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Tim's Lane, from filmmaker Oliver Sutro, is a story about a (somewhat) famous聽ski run in Colorado's San Juan Mountains. You can follow him on YouTube here.聽…
Simon Beck spends a lot of his time with snowshoes strapped to his feet, clomping in circles through powder. It鈥檚 much more than a futile exercise鈥攊t鈥檚 art.
He's the speediest skier on earth. Just how fast can he go?
The Mt. Baker Legendary Banked Slalom is the country鈥檚 longest-running snowboard comp, having started in 1985 as a flowy ride through a naturally-formed halfpipe that snakes down the White Salmon side of the mountain. Today, the pioneering snowboarding event is also one of the last in which pros compete alongside amateurs.
In early February, pro cyclist Tim Johnson became the first person to pedal to the top of New Hampshire鈥檚 6,288-foot high Mount Washington in the dead of winter.
An Alaskan engineer brought a bicycle to a 1,000-mile dogsledding race through the remote Yukon. He spent two weeks pedaling through the wilderness, with no tent.
The Gelande Quaff harks back to the true spirit of skiing鈥攈aving a damn good time
Back for More,聽from filmmaker Pat Branch, is a film that looks at what drives skiers and snowboarders to come back聽season after season, risking injury in order to progress in their sports. Look for the full film in the fall of 2016.聽…
Andrew Muse and the folks at Ski Utah have been completely spoiled by this year's El Ni帽o. For proof, look no further than聽this edit from a recent trip聽to Brian Head Resort in Southern Utah. We bet it'll make you as jealous as we…
Salomon Athlete Josh Daiek recently completed the first聽one-day assault of the Tahoe 10,000, an incredible feat that includes 22 miles of travel on skis, four iconic peaks, and 10,000 feet of vertical climbing. This edit from Daiek shows the highlights from one very long, but epic day.聽…
Snow days in a mountain town are few and far between. So, when Telluride School District canceled school for just the third time in 15 years, local ripper Cedar Palmer took full advantage by waxing up his Wagner Custom Skis and hitting the hill with some Broncos Spirit.
A big northwest swell lit the North Shore's Banzai Pipeline, providing spectacular makes and even more spectacular slams.
In the seventh episode聽of Salomon Freeski TV's ninth season,聽skiers Mike Douglas and Alexis Godbout聽take聽on Switzerland's famed Skier's Haute Route. It's聽one of the coolest tours we've ever seen.聽…
A behind-the-scenes moment from Teton Gravity Research's 鈥婸aradise Waits.
Avalanche rescue dogs have an incredibly important job. In this video, filmmaker Brett Schreckengost gives a behind-the-scenes look at the daily life of an avalanche rescue dog at Telluride.
In Reverie, the final episode of Volume II of DPS Cinematic's The Shadow Campaign,聽DPS Koalas Piers Solomon and Santiago Guzman catch an incredible storm in Gressoney, Italy.聽…
The pro skier from Utah isn鈥檛 just skiing鈥檚 starlet of the moment. She is the new fixture in ski movie lore. And everyone is watching.
For two days, freeskiers and snowboarders will replace baseball players in this iconic stadium as part of a new big-air event.
From snowboarding and skiing at world-class resorts to snowshoeing and ice skating, winter is the perfect season to play outside in California
A Breckenridge distillery accidentally started an international competition that involves lining up hundreds of people to all do a shot of alcohol at the same time. Now the town has to defend the title.
When the temperature drops, hardcore hockey players around the world leave behind climate-controlled rinks and return to the frozen ponds where the sport was born.
Episode five聽of聽Salomon Freeski TV's ninth season is a throwback to season seven, when the Salomon team asked their skiers to drop everything and chase a monster storm in Japan. In Moment's Notice 2: The Chase to聽Chamonix,聽the same call was made and the crew headed to Chamonix…
Community-led recreation holds the secret to building sustainable local resorts
Every skier has their list: the snowy places they鈥檇 like to go, the lines they plan on riding, the mountains they hope to climb. Well, here鈥檚 ours, and it鈥檚 chock full of some of life鈥檚 grandest adventures and simplest joys.
Episode 4 of Salomon Freeski TV's ninth season focuses on one of the most legendary ski locations in the world: Bella Coola, British Columbia.聽Skiers Leo Ahrens, Leah Evans, and Colston VB spent a week skiing epic lines, which inspired聽Ahrens聽to…
Manuel Genswein has spent more than two decades burying himself alive and pushing shovels to their breaking point to 颅determine the best ways to save snow-slide victims. His biggest challenge? 颅Convincing the world鈥檚 most experienced rescuers that he鈥檚 right.
