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If you've never heard of 16yearold Swiss freeski prodigy Kai Mahler, the best way to explain his potential is to list some of the skiers he beat at Big Air events in Europe last fall. Namely: X Games gold medalists Tom Wallisch, Alex Schlopy and Andreas Håtveit, 2010 AFP world champion Jossi...

The Powder Video Awards took place Wednesday night at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colo. Canadian film company Sherpas Cinema cleaned up at the annual gala, winning the awards for Best Editing, Best Natural Air, Best POV, Full Throttle and Best Film.The night started with a moment of silence as a slideshow...

The Powder Video Awards took place Wednesday night at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colo. Canadian film company Sherpas Cinema cleaned up at the annual gala, winning the awards for Best Editing, Best Natural Air, Best POV, Full Throttle and Best Film.The night started with a moment of silence as a slideshow...

In his freshman year, 2010, Bobby Brown who appears in this justdropped Under Armour edit shot at Breckenridge, Colo. made tsunamisize waves when he became the first skier to win two Winter X events Big Air and Slopestyle in the same day. Propelled aloft by his rock solid moves and a...

Duncan Adams avoids measuring success based purely on results. Despite not having double flips in his repertoire, the Breckenridgebased freeskier finished on the podium at the first two halfpipe contests of the season. If you ask him, Adams will probably tell you he's more of a bigmountain skier...

Ben Verge is a freeskiing coach of a handful of young athletes, mostly newcomers to the scene. But his athletes are already achieving success in the form of contest podiums. Verge coaches Wing Tai Barrymore and Brita Sigourney, who both earned U.S. Grand Prix Halfpipe wins in December and podium finishes...

Having been on the invite list of the nowcanceled Red Bull Linecatcher contest, Tanner Rainville made the trip over from the U.S. to Switzerland for a week of training before the event. When news came through that the competition had been called off due to snow conditions, ESPN Freeskiing caught up...

Sometime around my (unborn) son andor daughter's eighth birthday, I'll hand them a "to do" list of ski related feats. Accomplishments will vary from the trivial (first chair of the year) to lifealtering (skiing off the Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix). It's from this list, and not traditional measures...

If you could design and build your dream park feature, what would it be One kid got the winning vote from Tom Wallisch, and now his fantasy feature is the newest addition to Sun Valley, Idaho's terrain park. This past weekend, Scott hosted the firstever Tom Wallisch Fantasy Rail Competition, in which...

Revelstoke FWT in Pictures Check out images from the Revelstoke bigmountain contest. Gallery Despite it being just his second bigmountain contest ever, Kye Petersen, 21, won last week's Canadian Freeskiing Championships, part of the Swatch Freeskiing and Freeride World Tours in Revelstoke,...

Canadian slopestyle skier Kim Lamarre started skiing at three years old, but she didn't take the usual steps to becoming a pro skier. No racing background, no moguls training, Lamarre liked skiing for fun at local mountains in Quebec, where she grew up. Her breakthrough came in 2011 with a Slopestyle...

If you could design and build your dream park feature what would it be One kid got the winning vote from Tom Wallisch, and now his fantasy feature is the newest addition to Sun Valley, Idaho's terrain park. This past weekend, Scott hosted the first ever Tom Wallisch Fantasy Rail Competition, where...

Episode 1Episode 2Episode 3Episode 4Episode 5Episode 6Episode 7Episode 8Episode 10Episode 11As ski companies evolve their product lines, companies are now more than ever turning to their collective team of sponsored skiers to help develop, test and produce new technology in skiing....

Deep Winter Photos from second and third place finishers Jussi Grznar and Reuben Krabbe. Gallery When six photographers began shooting for the 2012 Deep Winter Photo Challenge at Whistler, BC, earlier this week, they were greeted with bluebird skies but a lack of fresh snow. This meant both...

Instagramming skiers Images from the phones of Chris Benchetler, Jen Hudak and more. Gallery The social media buffet is a plentiful one nowadays, overflowing with opportunities to learn the latest from athletes, celebrities, friends, and total strangers. Want to know what your favorite pro...

