Despite the weak winter in Utah, snogression still made it happen.
A quick edit of coach Peter. A quick reminder, Ahmet Dadali, Ross Imburgia and Mitchell Brower will be our guest coaches, along with our staff coaches Peter Fitts and Kevin Brower for the Single Day Camp this Wednesday (July 10). Sign up now and be the first to use the new facility! We will be back open on Monday the 15th for regular sessions.
Season 2 Episode 2. Kevin Brower and Mitchell Brower in the Utah backcountry
Testing out a new cable cam system. Email info@snogression.com to be notified of the product launch.
For the past few years, Kevin and Mitchell have had an idea to build a jump line similar to a freeride bike line. We have seen some cool tracks people have built in recent years, but we wanted to build one on a bigger scale with higher consequences. In the 2012 preseason, we had almost finished a track after 3 days of construction when a warm spell hit and melted all our jumps. This april, we finally regained our motivation and got to work. We couldn't have done it without the help of Patrik Suwak, Giray Dadali, Matt Heffernan, and Abner Wyman hiking 40 pound bags of salt up grizzly gulch and digging. We finally finished the 7 feature line after 2 weeks of digging, shaping, salting, snowing and more digging. We don't think we would do it again, but are proud to present to you the "Death Track."
In the pursuit of filming backcountry skiing, getting tricks and skiing are the usually the least of your worries. Weather, snow conditions, avalanche safety, locations, snowmobiles, and other factors all have to line up before you can get a shot. The lack of snow this season has been frustrating, as everyone has felt.
After weeks of zero snow in March, we saw a chance of snow in the forecast. Hungry to ski powder, we decided to load up the sleds and head to our favorite zone, where miraculously the storm came?and over delivered. After a very snowy evening of skiing, we arrived back in the morning to find our zone untouched, deep, and cloudless. With everything finally in our favor, we got to work and filmed the majority of this edit. After a very satisfying day, we drove home to the city where people were enjoying springtime activities, oblivious to the snow that had just fallen high in the mountains.
