Mark Abma, Mike Douglas, and Chris Rubens show us what it was like to be in Whistler during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, from the perspective of a freeskier. Interesting people and amazing skiing made it the place to be in February 2010. No snow? Yeah right. After watching this you may never believe the mainstream media again.
Woodsy and B-Paul jib their way across North America from Halifax, Canada to the X Games in Aspen, Colorado. Along the 2-week journey they meet up with Charles Gagnier, Jenn Crichton, Corey Vanular, Cody Ling, Willie Borm, Matt Walker, Bobby Brown, Kaya Turski, Simon Dumont, Sammy Carlson and many more.
It’s been nearly 40 years since the steeps of Chamonix were descended by the first generation of steep skiers. Now, the children of the forefathers are grown and pushing their own limits in the world’s most notorious mountain town.
Chimaera is a utopia. A dream or fantasy. Mythologically, it references a fusion of forms that is the personification of winter. By slowing down our perception of reality we get a unique look at a skier's life. Just plug in your headphones and let your senses take over.
Who’s the next park and pipe superstar? There’s a good chance they’re in this episode. These very best shots from the Jib Academy Euro final in Sweden and the global final in Mammoth, California. Oh ya… and watch Bobby Brown get served in one of the funniest shots of the year!
Henrik Windstedt, Mark Abma, Mike Douglas and Asmund Thorsen spend a week shredding pillows and trees in some of the deepest snow of the season at Mica Heliskiing in BC.
In the Queyras Valley time seems to stand still. We follow a group of locals who harness the wind with their speed-flying kits to chase untracked powder all winter long.
Bobby Brown and Alexi Godbout meet up with AJ Kempainen in New Zealand to heliski and work on new tricks for the upcoming season.
Kaj Zackrisson, Mike Douglas and Chris Rubens are back in the Alps chasing powder. For the second year in a row, they find the deepest snow of the year.
The European powder quest continues across Italy to the couloirs and the steeps of the Dolomites.
John Symms heads to Scotland where he tries to fit in with the local ski scene in the funniest episode of the season.
Sammy Carlson, Dane Tudor, and Mike Henitiuk are in Niseko, Japan challenging what’s possible on skis in pillows and powder. Dane steps onto the ‘Stairway to Hell’, one of the boldest lines we’ve ever seen.
After Mark Abma’s sudden retirement, we needed a new leader for Salomon’s Big Mountain Freeskiing Team. Henrik Windstedt and Cody Townsend were sent to Girdwood, Alaska to battle for the spot in the most dramatic episode of Freeski TV yet. Part 1 of 2.
After a week of some of the most impressive skiing we’ve ever seen in Alaska, a clear leader had not yet emerged between Henrik and Cody. That is all about change as one skier steps up in a big way. Part 2 of 2.
Known as ‘Beber’, Bertrand Krafft is the ski designer behind some of the most innovative shapes of the past 20 years. This week we take a look into his life and the source of his inspiration.
Chuck Patterson is a former pro Freeskier, a professional Waterman, and one of the most fearless humans we’ve ever met. After a brief experiment with skiing on waves several years ago, Chuck’s passion for the idea was re-lit after watching Mike Douglas and Cody Townsend ski the waves of Maui in 2009. In January 2011, Chuck followed the biggest swell of the year to Maui, to see if he could see if he could successfully ski Peahi or ‘Jaws’ – one of the most powerful waves on earth.
This week we follow a band of ski bums in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. It’s unlikely you’ll ever meet a more inspiring group of skiers.
When the weather warms and the contest season ends, the pros focus on building the best jumps and jibs possible. In this episode the Salomon Team takes things to the next level at Mt. Bachelor and Timberline, Oregon and Whistler, BC.
A cave man finds skiing thanks to his new-found friend, a wooly mammoth. Told in Stop-Motion Animation, this is the most creative and unique episode of Salomon Freeski TV yet.
Kim Havell, Chris Rubens, and Kris Erickson make their way to Morocco to put down first descents in Africa’s Atlas Range.
La Niña (the 'little girl' in spanish) is an oceanic phenomenon that delivered western North America the coldest and snowiest winter anyone can remember. It also makes this episode of Salomon Freeski TV the deepest one yet. According to all climate predictions, she's back for the 2011/12 season. We hope you like your powder deep!
