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• Laying Down Lines and Saving L Laying Down Lines and Saving Lives in Cooke City

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    Words by Michael Sudmeier
    Images by Sam Pope
    
    
    Some things in life are subject to change. And this is especially true for those who spend time in the backcountry. While recently filming near Cooke City, Montana for Way of Life, TGR athletes and filmers had to continually adapt to new challenges—including saving a man’s life. The plans for the trip had been simple enough—film some late spring ski descents at the end of April. The start of the trip, however, was filled with pow days, cold temperatures, and assisting with a rescue.
    
    
    
    Before heading into the backcountry, the crew convened in Cooke City and geared up for the trip.
    
    
    “I thought it was going to be mainly mountaineering missions—skiing couloirs and things like that,” explained Todd Ligare. He was joined by TGR athletes John Spriggs and Griffin Post, as well as a production and support team that included Dan Gibeau, Sam Pope, Hennie van Jaarsveld, Corey Seeman, and Steve Popovich. Despite anticipating spring conditions, “It felt like a mid-winter trip in late April, which was awesome,” offered Spriggs. He and the group named the project Nightmare Camp—a play on TGR’s Fantasy Camp, which had wrapped up a few weeks prior in Alaska.
    
    
    After members of the crew skied a few lines on their first day, a snowmobiler approached them, searching for assistance and a means to contact rescue and medical personnel. “You could tell he was dealing with a heavy situation, but he seemed calm and was dealing with it appropriately,” explained Ligare. “He basically asked if we had a way to contact help.”
    
    
    The man’s friend had stopped breathing after his vest became tangled in his sled. “Basically, the [patient] had a protective vest on, and he was hill climbing,” explained Post. “Through an unfortunate series of events, his handlebars went through his protective vest and hung him.” The man had rushed to aid his friend, but his response time was delayed due to the steep slope on which the injured snowmobiler was perched. Initially, the snowmobiler was not breathing. Once freed from his sled, however, he resumed breathing but remained unconscious.
    
    
    
    Whether exploring new zones or assisting with a rescue, the group relied heavily on its sleds.
    
    
    Tapping into rescue and medical training they receive at the start of each season, the crew from TGR sprung into action. Ligare sought out the crew’s satellite phone and medical equipment while Pope traveled to the injured sledder. Once at site of the incident, Pope and a snowboarder who was also in the area provided initial care for the patient. According to Pope, they “created a flat spot for [the patient], cleared his airway, stabilized his head, and put some layers under and on him to provide insulation from the snow.”
    
    
    After retrieving the group’s satellite phone, Ligare—now joined by Post—sought out higher ground in order to contact Park County Search and Rescue. Post remained in contact with rescuers while Ligare, Gibeau, and Spriggs brought the group’s medical kit and sked, a collapsible rescue stretcher, to the scene. The group helped Pope further stabilize the patient and initiated a high angle rescue to lower him down the slope. They also took turns traveling to Post, relaying updates to rescuers. Seeman, who had been in town servicing a snowmobile, led rescue personnel Ben Zavora and Jan Gaertner, President of the Cooke City EMS, to the patient.
    
    
    By the time Gaertner and Zavora arrived, the team had not only lowered the patient down the slope, but also prepared a landing zone for a helicopter. Gaertner and the team provided additional care and readied the patient for transport. “We packaged him, got him on some oxygen, and cleared his airway,” she explained. “I also put an AED on him [in the event his heart stopped]. He had quit breathing twice.” Fortunately, the weather briefly cooperated with rescuers. “We got there and the sky opened up and the sun came out. We got a helicopter in and when the helicopter left, the clouds came over and it started snowing again,” explained Gaertner.
    
    
    “I’ll tell you what, it was not his time to die,” offered Gaertner. She credits the team from TGR with ensuring this was the case. “The guys did an awesome job,” she explained. “They were so excited to use their skills and equipment. I would work with those guys any day.”
    
    
    
    In a letter to TGR, Jan Gaertner—President of the Cooke City EMS—thanked the crew for its assistance.
    
    
    For the team, the incident provided an opportunity to put into practice the skills they had cultivated through TGR’s annual safety summit, the International Pro Riders Workshop (IPRW). Although the curriculum is continually evolving, IPRW aims to help attendees successfully negotiate the challenges inevitable in backcountry travel. The course typically addresses assessing avalanche terrain, initiating first aid in a wilderness context, and leading rescue efforts.
    
    
    According to Cofounder Todd Jones, TGR developed its IPRW program because “we recognized that we’re out in a really dangerous and inhospitable environment that demands high levels of training and expertise. That training can make the difference between a fairly standard rescue and a really bad situation.”
    
