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	<title>Stephen Koch</title>
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	<description>Professional Speaker, Mountain Guide, Snowboard Instructor, Alpinist and Family Man</description>
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		<title>COLD &#8211; MOVIE TRAILER AND THOUGHTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw Cory Richard&#8217;s short film, COLD, on Saturday at the Adventure Film Festival&#8217;s Jackson stop. The rawness and honesty of the writing moved me. I liked how Cory narrated it and told it like it was. This past February 2, 2011, Simone Moro, Cory Richards, and Denis Urubko experienced brutal COLD as they completed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2011/12/cold-movie/</link>
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		<title>Adventure Film Festival Tonight in Jackson Hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The venue has changed to the Town Square Tavern. Join us for the Adventure Film Festival World Tour Show in Jackson, Wyoming. Climb. Ride. Slide. Fly. Fight For Your Environment. Inspire. Go Higher Than You’ve Ever Dared To Go. Journey into the imagination. Behold the idealized beauty, carved by unbridled passion, at the first annual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2011/12/adventure-film-festival-tonight-in-jackson-hole/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Koch&#8217;s Ice Climbing Tip #1: What&#8217;s in Your Pack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s the cold and dark time of year again. Time for ice to form and time to climb the ice. Below is a short video about what I carry in my pack for a day of ice climbing. Enjoy!]]></description>
		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2011/11/stephen-kochs-ice-climbing-tip-1-whats-in-your-pack/</link>
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		<title>Ice Climbing Tips with Stephen Koch</title>
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		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2011/01/test-3/</link>
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		<title>Simple All Around Exercise For Everyone &#8211; The Burpee!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this short video I demonstrate and explain the "Burpee," a wonderful all around exercise that requires only one thing, YOU! No props, no weights, bands, benches, balls or anything else to give you an excuse to not do them! Simple. All you need is a little encouragement and belief that you will be more loved if you do these. You will! You will love yourself for doing this wonderful all around exercise! The Burpee works your legs, core, shoulders, back, chest and face, hands (clapping), and face (from the inner joy that will emit from your being through your smile because you accomplished something that will benefit you greatly!).]]></description>
		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2010/11/simple-all-around-exercise-for-everyone-the-burpee/</link>
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		<title>Proper Mountain Nutrition And Motivation With Greg Hill Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greg Hill is going for 2 Million Vertical feet of skinning and skiing this year. Greg, a Canadian ski mountaineer, is well on his way to his goal with over 1,600,000&#8242; skied this year! Massive goal! Massive Respect! In this short video Greg explains how he fuels himself, sometimes for 15 10K vertical days in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2010/11/proper-mountain-nutrition-and-motivation-with-greg-hill-video/</link>
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		<title>Cold and Raw weather &#8211; time for Merino Wool! I/O Bio on West Hourglass Couloir of Nez Perce with Darrel Miller and Storm Show Studios</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it is cold and raw, like it is now in Jackson Hole, I reach for my wool. The new Merino wool is not uncomfortable and scratchy like its predecessor. This is not the wool sweater your mother used to throw on you. The new wool is luxuriously comfortable, warm and best of all for the active set, doesn't smell worse than if  you rolled around in the dogs mess, like most synthetic long underwear, after sweating in it.

The thing I like about I/O Bio is the styling of the pieces. They are made to function for high intensity activities like running, biking, climbing, skiing and snowboarding, but they also look good worn on their own. So you can be just off a backcountry skiing or snowboarding run on Teton Pass, peel off your soft shell jacket and head straight into work with nary a nostril flared nor eyebrow raised.

Last winer Darrel Miller and I partnered for a climb and descent of he Teton Classic West Hourglass Couloir. The WHC rises above Garnet Canyon at a lovely steep angle on a north aspect for around 2,000 plus feet. ]]></description>
		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2010/11/cold-and-raw-weather-time-for-merino-wool-io-bio-on-west-hourglass-couloir-of-nez-perce-with-darrel-miller-and-storm-show-studios/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Koch&#8217;s Backcountry Snowboarding and Skiing Gear List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winter will be here before we know it&#8230;don&#8217;t get caught without the essentials for a safe, fun and successful backcountry outing. Check it out&#8230; http://bit.ly/abcWqj]]></description>
		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2010/10/stephen-kochs-backcountry-snowboarding-and-skiing-gear-list/</link>
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		<title>Shattered &#8211; Story of a Mountain Rescue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was climbing on the Valhalla Traverse on the Enclosure/Grand Teton when my climbing partner, Michelle Smith, slipped and fell on the challenging terrain. After tumbling 30 feet down the mountain, the rope came taut and she stopped. It was then that she looked down at her misshapen leg and realized the severity of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2010/09/shattered-story-of-a-mountain-rescue/</link>
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		<title>Rare Flower Discovered in Tetons &#8211; Alpine Lantern / Lychnis apetala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While climbing the north face of the Grand Teton earlier this month I took photographs of this beautiful, rare and unusual looking flower which I had never seen before, called Alpine Lantern, at about 11,900 &#8211; 12,000 feet, just below the Guano Chimney. After some searching and inquiring about it, this is what Dick Scott, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stephenkoch.com/2010/08/rare-flower-discovered-in-tetons-alpine-lantern-lychnis-apetala/</link>
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