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Remember this video from last spring?  Yep, it’s got over 85,500 views now.

I literally cannot even put words to this.  Oh, wait…yes I can:  This is HANDS DOWN the best pov ski video in the world.  Andrew, a tip of my cap to you sir…and thanks for the call out.

Andrew will be working with UnofficialJackson.com this winter.  Get ready for lotza insanity from Andrew in Jackson this year.

Check out Andrew’s profile in Freeskier’s December Issue on page 60.

Andrew Whiteford in Freeskier Magazine

Words and video by Colin Farrell:

There’s just something about being back on the hill and there’s something about Opening Day, no matter the conditions.

Jimmy Greenleaf kicks off the season opener with style… Watch as Jimmy and friends Jesse Lydestrom, Mikey, and Marcos return to one of their favorite places – the Mountain. Good weather, good snow, great vibes, great friends… yes, this is the life.

BTW, all this was shot with the GoPro HD Hero – can’t control most of your settings (i.e. exposure, WB, focus, etc.) but the GoPro’s simplicity of use, durability, resolution and adaptability are hard to beat.

We really should do an UnofficialMammoth

After one of the deepest, lightest, lift accessed pow days ever recorded at Las Lenas, it’s a given that you’ll be up and hiking for more of those luscious powder turns the next day.
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Big Backflips, huge 360′s, small backflips, backflips to the head… Getting a break from 7 days of rain and snow in the upper elevations meant one thing: it’s time to go skiing. The pow in Laguna was a bit on the wind pressed side as always and the light was less than ideal, but that certainly did not prevent from leaving the ground.  And with Del Bosque remaining closed for the first half of the day, our only competition for Laguna laps was…no one.
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There is still a ton of snow at Boreal and they recently opened for a new summer ski and snowboard freestyle camp. I had the pleasure of hanging out with some of the campers and damn, they threw down. Thanks to a big winter, skiers and riders get to enjoy the quality features, which would otherwise be dirt by this time of year. It was a beautiful day.

The snow isn’t even weird to us anymore. It’s normal. It’s June, no resorts are open in Tahoe, & there’s over a foot of snow just laying around with nothing to do at Alpine Meadows right now.  Eric Bryant was good enough to go out and entertain the snow for an hour or so, but he’s gone now doing Calculus homework.  So, what does the snow do now!?

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This video is of 15 year old Chance Deschamps-Prescott ripping up Kirkwood, Squaw, Grand Targhee, Snowbird, & the very elusive backcountry.  The video was edited by Mike Weiner.  When did 15-year-old kids get way better than we’ll ever be?  Dammit!

Mike Wilson at it again….. Huge Double Backflip off Simmons Drop sent to us by Nicholas Kanaan.
Way to go Mike! That was Badass. It looked liked you stomped it. Did you stomp that Mike?

If you have footage that you would like to see on Unofficial send it to our editor –  Tim@UnofficialSquaw.com

I literally cannot even put words to this.  Oh, wait…yes I can:  This is HANDS DOWN the best pov ski video in the world.  Andrew, a tip of my cap to you sir…and thanks for the call out.

Josh Anderson ripping the hell out of Squaw Valley during the amazing Februray 2011 storm cycle.  Backflip off High Camp, The Drifter, Whitewater, Frogs & Toads, 360 of the cat track, and more.

This kinda footage is going to just keep floating in.  It was unreal and the footage proves it.