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At the time of writing this, I’ve got Covid, with the kind of headache where my brain feels three sizes too big for my skull. I'm sluggish, achy, and trapped -- posted in my childhood bedroom, hoping my symptoms will diminish after the next round of fitful sleep. It’s clear Santa had me on the...

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This season, The Bunch adds to their consistent film lineup with “Many Fantasies Later.” The film features a stacked roster of skiers, including Magnus Graner, Alex Hackel, Hugo Burvall, Øystein Bråten, Evelina Nilsson, Emil Granbom, and Jake Mageau. Graner and Hackel took charge on the...

What does a Québécois skier look like? I’ll forward a semi-educated guess: an obsession with downrails, a willingness to schlep out street parts during frigid winter conditions, and a propensity towards loudly exclaiming “tabarnak!” when shit hits the fan and face meets concrete. If any of this...

Gavin Rudy first picked up a camera when he was around 10 years old. He and his friends used his dad’s camera to make stop motion videos and action movies with airsoft guns as props. Throughout his teens Gavin had another chance to create more video projects and build experience through a class...

Header image: Screen grab from August Light. Image credit: Gavin Rudy, Ethan Swadburg, and Strictly The world of ski filming can be incredibly intimidating. Cameras are complicated pieces of gear, and the production of quality shots takes a lot more than pressing the record button. Filmers have...

The necessary conversation around mental illness in the freeskiing community has been percolating for years. Alex Schlopy’s struggle with mental illness played out in a series of posts (some by Schlopy himself) on Newschoolers starting in 2016, and were chronicled officially by Powder in 2019 in...