Snow Sports
ArchiveDespite a less than stellar winter for snow on the East Coast in 2011, Meathead Films and their athletes decided to stick out warm temperatures, rainfall, and, later, icy slopes. They were rewarded with at least one big storm that offered plenty of powder.
Combine guerilla filmmaking with rails, concrete, and skis and you have Stept Productions new movie The Eighty Six. It's not all about pushing boundaries in the city. The crew visits pipes and mountains too. Still, the trailer makes it clear that the thrill comes from notching new, restricted ski spots…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/D7TB8b2t3QEJ.T. Holmes delivers Google's Glass to Sergey Brin. In case you missed it, J.T. Holmes is having kind of a big year. He ski-BASE jumped off a 260-foot cliff with…
“Every night we went to bed patching all the holes, doublechecking all the lines, and every morning we woke reminded of the Schwarzenegger strength of Murphy’s Law in these parts. For nearly two weeks, anything and everything was just going to shit.” —On the Road: Termas There's…
When Jimmy Chin calls out a new adventure film, it's worth paying attention. “This is gonna be epic … RT @Outside_TV: New trailer @absinthefilms #Resonance is up on our FB page! Looks Unreal! #snowboarding…
On October 9, Salomon Freeski TV will will kick off its sixth season. The series will include 12 episodes shot on location in Russia, Japan, Chile, Austria, France, Sicily, Canada, and the United States. Here's a taste of the stories to come. H/T:…
Daron Rahlves just outside of Juneau, Alaska. Photo: Mark Fisher, Fisher Creative/Facebook Anyone familiar with the Exposure section of Outside will instantly recognize the name…
Benedikt Böhm leads the charge. Photo: Dynafit One of the next big high-altitude speed feats will take place on Cho Oyu. In late September, German mountaineers Benedikt Böhm, 34, and…
Dave Riley maintains that he's only renegotiating his contract, but several employees have said that the CEO has been absent since returning from a vacation to find the locks on his office had been changed
Further poster. Photo: Teton Gravity Research Earlier this week, Jeremy Jones and TGR released the trailer for the movie Further. It's the…
Toy Soldier Productions just released the trailer to their new ski and snowboard flick, Act Natural. The movie shows a host of freeskiers and snowboarders testing their skills on slopes, concrete, and rails from California to Minnesota. The movie…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=P9IrVHoTwjc Three separate ski and snowboard tours joined forces last week to become one international series for freeriding. The Swatch Freeride World Tour, the Freeskiing World Tour, and The North Face Masters of Snowboarding will become the Swatch Freeride World…
Here's a different kind of ski flick. Chalk'n Ski is a one-minute short that took more than 20 hours to make. Chris Dickey of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, directed artist Emily Feuz as she sketched out ski scenes…
Since the winter of 2004, visitors to Les Arcs ski resort in the French Alps have woken up to find sprawling snow patterns that have a strange resemblance to crop circles. The prints stretch across otherwise untrammelled hillsides and the depressions left by frozen lakes.
For years, the team at Teton Gravity Research had talked about making a historical film about skiing Alaska. This past year, snow conditions provided a little push. “Essentially we had a weird feeling that it was not going to snow much in the lower…
Ring A Fing. Photo: Albert Lewis When Albert Lewis saw the faces of the dogs waiting to start the 2012 Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska, his thoughts about the sport of dogsledding shifted. “I…
This past spring, we screened Solitaire, a movie about skiing and snowboarding the remote slopes of South America. For those that haven't heard of the movie, it is a different sort of beast. Filmmakers…
On Tuesday, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced that it would include the late skier Sarah Burke in its 2012 Olympic Hall of Fame class. Burke died this past January after suffering an injury while training.
