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Candide Thovex is an incredible skier. He is one of the greatest ever to do it. Hands down, no question. He is capable of creating mind-warping edits, the kind that explode out of skiing’s social circles and wind up amongst your relatives and on daytime television. His skiing is sensational...
At Newschoolers, we love to get the community involved because community is at the heart of what we are. That’s why we do Q&A’s, that’s why we make sure we get out on the hill and shred with other NS’ers. It’s obviously really fun, but crucially it helps to shrink the distance between...
COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. — November 29, 2015 — Thanks to the hard work by Copper Mountain operations crews and 62 inches of natural snow on the season so far, the Main Vein Superpipe was able to open at Copper Mountain yesterday, Sunday, Nov. 29. Later this season, Woodward Copper will once again...
Photos: Scott Nettleton
We were in the parking lot by 6:15 this morning, and found our way down to the growing line up ten minutes later. A row of tents occupied the first switchback; those who were brave enough to sleep the night at the base of Revelstoke Mountain Resort earned their right to...
It’s happening, folks. Grab your skis, grab your livers, open your minds and get ready. December is almost upon us and it’s time once again for the east coast’s premier rail contest, Rails 2 Riches.
Peyton O'Connor circa 2014 | Photo: Peter Cirilli
R2R 2015 promises to live up to its...
photos: Peter Matlashewski
Riding the Horstman glacier this year is a bit of an ethical project. On any given day an army of personnel and machinery digs and pushes and scoops huge sections of snowpack out of the hillside. Their job is to prolong the summer season as far as possible. It sort...
Photos: Peter Matlashewski
I don’t know what any of our expectations were, coming into Newschoolers week at Camp of Champions this year. A loose plan was in place, with a looser cast of characters descending upon Whistler to carry it out. What unfolded was a debauched, unreasonable, chaotic...
It’s been an eventful first three days in Whistler for Newschoolers week at Camp of Champions. In between late nights in the village and long days on the glacier, we found the time to catch up with old friends, meet a host of new campers, and get tuned in to the one-of-a-kind Whistler...
Every story starts somewhere, right? To kick off every tale, no matter how long or how short, there is a moment, a flash or a dull thud that sets off enumerable other thuds and flashes that trace a kind of line. The line itself is bent.
This story, I thought, began on Bleury street, under the...
With files from Frederic Ferland
Photos: Jamie Walter
Superunknown XII, the twelfth installment of Level 1’s signature spring contest, is over. 10 of the brightest, gnarliest, most stylish young skiers in the world are going home. Back to Norway and California and Ontario. Jonah Williams...
Photos: Jamie Walter
Vegard Hokstad went down around 12:30 this afternoon. That was after he had already stomped his bio 10, twice. It was after Jonah Williams had sent a perfect cork 9 blunt on his second hit and Gabe Taube had hand dragged a double 1080. By the time Vegard went down, Dylan...
Photos: Jamie Walter
Day one of Level 1’s Superunknown XII is in the books. Or maybe it’s more like day one-and-a-half. After all, we arrived last night. Descended might be a better word – from as far away as Olso and Moscow; from Fernie, B.C. and Salt Lake City. The Norwegians were...
The defining face behind one of newschool skiing's flagship brands is moving on. After spending close to two decades working with Orage, Mike Nick is leaving the company.
Jason Mousseau Photo
In an email circulated earlier today, Nick thanked his long-time friends and supporters. "It’s with...
If you’ll allow me, I’ll venture to say that there has been a numbness in our collective response to the passing of JP Auclair.
We’ve carried on through our respective winters, sure. We’ve kept shredding, we’ve followed the tracks he left behind because we’re pretty sure that’s the path we’re...
Under the lights at Les Arcs, the Best Style and Best Trick sessions at the B&E Invitational 2015 looked very different from the daytime portion of the event. When the temperature dropped the course tightened up and the riders had to scale back. Parker White called it "the opposite of soft"...
photos: David Malacrida
The Jam Session just wrapped up at the 2015 B&E Invitational. For an hour and a half, the stacked line up of skiers hailing from all corners of the globe slayed the custom-built course under sunny skies and a huge crowd of onlookers. To say that the set up at Les Arcs...
Are you a skier? Are you a resident of the United States of America? Are you 21 years of age or older? Do you love freedom, and your country, and exercising your right to do whatever you want, whenever? Err, well maybe scratch that last part, but if you answered yes to the first three...
Photos: Rachel Bock
The easy story coming out of Big Boulder this weekend is Ryan Stevenson. He’s the 14 year old who came into the Sean Jordan Open this Saturday in the grom category, and who left on top of the open category podium, with five grand in his pocket. He’s the one who went toe to...
Photos: Aaron Lu and Travis Towsley
The second annual Sean Jordan Open just wrapped up in Big Boulder, PA.
A field of approximately 30 riders in the open category, and four young guns, aged 13-15, competing as groms, descended upon Lake Harmony this weekend to compete in this year's SJO. Just...
The inaugural Sean Jordan Open at Big Boulder, PA was a hit. A homerun even. The only strike against it was Dom Laporte’s infamous edge strike, and even that makes for good watching. So Newschoolers couldn't be more stoked to announce the return of the SJO this Saturday, March 7th, 2015...