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Ross Janzen is your 2011 Powder Week Captain’s Cup winner (awarded to the attendee who sends it hardest both on and off the hill)
Here are some images from Powder week, with Ross living the dream on the new Faction Mono:
Photo: Matt Stauble
Photo: Derek Taylor.
For a full update on the week...
Faction Skier and Women’s Ambassador, Kristi Leskinen, sent us this report from her Homecoming Weekend in Seven Springs, which included a lot of the top female riders, see the report below:
Homecoming 2011
I can?t believe this was already the 3rd year for Homecoming, hosted by Seven Springs. ...
Luke Nelson, took the Young Gun Award at the North American Freeskiing Championships in Kirkwood, as well as 8th place.
On the Freeride World Tour website it says “The event was a collaboration between the Freeride World Tour (FWT) and the Freeskiing World Tour in an effort to give the best...
Swiss made, is an edit of the season so far from Bastien Brouqueyre, also featuring Sophie Brouqueyre and Johan Gaume. Enjoy:
Swiss Made from Bastien Brouqueyre on Vimeo.
For those on the move here is the ipad/phine/android/device friendly version: Swiss Made from Bastien Brouqueyre on Vimeo.
Frederick Iliano's run to take him through to the European Open Freeski Semi Finals
Frederick Iliano, who qualified for the European Open Slopestyle Semi Finals, just a couple of days ago, has now gone and qualified for the European Open Half Pipe semi-finals. So with Semi-finals tomorrow for...
The premiere of Oppdrag Sognefjorden, starring Faction rider, PC Fosse as one of the 12 chosen extreme sports athletes from Norway, to be part of the seven part tv series, on NRK 1.
In case you missed it, here is the trailer again, amazing:
The show will premiere on NRK1 on March 6th at 20.25...
Frederick Iliano, is competing at the European Freeski Open, he was 9th in his qualifying heat, which was a high place in a great field, but not enough to take him through to finals. However, Fredy will be competing in the Half Pipe today at Laax, so will have some more results posted soon...
Andy Matthew has been up shredding his local mountain Glenshee in Scotland, and getting the kids stoked on freestyle skiing. After, a horrible crash at the World Championships, which resulted in an early ticket home, and some serious head injuries, Andy was back on snow checking out how...
Frederick Iliano, was competing in the Ski Dart Game, which sounds like a lot of fun, here Fredy explains what it is and what he did:
401 SKI DART GAME
The comp is called 401 Ski Dart Game and has a really cool format.
You have a dart-target and there are different tricks on it: from...
Shane Carmichael sent us over this edit from Whistler, where he has been skiing deep powder, which is making us a little envious over here in Switzerland, enjoying the summer.
February powder Blackcomb MT (Shane Carmichael) from shane carmichael on Vimeo.
For more modern technology: February...
Here is an update from Alex Hassman, who has been competing in the Bridger Gully Freeride Competition:
This past weekend at Bridger Bowl Montana was the annual Bridger Gully Freeride Competition. As a veteran of the US Telemark Freeskiing Series, I cut my teeth skiing Big Mountain competitions...
Arnaud Rougier, got fed up of waiting for snow in Europe so packed his bags and headed to Canada and BC powder. Here is a round up of their trip from Skipass.com:
Le road trip en Colombie Britannique d’Arnaud Rougier et Antoine Diet se poursuit avec une nouvelle étape dans la station de...
Euro X, is back, for the second year running, the world’s top skiers and snowboarders will be heading to Tignes in France. There will be three days of Superpipe and Slopestyle, as well as an interactive X Park (not sure what that is..), live music and X Fest. It is great to see the event in...
Check out these recent edits from Frederick Iliano, from the La Plagne and the Night pipe in Davos, as well as the Engadin Snow Slopestyle Competition:
La Plagne and Davos Edit from Frederick Iliano on Vimeo.
On the most up to date technology – watch this one: La Plagne and Davos Edit from...
Here is a final round up of Faction rider, Luke Kneller’s trip to Japan, with the Daily Flake:
Japan Snow Report – The Tour de Flake wrap up with Luke Kneller from The Daily Flake on Vimeo.
On new technology, Ce n’est pas un problème: Japan Snow Report – The Tour de Flake wrap up with Luke...
PC Fosse is part of an amazing new seven part TV series, Oppdrag Sognefjorden, which will be shown on NRK1, Norway’s biggest TV channel. The premiere for the event is on the 3rd of March.
The TV series, follows 12 of the best Extreme Sports athletes in Norway. Travelling together on a boat in...
Faction Rider, Martha Burley, has changed her telemark bindings and here extolls the virtues of switching to NTN:
NTN Telemark Bindings, displayed and discussed by Martha Burley
The NTN system has been around a few years now and I know a lot of people, and shops even, are still waiting to see...
Here is an update from Ian Borgesen and the Junior Extreme’s in Crested Butte:
I just returned from the 20th annual Subaru U.S Extreme Freeskiing Championships in Crested Butte, CO. I had an awesome time skiing down there with my ski team, Team Summit. Here is a video of my runs:
Ian Borgeson...
Australian Team member, Luke Kneller, has been in Japan enjoying the Powder, check out this video from his Daily reports – the Daily Flake:
Japan Snow Reports – The Daily Flake – 14 February 2011 from The Daily Flake on Vimeo.
TLH Heliskiing and WASA combined to create the WASA steep week, here is some footage from Ryan Oakden, one of the founding members of WASA and a Faction skier. Also, footage from Shane Carmichael.
and the edit from Shane:
Tyax Lodge Heli with Shane Carmichael and friends. from shane...