Black Diamond, maker of climbing gear, headlamps, skis, poles, packs, and more, announced today that it's adding adventure sports protective gear to its long list of exceptional offerings by acquiring POC. “POC and Black Diamond were both founded as solutions-based companies, focused on providing unmatched personal protection for active outdoor…
If any skiers ever needed motivation for learning video, they have it. On Thursday, Teton Gravity Research announced a new online video contest with a grand prize of $100,000, called The CoLab. Athletes will upload their videos to tetongravity.com, users…
A Q&A with an Outside in Aspen participant
A Q&A with an Outside in Aspen participant
In October 2009 freeskier Angeli VanLaanen was diagnosed with Lyme disease, 14 years after she first contracted the illness. As a result of the late diagnosis, the 26-year-old former X-Games competitior has had a number of health issues. Now, she's working to make…
A resort lights up. Photo: S. Borisov/Shutterstock The Golden Eagle Award is not, as it sounds, an accolade for Boy Scouts. It's an accolade for ski areas that give a hoot, so to speak, and are actively reducing their environmental impacts. The…
Just how much material is really needed to build a chair that can stand up to every type of everyday stress? That's the question designers Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram are trying to answer by employing new technology from Audi and the butts of…
Chris Davenport in Alaska, by Christian Pondella/Red Bull Skier Chris Davenport has set his next goal. On May 5, the man who skied all of Colorado’s 14ers in less…
Brooks Range, purveyor of fine snow safety gear, has introduced a BYO–build your own–program so that skiers, sled heads, and anyone else heading into avy country can be prepared with a tool that fits their preferences. You choose the shaft, edge, blade, handle, and color, and then…
A highlight reel of the extreme skier, courtesy of Matchstick Productions.
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Dallas Seavey [all photos courtesy of Loren Holmes; http://lorenholmes.com] Last week, 25-year-old Dallas Seavey became the youngest musher ever to win the Iditarod. A third generation musher—his father and grandfather (one of the race’s founders) are past Iditarod champions—Seavey…
Watch how Teton Gravity Research’s camerament deal with extreme conditions during Jeremy Jones shoot in the Arctic.
A new film from Carson Garner about the life work of ski patrollers around the Rocky Mountains.
This past Wednesday, an avalanche in the Wyoming backcountry killed the creator of the popular backcountry skiing blog, TetonAT.com. A few days before he died, we spoke with Romeo about the growing popularity of backcountry and sidecountry skiing.
Skate time with the Telluride Snow Leopards The author's little rippers have fun on the track [Emily Shoff] In his spare time, Scholtes helps coach the Snow Leopards, a local Nordic ski group for school-age kids. The only drill…
Discover what a passion for winter really means by schussing in the shadow of the Eiger, chowing down on five-star fondue in a slope-side farmhouse, or partying in Kitzbühel with the world's best skiers.
After a 13-day cruise to Antarctica to ski virgin powder with 22 of the world’s best guides, Kim Havell has some advice to share
Does a “3-in-1” jacket seem like a gimmick that can't possibly deliver on all fronts? 3-in-1 jacket means that the inner insulating layer and the outer jacket shell can each be worn individually, or they can be worn together for a third dual layer option.Columbia shows that…
A recent spate of avalanche deaths near ski resorts sparked a flurry of media reports, many declaring that so-called sidecountry skiing is becoming an increasingly dangerous pursuit. It's just not that simple.
The world's top alpinists continue to push the boundaries of human suffering and exposure with climbs of ever more technical peaks. Gear companies like The North Face, Mountain Hardwear, and Marmot don't sell a lot of high-end, alpine gear, but they need to keep their athletes happy. Clients willing to…
One Step Beyond is a profile of snowboarder and BASE jumper Geraldine Fasnacht. You can buy the film on March 8 at director Seb Montaz’s site.
Heading toward the Wasatch resorts. Photo: Flickr/CountryLemonade Vail Resorts this week announced that it is acquiring Northern California's Kirkwood Resort. Some of K-Wood's loyal fansare is dismayed, fearing that admission into Vail's empire could change Kirkwood's small-resort…
An avalanche in Washington State killed three skiers but spared a fourth who was wearing an avalanche air bag. For years, experts have warned skiers never to travel in the backcountry without beacons, rescue shovels, and probes. Is it time to add one more piece of gear to the list?
Ride Duster: Having trouble finding a ski helmet that fits? The Ride Duster works for all head shapes, thanks to independently moving panels that conform to even the eggiest noggins—all without pinching or squeezing. The company says the helmet's “Zone-Flex technology” consists of flexing pieces of certified-to-protect-your-head-in-a-crash…
Have you ever left your snowshoes home because they were too bulky to carry, only to regret it mid hike when you were postholing to your thighs in deep snow? Stories of stranded snowmobilers mired in the woods after they ran out of gas inspired Alaskan oil field worker Rick…
Lindsey Van talks about the new film Ready to Fly and her struggle to get women's ski jumping into the 2014 Winter Olympics
Tele boy Bennett goes big On Saturday evening at the base of Vail Mountain, Drummond—one of 8 top tele freestylers invited to participate in the “dueling trick session”—ratcheted up the awe factor once again, hucking a 70-foot gap and launching over a raging…
Jimmy Chin gets caught in an avalanche and is taken for a 2,000-foot ride in Wyoming’s Teton Mountains.