    
    
    IPRW ensures TGR's team is prepared for backcountry emergencies.  Luckily, no emergencies resulted from the crew killing this line.
    
    
    The rescue in Cooke City served as a testament to the training’s success. In a thank you letter to TGR, Gaertner wrote, “Your skiers were the first responders on the scene, and because of their training and communications [they] saved this man’s life.” According to Spriggs, the high angle rescue that the team performed was “exactly what we learned at IPRW.” Gaertner noted that the team was especially successful in executing the skills it had developed at the workshop. “It’s one thing to get the training,” she explained. “It’s another thing to be able to act on it—and all those guys were able to act calmly and efficiently and do what they were taught to do.”
    
    
    During its time in the Cooke City area, the TGR crew checked in with Gaertner to receive updates on the patient’s status. After several days in a coma, the man was released from the hospital. He is expected to make a full recovery. This, according to Ligare, “is a miracle—or at least not typical.” After all, the man had stopped breathing twice throughout the incident.
    
    
    The rescue with which the team assisted provided an unusual prelude to the trip—and the adventures only continued. At the start of their filming, “it snowed two feet so we just skied pow for days,” revealed Post. “It was unseasonably cold for the first four days and we had some of the best snow of the year.” 
    
    
    For the ten day trip, the crew established a base camp from which they began sledding and touring each morning. “We basically had a little village out in the woods and camped there and didn’t come back to town,” explained Post. “We were really much more immersed in the mountains than trips where you just go out for the day.” 
    
    
    
    The crew was better at skiing than cooking, as evidenced by its reliance on precooked dinners.
    
    
    Although the group had a large dome tent, plenty of food, and a propane stove and heater, being immersed in the mountains was not especially luxurious. Temperatures one evening hovered near twenty below. For dinner, the crew had “two different options of precooked meals that we would heat up: Mexican or Thai. The big joke every night was ‘what do you guys want for dinner?’” explained Pope. As the days progressed, the crew also established a second camp from which it could access more remote zones.
    
    
    
    There's nothing like the smell of a campfire--especially one accompanied by the smell of wet socks and boots.
    
    
    According to the team, its base camp provided quick access to terrain but was not without its challenges. “The camping adds a whole new layer of logistics to deal with—drying clothes, charging batteries, and dumping footage,” Pope explained. The group’s proximity to its target terrain helped fuel the intensity of the experience. “The trip was probably the most full throttle trip I have ever been on,” revealed Post. “We were just so busy—we would get up at six pretty much every morning, put our ski boots on by seven-thirty or eight, and we’d pretty much be skiing and in our ski boots until eight at night.”
    
    
    As the temperatures warmed up towards the end of the trip, the crew was also able to ski several couloirs. After being shut down on one couloir due to rapidly softening snow and wet slides, the team was able to ski the couloir on its final day. “The snow conditions were super variable,” revealed Pope. “But to me, that’s the impressive thing about professional skiers—they make it look easy no matter what the conditions.” But this should come as no surprise. After all, they can even make saving a life look easy.
    
    
    
    The crew kicked back in Cooke City at the trip's conclusion.
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• Manhunt For Armed Fugitive Doe Manhunt For Armed Fugitive Does Little To Derail SoCal Shredders On A Powder Day

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    Nothing could keep Big Bear shredders indoors when a mid-February blizzard dumped two feet of pow on the Southern California dome – even a deadly manhunt for murder suspect and former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.
    
    Big Bear residents were put on high alert as schools closed, resorts shut down, and local shops locked up once the hunt for Dorner moved from Irvine to the mountain town above Los Angeles. Despite the warnings that the fugitive had stowed away in a cabin in the woods, Bear Mountain only shut down for one session. A thousand feet below, Snow Summit didn’t even blink an eye and carried on business as usual. With a record single snowfall of the season, mother earth’s gift of 24 inches overruled any fear of a convicted felon on the loose.
    
    Dorner was suspected to have launched a killing spree that allegedly began on February 3rd in Irvine. Four days later, Dorner’s burned out truck was discovered in Big Bear Lake, commencing a six-day manhunt. Found barricaded inside a cabin on February 12, authorities tried to smoke him out with pyrotechnics. The cabin caught fire and Dorner’s charred remains were identified a few days later.
    
    Throughout the ordeal, Bear Mountain offered a constant stream of updates on the status of the mountain on their homepage.
    
    Despite the media blow out over a mountain lockdown, skiers and boarders continued to chase down fresh powder in the wake of magically clear conditions.
    