Many of the Salomon Jib Academy final participants say the week at Mammoth, California is the best of their lives. In order to try and comprehend the awesomeness, we filmed just 6 seconds of the entire week at 1000 frames per second.
It's unlikely there is any place on earth with as rich of ski history as Norway. Skiing is woven through every part of Norwegian culture and there is nowhere more beautiful to illustrate this than along the snowy Fjords of the Sogndal region.
It seems everyone these days has a GoPro camera. You've probably seen hundreds of POV edits over the past few years, but we bet you've never seen one quite like this. Featuring Chris Rubens, Mark Abma, Mike Douglas, Cody Townsend and Bobby Brown.
As editor of Bravoski Magazine, Tatsuya Tayagaki's job is to keep his finger on the pulse of Freeskiing in Japan. He travels the country in his home-on-wheels in search of passionate skiers and hope after the nation was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Under twinkle of stars and light of moon spirits roam the world at night emerging cold and frozen from shadows left and right more richly colored than the day they'll play 'til dawn's first light set your clocks, the fun begins at quarter past midnight WINNER 'Best VFX' - IF3 2012
We skiers are a strange breed. When most of society is running for cover, we find ourselves rejoicing at the sight of a cold low pressure system circling on the Satellite loop. We yearn for the feeling of cold powder snow blowing in our faces. Inside a swirling maelstrom of snowflakes, we feel most free.
The Arkhyz Gosdacha (Архыз Госдача) sits in a remote river valley on the north side of Russia's Caucasus Mountains. Built as a mountain retreat for the leaders of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, this lavish estate has played significant role in shaping the history of our modern world. Kaj Zackrisson, Mark Abma, and Mike Douglas discover it also serves as a fine stepping-off point to some of the best, undiscovered heliskiing on the planet.
Alexi Godbout, Vincent Gagnier, and Leo Ahrens travel halfway around the world to feed their hunger for flight on skis. When they arrive, they find the same passion in the eyes of the kids living at the foot of the Chilean Andes.
Marking America's only unguarded border, the Portland Canal is the 4th longest fjord in the world. At the head of it, lay the towns of Stewart, BC and Hyder, Alaska - and the base for Last Frontier Heliskiing. Cody Townsend & Chris Rubens use a helicopter and their skis to explore one of the last great wilderness areas left on earth.
Over the past 3 years he's logged first descents in a half-dozen countries, battled back to life from an accident that nearly killed him, and become the most talked about skier in the epicenter of all things extreme -- Chamonix, France. What makes Andreas most intriguing, however, are his thoughtful musings on meaning from a life on the edge - a willingness to enter mental spaces that few have ever experienced. In Tempting Fear Sweden's soft-spoken Adventurer of the Year explores a place in which fear overwhelms all emotions, playing both friend and enemy in a pas de deux where death lies just one misstep away.
Austria is known as the cradle of modern skiing. Chris Rubens and Mike Henitiuk explore this country's obsession with sliding on snow from the Hahnenkamm to the Arlberg.
Nestled in the southern Mediterranean Sea, Sicily is not your typical ski destination. Kim Havell and Elyse Saugstad spend a week there trying to decide which is more alluring and dangerous: the romantically-charged Sicilian males or the lave-spewing volcanic crater of Mt Etna?
Every summer, forest fires burn wildly across the temperate mountain regions of the world. As destructive as they are, they have a purpose and beauty that often goes unappreciated. As winter arrives in the burned forest, so do the skiers. They have come to celebrate new lines opened up by the previous summer's fires that have now burned themselves out -- or have they?
A new GoPro edit is uploaded to the internet every 3.57 seconds, but trust us when we tell you, this is not just another GoPro edit. Featuring the skiing of: Mark Abma, Kaj Zackrisson, Cody Townsend, Chris Rubens, Alexi Godbout, Mike Douglas, Tommy Ellingson, AJ Kemppainen, Vincent Gagnier, and more.
Antoine Boisselier has stared across at the Belledonne Mountains his whole life. He's always dreamed of laying ski tracks on their difficult-to-access slopes. Two years ago, he and a group of close friends launched their paragliders from across the valley and took a chance.
The last time we visited Mica Heliskiing, it turned out to be one of the best powder skiing trips we've ever experienced. Mike Douglas, Mark Abma, & Chris Rubens return to Mica to see if the magic is still there!
