CMH, the longest running heliski operation in the world, claims to have the best tree skiing in the world. Mike, Cody and Alexis spend a week there trying to determine if the claim is true.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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? Like us: facebook.com/salomonfreeski / Follow us: twitter.com/salomonfreeski / Listen to FSTV S6: open.spotify.com/user/salomonfreeski/playlist/1a8kjK7viZ0ruFKe7x7U1I
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.
Over the past three 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. Awards: "Best Action Film" at the 2012 Adventure Film Festival & "Best Story" at X-Dance 2013. Follow @ndreasfransson on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ndreasfransson & peruse through his thoughts on his personal website at http://andreasfransson.blogspot.fr/. Also be sure to Like Salomon Freeski TV on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/salomonfreeski/ on Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/salomonfreeski/. And to listen to Season 6 of Salomon Freeski TV's soundtrack, visit http://open.spotify.com/user/salomonfreeski/playlist/1a8kjK7viZ0ruFKe7x7U1I
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.
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.
The Arkhyz Gosdacha 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.
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.
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.
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.
Salomon Freeski TV is back for it's 6th season! Twelve short films will be released online bi-weekly starting October 9, 2012. This year the Salomon team chased powder and stories through Russia, Japan, Chile, Austria, France, Sicily, Canada, USA and more in what promises to be the best season yet.
Over the past decade, Mark Abma has become one of the most celebrated freeskiers in the sport. This week he takes us on a trip inside his mind.
"By the time we landed we had an armed guard escorting us back to the military base." Chris Rubens and Tristan Knoertzer discover the challenges but also witness the triumphs of opening a heli ski operation in the war torn mountain ranges of Kashmir, India.
Back in 2004, a flip on skis gone tragically wrong broke Josh Dueck's back and left him as a T11 - full paraplegic. For the past 8 years one of his dreams has been to do a flip on snow again. On February 3, 2012, Josh became the first person to perform a backflip on snow in a Sit Ski.
It's always seemed a bit odd to us that so many good skiers can come from a country that is very flat and spends much of the winter consumed by darkness. AJ Kemppainen gives us a glimpse into his world as he trains for the competition season.
Deep in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia Chris Rubens, Elyse Saugstad and Kim Havell put the new Salomon Guardian binding to the test.
The 'Good Times' crew rides again. This time Kaj Zackrisson and Mike Douglas ski Switzerland using only the train to get around. In a challenging season in the Alps, the boys do a pretty good job of finding a lot of good powder.
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.
Alta, Utah has almost a cult-like following of devoted powder skiers. Leo Ahrens, Jamey Parks, and the many generations of Alta shredders show us the soul of skiing is alive and well in one of the best powder skiing spots on earth.
Our Northwest adventure continues with the arrival of Mark Abma, and one of the deepest days on record at Stevens Pass, Washington.
Holding the world record for snowfall, the bountiful Pacific Northwest of North America is the ideal location for a two-week, no fixed itinerary, powder adventure. Cody Townsend, Elyse Saugstad and Leo Ahrens indulge themselves in the snowiest month of the snowiest year in a decade.
On March 8, 2004, aspiring freeskier and coach, Josh Dueck, awoke from a ski crash to realize life would never be the same. Paralyzed from the waist down, Josh made a decision to make the best of a horrible situation. The result is one of the most inspiring stories we've ever seen.
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.
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.
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.
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!
A sneak preview of Season 5 - Salomon Freeski TV. The first episode drops October 11th. Make sure to mark it down.
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Kim Havell, Chris Rubens and Kris Erickson make their way to Morocco to put down first descents in Africa's Atlas Range.
A cave man finds skiing thanks to his newfound friend, a wooly mammoth. Told in Stop-Motion Animation, this is the most creative and unique episode of Salomon Freeski TV yet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
