A wonderful week of ski touring in the Mourne Mountains Ireland over Easter 2013. Mountains/ areas skied include Slieve Commedagh, Slieve Meelmore, Slieve Bernagh, Slieve Donard and the Castles!
Filmed and edited by Paul Swail
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Three consecutive powder days at Jay Peak Resort.
Music: The Police- Walking on the Moon
Sugar Bowl March 7th Resort Update from Sugar Bowl Resort on Vimeo.
Video by Weston Walker
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This past weekend the best park and pipe skiers in the world headed to Park City, UT to compete in a Platinum level superpipe Grand Prix event. Platinum essentially means “Olympic Qualifier.” The event also showcased a Paul Mitchell Big Air Progression session.
Christian Allen getting rad at the top of the pipe
The Paul Mitchell Big Air was won by Gus Kenworthy with a double 14 tail, Alex Schlopy in second with a double 16 tail, and Joss Christensen with a double 12 japan. Nicky Keefer cashed in with a G note with his rodeo 9 safety winning Best Air for the level of style Nicky is known for.
The event was in Park City for the superpipe however. With the Olympics debuting Superpipe and Slopestyle next year, the best superpipe skiers in the world were all here trying to be invited to the party. You had the Canadians Mike Riddle, Matt Margetts, and Simon D’artois. The Wells family was representing with Jossi and his 17 year old brother Beau-James who qualified for finals for the first time. Frenchmen Kevin Rolland, Thomas Krief, and Benoit Valentin also qualified for finals. Simon Dumont, Torin-Yater Wallace, David Wise, Tucker Perkins, and a 16 year old Crested Butte wiz kid Aaron Blunck.
Luke “Ocho” Allen with Angeli VanLaanen prior to her start
Each athlete had two runs to impress the judges and the competition was pretty insane. Standing in the start gate you see this competition is about pushing yourself, yet it’s also a huge get together of friends pulling for one another. The start gate is an interesting place before any competition. Every athlete has their own individual way of getting into the zone. Here, it was Jossi Wells arm around his brother Beau-James seconds before he dropped in offering encouragement and advice. It was Matt Margetts trying to stoke out everyone in the start gate by stating he’d be bringing moon rocks back after his first hit (which he did with a gigantic Flat 5 Japan). It was also Simon who is calm, collected and adjusting his music. They all are uniquely focused when the starter says “the pipe is yours” and they drop in.
Torin Yater-Wallace first hit out of the pipe. Stillshot – Drew Lederer
What went down that deserved props?
Torin Yater-Wallace’s runs. Both of them. Every hit. He’s wearing green chamo pants and it starts at 2:40
Beau-James cork 5 tweaked safety at the top. He has on a black jacket and beige pants, check the shot out at 2:07
Simon’s massive airs starting at 2:22, he’s wearing all red and rocking no poles due to two broken wrists.
Matt Margetts run starting at :21 going massive with the flat 5 japan
TGR brings us this video of skier Will Burks trigging a massive slab avalanche in Alaska.
Jackson Hole has had one hell of a good December with over 100″ on new snow. Kyle Cota and friends bring us this video of their “Brocember” to show us all what we missed out on.
A party of 5 skiers was descending Echo Peak one at a time. One skier with terrain familiarity chose to descend a steeper area above a small cliff and abrupt slope angle transition which represented a terrain trap. Upon reaching a convex portion of the slope where slope angle increased to 44 to 47 degrees, the avalanche was initiated. The wind slab failed on a 1.5 inch thick layer of lower density storm snow with a small amount of graupel present within the layer. Slab thickness ranged from around 6 inches near the trigger point to near 18 inches at the skier’s right edge of the crown near the ridgeline. The skier was carried over the small cliff and buried in the terrain trap below. The skier was able to put a hand up above the snow surface and then brush snow away from his airway which was under the snow surface. Otherwise, the buried individual was unable to move. The other members of the group organized their rescue, keeping two members in a safe area on the ridge and sending two other members one at a time down to the buried individual. The buried individual was found via the visual clue of a waiving hand just above the snow surface. A transceiver search was not needed.
Video 1: Footage of the skier triggering the avalanche and companion rescue. The exchange of transceiver and backpack shown in the video was due to the presence of two transceivers, two shovels, and two probes carried in total within the group of five. One of those transceivers and one set of rescue gear was with the buried individual. A lack of familiarity with the packed rescue equipment lead to use of the shovel blade without the handle.
Sat, 12/29/2012 – 1:10pm
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Jackson Hole has been having a hell of a good end to 2012. So far this season the resort has stacked up 195″ and has a base depth of 63″. Here is a look at the killer conditions the Jackson locals have been enjoying around the Tetons from The Lovely Brothers & Friends.
Arguably one of the best big mountain riders currently out there, Xavier de Le Rue is keeping the intensity level cranked by downright bombing steep European and Alaskan lines. His latest endeavor, White Noise, will be released for free online in the 3rd week of November. Xavier’s innovative riding has him descending pure sheets of ice on faces where falling simply is not an option. I’m pretty excited to see what he has in store. Stay tuned for full movie link later in the month.
Xavier de Le Rue | Photo: Tero Repo
From Timeline Films:
“When Xavier de Le Rue, considered by most of his peers, as the best big mountain rider out there, has a killer season and reveals his personal approach to snowboarding, you get White NOISE. TimeLine Films second Movie. White Noise features Xavier de Le Rue, Victor de Le Rue, Samuel Anthamatten and Johan Jonsson as guests.”
Join Rotate Film Group as they take you through a few locations they’ve been shooting at in the past year. This reel takes you from Spring through Winter with some epic cinematography. From proximity flying the worlds tallest sea cliffs in Molokai, HI to some insane sessions at Schweitzer and Heavenly, you won’t be disappointed you clicked this link. Turn up the volume, turn down the lights, and let yourself be carried away for 3 minutes.
Henrik Harlaut getting rad
Expect big things from this company this winter as they will be traveling with at least one Red Epic camera following some of the best athletes on skis.
Todd Schlopy with the Red Epic filming a Halloween spot.
Check out the ski shots featuring, Alex Schlopy, Henrik Harlaut, Joss Christensen, James Woods, Karl Fostvedt, Sean Jordan, and Banks Gilberti that start at about 1:54.
Josh Finbow, Kurtis Rix, Mike Wilson, and heli pilot Don in Molokai
Tyler Schlopy watching some Halloween action
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