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Noah Howell
Home Mountain:
Wasatch backcountry, UT
Career Highlights
- 13+ years of skiing/mountaineering
- 3 Top 10 finishes in Freeski Telemark Competitions
- 34 descents from Andrew McLean’s “Chuting Gallery”
- 6 first ski descents in the Sam Ford Fjord area, Baffin Island
- Completed “The Supercoaster”: a 20 mile traverse through the Wasatch with a 14,000ft gain
Films
Powder Whore's PW07, PW06, PW05, Core, Incognito, Open WindowsLinkage
Noah's Blog Noah's Powderwhore profile Noah Howell's Fortress team page Interview on FreeheelLife.comThe Backcountry Team
Jeremy Jones Sage Cattabriga-Alosa Ingrid Backstrom Chris Davenport Karl Meltzer Drew Tabke Julian Carr Erik Roner Cody Barnhill Chris Tatsuno Jess McMillan Rachael Burks Julia Niles Kasha Rigby Jamey Parks Tyson Bolduc Nick DeVore Will Cardamone Noah Howell Andrew McLean Don Bowie
Noah Howell
Noah Howell has life all backwards. Instead of working toward a high-paying career so he can retire and just ski all the time, he punches the clock in Alaska, Baffin Island, the French and Swiss Alps, and his home Wasatch Range so he can settle down with a cushy office job one day. Noah has more first descents on his résumé than most people have ski days in a season. For now, Howell reps for Zeal Optics, "works" as a product tester for Black Diamond Equipment, and rips technical ski-mountaineering descents all over the world. Oh yeah, and he does it all on tele gear. The rest of us have life backwards.
Mountain Hardwear Men's Transition Zip T
| Highly recommended 03-11-08 |
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| This shirt breathes, sheds light snow and fights the wind, those are good things. I wear this top skiing everyday with just a light t-shirt underneath and I don't have to fuss around too much with layering until I'm finished hiking and ready to ski. It's a simple layer that does a lot. |
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Mountain Hardwear Men's Phantom Down Jacket
| Light packable puffy 03-11-08 |
| Noah Howell: |
| The "puffy", a key piece in the "hey I go in the mountains" look. Well, the Phantom will actually be of benefit when you make it out into the hills. If light is right then this is the jacket Dick Cheney duck hunts in. And at 800 fill it's nice and toasty while you're waiting for the paramedics to come while thinking up excuses for shooting your friend in the face. I wear the sapphire because it really compliments my eyes. |
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Black Diamond Guide Glove
| Get your hands on em. 03-11-08 |
| Noah Howell: |
| I'm constantly changing over from skinning to skiing to filming and my hands get exposed and cold. It's nice to throw the Guides on and know my hands will warm right up. They have been my glove of choice for the past 2 seasons on the local slopes and distant expeditions. The long gauntlet style keeps the snow out and the leather gives good grip on poles, rock, rope and whatever I can get my hands on. |
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Scarpa T-Race Telemark Boot
| Power control steering 03-11-08 |
| Noah Howell: |
| The lines are blurred between resort, backcountry, frontcountry and sidecountry skiing. If I want to do a little of everything, in the same day, in the same boot, I can. This is high performance stability and control for taking the tele-turn to this next level everyone keeps talking about. With a free-pivot binding (the O1 perhaps) I don't mind the lack of a touring mode on the uphill and it leaves me thinking yipeee on the downhill. |
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Zeal Optic's Detonator ZB-13
| Zealous fan 03-11-08 |
| Noah Howell: |
| The Detonator fits well, reveals the terrain in low light and won't fog unless I'm really working hard and don't have the vents cleared. My friend Dylan says, "If you can see over it, ski over it", tough to do if your goggles are foggy. Great to watch a small company grow with hard work, good customer service and innovative technology. |
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Featured Product
Powderwhore PW 07 Ski Movie
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| Get ready for a telemark tour-de-force. Sick lines, massive cliff hucks and face shots abound, all set to ass-shakin' underground beats. |
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Watch Some Video
Powderwhore PW07
White Pearl Vid PW07
Field Testing - Megawatt Ski by Black Diamond
"This isn’t so much a ski review as it is a celebration of the floatiest, fastest, non-tip divingest pleasure-boards I’ve encountered."More Video