    Undeterred shredders scrambled for first chair at Big Bear as authorities searched for murder suspect Chris Dorner. (Photo: Big Bear Mountain Resorts)
     
    Closing only for a single afternoon session on precautionary terms, Bear continued to operate with all runs open and their legendary fully loaded park – including the big girl and boy playground, Red Bull Plaza. The Plaza provides an urban oasis for expert riders with 32 foot stairs, K-rails, a billboard wall ride, and a marble ledge, just to highlight a few.
    
    The nonchalant tone on the mountain amidst national anxiety aligned with the essence of skiing and boarding. Sports so reliant upon Mother Nature to deliver opportunity, especially in a region like Southern California, cannot afford to waste a single snowflake. While tense vibes certainly permeated the community of Big Bear, on the mountain it was the crisp wind, the perfect sun and the smell of a fresh layer that reigned supreme.
    
    

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• The Weak 11 By Ian Compton The Weak 11 By Ian Compton

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    Take a trip into my woods of Vermont. Beers were had and fires were made. - Ian
    
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• A Chance Of Snow In New Englan A Chance Of Snow In New England

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    Fog, rain, and deep freezes have bled the East coast dry of the deep base and gut-slapping powder that filled its woods during the Christmas holiday. Despite the lull in the epic, let's acknowledge a brighter time in the season when the snow was deep and ”faceshot“ was in the weekly lexicon. During that time, Ryan Denning, Lucas Van Oss, Tavis Moonan, and Ryan Dunfee set out to capture some of the best New England skiing in a dog's age on film. 
    
    Filmed by Lucas Van Oss and Ryan Denning at Sugarloaf, Maine, and Bolton Valley, Vermont.
    
    Edited by Lucas Van Oss.
    
    For more visit alpine-live.com

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• News: James Woods And Keri Her News: James Woods And Keri Herman Win At Copper Mountain

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    Copper Mountain, Colo. – Keri Herman’s (Breckenridge, CO) back-to-back switch tricks and clean landings sealed the deal for her second straight World Cup win at the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix at Copper Mountain. Herman’s first run featured one of the best displays of grabs fans have seen in women’s slopestyle skiing. Her run included a lipslide first rail, bus stop to switch, switch right 720 safety-grab, switch right 540 Japan-grab, right 540 tail-grab. Great Britain’s James Woods took the men’s title.
    
    Americans took four of the top eight spots including Bobby Brown (Breckenridge, CO) fourth, Nick Goepper (Lawrenceburg, IN) fifth, Alex Schlopy (Park City, UT) seventh and Sammy Carlson (Hood River, OR) eighth. American women took four of the top nine with Ashley Battersby (Park City, UT) sixth, Jamie Crane-Mauzy (Park City, UT) eighth and U.S.Freeskiing rookie Jess Breda (Marshfield, MA) ninth at just her second World Cup. The event also doubled as the U.S. Slopestyle Championship with Brown and Herman taking titles as top Americans. The athletes gained valuable FIS Olympic qualifying points in addition to AFP Platinum level points.
    
    “I am so happy!” said Keri Herman. “At Dew Tour in December I finished dead last and this is great! It’s so cool to have won both FIS World Cup’s so far; it’s a real honor to represent the USA at the top of the podium. I tried so hard to grab well in my run and it worked out. The field of competition was tough and I am lucky the score from my first run held, because I fell on my second run. This is such a good confidence booster heading into X Games.”
    
    BROADCAST SCHEDULE (times ET)
    Sat. Jan. 19 2:00-3:00 p.m. –Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix, slopestyle, NBC Sports Network
    
    Click Here For Offical Results Men and Official Results Women

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• News: Russ Henshaw Rides Out T News: Russ Henshaw Rides Out The Men's Freeski Slopestyle Champ

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    The Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships at Breckenridge, Colorado wrapped up the final day with three slopestyle events, and the Men’s Freeski Slopestyle Final was without a doubt a highlight to the day as they skied with strength through what many athletes had referred to as, “the best course ever.”

    Following the 31-man final from yesterday, only the top twelve were allowed to return to throw it all on the line for their chance at taking the 2012 Dew Cup.

    As the top twelve skiers began to take their turns on the slopestyle course, the snow began to flurry making for a true winter competition allowing some riders to flourish while others had to make adjustments in order to excel.

    With James Woods, aka Woodsy, coming into the event as the top qualifier from semis, he was looked to be a favorite to do well. However, between the conditions and the stacked competition, this event was anything but predictable.

    As it came down to Woodsy’s final run, he seemed to have his entire run as he wished, but as he approached the final jump he decided to ride to the side and let this event go to the Aussie Russ Henshaw who scored a whopping 84.50 on his first run.

    Topping the podium was Henshaw, and directly behind him in scores were Andreas Hatveit and Henrik Harlaut taking second and third, respectively.