Prime Cutlets #1Prime Cutlets #2Prime Cutlets #3Prime Cutlets #4Prime Cutlets #5[Editor's note: Meathead Films' 10th annual movie, "Prime Cut," is out now on DVD and is also available for download on iTunes. This is their final installment of the "Prime Cutlets" series, which appeared exclusively...

In 2007, I attended a slideshow at Squaw Valley, Calif., that was presented by Alison Gannett, the 1998 World Freeskiing Champion and the founder of the Save Our Snow Foundation. Shortly after the release of the documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth," about the global climate crisis, Gannett was...

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for snow to fall anymore. Between the Farmers' Almanac predicting winter weather through the color of caterpillars and the misjudgments of the local weatherman, we have to be leery in what we believe. This is something that is out of our hands and as much...

Episode 1Episode 2Episode 3Episode 4Episode 5Episode 6Episode 7Episode 8Episode 10It is the work of ski movies to sell dreams to inspire, to motivate and to get you pumped up to ski, travel and enjoy the mountains. The only problem is that once the credits start to reel, the viewer...

When she wasn't in the villages of Kashmir helping local children find independence from the seat of a new bicycle, pro skier Lynsey Dyer was skiing off some of the highest peaks in the Indian region during a trip last winter. We caught up with Dyer recently in her hometown of Sun Valley, Idaho, to...

This was a good week to be a grom. At Jackson Hole, Wyo., pro skier Chris Benchetler helped lead one of Teton Gravity Research's new Fall Line camps, designed for skiers and snowboarders from seventh to 12th grade looking to up their park and bigmountain skills. This is the first year TGR has offered...

French halfpipe skier Xavier Bertoni didn't have the season he wanted last winter but he's hoping that's all changing in 2012. Bertoni, who won the Winter X Ski Superpipe gold in 2009 and took bronze in 2010, hopes to return to the podium at the upcoming Winter X Games 2012 in Aspen. We spoke to...

The mission: Three skiers looking for adventure in the Cordillera Real Mountains of Bolivia. The starting point: La Paz, the highest metropolitan city in the world. The challenges: navigating local culture, bad chicken, and climbing 6,000 meter peaks in hopes of finding something decent to ski. This...

TGR Workshop in Pictures Jeremy Jones, Seth Morrison and others practice backcountry safety. Gallery There's a lot that can go wrong in the backcountry. Avalanches, tomahawks, getting lost, dehydration, broken bones, hypothermia the list goes on. Whether access to help is provided by helicopters,...

JF Houle surprised even himself when he won his first Winter X Games gold medal at last year's Winter X Europe in the Ski Slopestyle finals. "I can't believe I just won," he said repeatedly afterward. In this interview, Houle talks about his plans for Winter X 2012 in Aspen and why he recently signed...

Extra Dark: QuebecExtra Dark: TellurideExtra Dark: BreckExtra Dark: RussiaExtra Dark: EdmontonExtra Dark: Alpine Parker White, Chris Logan in photos Check out images by photographer Tim Lloyd. Gallery In case you haven't noticed, every Wednesday for the last five weeks, we've been...

This week, Colorado's Silverton Mountain, on offthegrid ski area with just one chairlift and a helicopter, announced the formation of the ski area's first freeride team. But here's the catch: So far, there's just one athlete on that team, and it's bigmountain skier and BASE jumper Suz Graham. "It's...

Extra Dark: QuebecExtra Dark: TellurideExtra Dark: BreckExtra Dark: RussiaExtra Dark: EdmontonIn this Wednesday's exclusive "Extra Dark" video from Level 1 Productions, Ahmet Dadali, Mike Hornbeck and others go to Edmonton, Canada to film for "After Dark." Between tips on anger management,...

For the past 15 years, Snow Park Technologies has been at the forefront of the terrain park building business. And now, it seems that business is rapidly expanding. SPT now designs parks at 15 major resorts nationwide and they recently signed on to build parks at Heavenly, Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows...

Episode 1Episode 2Episode 3Episode 4Episode 5Episode 6Episode 7Episode 8The lore of American pastimes are usually enriched by the "bigger is better" theme of sports. We Americans love monumental home runs, dynasty franchises, mammoth sized athletes and in skiing, sprawling ski epicenters...