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Gibbons Style Session
Words and Photos: Ilanna Barkusky
Following up a performance by Busta Rhymes, the Gibbons Style Session highlighted the schedule on Saturday night at the World Ski and Snowboard Festival in Whistler, BC. The format of the big air contest in conjunction with the festival...
Words & Photos: Ilanna Barkusky
This season, there will be a total of four 'Bear to Mammoth' road trips taking place in the form of a web series. Last week while Episode 2 was being filmed with John Kutcher, Jake Doan and Jonah Williams, I tagged along to snap some photos...
Tamashii Project: Review
Back in June, Hemlock Creative released the trailer for their first feature film Tamashii, featuring Andy Mahre, Karl Fostvedt and Anna Segal. This project took a different route in comparison to the other ski films you may have already watched this fall for a few...
Karl Fostvedt Talks Tamashii Project
Interview: Ilanna Barkusky
Back in January, you could not flick through your social media feed without seeing photos from Japan. While over here on the West Coast I couldn't remember when snow fell from the sky, my social media feed was clogged with skiers...
The #K2springtraining Experience
Words & Photos: Ilanna Barkusky
I had only recently unpacked my bags from the West Coast Session 9 when I got the opportunity to head back to Mount Hood to hang out with K2 at their spring shoot. Without needing very much convincing, I loaded up my skis...
#K2SpringTraining: It Begins
Words & Photos by Ilanna Barkusky
While most of us have hung up our skis for the winter, over at Mount Hood the K2 version of a family gathering, called 'spring training' has just kicked off. Today started out with sunny skies, but weather quickly moved in and...
Check In: Inflik Media
Photos by Kaleb Weston & Eddie Foster
Have you seen the Doorstep Project yet? If not, you probably should head over to www.inflik.ca and watch it right now for free. Last year it hit film festivals and later, the web to a great reception. The concept was simple: document...
Grand Prix Halfpipe Finals
Words & Photos: Ilanna Barkusky
The skiing portion of the Grand Prix at Park City, Utah wrapped up today with an amazing halfpipe finals. The snow started to come down, but the pipe was still fast and in great condition. The tricks and amplitude that are being...
US Grand Prix Slopestyle Finals
Words & Photos: Ilanna Barkusky
It may have started off snowing, but the skies cleared and the sun showed its face just in time for the final run for the men and women in slopestyle finals today in Park City, Utah. Each competitor was given three runs, but the...
US Grand Prix Slopestyle Qualifiers
Words & Photos: Ilanna Barkusky
Competition weather is definitely an interesting phenomenon, and it unfortunately reared its ugly head today. After two sunny and gorgeous days of practice, qualifiers went off today in less than stellar conditions. The day...
US Grand Prix Championships - Halfpipe Qualifiers
Words & Photos: Ilanna Barkusky
Pipe qualifiers at the US Grand Prix Championships went off today in Park City, Utah. As the saying goes, 'ladies first', and so they did, laying down their runs before two heats of male qualifiers went down...
Catching up with Cassie Sharpe & Nikki Blackall
Words & Photos by Ilanna Barkusky
It seems as though (especially on this website) there are different opinions about the current state of women's skiing. I, for one, am excited to see what the future holds for the sport as it reaches new...
A Season in Whistler in Photos
A photo can say a thousand words, right? With the convincing of some of my friends, I decided to take my UBC courses online and head up to Whistler. Along the way I had the privilege of working with an insanely talented group of athletes who never once stopped...
Sun Soaking with Goon Squad
I spent a couple of days shooting mid-season with the infamous Goon Squad in the sun. Compiled the shots into a mini little photo blog. Enjoy!
Austin Karker gapping the battleship
JDSC (Jaeden Schneider-Clark)
JDSC with one of his infamous nose butters...
Miguel Rodden
Total gangster Rachael Anderson warming up for WSI on the jumps
Matt Crawford
Jackson Wells
Words & Photos by Ilanna Barkusky
On March 27-29th, top amateur athletes converged at beautiful Sun Peaks in British Columbia to duel it out for their shot at glory. Called the Dew Tour Amateur Series and ranked as an AFP Silver event, the event provided up-and-coming athletes a chance at an...
Grouse Fun
With Whistler feeling like Quebec with temperatures around -20 below, we decided to head to the city in search of a change of scenery and a pretty sunset. Around ten of us made the quick drive to Grouse Mountain located in Vancouver, BC. While the park lacked any sizeable jumps due...
January Park Days in Whistler - Photos & Words by Ilanna Barkusky
Over the past month, I have had the opportunity to shoot photos with an incredibly talented gang of skiers of snowboarders out here in Whistler. I decided that the best way to showcase (some) of what we came up with was to write...