    Results

    1^st Place – Russ Henshaw 84.50

    2^nd Place – Andreas Hatveit 80.00

    3^rd Place – Henrik Harlaut 78.75

    4^th Place – Matt Walker 77.25

    5^th Place – Tom Wallisch 74.25

    6^th Place – Sean Jordan 70.25

    7^th Place – Aleksander Aurdal 62.75

    8^th Place – Jf Houle 60.50

    9^th Place – James Woods 37.00

    10^th Place – Nick Goepper 30.50

    11^th Place – Alex Bellemare 29.50

    12^th Place – Gus Kenworthy 20.50

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• News: U.S. Freeskiing Team Nam News: U.S. Freeskiing Team Named In Colorado

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    COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO – The 2013 U.S. Freeskiing Team, a powerhouse squad of 33 athletes led by four-time X Games medalist Tom Wallisch (Pittsburgh, PA) X Games Champion David Wise (Reno, NV), Overall Association of Freeskiing Professionals Champion Devin Logan (West Dover, VT) and four-time X Game medalist Torin Yater-Wallace (Basalt, CO) was named Saturday at Copper Mountain.

    Freeskiing makes its Olympic debut at the 2014 games in Sochi, Russia, where both slopestyle and halfpipe disciplines will be showcased.

    The team is gearing up for its first competition of the season, the Dew Tour at Breckenridge Dec. 13-16, followed by the VISA U.S. Grand Prix, the first domestic World Cup of the season and Platinum AFP event at Copper Mountain, Jan. 10-13 featuring halfpipe and slopestyle.
    
    2013 U.S. Freeskiing Team Roster

    
    2013 U.S. Freeskiing Halfpipe Pro Team
    
    Men
    
    Wing Tai Barrymore (Sun Valley, ID)
    Duncan Adams (Breckenridge, CO)
    Simon Dumont (Bethel, ME)
    Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, CO)
    Tucker Perkins (Northampton, NH)
    David Wise (Reno, NV)
    Torin Yater-Wallace (Basalt, CO, Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club)
    
    Women

    Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe, CA)
    Jen Hudak (Park City, UT)
    Devin Logan (West Dover, VT)
    Brita Sigourney (Carmel, CA)
    
    2012 U.S. Freeskiing Slopestyle Pro Team

    Men

    Bobby Brown (Breckenridge, CO)
    Sammy Carlson (Hood River, OR)
    Joss Christensen (Park City, UT)
    Gus Kenworthy (Telluride, CO)
    Alex Schlopy (Park City, UT)
    Tom Wallisch (Pittsburgh, PA)
    
    Women
    
    Keri Herman (Breckenridge, CO)
    Ashley Battersby (Park City, UT)
    Devin Logan (West Dover, VT)
    Meg Olenick (Aspen, CO)
    Emilia Wint (Denver, CO)
    Grete Eliassen (Salt Lake City, UT)
    
    U.S. Freeskiing Halfpipe Rookie Team

    
    Men
    
    Aaron Blunck (Crested Butte, CO)
    Lyman Currier (Boulder, CO)
    Alex Ferreira (Aspen, CO)
    
    Women
    
    Annalisa Drew (Andover, MA)
    Darian Stevens (Missoula, MT)
    
    U.S. Freeskiing Slopestyle Rookie Team
    
    Men
    
    Willie Borm (Chaska, MN)
    Lyman Currier (Boulder, CO)
    Chris Laker (Cincinnati, OH)
    Andy Patridge (Park City, UT)
    
    Women
    
    Jess Breda (Marshfield, MA)
    Alexi Micinski (Meridian, ID)
    Darian Stevens (Missoula, MT)
    
    U.S. Freeskiing Staff

    
    Jeremy Forster, U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding Director
    Abbi Nyberg, U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding Program Manager
    Kate Morton, U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding Team Manager

    Luke Byers, U.S. Freeskiing Halfpipe Technician
    Dave Coombs, U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding Slopestyle Technician
    Justin Hunt, U.S. Freeskiing Physical Therapist
    
    Coaches
    
    Mike Jankowski, Head Halfpipe and Slopestyle U.S. Freeskiing and U.S. Snowboarding Coach
    Andy Woods, U.S. Freeskiing Halfpipe Coach
    Skogen Sprang, U.S. Freeskiing Slopestyle Coach
    DJ Montigny, U.S. Freeskiing Rookie Slopestyle Coach
    Ben Verge, U.S. Freeskiing Rookie Halfpipe Coach
    
    Official U.S. Freeskiing Suppliers
    
    Uniform/Licensees
    
    The North Face
    High Sierra
    Smartwool
    
    Hard Goods (skis, boots, bindings, poles)

    
    Liberty Skis
    Full Tilt Boots
    
    Eyewear
    Zeal Optics
    
    Wax, Tools, Training Devices and Accessories

    
    DeWalt
    Dominator
    EPS-Doublet
    Kenwood Radios
    Reliable Racing
    Tools4boards.com
    
    Official Education Partner
    
    Westminster College

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• The Wizards Of Odd - LINE Trav The Wizards Of Odd - LINE Traveling Circus 5.3

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    “There's no place like home...made rails” The TC crew cures their autumn angst with do-it-yourself set-ups in the woods and early season park laps from Utah to California. “The Wizards of Odd” is an adventure story the whole family can enjoy.
    
