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CB Skis for Jim Jack – A Year Later

We lost our friends Jim Jack, John Brenan, and Chris Rudolph in a tragic avalanche a year ago at Stevens Pass, WA.  We think about our lost friends everyday.  As the head judge at countless FWT events and former head of the I...
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Francesca Pavillard Cain Takes 3rd at Haines FWT

Crested Butte’s own Francesca Pavillard Cain has earned herself another podium finish this season.  This time, Francesca opened the competition in Haines with a solid run, good enough for third, behind Silvia Moser and E...
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FWT Snowbird Live Feed

Francesca Pavillard Cain and the rest of the Freeride World Tour are set to kick things off at 10:30 MST.  If this live feed doesn’t work, check out freerideworldtour.com. FWT14 LIVE HERE ! – SWATCH FREERIDE WORL...
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FWT Snowbird Postponed

Yesterday, on what was supposed to be the morning of the Freeride World Tour stop at Snowbird, a large avalanche ripped out during patrol’s control work.  The slide, which had a 12 foot crown, has made the venue unrideab...
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Francesca Pavillard-Cain Checks in After Chamonix FWT

Our friend Francesca took an unfortunate fall in her first ever FWT at Chamonix this last weekend.  No worries, though, she’s skiing pow in Switzerland getting ready for her next competition at Fieberbrunn in Austria thi...
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Hazel Birnbaum: 2016

Tahoe based ripper Hazel Birnbaum threw together a fun edit from her time traveling and skiing on the Freeride World Tour last season. Enjoy.
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Sam Smoothy Andorra POV

As you probably know, Sam Smoothy’s first place run at the FWT in Andorra was nuts.  Here’s the POV.
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Tom Runcie’s 2012 Season Edit

Low snow years can still be a lot of fun.  There aren’t many people I know that have as much fun day in and day out as Tom Runcie does.  This year, Tom got 3rd place at Taos, 3rd place at Snowbird, and Sickbird at Snowb...
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FWT Chamonix Highlights and Results

On the other side of Mt. Blanc from Courmayeur, the Chamonix Freeride World Tour event went down yesterday with Loic Collomb-Patton taking back to back titles in the ski men’s division.  Emilien Badoux of Switzerland too...
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Francesca Pavillard Cain’s Blog: Redemption in Austria

We’re so stoked Francesca took 2nd at the FWT stop at Fieberbrunn-Kappl.  Read her blog below and visit it for more photos. After a pretty epic tomahawk in Chamonix I was looking for some redemption in Fieberbrunn. Chec...
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