Ski areas around the country are adapting to shorter snow seasons by beefing up their summertime activities
Olympic gold medal鈥搘inning freestyle skier David Wise counts on his Reno home to keep him on top
If you aren't already obsessed with skiing, the latest film from Volume II of DPS Cinematic's The Shadow Campaign should do the trick. Snowflake,聽a Banff 国产吃瓜黑料 Film Festival selection for 2015-2016, is the story of an eccentric Swiss skier with one of the most brilliant聽philosophies on life…
Ian McIntosh did everything right鈥攚hether he meant to or not
BDTV Episode 3: A Simple Machine gives us an inside look at one of the most iconic lifts in skiing: the La Grave cable car. “Le Telepherique” was built in 1976, and has been pivotal in helping the mountain develop its mythical reputation.聽…
In 2015, pro skier Ian McIntosh took one of the worst falls ever captured on video while filming for Teton Gravity Research's new film, Paradise Waits. Watch and you'll see why TGR co-founder Todd Jones called the incident the “most terrifying…
Pro skier Angel Collinson's line in the recent Teton Gravity Research film Paradise Waits is being called one of the best female skiing segments ever shot.聽“In 20 years of filming skiing,聽I have never seen a female skier charge Alaska the way…
Lahout's Country Clothing and Ski Shop聽in Littleton, New Hampshire, is America's oldest ski outfitter, and it hasn't changed聽much since it first opened in 1920. It's been run by four generations of the Lahout family, but it was Joe Lahout,聽now 93, who…
Episode 3 of Salomon Freeski TV Season 9 centers around photographer Reuben Krabbe's vision to capture skiing during a solar eclipse. The聽team traveled to the Arctic and battled epic weather conditions, but on March 20, 2015, Krabbe's wish was granted.聽…
鈥淧ut on the damn skis, and go like hell.鈥
By measuring the shifting, melting caverns, scientists and cavers have been able to document glacial melt from within
But the Forest Service has a plan to stop them: working together so that glading works for everybody
The Warmth of Winter is the second installment in Volume II of DPS Cinematic's The Shadow Campaign. In this episode, the DPS team takes refuge from a brutal storm and relishes in the “warmth of winter.”…
In the second episode from BDTV, The Forecaster, Utah avalanche expert Drew Hardesty shares an important message that all backcountry skiers should take to heart.聽…
Before you head into the backcountry in search of untracked snow, you need to get schooled and geared up. Here鈥檚 how.
Angel Collinson, Kalen Thorien, and Bryan Fox shred harder than most鈥攂etween the three of them, they鈥檝e been featured in dozens of ski and snowboard films and magazine stories (including this one). But each of them have passions that run deeper than just dropping big lines. Angel lobbies Congress each fall on behalf of Protect Our Winters, Kalen is a Youth Ambassador for American Rivers; and Bryan is the founder of Drink Water, a company that encourages people to eschew energy drinks in favor of water. Last week we kicked the photo gallery off with Kalen. This week we add Angel to the mix.
How do you create a life that balances work, family and your passion for the mountains? In the first episode of BDTV, we travel to J盲mtland, Sweeden, where Henrik Westling recently became the first person to climb and ski every one of the region's 178 summits. In…
Portrait of a Skier聽is a short film from filmmaker Andy Lloyd featuring two Australian ski instructors with 100 years of combined experience. Turns out you learn a lot after teaching people to ski for 50 years.
Episode 1 of Salomon Freeski TV's ninth season focuses on Northern New Mexico's Taos Ski Valley. Once an abandoned mine dump in the southernmost part of the Rocky Mountains, Taos聽is home to some of the most abundant and aggressive in-bounds ski terrain in North…
The Weight of Winter is the first installment in Volume II of DPS Cinematic's The Shadow Campaign. Watch as a massive snowstorm consumes Hokkaido聽and three wanderers push forward with all the weight of winter pressing down upon them.聽…
The team attempting the first ski descent of Makalu finally gets a chance to play in the snow
Snowsurf, from filmmaker Shane Peel and My House Pictures, is聽about a group of snowboarders and surfers who are forging a new genre of snowboarding in one of the world's last great powder snow zones, Hokkiado, Japan.聽…
Salomon Freeski TV is back for its 9th season. This year Salomon reached further and dug deeper to bring the films we've all come to expect, plus an all-new immersive multimedia experience that will bring you closer than ever to the action. The Season…
DPS Skis Cinematic's Shadow Campaign returns with Volume 2 this Fall. In association with Gore-Tex and Outdoor Research, four short films will document the DPS Koalas' time spent in Japan, Italy and Switzerland chasing deep storms throughout 2015.聽…
The five elite athletes on the team share their first-descent plans and expedition concerns
Conquering the Useless, a new film聽from Cody Townsend,聽Team Thirteen聽and Swatch, features聽Townsend, Dave Treadway, Elyse Saugstad and Chris Rubens skiing some of the most incredible lines we've ever seen in Revelstoke, Bella Coola and the Boundary Mountains on the border of Alaska…
This is the official trailer for Fade to Winter, a new film from Matchstick Productions that aims to capture the spirit of nine skiers who go to great lengths for the sport they love.