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• Skiing Hurricane Sandy: 24 Hou Skiing Hurricane Sandy: 24 Hours Of Appalachian Powder

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    By Andrew Orowitz and Dalton Harben
    
    Photos by Dalton Harben
    
    It’s no secret that the mid-Atlantic region is home to some of the highest elevation peaks east of the Mississippi.  But as backcountry skiers based in the Northern Greens, the thought of skiing south of the Mason-Dixon line had never really been a high priority. That all changed when Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the eastern seaboard – and set up the high plateaus of West Virginia with some of the best early-season powder conditions in the country.
    
    The monster hurricane-Nor’easter hybrid was still ravaging the New York and New Jersey coastline when seasoned storm chaser and owner of Worth Skis, Dalton Harben, called me to explain why it was crucial that we get in his truck and drive south to ski 3-plus feet of snow in Canaan Valley, West Virginia, immediately. He sent over photos of buried cars and untracked tree lines to back up his powdery claims. The wintery images became etched in my mind. Dalton also mentioned something about product testing for Worth and the overwhelming desire to ski powder. That it was some sort of sickness. I laughed it off.
    
    
    Even if it was 45 degrees and raining in Vermont, it was completely ridiculous to even consider driving 24 hours for 24 hours of human-powered storm of skiing in the mid-Atlantic Appalachians. Or was it?
    
    Almost instinctively, negotiations were made with loved ones, personal days were requested of bosses, and skins, long underwear and goggles made their way into backpacks. Our unlikely Snovember adventure was actually coming together. At around 9 p.m., we began our 12-hour journey through the Halloween night to ski hillbilly powder upon arrival in the morning. What had started as a joke the day before had suddenly become very real. With the Tundra fully-loaded, we hightailed it out of VT and down the New York Thruway to meet our friend and fellow storm chaser, Matt Cote, at the Kingston, New York Park & Ride.
    
    
    Reports of icy roads, widespread power outages and gas shortages continued to stream in from the Canaan Valley. But as far as we were concerned, it was ski season, we were storm chasing and all was right in the world. Buoyed by yet another cup of coffee, the morning light and the thought of skiing powder after the endless off-season, Matt C. took over the driving near the West Virginia border and the truck began it’s steady ascent to an elevation of around 3,000 feet.

    
    Arriving at the Cannan Valley Resort bleary-eyed and nearly delirious, we were greeted by an officer who took one look at us and said, “I hate snow. Hate it.” Moving right along, we signed up for $10/night rooms that included breakfast, lunch and dinner, but no heat. Seemed fair.
    
    

    We hurried along to our first objective: the White Grass Touring Center, just a few miles down the road from our accommodations. Right away, Chip, the ski area’s beloved and bearded manager, invited us into the rustic base lodge to warm up by the woodstove and get ready for the ski. From the “donations only today” note on the ticket booth window, to the dogs and kids running around, to the timeless feel of the well-worn hut, it was clear that what White Grass lacked in vertical, it completely made up for with a pure, unadulterated love of skiing.

    

    Maintaining a unique yet familiar mountain vibe, White Grass attracts a certain type of BC skier, one that longs for the serenity of an untracked glade and the company of a few close friends. After just a few minutes in the lodge, White Grass had already left an impression on us.  A former Vermont resident himself, Chipper (as he is affectionately known,) explained that to him, the Canaan Valley represents “Vermont South.” Sharing a love of mountains, a laid-back lifestyle and a passion for skiing, it’s easy to see why. He was eager to get out on the local terrain and the fresh snow, and after all night driving in the truck, we were all more than ready to finally get out on the skin track. After a few quick laps, our group of nearly a dozen broke off into smaller groups and began exploring the various tree lines, backcountry huts and open meadows.

