Posts Tagged ‘Extreme Skiing’

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!

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…

Skiing into Corbet’s Couloir at Jaskon Hole. Guy Gets Injured!

Corbet’s Couloir is the most famous and hardest run at Jackson Hole in Wyoming.  It is one of the few slopes to have its own wikipedia article! Here are some highlights:

“Currently rated #4 on the top fifty things for skiers to do before they die, it holds an international reputation among expert skiers, and has been described as “America’s scariest ski slope”

“Entrance into the couloir requires dropping off a cornice with a free fall ranging from 10 to 30 feet (9.1 m) depending upon snow conditions, landing on a 60 plus degree slope.”

So it’s pretty hard. In this ski video, we see the guy skiing up to the ski run, past a big “CLOSED” sign. They chill up at the top and watch a guy ski down it nicely. The camera man’s friend then jumps in, doesn’t look too good. We are then informed that he “yard saled” and see him collecting his equipment. Ends up he has an ACL injury, that sucks. Awesome run though!

Compilation of 3 Cliff Drops Over 200 Feet High

Crazy skiers dropping 200+ feet on skis. Check out the 2nd one, he almost hits a huge rock at the bottom, must be inches away from it! The mini avalanches he creates while getting speed for the jump are pretty cool. The highest is 245 feet. I can’t imagine what goes through their minds as they jump…

If you are wondering why they are landing upside down but slightly on their backs after the cliff drops it’s because the force of the landing will probably break their legs.

Here’s the name and height of each crazy high cliff jump:

• Titus Engelborg ski jumps off a 210 foot high clif
• Leo Brayman sk jumps off a 230 foot high cliff
• Jamie Pierre ski jumps off a 245 foot high cliff

Best Powder Videos of 2008 Compilation

Ski video of extreme skiing in some crazy deep powder in the backcountry of various places. Produced by Level 1 productions. Some sick skiing and boarding in some sick terrain. This is how backcountry skiing was meant to be done!

Backcountry Extreme Skiing in Lake Tahoe Area

A ski video of experts deep powder skiing in the Southwestern USA. Located along the border of California and Neveda is an amazing ski area home to numerous resorts known as the Lake Tahoe area. This ski video is professionally shot video by 4 Reel Productions shows expert skiiers skiing some of the best terrain in North America. The shots are amazing as the ski down uncharted runs in the area, uncluding going through narrow canyon and some crazy, rocky, mountain peaks.

Let the 2009-2010 North American ski season begin!