For generations explorers have traveled deep into the fjords of the Sunnmøre Alps in Western Norway. Greg Hill, Andreas Fransson, & Chris Rubens board a century old fishing vessel in search of their own adventure.
In the 100th episode of Salomon Freeski TV, the crew takes a look back at their favourite and most memorable moments.
In the mid 1800's, BC's mountain towns boomed as prospectors flocked north during the great gold rush. Josh Daiek, Mike Henitiuk & Kieran Nikula arrive 150 years later in search of their own fortune.
Things rarely go as planned as the Good Times Crew chase snow through the French and Italian Alps by RV. Featuring Kaj Zackrisson, Mike Douglas, and Henrik Windstedt. #GoodTimesCrew
A look at the changing face of ski areas through the eyes of one of the world's leading ski resort designers.
We all love to ski deep powder and pillows, but what if you could turn it into a video game? Salomon Freeski TV presents, Super Pillows!
We criss cross through the lives of Bobby Brown, Mark Abma & Seb Eaves in 24 Hours of Freeskiing.
Between 1996 and 2004 Wendy Fisher was the most dominant female Big Mountain Freeskier in the world - then she had kids. Nearly a decade later, we revisit Wendy to see if she's still got 'it'.
What if your buddy called and said, 'It was storming over in Japan, can you drop everything and leave tomorrow?' Would you say, yes?
Sometimes things do not go as planned and you end up on Spring Break in the mountains with Josh Dueck, Cody Townsend, Josh Daiek & Leah Evans!
Scot Schmidt is a legend in Freeskiing. He is the original pro freeskier and became a household name in skiing after the release of the 1987 ski film, 'Blizzard of Ahhhs'.
As the youngest land mass on earth, Iceland is an ever-evolving paradise for skiers. Littered with volcanoes, the ski lines here plunge straight to the ocean's edge. Andreas Fransson, Chris Rubens, and Mark Abma visit Arctic Heli Sking on the Troll Peninsula.
CMH, the longest running heliski operation in the world, claims to have the best tree skiing in the world. Mike, Cody and Alexi spend a week there trying to determine if the claim is true.
Last Summer, Rusutsu ski area in Japan built a Travis Rice-inspired supernatural terrain park in the forest. The Salomon crew were given first crack at it in all-time powder conditions.
Every new ski season starts with the optimism that this will be the best season ever. When the snow doesn't show up, skiers will go to ridiculous lengths to make it happen.
As an avalanche controller, Kevin Fogolin gets to work and ski in some of the most spectacular mountains on earth. We follow him on his job as he brings down some of the most impressive avalanches ever caught on film.
When the Salomon crew arrives at the lodge high in the Italian Dolomites, they discover the mountain they are skiing on was the front line in World War 1.
Val de la Clarée is one of the last quiet corners of the French Alps, but it could have been very different. In the 1970's a proposed highway and tunnel threatened to open the valley up to development, but the local farmers and residents protested. Mark Abma, Leo Ahrens, Tony Lamiche and Timothée Theaux visit this quiet valley to live of the grid in a restored chalet for a week of skiing under their own power.
It's something nobody ever talks about, but the forest industry has created access to most of the great skiing areas in the world. Without it, this sport would look very different.
Legendary photographer, Wade McCoy, has spent most of his life documenting the rise of freeskiing in one of America's most iconic ski areas, Jackson Hole
Winter 2014 was one of the best they've ever had in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. The Good Times crew rolled in and took full advantage.
The volcanoes of Tongariro National Park in NZ mark the most treasured spot in all of Maori culture. Mike Douglas, Chris Rubens, and Josh Daiek gain unprecidented access to these sacred lands.
Once an abandoned mine dump in the southernmost part of the Rocky Mountains, Taos Ski Valley is home to some of the most abundant and aggressive inbounds ski terrain in North America.
After 8 seasons of Salomon Freeski TV, and thousands of comments from our fans begging for a chance to star in an episode, we’ve listened! For 3 weeks in December, Salomon Freeski TV viewers were given the chance to win their ultimate #freeskidreamtrip. The contest was simple – tell us where would you go and who would you would want to go with? On December 29th, 2014 10 winners were selected from a list of thousands, then one lucky fan received a phone call giving him the opportunity to live out his ultimate skiing fantasy in Japan with Mike Douglas, Cody Townsend, & Kaj Zackrisson.
