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After a successful adventure one year ago, Gabe Taylor and I decided to take advantage of the low snow year and embark on another mission up to California's Bloody Couloir, a classic, mustdo Eastern Sierra couloir. We hoped to outdo our last year's spring adventure, Unbound to Bloody, so this year,...
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In late April, President Obama gave a speech at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While he was there, he met up with David Lesh, a skier and the founder of FD Wear, a ski outerwear company. Lesh, for reasons even he can barely explain, was allowed to drive along with the presidential motorcade...
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Sierra Quitiquit Gallery From skiing powder in Utah to photo shoots in Bali. Gallery You may not know Sierra Quitiquit by name. But you may recognize her face. The Park City, Utah, native and sponsored bigmountain skier recently signed with a modeling agency and has been pursuing a fullfledged...
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Throughout his storied career as a sponsored freeskier, snowboarder, Olympic athlete and ski marketing manager for Electric Visual and Skullcandy, Jimbo Morgan harbored a dream to create a clothing brand. In 2006, Tomahawk International was launched in concept and the first pieces of clothing will...
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Over 8 million kids attend summer camp each year across America. While most camp experiences are highlighted by mosquito bites, macram and smoky campfire singalongs, some kids get away with a more exciting alternative: ski camp. Ski camp is the perfect way to break up the summer doldrums, hone your...
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Training Camp in Pictures Airbags, coaches, video analysis and more at Mammoth's spring training camp. Gallery The U.S. Freeskiing and Snowboarding teams have been at Mammoth Mountain, Calif., this week for a spring training camp at one of the few ski areas still left open for the winter...
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In case you haven't noticed, goggles much like skis and outerwear are getting bigger. The trend of oversized goggles has grown the last few years, with most major eyewear companies introducing some sort of goggle with jumbosize lenses.At the SIA tradeshow last January, Oakley debuted the new...
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Torin YaterWallace, 16, burst onto the scene last year when the Aspen, Colo., native landed on the podium in Ski Halfpipe at Winter X Games Aspen. This year, he came back to earn a silver medal in Aspen and then a gold at Winter X Tignes. "I can't believe I just won," YaterWallace said after winning...
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Planning a ski trip to Chile or Argentina We can help. Gringo's guide » Gallery Every summer since 2004, pro skier Ingrid Backstrom has flown to the southern hemisphere, a place where cold and snow is just a day's travel away. With her winters spent filming with Matchstick Productions...
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Scrapbook from Georgia Fur hats, untracked powder and more. Gallery After repeatedly explaining that I was going skiing in the country of Georgia, and not the southern state with no snow, I decided to just tell people I was going skiing in the Caucus Mountains near Russia. Georgia may not...
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Last seasonEpisode 1Episode 2Episode 3Episode 4Kyler Cooley and Dylan Natale bring you another episode from their BC Boys series. This episode follows the two as they travel the west searching for snow. Natale and Cooley spend a week holed up in a Reno casino, exploring the local ski hills...
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At 34 years of age, JP Auclair has already lived a life that you could write a book about. Here are the CliffsNotes: He skied moguls on the World Cup, collaborated in the creation of the first modern twintip ski, and helped pioneer new skiing disciplines that are now on the cusp of their Olympic debut....
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Is the glass half empty or half full This is the quandary California shredders have faced all winter. While the stormtrack pounded Alaska and Canada, the Sierra sat high and dry, experiencing one of the worst winters in a decade forcing folks to either stay inside and gripe about the conditions...
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To say Kaya Turski has had a good last few seasons would be a major understatement. She's won Winter X Games Slopestyle gold medals in Aspen, Colo., and Tignes, France, the last three years in a row. She won the overall Dew Cup for women's ski slopestyle. She became the first woman to land a switch...
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We don't usually cover ski racing over here on ESPN Freeskiing, but every once in a while, a ski racer like Jon Olsson or Julia Mancuso crosses into the freeskiing realm. Next up on that list U.S. Ski Team member and 2006 Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety. Ligety, a Park City, Utah, native, recently...
