since I have posted but the last few months have been hectic including the day job and trying to fit in as many adventures as I can around it while even trying to retain some family life as well.. Too many hobbies and not enough time.

Ski Season is almost over and slowly transitioning back into bikes but before that happened we tried to tick off a few skiing missions we had had planned for a while. One was to head up Mt Sibbald in behind Tekapo in NZ.

We four wheel drove up the Macauley valley and walked to our campsite then toured up and got some nice shaded wind-blown powder!

Amazing mission in some amazing country – and there are a couple more images below from some other miscellaneous missions around the Canterbury Club fields and Queenstown for your viewing pleasure

And finally just a little video testing out the GoPro Hero 7 – the hyper smooth function is amazing No more gimbal needed which cuts down on the gear I need to carry. Check out the video below , riding the new tracks at the Christchurch Adventure park.

Bikes, Snow, travel, video

August Update

August 7, 2018August 7, 2018by samminnellLeave a Comment

Its been a bit slow on the updates as I have been doing some different commercial work which I can’t post yet! In the meantime here are some shots from a few sunrise missions we have been on to snag some NZ powder goods. Mt Olympus aka the playground of the gods put it on for an epic powder day.

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Bit of a test of the Peak Designs Capture Plate while enjoying the snow at Mt Olympus.

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Was testing out my new @peakdesign capture clip a few weeks ago, so thought I’d stitch up a little bit of POV from a sweet NZ powder day @mount_olympus_skifield feat @fastnloose88 . . . @dpsskis @blackdiamond_snow #skiing #snow #powder #neverstopexploring #bluebird #goodtimes #winter #skis #markerkingpin #newzealand #nz #nutcracker #ropetow #freshies #bluebird #dpsskis #northface #getoutside #pow #epic #goprohero6 #gopro #peak #peakdesigns

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Checking out the recently revamped step up at the local bikes trails when they were finally dry enough to ride, I got the flashes out and took a couple of MTB shots. Was good to get some external lighting out as I haven’t shot that style of photo for a while.

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Bikes, Snow

June Photo Epic

June 24, 2018June 24, 2018by samminnellLeave a Comment

Its time for another photo epic for the month, showing some of what we have been up to. We started off last month with a bit of a weather change and some early snow fall but in the subsequent weeks there was plenty of wind and no more snow so even with eh cool temps what had remained had become pretty crispy. So we dragged the bikes back out and headed up to check out the #mintlyndon track that everyone had been talking about and what a track it is. Check out some photos from the mission below:

Christchurch itself has had the gloomiest June on record with low fog and an epic amount of rain. So with the mission above being our only sunny ride this month it was countdown on until the ski fields started opening and more snow fell. It looks like Queenstown and the Kaikoura ranges have been getting more snow than Canterbury so far and a storm is just rolling in now. But we headed up to the Mt Lyford Opening day and it was a beauty. Check out the photos from that below:

Cars, Landscape

1965 Pontiac Laurentian Resto-Mod

June 10, 2018June 10, 2018by samminnellLeave a Comment

A friend of mine has spent the last couple years working on a Resto Mod of a 1965 Pontiac Laurentian and he has finally finished it. Check out some photos of the finished product and a little video I made for him to showcase it.

Bikes, Landscape, Snow, video

May Update

May 27, 2018May 27, 2018by samminnellLeave a Comment

Its been a month or so since we last posted but we have had a busy month and the weather is starting to change to winter here in NZ so the bike content will slow down for a bit.

Major project for the month was filming a new video for the Christchurch Adventure Park to showcase how much of an epic spot they have there!

Check it out below:

We also went and shot a pile of photos up there as my bike has been broken!

Check them out below:

Last but not least as I mentioned earlier in this post the weather is changing and winter is kicking in, so we ventured out for a look and got some powdery goodness. There is only one photo from the day as it was to good to stop but check it below:

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Bikes, video

Josh Clarke Vic Park 2018

April 23, 2018by samminnellLeave a Comment

The weather is flipping here in New Zealand, with winter starting to get its icy grip on the Southern Hemisphere.The wind was wild today, but the tracks had dried out a little so Josh Clarke and I decided to stick in the trees and film a small edit of him in Vic Park. Smooth and dialled through the interesting conditions down one of the OG trails in Vic Park, semi greasy and semi grippy at the same time.