It's not every day that the phone rings and we are given the chance to support a cadre of hard charging skiers and boarders in a totally fresh fashion. Well, maybe not entirely fresh, but certainly a way of embracing the winter that has all but died on the vine of how we look to get it done when the goods fall on the mountain towns that winter blesses with each changing season.

Armed with one rattletrap truck, a handcrafted tiny house on the trailer behind it, and who knows how many

Team Clif skier, Lake Tahoe resident, Squaw Valley Poster Boy and Unofficial Networks contributor found a stash of really, really deep powder.  Wait, before you all jump on highway 80 and rush Tahoe, this terrain is a little farther afield.  Like many other fans of winter, this year has forced Miles to seek out places where the season is more business as usual.  In this case, Hakuba Cortina in Japan provided some epic conditions that should keep Miles smiling even if his home mountain

In 2010 Greg Hill set out to find his limits in ski mountaineering. Armed with little more than his essential gear, including a healthy stash of CLIF BAR and CLIF SHOT products, and an occasional crazy partner or two, Greg climbed and skied more than 2 million vertical feet in the calendar year.

Earning each of his turns along his journey, Greg summited 71 peaks in 5 countries. An accomplishment unmatched in the world of top performance climbers and ski mountaineers, this Team

This January in particular has been more like JUNE-uary in some parts of the world. Team CLIF Bar skier Jenn Berg has no problem finding a good time in the mountains no matter what the conditions.  Below Jenn gives us a glimpse of what she has been up to and reminds us all that life truly is about perspective. When life serves up snow, we ride POW; and when the sun shines (and the snow is tough to find), there's nothing like a mountain bike ride in the middle of winter.

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Team Clif snowboarder Forrest Shearer shares what he loves about the Wasatch Mountains and why it is imperative that we respect the environment to keep these playgrounds for future generations.  This video is part of a series put together by the Wilderness Society, a non-profit dedicated to protecting our natural areas and inspiring others to do the same.  Check out what else they are up to, and to see some more installments of the My Wilderness Series here.