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The terrain park at Revelstoke Mountain Resort lies about a third of the way up the Stoke chair. Every stomp and bail and Jerry yardsale is right there in the public eye. So while your average visitor to the hill is looking for steep turns, not double kinks, they can’t help but check out the...
With the announcement last week that the Whistler Ski Invitation would not be returning in 2016, many in the freeskiing community were left to wonder what was a good justification for heading to Whistler in late March.
WHISTLER, BC March 2, 2016 – Whistler Blackcomb will host the third and...
The clip of Nico Vuignier surfaced last month, under a laundry list of headlines like “Ski fanatic creates 360 degree video” and “Skier twirls iPhone on string to capture amazing 360 video”. It was a classic example of a “freeskier” doing something so extraordinary that it broke into the...
Photos: Matt Sklar
"Burrrlapz sucks."
That’s what they say, anyway. Dylan Siggers, and Josh and Brody McSkimming, Essex Prescott and Kevin Frank too. They were in Revelstoke last week and they sounded pretty sure about it.
The folks at RMR had given us a nicer hotel room - on the top floor...
Time flies the same when you’re doing nothing as it does when you’re having fun. Or maybe it’s just that nothing and fun have conjoined. Either way, the idiom has less to do with enjoyment than it does attention. See:
January came and went in a series of storm cycles that faltered en route from...
Location: Teton Pass, Wyoming
Ryan Cruze is the winner of January's Line of the Winter contest. For his efforts, he will take home a cool $1,000 and the right to claim one of the best lines of the season.
Here's what Ryan had to say about his run:
"That morning started around 5 am in...
Newschoolers has a bit of a reputation for hosting wild and janky events. We like to kick it, we like to have fun, and we feel that the less you try and control outcomes, the likelier you are to produce good ones. We have learned to embrace the unknown.
And that is, in many ways, what the...
Ski: Faction Candide 4.0 2016
Length skied: 190
Shape: 150-122-140
Mount: “Candide” - 2 back of centre
Days skied: 20+
Reviewer height/weight: 6’1” / 165lbs
Conditions skied: Powder, Crud, Cliffs, Pillows, Park
See a more detailed rating of the ski in the review section.
Faction skis’...
At any given time, the best underground talent in this province is orbiting through the universe of The Acres crew. And the crew, in turn, is ripping down logging roads and up skin tracks in search of new lines, new features, and the shot. Like a lot of other crews coming out of the interior of...
REVELSTOKE, BC – February 7, 2016 – Marking the official wrap of the four day long Red Bull Cold Rush, athletes and fans packed into the Roxy Theatre in Revelstoke, BC on Saturday night to watch all the action from the past week on the big screen, giving the 21 participating athletes a chance to...
There is a growing movement towards alternative contests in skiing. Call it a diversification of the sport’s collective portfolio, recognition of the small but passionate chorus that always calls for more creativity and less spins. This scene’s most prominent, and probably most important, events...
REVELSTOKE, BC – February 5, 2016 – The world of freeskiing is a pretty tight knit community, so when the heat of competition isn’t on, the athletes at the sport’s highest level are essentially just a big crew of good friends. While the Backcountry Slopestyle & Summit Assault contest, the third...
The clouds that shrouded the peaks in and out of bounds at Revelstoke Mountain Resort remained well into the afternoon on the second official day of Red Bull Cold Rush 2016. It felt like skiing through pea soup, at the top. As a result, the scheduled slopestyle competition was pushed to Friday...
Photos: Dimitriy Nikiforov
Red Bull Cold Rush returned to Greely bowl at Revelstoke Mountain Resort around 9:00 o’clock yesterday morning. A high ceiling and good light meant that the big mountain portion of the competition was a go-ahead. Someone from the resort had bucked some wood for a...
Photos: Mark Warner/Low Pressure Podcast
Day 1 of Red Bull Cold Rush at Revelstoke Mountain resort is in the books, unfortunately without much skiing to show for it. As is sometimes frustratingly the case, the weather did not cooperate for the big mountain portion of the contest. From the folks...
This is the mountain village of Whistler, 675m above sea level. Forested with old growth fir and cedar. An important black bear habitat. Criss-crossed by deep valleys making way to endless glaciers. There are few paved roads but instead many miles of intersecting logging roads and dirt trails...
Red Bull Cold Rush makes its triumphant return to Revelstoke today.
For the first time ever, fans of Red Bull Cold Rush will have a chance to participate in the action through an all-new ‘People’s Choice Award’ category, allowing them to vote for their favorite all-around performance/athlete...
Photos: Rachel Bock
Shred optics and Slytech made waves a couple seasons back with the signing of Tom Wallisch, arguably the biggest name in freeskiing. Since then, they have been quietly improving and expanding their protection lineup, including Tom’s signature “Walnuts” series. We sat down...
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Right: Lab jacket, Compound pant | Left: Genius jacket, IQ pant
Right: Daphne jacket, Daisy pant | Left: Quantum jacket, Baker bib pants
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Dragon brings Advanced Projects lens technology to their offerings in 2016. Their lenses are polarized, photochromic and optimized to reduce strain on riders' eyes while also enhancing their vision.
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X1 and X1S
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X2 above, X1s below
Chris Benchetler...