When GoPro issued a $120,000 prize purse for the best POV ski and snowboard lines captured with their action cameras, amazing clips began flooding their inbox from around the world.
Acclaimed winter sports athletes were tasked with judging the clips and the panel was stacked with the likes of Olympic snowboarding legend Elena High, gold medalist snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg, freeride skier Ingrid Backstrom and legendary skier Scott Gaffney.
With clips filmed in iconic zones of the British Columbia backcountry to impossibly steep spines in Alaska, the judges had their work cut out for them deciding who would get a piece of the prize based on 3 criteria: athletic performance, video-capture quality and overall “WOW factor.”
Here is a 30 minute recap of the best submissions. No crops, no filters, just pure GoPro radness:
2025 GoPro Line of the Winter Categories
- Men’s Ski
- Men’s Snowboard
- Women’s Ski
- Women’s Snowboard
$120,000 at Stake:
- $80,000 in total monthly awards. 1 awardee from each category will earn $5,000 per month (Jan – April).
- $40,000 in Grand Prizes. 1 awardee from each category will be crowned the “GoPro Line of the Winter” & earn $10,000.
Judging Criteria:
- Athletic Performance
- Video Capture Quality
- Overall “wow factor”
