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Having waited around an extra 20 minutes for basketball, the new format Big Air (mandatory left/right spin) kicked off with 3 triples and got crazier from there. With handfuls of never been done tricks all over the place, skiing is in a crazy place right now.
Nummedal: Triple 16 double japan...
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The NFX and TNT are back for Salomon's Freeski line, as well as the QST series for Freeride. Additionally, earlier this fall they announced the SHIFT binding with Atomic, built for uphill touring without sacrificing downhill performance.
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Women's slope has become one of our favorite events to watch and today, under sunny skies in Aspen, we saw probably the best ladies' slopestyle event to date. We saw the first dubs in ladies' slope and the first ever US winner.
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Run 1 Highlights:
Jennie-Lee: Ollie up to roof - 270 on down...
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Armada released their new line of outerwear this week at Outdoor Retailer. It features everything from their 3L GORE-TEX, to streetwear and mittens.
Mens:
Lifted GORE-TEX 3L Jacket:
-GORE-TEX 3L with GORE C-KNIT BACKER
-Moderate Tailored
-100% Seam Sealed...
The X Games format is slightly different from most other comps with last year's top 3 guys (Oystein, McRae and ABM) pre-qualified for the finals leaving only 5 spots for the remaining 16 riders. It's a bit of a crazy format with how the slopestyle pecking order changes from year to year but...
Check out what went down in the women's pipe finals earlier
Today's pipe finals at X Games was intense. It felt like plenty of the guys were testing out some new tricks that they're hoping to take to Pyeongchang in a couple of weeks for the first time in a comp environment. There were some...
Gold: Maddie Bowman
http://xgames.espn.com/xgames/video/22215151
Silver: Brita Sigourney
Bronze: Cassie Sharpe
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Brita Sigourney put down the first clean run of the day with solid grabs all throughout and impressive amplitude. She has to be a challenger for the gold in Pyeongchang...
After many months of speculation, starting with the purchase of Intrawest and Mammoth by an Aspen/KSL partnership, the new competitor to Vail Resort's Epic Pass has finally been announced. The Ikon pass includes 12 destinations owned by Alterra Mountain Company and 11 other premier destinations...
Cover photo: Seattle Times Archive
The voice and lens of Warren Miller came to define skiing for multiple generations of skiers. For so many, a trip to see his movies marked the beginning of the ski season, a call to arms. Though films continue to be made under the name of Warren Miller...
Unmarked makes an entrance at Jamboree presented by Vidéotron
New concept for video contest on fringe of World Cup action
Quebec City, Wednesday, January 24, 2018 – The Jamboree ski and snowboard video contest formerly known as the Stairsmasters has been given a facelift and is now Unmarked...
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In November 2016, 686 announced the signing of Parker White to their pro team having never sponsored a professional or amateur skier before. In the ski world, the reaction was as close to wholeheartedly positive as possible, but the move certainly got some keyboard warriors...
The second men's slopestyle comp of the day in Mammoth was also the final chance to qualify for the US Olympic Slopestyle Team. It went down on exactly the same course as the earlier event but with far fewer international riders to clog up the finals spots. Correspondingly, the finals were...
To find out what went down in the second men's slopestyle of the day: Click Here
The penultimate and ultimate US Olympic Team qualifiers are going down back to back in Mammoth this weekend; the first of which was also an official FIS World Cup event, meaning plenty of international competition...
If you hadn’t already heard, Newschoolers Tell A Friend Tour recently released the full list of stops for this winter’s circuit. The lineup contains a healthy spread of East Coast and Midwest resorts, and for the first time, also includes a weekend at three ski areas in Alberta, Canada.
Located...
With most North Americans preferring to stick to Olympic qualification events on their own side of the Atlantic, there were a significant number of big names missing at the Font Romeu World Cup. Nonetheless, under sunny skies everyone threw down on the fairly small but pretty fun looking course...
Modified Halfpipe Highlights
Jib Section Highlights
The jump section was the ultimate act of the 2017 Dew Tour Team Challenge. Unfortunately that meant the sun was setting, things were getting somewhat icy and the wind was picking up. Nonetheless, the guys were willing to throw down. Tim...
The jib section of the Team challenged was built out of the top two features of the slopestyle course with an added bank of rails on the table of what used to be the first jump. While the guys didn’t look totally comfortable in the modified pipe earlier on, the jib section riders fucking slayed...
Modified pipe was a somewhat strange event to watch but there is no denying it mixed up the competition norm. We saw style turns, hand-drags, coping tricks, sketchy rail hits and dub corks all in the pipe. Rails and pipe skis were unlikely to ever be a match made in heaven and so it proved with...
The sun came out a little bit for the ladies' final but the course sped up as the sun was setting behind the Rocky Mountains. Doug really nailed the tale of the day: "Holy fuck, the girls are sendy as shit." - Mr.Bishop
Run 1 Highlights:
Johanne Killi laid on the style sauce heavy for her...
Men's slopestyle finals popped off today under the cloudy skies of Breckenridge. The top dogs like Bobby Brown, Gus Kenworthy, Oystein Braaten, James Woods, Dollo, McRae, & Goepper are joined by the hottest up-and-comers in the game; AHall, Cody Laplante, Colby, & Evan McEachran.
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