You don’t have to be a skier to appreciate this clever stop-motion film, but it helps in order to understand the title. “Pillow Line” refers to the delightful mushrooms of snow that form on top of boulders–when the snow is deep enough and the slope steep enough, you can ski a route that’s like dropping [...]
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The Adventure Life, Wagner Skis, and Visit Telluride are psyched to announce that Ryan Hollington has won the season-long “Share Your Ski Stoke” contest. Judges from Skiing Magazine, Ski Press, Wagner, T-Ride, and this site picked Hollington’s video as the purist expression of stoke from the scores of entries received. Although not the most polished [...]
Back in high school, when I was going through life guard training (”lesson 1: how to spin your whistle without hitting yourself in the face”), one of the first things we learned was the simple survival skill called the dead man’s float. It had nothing to do with swimming or saving people and everything to [...]
You think you know how to clean your goggles? Well, maybe you do. But that’s what I thought, too, and after scratching more than a few pairs I thought I’d check with experts at the goggle manufacturers themselves to get some recommendations.
It’s tough to say which is more entertaining in this 1970s ski jumping segment from Dick Barrymore, the clothes or the sheer infinite number of ways proto-huckers can go cattywampus in the air. Eventually, you start pulling for someone to stick a landing…but not for a while. Seeing that wild hot dog hair caked with [...]
Eleven months after losing one of its best and brightest, Shane McConkey, in a BASE jumping tragedy, the Squaw Valley community has lost another of its luminary skiers, CR Johnson. According to filmmaker Scott Gaffney, Johnson, 26, fell on Light Towers at Squaw, went off a cliff, and landed in rocks. [...]
There are a half-dozen reasons why you should dry your ski boots every night–swamp funk smell comes to mind–but the best is that you don’t want to step out in sub-freezing temps the next day with damp liners. And unless you keep your heat cranked up, they won’t dry on their own. The easiest method [...]
Whatever Lindsey Vonn, Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, and Andrew Weibrecht are getting paid, the sport of skiing (or at least the industry) owes them more. Not since, well, ever has the sport been as high as it is today. Neither, thanks to Shaun White, Hannah Teter, Kelly Clark, and Scotty Lago, has snowboarding. But it’s [...]
For American adventurers, particularly skiers and boarders, Europe has always symbolized the promised land of freedom. Ski areas don’t restrict your travel, you can hop off-piste and on at will, and you’re responsible for your own hide. That extends to rescues, too, where you’re still responsible—you can expect to pay the cost of rescuers fetching [...]
Yesterday morning around 11 a.m., a skier atop Saddle Peak near Bridger Bowl, Montana, accidentally broke a piece of cornice, which fell onto the slope and triggered an avalanche that stretched 1,000 feet from end to end, ran 2,000 feet, left a crown the height of a VW van, and deposited debris up to 20 [...]
If you live in the mountains in the West, you quickly come to terms with skiing the deepest snowy days, but if you’re a weekend warrior, East Coaster, or only occasional recipient of massive dumps, the deepest days can be confounding. Here’s a trick invented a half-century ago at Alta, Utah, that gets you started [...]
Let me just say right up front: If I was a professional athlete with an awesome body and Sports Illustrated asked me to pose in bathing suit, I most likely would. (For the record, I’m not, I don’t, and they aren’t.) But the Los Angeles Times’s sports columnist Bill Plaschke, who doesn’t have an awesome [...]
With this short film, The Adventure Life is pleased to launch the first of a series of informational clips called 60-Second Expert. In this inaugural spot, we address the issue of getting along in the backcountry. You’d think the wild winter spaces would offer room for all of us, but that’s not always true. In [...]
Well, we really can’t whine about the paucity of creative ski films any more. After a decade or so of superficial, formulaic entries to the culture of winter cinematography, we’ve been blessed with a number of ambitious projects. Signatures is the most soulful bit of ski movie to hit the screen in years, and because [...]
Most of the entries in The Adventure Life’s win-a-trip-to-Telluride contest (along with Wagner custom skis and some heli-skiing time) have been word-based–earnest and imploring, sincere and sweet. Then along comes this over-the-transom surprise, a short little video captured last weekend on Teton Pass, Wyoming, by Carson Stanwood. Perhaps the song, “Love Burns” by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, speaks to the feeling in one’s quads after the third or fourth lap? Well, it’s hard to say where the judges will land on this one in the final contest tally, but I’d say it darn well captures the feeling of powder skiing. And despite killing it all last week in Jackson, it makes me regret leaving the Tetons on Friday and not hitting the pass on Sunday, when this was shot.>>>
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