Three consecutive powder days at Jay Peak Resort.

Check out this video that Brandon Gust and Dorian Densmore put together for Freeskier Magazine’s Ticket to Tailgate contest. It features some solid riding from the Tetons this season, and some really interesting camera angles. See if you can figure out how they filmed the shots at 0:42 and 1:03….

Enjoy!

The Top 10 Longest Vertical Drops at Ski Resorts in North America. Video of the action at each location…and one famous video of absolute HORROR that was filmed at one of the locations…

Here is a rad little edit from Nate Fillnow showing what conditions were like yesterday at Alta. He hits up most of the classic lines and the snow looks pretty damn good. How is it at your home hill these days?

If you haven’t seen this yet, you need too. If you’ve seen it, you know it’s worth watching again. The word inspiration works, but for Shane, something else should be invented.

Visit the Shane McConkey Foundation page to keep the inspiration growing.

Thanks to Antti Ruohonen, Molski Pictures and All I Can’t Productions for putting together this video from the second half of January in Hakuba, Japan.  This edit features awesome ski movie parodies, copious amounts of slow mo action, car chases, and deep powder skiing. At 12 minutes, it is a long one, but worth watching through for the hilarious spoofs and endless POV shots. Enjoy.

It looks like conditions have been fantastic in the Pyrenees this season – supposedly their best winter in seven years. Don’t believe me? Here is proof, courtesy of Adri Millan. This is One Run in Baqueira: Ruda Road.

Yes, this one is all POV, but interesting angles and great snow makes it well worth the watch. Thanks for sending this over, Adri!

I suppose it’s better to be trapped in a gondola during a gale than on a chairlift in one.  If this occurrence aligns with crotchal-area-deep powder, that doesn’t hurt either.

Japan has been stormy this January.  Lets be honest, it’s stormy every January.  It’s clockwork.  Storms just don’t matter here.  A frigid NW wind comes over of Siberia, picks up moisture off the warm Sea of Japan, and collides with the 10,000-foot Japanese Alps that happen to be right on the beach.  That combination adds up to snow most everyday of January and February.

…A divine wind you might say?  

The Mongol fleet destroyed in a typhoon, ink and water on paper, by Kikuchi Yōsai, 1847

The above video is from Hakuba, Japan on January 25th, 2013.

Thanks to Anthony Santos and the JANKY crew for sending along this video. It recaps the deep December that Tahoe received this season.

The snow gods blessed us this December with a very very very white Christmas. Things got of to a really meaty start with some big sessions, deep turns, and plenty of gluttonous activities. Thanks again to our “sponsors” KINKO-PRAXIS-SIRACHA. All around this December was HOT in the coldest way possible. Enjoy!!!

Hot stuff, boys.

People don’t miss home here.  They don’t talk about home.

It snows everyday here and that’s enough to keep people from even thinking about home.

It wasn’t suppose to snow last night, so of course, it did.  In fact, it hasn’t been forecasted to snow at all this week and it’s been nothing but snow.

The South Shore of Happo-One ski resort

A foot plus of clean, dry powder made the South Shore of Happo-One a playground today.  That good snow combined with sun and no wind made for a special combination that doesn’t come around often in this zone in January.

The South Shore of Happo-One today

Yep, you should come to Japan and ski as soon as you can.  It’s assuredly a snow phenomenon that you won’t dislike.

Will Wyman sampling the goods today at Happo-One, Japan

So, what would it be like to live in a ski movie?  The answer would be different for everyone except for one factor.  There’d be powder everyday and that’s just what you get here in Japan in January.

Creek crossing are always interesting here

local powder transport

the AK Burger of Hakuba, Japan is relatively serious