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California's NorthstaratTahoe closed for the season two weeks ago, but they kept a 22foot superpipe and an 80foot jump in perfect condition for a Vitamin Water private team training camp that started April 24 and ends today, April 30. As the level of skiing and snowboarding continues to rise,...
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Where You Can Still Ride Closing day pictures and where you can still get your shred on. Gallery It seems like only yesterday that we were rejoicing about opening days at ski areas around the country and speculating about the plentiful snow that was bound to come thanks to a rare second round...
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The first edit from Utahbased crew Dubsatch Collective's midwinter trip to Alaska left you hanging, with a 'To Be Continued' at the end. It's a good thing they're back with a second edit that follows them through to the end of their journey. Leo Ahrens, Sam Cohen, Zach Halverson and Nate Cahoon arrived...
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While the ski season in the lower 48 has under delivered, Alaska is riding one of its best in a decade. The deep and relatively stable snowpack has allowed guides Greg Harms, Mike Overcast and former Olympian Tommy Moe, new owners of the Tordrillo Mountain Lodge, to notch some 30 first descents in...
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This winter was one of the most devastating of all winters with too many athletes enduring seasonending injuries and others seeing their lives come to a premature end. Many have asked the question, "Is it worth it" As an athlete in this sport, I can only answer with an affirmative yes. Yes, the risk...
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Norwegian film company Field Productions has announced that they won't be putting out a new movie this fall; instead they're working on a twoyear film project that will debut in the fall of 2013. Field Productions' last film, "Being There," which was the company's eighth movie, took home Best European...
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[Writer's note: My friend Sally Francklyn, who does public relations for Arc'teryx, among other companies, was the one who clued me into this new ski pack. Granted, it's her job to do so, but Sally's the kind of girl longtime ski patroller, expert skier, former magazine editor, and just a trustworthy,...
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Photo Showdown A gallery of images taken by the finalists of the 2012 Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown. Gallery It may have been during the World Ski and Snowboard Festival, but it was a surf photographer who swept the Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown in Whistler, BC, on Thursday night....
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Mike Douglas may be the busiest man in the ski industry. At the beginning of this season, he spent six days "embedded" at the top of Whistler Mountain waiting for winter to arrive. Through his production company Switchback Entertainment, this year he rolled out the fifth season of the wildly successful...
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A new episode of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel airing this week will focus on "extreme skiing," with interviews with freeskiers Tanner Hall, Chris Davenport and Elyse Saugstad. The episode looks at the growth of backcountry skiing and the number of tragedies in the ski community over the last...
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For the fifth consecutive year, the High Fives Foundation a Tahoebased nonprofit that helps skiers with lifethreatening injuries hosted Trains, a slopestyle contest with a charitable focus that was held Saturday at Alpine Meadows, Calif. Participants in this year's Trains contest ranged from...
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If you ever meet James Heim at the local ski hill, you probably won't guess he's one of the best big mountain skiers on the planet. His Canadian humility and unflagging ability to steer the conversation away from himself might make you believe he's your newest ski buddy. That is, until he puts his...
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Part 1Part 2Part 3 After the waiting game Erik Roner, Seth Morrison and Todd Ligare show what it's like when the waiting is over. Gallery [Editor's note: This is part three in a series called AK Chronicles on TGR's travels in Alaska while filming for their new movie, "The Dream Factory."...
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Wing Tai Barrymore started this winter as a relative unknown. That all changed when he won the U.S. Halfpipe Grand Prix last December at Copper Mountain, Colo., followed by a secondplace finish at the Killington Winter Dew Tour stop. The 19yearold was in the midst of a monster season when an errant...
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Last spring in Alaska, while filming with Teton Gravity Research, Ian McIntosh suffered a broken femur in a crash. Since then, the 30yearold, Pemberton, BCbased rider, who's known for his bold and aggressive style on big mountain terrain, has undergone not only a physical transformation but an emotional...
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