    
    Deprived of sleep and with a few thousand feet of vertical under our belts, one way or another, we all made it back to the White Grass base area. While the region was still without power, we warmed ourselves from the inside with a jar of moonshine that was making the rounds. Before long we got word from Chip that we had been “evacuated” from our hotel. Luck had been on our side up to this point, and I wondered to myself whether the three of us would be sleeping in the back of the Tundra instead of our well-appointed hotel room. When we arrived back at the front desk we were informed that due to the heavy moisture content of the snow, they were concerned the hotel roof could collapse. Fortunately, they moved our group to a 4-bedroom cabin complete with a fireplace (for the same $10 a night fee.) I guess this is what they mean by southern hospitality.

    

    After stoking up the fire to try to warm up our cabin, we were treated to an all-you-could eat dinner of pork loin, roasted potatoes, chicken soup, salad, rolls and cake back at the hotel. Sitting around in the dark with a bunch of friends, skiers who were a long way from home, we shared stories and made a plan for the next day of skiing before heading back to the cabin to for an early night.
    
    

    First thing in the morning, we grabbed a quick breakfast back at the hotel before heading over to check out another ski area just down the road called Timberline. The clouds and snow of the day before had lifted and we could finally get a feel for the lay of the land. Right away we could see that Timberline had a better pitch and more vertical than White Grass. Right away, Jon S. who was visiting from Massachusetts, set a very efficient skin track up to the Summit. After a few laps, Dalton, Matt and I knew our Snovember West Virginia ski adventure was coming to end. We had a 12-hour drive ahead of us. The skiing, snow quality and location had far exceeded our expectations – but more than anything, we were comforted by the familiar feeling of sliding around on snow, with good friends (both new and old), and knowing that Winter was just beginning. The ride home was exactly what you would expect. Long, dark and at times painful. We’re used to it. We made it back home to Vermont around midnight to find that snowing was once again falling in the Green Mountains. Thinking back, it would have been easier to exercise a little patience and to wait for the snow to come to us, but where’s the adventure in that? We all agreed we would do it again in a heartbeat.
    
    
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• Skiing the woods of WV in Hurr Skiing the woods of WV in Hurricane Sandy

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    Skiing the woods of WV in Hurricane Sandy
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• First Jump - The Pro Line - Ca First Jump - The Pro Line - Camp Of Champions Park

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    Watching the future get created right before your eyes was one of the coolest things about watching everyone send it on the Pro Line. It was like watching the X-Games and actually being a part of it. Seeing Tom Wallisch, Gus Kenworthy, Woodsy, Bene Myer, Max Hill, the Traveling Circus crew, All the 4 FRNT team and campers send it was amazing. There was a lot of “Best Day Ever!” quotes at the end of each day from campers and pros alike.

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• Preseason Training: 6 Ways To Preseason Training: 6 Ways To Survive The Fall

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    Fall is a tough season to navigate, replete with movie premieres, gear swaps, and season passes to purchase. Preseason in the ski world means hitting rails without much snow, prolonging your first injury, and actually being as excited about skiing as you pretend to be throughout the winter. Here are six tips to get you through the autumn strife.

    Fill your iPod with this season’s hottest tracks (as demonstrated by movie trailers). Then, search Soundcloud and all torrent websites to download every song of that genre, flooding your iTunes with music you’ll hate next year. Keywords: trapstep, whomp, indieelectrocallmemaybestep.

    Attend every ski movie premiere within a reasonable distance. Get autographs to fill your bedroom walls, your helmet, and your chest. Practice your vertical jump and reach for every free sticker thrown.

    Practice walking stairs in ski boots. The last way you want to start your winter is by giving everyone in the lodge the impression that you don’t ski year-round. Throw those bad boys on and run up and down your porch steps until you’re no longer tripping on your own feet and the cuffs of your snowpants are sufficiently tattered.

    Do parkour. Trampoline gyms, tennis-shoe-switch-ups on curbs, and that thing where you toss up your water bottle and flip it in 180-degree increments are all good uses of your time. Stomp a bottle-quad-flip before the first snowfall.

    Get your gear dialed. I’m not talking about tuning your skis, waterproofing your jacket, and other stuff that matters. Instead, cut your poles, sticker your skis, and figure out which beanie best allows your goggles to fit under your helmet. That, and stand in front of a mirror in your outerwear while holding your skis.

    Go to great lengths to build rails. Borrow questionable construction materials, use your creativity, and ask your uncle to weld legs onto that PVC pipe you found in your basement. Then go hide it in the woods and start sessioning it the first morning that frost is on the ground.

    Now go out and buy your favorite ski brand’s 2012-13 sweatshirts to wear to your first event of the season: a new ski movie on your roommate’s couch.

