Early season ski at Blackcomb British Columbia. Cold smoke and no lift lines… Photo courtesy Andy Traslin.

Unless you’ve been living in a deep, dark cave… You may have noticed that there is a lot of cool stuff going on out there. So, we thought it was high-time we started rounding up some of our faves each week. We call it the Osprey Round-Up… Happy Friday!

The weather has turned in the U.S. We can see our breath in the mornings as we bike to work, we can see the snow-capped mountains taunting us throughout the work-week and we’re already packing up the car to get a headstart on our weekend adventures.

We’re always psyched to see folks getting out there and getting after it, exploring and reconnecting with wild places and their own wildness — and putting our packs through the ringer. We’ve been loving all of the photos our Facebook fans have posted over the last couple of weeks, so we decided to highlight a few of our favorites today to inspire us all to head for the hills this weekend.

Happy Friday!

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Music on the Mountaintop is a one of a kind, ecologically driven large-scale music festival, offering first class entertainment as well as educational awareness on current environmental issues. Osprey is a proud sponsor of the festival and we look forward to throwing down each year!

This year we’ve decided to get our Facebook fans involved with the fun!

Here’s how you get involved:

• Visit both Osprey Packs and Music on the Mountaintop on Facebook and “like” each page.
• Comment on this blog post when you do!

On August 22, we’ll pick one winner at random to win a host of awesome prizes! Here’s what’s up for grabs:

• 2 Osprey Vector 22 wheeled travel bags
• 2 Osprey Talon packs
• 2 Music on the Mountaintop Festival AND Camping Passes

All so you and a friend can travel in style to the festival! Good luck!

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Unless you’ve been living in a deep, dark cave… You may have noticed that there is a lot of cool stuff going on out there. So, we thought it was high-time we started rounding up some of our faves each Friday. Every month, we’ll be choosing a theme that fits with the Osprey lifestyle. Since we’ve hit the ground running into 2011, we figured there was no better theme than “taking a leap”. So all month we’ll be highlighting people, organizations that are going for it — leaping, diving and running as fast as they can to live this life. Welcome to the Osprey Friday Round-Up!

We’re still digging ourselves out of Outdoor Retailer withdrawals, but we managed to pull together a list of a few of our favorite things from the show…

You really “Like” us! Thanks to everyone for spreading the Osprey love over the last few weeks to push us over 10,000 Facebook fans. To celebrate, we brought together a few of our favorite things to share with all of you at Outdoor Retailer: Timmy O’Neill, beer and trucker hats. Take a gander at some of the fabulous shots from our party in the gallery below… More here. Have any shots of your own from the party or OR? Share them on our Flickr page!

Giving back to our wildlands. It wouldn’t be OR, if we didn’t do something to give back to the very places that form the bedrock of our industry. We’re proud to have joined dozens of other Conservation Alliance member companies in raising more than $40,000 for the Alliance. All of which will go directly to protecting the wild places we love.

We also joined Winter Wildlands Alliance for a packed showing of the Backountry Film Festival. It’s hard not to be inspired after watching such awesome films that celebrate the human-powered experience to the max. Excited to be a part of the movement. Keep an eye out for screenings near you!

And finally, thank you to REI for naming Osprey Packs your 2010 Vendor of the Year in the Camping Division! Lots of love and gratitude to REI and Outdoor Retailer!

Happy Friday!

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The Outdoor Retailer madness begins next week and we’ve got a packed line-up! And you get to hang out with these guys (above)… See you there!

DEMO DAY: Wednesday, January 19

Osprey at All Mountain Demo-Solitude Mountain Resort — pack demos including the brand new lift accessed and sidecountry riding Karve pack. We’ll also have great gear giveways and high-fives at the Osprey tent, think SNOW!

DAY 1: Thursday, January 20

Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival Brewvies — Doors Open at 7:00 p.m. show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Osprey is proud sponsor of the Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival and is excited to be a part of the OR Winter Market showing. Osprey will be on hand in support of our winter wildlands and giving away a plenty of brand new side-country ski packs and other sweet gear!

DAY 2: Friday, January 21

Osprey Packs 10,000 Fans Facebook Party — 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the Osprey Booth #5011

Come visit us at the Osprey Booth to celebrate our 10,000th Facebook Fan! We will have special guest Timmy O’Neill,  plenty of beer, Osprey prizes and even a Facebook photo booth complete with props to get your best Facebook profile ever!

ONGOING

Support the Conservation Alliance!

Osprey will be selling the Karve 6 technical side country ski pack for $30 (MSRP $79) to support the Conservation Alliance. We’ll start selling the packs on Day 1 until we’re SOLD OUT! We’ve got 50 up for grabs, so get ‘em while they are HOT!

Breast Cancer Fund Special Verve 10’s

We’ll have a sign up sheet to receive the latest news about environmental connections to breast cancer via email.  And 2 lucky winners will win a special Verve 10 in purple. That’s right, PURPLE!  We’ll also have these hawt packs on display in the booth.

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Nothing’s more exciting than having Timmy O’Neill come to your door and give you a Hornet 24. And a digeridoo. Help us get to 10,000 fans by January 20, 2011 and you might win too!

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We’re working our way towards 10,000 fans by the end of 2011, and along the way our very own Timmy O’Neill is visiting some of our lucky fans.

Want the chance to win some free gear too? All you have to do is friend us on Facebook! Help us get to 10,000 fans by the end of the year by spreading the Osprey love and encouraging your friends to do the same. 

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Like Osprey? Join us in our quest to break the 10,000 like mark by January 20, 2011! Along the way we’ll be giving away a plethora of packs from our new Spring 2011 product line. A few of our lucky “likers” will receive a very special visit from Osprey athlete Timmy O’Neill! Here’s how it works…

8,500 Likes

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• 10 Lucky Likers will win our new men’s Viper 7 or women’s Verve 7 hydration pack and a trucker’s hat!
• 1 Lucky Liker will receive a visit from our film crew and Timmy O’Neill. Beneath the glare of TV lights they’ll receive prizes, fame and recognition. We’ll post a video of the spectacle for all to see!

9,000 Likes

• 10 Lucky Likers will win our new women’s Sirrus 36 technical daypack and a trucker’s hat.!
• 1 Lucky Liker will receive a visit from our roaming film crew and you guessed it, Timmy O’Neill. Underneath the even brighter glare of TV lights and news helicopters, they’ll receive a prolific plethora of prizes and instant fame and recognition. We’ll post another video of the spectacle for all to see!

9,500 Likes

• 10 Lucky Likers will win our new Hornet 24 super light technical daypack and a trucker’s hat!
• 1 Lucky Liker will receive a very special visit from our roaming film crew and yes indeed, Timmy O’Neill. Underneath the blinding lights of Hollywood and Bollywood, they’ll receive an unprecedented and dazzling array of prizes and the mixed blessings that come with fame and recognition. Video? All over the web!

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  Osprey's Hornet

10,000 Likes

• 10 Lucky Likers will receive our new Momentum 26 bicycle commuter pack and a trucker’s hat.
• 10 Lucky Likers will receive our new Metron 25 urban commuter pack and a trucker’s hat.
• 1 Lucky Liker will experience a life changing event thanks to our roaming film crew and Timmy O’Neill. The world will be watching and prizes will be plentiful. Tears will be shed. An epic video of the entire saga will be shot around the world forall to see!

All you need to do is help us hit our goals all the way to 10,000! We’ll randomly select winners along the way. So get your friends and your friends, friends, friends to join us on the Osprey Facebook page. Odds of winning are better than 1 in 1,000. Let’s see Publisher’s Clearing House beat that!

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