A couple quick items of interest that I thought the more creative of ya’ll might be interested in.

First up are a couple contests with some shweet prizes. The first is that over at mountain hard wear, they are running a “create your own ad contest”:http://blog.mountainhardwear.com/2008/03/the_ad_deadline_contest.html. All you need is a good picture or two (probably having some MHW gear in it would help) and some witty commentary. It’s super-easy to create ads, and quite frankly, all the ones up there so far suck. If you win, your ad goes in Rock & Ice and you get a $1000 shopping spree from MHW. I am so in.

The second is sponsored by “Ski Utah”:http://www.skiutah.com/ and is a contest to create a new word for “skiing and snowboarding”:http://addictionary.org/Browse/ContestWords/19. Again, some of the submissions are horrid. First prize is an all-expenses paid skiing trip. Better hurry, though, this one closes today.

Finally, many of you may know that I am a obsessive visitor of “steep and cheap”:http://www.steepandcheap.com for cheap gear. As such, I also read “the goat”:http://thegoat.backcountry.com/. He posted a while ago about the backcountry.com “t-shirt of the month”: I really liked last month’s t-shirt entitled “the avalauncher”:http://www.backcountry.com/store/BCC0124/Backcountry-Avalauncher-T-Shirt-Short-Sleeve-Mens.html, except for the fact that it was white.

Who can take care of white t-shirts, really? c’mon, make it grey at least. I will destroy a white t-shirt faster than a cheetah rips into a wounded gazelle. I definitely dig the stencil look, and the avalauncher graphic is super cool. I just gotta get them to send me the screen after they’re done printing it. . .

At least “this month’s shirt”:http://www.backcountry.com/store/BCC0130/Backcountry-Fresh-Spring-Corn-Limited-Edition-T-Shirt-Short-Sleeve-Mens.html is black, but I’m not too keen on the logo.

Maybe iz for u, no?

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However, in light of all the expensive, white, and not-so cool t-shirts, there is always the ever-fashionable “handlebarsandwich t-shirts”:http://www.handlebarsandwich.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2&zenid=oevt1anch9ucp24v3tl451ni31. Not only are they very much ‘not white’, but they’re also cheaper ($15 apiece) and going towards a good cause (I’m already up to about $30 in donations to “flagstaffbiking”:http://www.flagstaffbiking.org).
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Go forth, handlebarsandwich readers and win some cool shit.