Electric snowmobile prototype by University of Wisconsin, Madison. Photo: Clean Snowmobile Challenge A typical mid-winter's day in Yellowstone National Park used to belie all notions you may harbor of a peaceful, quiet mountain hideaway. “People would go in and wait…
Duct Tape Then Beer skis epic powder in the sidecountry of Washington’s Mount Baker. Here’s how you can repeat the trip.
Ski-in, ski-out/drive-in, drive out @ the GMD Another bonus: Kids who learn to ski at Alta are pretty much destined to become rippers. On one ride up Collins, we saw three or four kids launch off a small cliff at full speed on…
According to the Peltzman effect, helmets and seat belts cause people to ski, drive, and ride more recklessly, if only slightly. We don’t suggest you trash your lid, but consider these numbers.
Finnish freestyle skier AJ Kemppainen gives us an inside (literally) look at what it’s like to train in a country consumed by darkness for most of the winter.
Dustin O’Brien catches a freak fall from the top of New Hampshire’s Tuckerman Ravine. Read True Tales Behind the Web’s Best (Worst) Moments for the behind-the-scenes story.
[all photos: La Ferme du Soleil] It’s been snowing in the Alps, and we’ve got schussing on the brain, especially since we stumbled across this choice ski-in, ski-out mountain hideout at 4,200 feet the Haute Savoie. La Ferme du Soleil (“Farm of Sunshine”) is Sound of…
Aksel Svindal has three Olympic medals, two World Cup titles, and the affections of fellow ski racer Julia Mancuso. But can he transcend the sport and become the next Hermann Maier? HAMPTON SIDES tracks down the Norwegian beast slopeside to talk about the 2007 crash that nearly ended his career and his chances of dominating the 2012 World Cup.
Good times for all in the Whistler high country [Photo: Paul Morrison] Now that the snow is finally falling in the Pacific Northwest, Rockies, and Northeast, it’s time to start chasing powder. Given the steep costs and major schlep factor, family ski trips can…
Will America's best skier ever win his sport's most prestigious race?
The smartest, most useful, and most inspiring blogs to keep your winter stoke high
A couple weeks ago on Raising Rippers, I wrestled with the dilemma we face when writing or posting about rad kids and their outdoor antics. Are we exploiting them for our own purposes or holding them up as inspiration to all? The answer is obvious when you…
As she spins 360s and grinds rails, keep in mind that Kelly Sildaru is nine.
A group of skiers fly into British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains for a week of backcountry skiing.
In the hunt for powder with snowboarders Xavier de le Rue, Anne Flore Marxer and Victor de Le Rue. The first video in a series from www.timelinemissions.comwww.timelinemissions.com.
Photographer Tristan Gresko experiments (very successfully) with tilt-shift photography in his short ode to the world’s smallest ski resort.
In an interview from Sarah Burke's bedside, friend & fellow ski star Kristi Leskinen gives Grayson Schaffer the prognosis.
Australian Pat Farmer is on track to finish a ten-month pole-to-pole jog—without taking a single day off
Ski filmmaker Nick Waggoner talks to Caty Enders about losing two friends while producing Solitaire, the story of a ski pilgrimage through South America
Highlights from this year’s ski mountaineering championships in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Watch Nick Waggoner's ground-breaking backcountry ski film Solitaire
An early season reminder that avalanche conditions are high across much of the West. Here are some tips from snowboarder Jeremy Jones on how to stay safe in the backcountry. …
Kaj Zackrisson and Mike Douglas search for powder in Switzerland–using only trains for transport.
So in the interest of setting them up for success (in the words of outdoor education experts at the National Outdoor Leadership School), best not to push two agendas at once. Better to wait for the next bluebird day for ski…
The latest episode shows freestyle skiing’s latest tricks. Filmed in black, white, and slow motion.
JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo. A couple of weeks ago, National Geographic Adventure posted a great interview with J.P. Auclair about his role in the the movie…
Cinematographer Curt Morgan joins up with the Camp 4 Collective to tell the behind the scenes story of a shoot high in Wyomings Tetons.