In November 2014, photographer Jim Harris was practicing ski turns with a traction kite in Patagonia when the wind picked him up, whipped him around and threw him into the side of the mountain, resulting in a brutal spinal cord injury. For a while, Jim had no…
To ski the world鈥檚 highest and most remote peaks, O鈥橬eill starts her days many hours before the sun comes up
By age 34, the Colorado native had won the World Extreme Skiing Championships and an X Games medal, starred in sweet ski-porn videos, and had two kids. But his desire to ski big mountains was still growing and inspired his biggest project yet.
Meet the Dorais brothers鈥攁 pair of ski mountaineers, ER docs, and family men whose toughest battle is being fought far away from the mountains
Working for the Weekend follows longtime Meathead Films veteran, Ben Leoni. Leoni lives in Portland Maine, where he holds down a career as an attorney but still finds time to get out into the mountains on the weekend. The series showcases the best skiing…
Just because it’s theoretically possible to climb聽and ski off North America’s tallest volcano in 24 hours or less, including travel time from the airport, doesn’t mean you should. Watch as professional skiers聽Brody Leven and Caroline Gleich, along with 国产吃瓜黑料 Senior Editor Grayson Schaffer…
Meet Jake,聽Vail Ski Patrol's latest recruit. The 10-week-old Yellow Lab got his first taste of snow at the top of Vail earlier this month, and soon he'll start working with Patroller Matt Whalen to master obedience skills, get used to riding chairlifts and train…
UK snowboarder Billy Morgan made history yesterday when he landed the first-ever Backside 1800 Quadruple Cork. That's a jump containing four off axis flips and five full rotations, and one full flip and half a rotation bigger than the previous biggest trick, landed last month by Yuki Kadono. Video…
The real world of urban jibbing and the not-so real world of toys collide in Toyland. Let your imagination run wild while watching the final episode of Salomon Freeski TV Season 8.聽…
Pro skier Bobby Brown welcomes the first days of Spring with a little slush riding in Keystone, Colorado. A short film from George Knowles.聽聽…
Allows skiers to bank unused days and apply them to the next season
The volcanoes of Tongariro National Park in New Zealand mark the most treasured spot in all of Maori culture. Mike Douglas, Chris Rubens and Josh Daiek gain unprecedented access to these sacred lands in Season 8, Episode 11 of Salomon Freeski TV.聽聽聽 聽 聽…
Pro dogsledders have never made much money, and their marquee event, the Iditarod, has been under attack by animal-rights activists since it was founded. But now there's a new threat to the ancient tradition: lawsuits that claim the dogs are a menace to society.
In case you haven't noticed, fat biking is fun. Outdoor writers Peter Koch and Jeremy Berger certainly didn't need convincing, but they accepted an invitation from the team at SRAM—bicycle component gurus—to get a taste of the culture during the Global Fat Biking Summit this January. Armed with Beargrease and Bucksaw rides, the group cruised through some of Jackson, Wyoming's best terrain as photographer Adrian Marcoux followed along. We caught up with the group to figure out just how much fun some big tires and hard-packed snow can be.
In late February, 2015, the largest storm in a decade blanketed New Mexico with more than 70 inches of snow. Those who were ready headed to Taos Ski Valley for the best skiing of the season. Here’s how it all went down. 聽…
Yuki Kadono got the winning run at the 2015 Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships, with a score of 90.05 in his third and final fun. He made history when he landed a backside triple cork 1620 mute, to a switch backside triple cork 1620 melon, a first-ever…
The Weather Channel has a plan if we exhaust the alphabet this winter鈥攖hough you might be surprised who鈥檚 really behind it.
We made our own list of what we love about winter, but it's always more fun to ask. Using the #国产吃瓜黑料PerfectThings, our Instagram followers shared more than 1,700 snapshots of their favorite cold-weather comforts. As always, the response was overwhelming. Filled with deep snow, adult sodas, happy dogs, and countless adventures, here are 30 of our favorites.聽
Winter 2014 was one of the best they’ve ever had in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy. In Salomon Freeski TV Season 8, Episode 10, the Good Times Crew rolled in and took full advantage.聽 聽 聽…
Lightweight, breathable apparel that'll turn you into a Nordic ski champ
In We Are the Faction Collective: #S02E02, Tim McChesney, Tom Granier, Daniel Hanka and Etienne Merel brave the cold and ice of Northern Europe. From the streets of Estonia to Finland, follow the Faction crew as they hit rusty rails, schools and abandoned buildings,…
After three years of failing on the slopes, online editor Scott Rosenfield finally discovers the beauty鈥攁nd pain鈥攐f downhill skiing.
Near the end of filming for Red Bull’s Days of My Youth, the crew found another area that’s been dubbed “the Crack’s little brother,” in reference to Cody Townsend’s line of the year down the infamous “Crack.” Italian skier Markys Eder decided to drop in, and what…
After years of failing on the slopes, Online Editor Scott Rosenfield finally discovers the beauty鈥揳nd pain鈥搊f downhill skiing. Watch his transformation from Zero to Hero, as he tries to conquer his challenge of becomming a strong enough skier to skin up the mountain at…
The non-profit group Mountain Pact encourages mountain towns to unite politically. The goal: galvanize politicians to protect winter.