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• News: Keri Herman and James Wo News: Keri Herman and James Woods Win Historic Olympic Slopestyle Qualifier

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    USHUAIA, Argentina – U.S. Freeskiing's Keri Herman (Breckenridge, CO) placed a check mark on history Friday, Sept. 7 with an FIS World Cup slopestyle skiing victory during the first 2014 Olympic Winter Games qualifying event. Great Britain’s James Woods took the win for the men. The top American male was McRae Williams (Salt Lake City) in eighth.
    
    An X Games silver medalist, Herman won by a huge six-point margin to mark her first podium since 2011. Herman’s winning run: clean double kink rail, frontside 270, switch cork 720 bro-kang grab, switch 540, 360 safety grab, to a cork 540 mute grab.
    
    Switzerland’s Eveline Bhend took second and Canadian Dara Howell came in third.
    
    “This feels amazing and almost surreal. It hasn’t quite clicked in yet because I am so far away from home,” Keri Herman said. “It’s been a great week in Argentina and I had some time to figure out what I needed to do to win and I did it.”
    
    The next chance for athletes to qualify will be Jan. 11, 2013 during the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix at Copper Mountain, CO – part of the winter-long Sprint U.S. Grand Prix series.
    
    Slopestyle and halfpipe skiing will make their debut at the 2014 Olympic program in Sochi, Russia. The Olympic qualifying period provides individual athletes with opportunity to achieve required international ranking in order to be eligible for Olympic selection and helps the USA earn the maximum number of nation's quota spots.
    
    Official Results

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• News: Momentum Splashdown To S News: Momentum Splashdown To Showcase World's Top Freestyle Skiers At Blackcomb

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    Whistler, BC - The third annual Momentum Splashdown will take place July 18, 2012, at the Blackcomb water ramp in Whistler B.C. from 4 - 6 p.m. This fun and spectacular event will showcase some of the best freestyle skiers in the world performing high flying multiple twisting flips and spins. AFP Champion Gus Kenworthy and X Games medalist James 'Woodsy' Woods will be among the competitors, as well as World Cup Mogul Champion Mikael Kingsbury and other members of the national freestyle team. Up and coming young Momentum campers will have the chance to compete against their coaches and idols.
    
    Come relax beside the refreshing pool, win prizes and let the world's best skiers thrill and entertain you!

    For more, check out momentumcamps.com

    

    

    

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• Ski Camp 2012 Week B Ski Camp 2012 Week B

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    Blue skies and slushy snow made for an amazing time with the 4FRNT crew during Week B at Camp Of Champions! Riding by Rob Heule, Gus Kenworthy, Jordan Innes, Mack Jones, Finn Anderson, Tom Wallisch, Liam Casey, Bene Mayr, Carl Fortin, James "Woodsy" Woods, Dane Degruyter and many more!

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• Video: James ‘Woodsy’ Woods Ta Video: James ‘Woodsy’ Woods Takes A Corvette To Breckenridge

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    Straight up, I’m only posting this because of the beginning, where Woodsy loads his skis into a Corvette with New Hampshire plates to go skiing in Breckenridge. That’s just plain dirty — especially for a Brit. The clip goes on to get pretty nasty, too. There’s a crappy song, some skiing with no poles and absolutely no powder. There is, however, plenty of progressive trickery. This kid crushes it in the Breck park like anyone wishes they could. Someday Woodsy will learn about velvet powder slopes and will come spinning a 720 into your (my) secret stash and peel off in his Corvette with your (my) girlfriend, blasting NY Official’s “Music” and all you’ll (I'll) be able to do is bitch about it on the internet. Go get 'em Woodsy!

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• Salomon Freeski TV S5 E09 The Salomon Freeski TV S5 E09 The Style Episode

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    Style - a particular manner or technique by which something is done, created, or performed. This week the Salomon team defines itself in, The Style Episode.

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• Video: Trip Out Watching Sonja Video: Trip Out Watching Sonja Hinrichsen Create Snow Circles In Steamboat

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    A few winters back I took a bunch of mushrooms and decided to wander around the woods on snowshoes. I got so lost and had no idea where I was until I realized I was just walking around in circles in my neighbor's backyard. Kind of like Sonja Hinrichsen as she creates her Snow Drawing in the above video.

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• News: Nick Goepper Wins Freesk News: Nick Goepper Wins Freeski Slope Finals, Tom Wallisch, Kaya Turski Win Dew Cup

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    Snowbasin, Utah — Nick Goepper won the men's freeski slope Finals at Sunday's Winter Dew Tour Toyota Championships with his score of 95.00 and he was also voted the Mitch Breakthrough Athlete of the Year.
    
    In his winning run, he stepped things up and did a switch double 14 instead of the switch double 12 he did in his first run.

    His run started with a 450 on 270 out on top rail, front swap backside 450 out on A-Frame, on the cannon box he did a switch 2 on rodeo 450 out. For the jumps, he started with a switch left double 10 Japan and finished with a switch right double 14 mute.

