Posts Tagged ‘Backcountry’

Backcountry Skiing at Sunday River in Maine

Sunday river is a huge ski resort (200 runs) out in Maine, in the New England area of the states. It just opened their 2010 seaons 2 days ago, on Friday the 22nd of October, making it the first resort to open in the USA this year.

Here is some great footage of some of the backcountry woods at Sunday River. Most of the video is some kids skiing, but they’re solid and look like pros. Beautiful glades at a resort not that famous for it. Would love to check it out.

Arne Backstorm Winning Run at FWT Championship

Arne Backstorm, an amazing skier who unfortunately died this week while skiing in the mountains in Peru, won the 2010 Freeskiing World Tour in Revelstoke BC, a world renown backcountry skiing heaven. Here is a ski video of his winning run off a mountain peak in Revelstoke. The winning ski run includes many obstacles and difficulties such as rocks, deep powder, and cliff drops.

The winner is selected by a panel of judges based on ski technique, speed, and difficulty of line. This is an all out awesome backcountry ski run. Backcounty skiing technique doesn’t get more perfect than this!

Amateur Heliskiing on Mt. Cook in New Zealand

Beautiful blue bird skis on a heliski trip in the New Zealand Mountains. The backcountry heliskiing video has some beautiful footage from inside the chopper as the skiers are traveling to their destination deep in the New Zealand backcountry.

The terrain is easy with some amazing camera work. If you were ever tempted to start heli-skiing, the terrain they show in this video shows how easy the backcountry terrain can be. Great skiing technique from the skiers.

If you can’t want for the North American/European winter to come back,this ski video shows why you should go skiing in New Zealand.

Amateurs Skiglinding in Bozeman, Montana

Most of you have see the famous ski gliding video that’s out there. Here is another extreme ski video of some amateurs also ski gliding, but not as crazy.

The amateur backcountry extreme skiers get towed up a hill in Bozeman, Montana while on ski by a snowmobile. The skiers then kind of slingshot themselves while on skis and use a parachute to paraglide down the mountain. Looks fun, but those are some crazy skiers try to ski glide.

If you want to see the famous, professional ski gliding video, check it out here:

Ski Gliding the Eiger in the Swiss Alps – First Person View

Backcountry Skiing in the Glades in Vermont

A great ski video of my favorite type of skiing! Skiing in the woods! These skiers are great and the ski video footage is amazing as they ski through the area I fell in love with skiing, Vermont USA.

As a note from the uploader, there is a small part of the skiing video that is filmed outside Vermont in New Hampshire on Mount Washington, a well known extreme skiing location in Eastern USA.

Heli-Skiing Down Mount Currie Near Whistler, BC

A really great video with footage filmed from a helicopter and helmet cams. A group of expert amateur skiers take a helicopter up Mount Currie, 40km  North-West of Whistler, British Columbia, and part of the Canadian Rockier. They then proceed to ski down the steep terrain full of cliffs with excellent camera angels and solid skiing skills.

Watch and enjoy the first person views and experience what it feels like to ski down the very steep slopes of Mount Currie in the Canadian Rockies.

The Edge of Never Extreme Ski Movie Trailer

Tervor Peterson, one of the best known extreme backountry skiers, died in Chamonix, France in a tragic ski accident while skiing with ski legend Glen Plake. In this ski movie trailer for the recently realed ski movie “The Edge of Never” Glen Plakes goes with Trevor Peterson’s son, Kye Peterson, is 15 years old, on the same run that his father died on.

If you like the trailer, the movie as well as the book can be bought online using the links below!

Movie: The Edge of Never; A True Story of Skiing’s Big Mountain Tribe

Book:The Edge of Never: A Skier’s Story of Life, Death, and Dreams in the World’s Most Dangerous Mountains

Awesome Deep Powder Skiing in the Glades

As the title of this video says, the coolest extreme skiing dudes, is a really cool ski video of extreme skiing in the woods. The pro extreme skiers go ski jumping over cliffs in the glades, go down some crazy steeps between cliffs, and do some simple tricks all with great camera work in some really deep powder. These extreme skiers make it look too easy.

On top of the amazing deep powder skiing, there is also some solid telemark skiing.

The scenery is also splendid, would love to go skiing there. Unfortunately, I have no idea where this video is filmed…

Retro Aerial Skier Does a Quardruple Backflip on Skis

Here’s an awesome aerial ski video of Frank Bare back in 1983. First, the ski video shows him and his bodies putting the finishing touches on the ramp in the backountry.  you Frank Bare is an amazing aerial skiing and does one of the craziest aerial ski tricks, a quadruple backflip. That is four full backflips, which involves triple twisting!

Hilarious Ski accident! Skier Does a Jump and Crashes Into a Wall of Snow!

Here’s a funny ski jumping video of a hilarious accident. The skier jumps of a 2m high ramp in the backcountry trying to land on a landing that’s higher than the jump. He fails to clear the gap, mistaking the speed required to clear it, and crashes into the wall of snow head first! This video is legendary.