It was a ridiculous idea from the start. Travel to the edge of the earth to see one of the planet’s rarest events- a total solar eclipse in the Arctic. Faced with the likely reality of bad weather obscuring the sun and having to battle frigid, arctic temperatures and winds, the odds did not favor success. Despite this the Salomon Freeski TV team and set out on an expedition to realize photographer, Reuben Krabbe’s grand vision to capture a single unique image- one of skiing during a solar eclipse. Persistence, preparation and a positive attitude was a guarantee of nothing as March 20th, 2015, dawned. The fate of the expedition’s goal would rest entirely in the hands of the weather gods.
Leo Ahrens, Leah Evans, and Colston VB spend a week in one of the most fabled lands in all of skiing - Bella Coola. Featuring the artwork of Leo Ahrens.
During filming of Salomon Freeski TV Season 7, we asked Salomon Freeski team members if they could drop everything and chase a storm to Japan on only 24 hours notice. This season that same question led us to Chamonix, France and some of the most ideal conditions the crew has ever seen.
Get a history lesson on Swedish freeskiing while watching Henrik Windstedt and Leo Ahrens ski laps at the world's most northern resort, lengendary Riksgränsen.
For Mike Douglas and Alexis Godbout, a ski touring trip through Switzerland's Urner Alps was about much more than simply exploring a beautiful mountain range on skis. It was a chance to push themselves and expand their definition of what it means to be a freeskier.
In 2015 the new Skyway Monte Bianco opened, replacing the rustic funivia cable car that for decades transported skiers and alpinists up to Punta Helbronner on the Italian side of Mont Blanc. Oscar Taiola, a mountain guide and icon of the former cable car and now safety manager for the new Skyway shares his passion for the high mountains while recounting the history of there former lift through to its current state of the art incarnation. Times and the technology might have changed, but as skiers Tony Lamiche, Alex Pittin, Kaj Zackrisson and Josh Daiek discover, the mountains haven't.
In the middle of nowhere Nevada lies one of the most beautiful couloirs in the world. The couloir named "Terminal Cancer" has drawn people from all over the world to ski within its high walled confines and down its straight as a rule fall line. When Cody Townsend heard rumors of more Terminal Cancers lying deep in the hidden and remote confines of the Ruby Mountains, he joined Elyse Saugstad and Josh Daiek for a rendezvous with TC and then he and Josh set off on a 5 day mission snowmobiling, skinning, hiking and climbing on the hunt for more steep, narrow and aesthetic couloirs.
Canvas is an athlete driven ski film that showcases all aspects of skiing. These skier's travelled from far and wide to find desirable conditions that best suit their disciplines. As they venture into the unknown in search of deep pow, big air, and self satisfaction they find themselves leaving a mark on the snowy slopes creating a masterpiece in which they call their Canvas.
The only thing greater than this group of skier's desire to claim a first ski descent on Greenland's second highest peak is the size of their carbon footprint to get there. Loaded with guilt, they decide to bring along renowned glaciologist, Alun Hubbard, who’s scientific hypothesis, if proven, could rewrite popular projections of global sea-level rise. However, the entire expedition is put in question when they arrive in Greenland and discover their objective is beyond the range of all available aircraft. Shot on location in Greenland.
For the second year in a row, we asked our fans: What is your #FreeskiDreamTrip? Canadian Tim Loch was lucky enough to be chosen from 5000 applicants. His Dream Trip? The Powder Highway in BC with Mike Douglas, Cody Townsend and Chris Rubens. In January 2016, Tim joined the Salomon crew for two weeks where they skied Revelstoke, Stellar Heliskiing, Whitewater, Selkirk Tangiers Heliskiing, and Blanket Glacier Chalet.
Since the first time professional skier, Stan Rey, drove up the highway between Vancouver and Whistler 20 years ago, he’s had a dream of skiing the Tantalus Mountain Range. Visible from the highway, but accessible only by helicopter, the Tantalus Range taunts serious skiers with it’s glaciated peaks every time they pass by. Every year Stan plans to ski those mountains but day to day life always seems to get in the way. When his sister, Olivia, was badly injured in a car accident on the highway in November 2015, Stan is forced to reconsider his priorities and a dream is finally realized.
Kilian Jornet is considered the greatest mountain runner ever. But he doesn't consider himself a runner. Join Kilian in his new backyard in Norway as he attempts to ski and run in a single day the Seven Summits of Romsdalen, a 77km route with 9000m of elevation gain.