    Nick Goepper.
    
    "I’ve been so close all year, but to finally get the number one spot feels awesome," Goepper said.

    Tom Wallisch took home the Dew Cup and also won Toyota Athlete of the Year with his second-place finish and score of 92.25. He was ranked first overall with wins at each of the previous two Dew Tour stops, and he was the last to drop in to the finals with the only shot of bumping Goepper off the podium. Wallisch has come back in his second run to take the win at each of those events. But today in Utah, he was able to increase his score by one point, but it wasn't enough to overtake the 17-year-old Goepper.

    "I’m not much of a go for broke, last run huck yourself, try something new kind of guy," Wallisch said. "I’d rather see skiing be smoother. Just full, complete, good runs. I never really try to huck myself second run. I just go for cleaning it up. Making it as smooth as possible. And it’s worked for me in the past, so I’m going to keep doing it."

    Tom Wallisch.
    
    His run went like this: switch lip 2 pretzel 2 on the down rail, to switch on frontside switchup backside 450 out, to switch on to cannon rail backside pretzel 450 out to switch. He hit up the jumps with a switch left double cork 1080 Japan to switch right double cork 1080 Japan.
    
    Defending Dew Cup champ Bobby Brown finished third with 91.00 after his second run that started with a switch 2 to pretzel 2 on first rail, switch on to switchup inward 2 out on second, cork 630 on cannon then right double 12 to switch double 14 on the last two jumps.
    
    "I was struggling on the course the last few days," Brown said. "I’m just stoked that I’m on the podium, and Goepper and Wallisch killed it today. I’m just happy to end the Dew Tour on the podium."
    
    Results
    1. Nick Goepper, 95.00
    2. Tom Wallisch, 92.25
    3. Bobby Brown, 91.00
    4. Chris Laker, 90.25
    5. Russ Henshaw, 89.50
    6. Alex Bellemare, 88.00
    7. James Woods, 87.00
    8. Joss Christensen, 82.00
    9. Andreas Hatveit, 76.00
    10. Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, 70.00
    11. Jamieson Irvine, 69.00
    12. JF Houle, 13.00

    Kaya Turski.

    Kaya Turski won the women's freeski slope title with her score of 93.75, increasing her lead by one point in her second run at the Toyota Championships on Sunday, and she also took home the Dew Cup. This was the first year for a Dew Cup in women's freeski pipe.
    
    Turski is on a hot streak after winning the X Games and the last stop of the Dew Tour. It's not suprising, with a winning run that consisted of switch 2 onto the flat box, gap blind swap on the flat down, blind swap on the A-Frame rail, into a blunt 450 off the cannon. For the jumps, she started wtih a switch 720 high mute into a switch 5 Japan.
    
    “I’m training really hard," Turski said. "The opportunity of us being in the Olympics is really huge for me. I’m very excited to go and represent Canada in 2014.”
    
    Second place went to Australian Anna Segal, who scored a 90.75 on her final run and pulled of her first cork 9 without ever attemping one.
    
    Her run went like this: transfer from down rail into down box, back switchup on the up down rail, back 270 out grab on up cannon, right 7 safety on first jump and left cork 9 mute on second.
    
    "I'm really excited to be up on the podium with Devin and Kaya," Segal said. "Those girls are so progressive and so solid. At X Games, Devin beat me, so it was kind of cool to one-up her on this one. Especially since she already won the pipe. She's had her fun."
    
    Devin Logan - who won the Dew Cup and the competition for women's freeski pipe yesterday evening - podiumed again today with a third-place-finish after her first-run-score of 89.00.
    
    "Devin really gave it her all, she’s keeping me on my toes," Turski said. "All the girls are really skiing well these days. The level is definitely being pushed. So it’s really exciting being up there and dropping in, you really have to bring your A Game, and that’s what I did."
    
    Devin's started her higher scoring run with a switch on to up gap down box, to blind 270 out of the up down rail, to 180 safety grab out of the cannon. She hit up the jumps with a switch 5 mute on the first into a cork 7 tailgrab on the last.
    
    She was also in contention for the Cup in slope, but after such a solid season, she had no regrets.
    
    "I was just so happy with yesterday, I just wanted to come in today and have fun and that’s what I did," Logan said. "Just getting another podium is awesome in my eyes. I’m not upset that I got third at all, I’m actually really happy with how I skied."
    
    Results
    1. Kaya Turski, 93.75
    2. Anna Segal, 90.75
    3. Devin Logan, 89.00
    4. Emilia Wint, 82.00
    5. Keri Herman, 77.00
    6. Ashley Battersby, 71.75

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