photo: http://cm.mountainlifemag.ca Alex Cairns, of Squamish, British Colombia was born with Spinal Bifida, leaving him paralyzed from the knees down. When he was fifteen, his grandmother signed him up for his first sit ski lesson. Six years later, Alex is crushing it, from the racing to sending cliffs and shredding pow. Check out this short documentary […]
Western State Colorado University Professor Duane Vandenbusche gave this lecture on ski history in Crested Butte last December. It’s a pretty awesome look at life back in the early 1900s.
Berkeley Patterson will be representing North America on the Freeride World Tour next winter. It’s not hard to see why. Make sure you see the stomped 360 off Whistler’s famed Air Jordan at the end. Berkeley Patterson 2016-2017 from Berkeley Patterson on Vimeo.
Thomas McLean was out getting it all season. Especially that part where it snowed for 6 weeks. You probably saw the tall, goofy guy snaking your line with a quick, “sorry, dude” and you weren’t sure if the bloke had an English accent or not. This edit is fun and there are so many quick faceshots in […]
Coming off Almost Ablaze and Jeremy Jones’ Higher, Teton Gravity Research looks to continue their hot streak with The Sammy C Project. Seems like they’re on the right track.
Arapahoe Basin opened and the kids got after it. CUFST member Condor Obrien has moves.
Rob Vandervoort joined a crew of snowboarders for the Rocky Mountain Freeride Championships, a rider judged casual event on Mount Evans. Here’s a little edit he put together.
photo: George McCloskey Check out this video of Alta’s Closing Day Party. It is pretty rowdy. Some Crested Butte folks in town for the Subaru Freeride Series were lucky enough to take part. Check it out.
The Freeskiing World Tour’s event went off last weekend with good snow and great skiing. The skiing fields were stacked and Forrest Jillson ended up walking away with another win at Big Sky followed up by Andrew Pollard in 2nd, the Sickbird winner, and Sydney Simard, the North Face Young Gun Winner, in 3rd. On […]
Salomon Freeski TV Episode 4 features Josh Daiek, Mike Henitiuk & Kieran Nikula shredding ghost towns in British Colombia. Continuing in Salomon Freeski TV tradition, this episode is creative and well done. In the mid 1800’s, BC’s mountain towns boomed as prospectors flocked north during the great gold rush. Josh Daiek, Mike Henitiuk & Kieran […]