Alaska

It is with great anticipation that the organizing committee of the Freeride World Tour (FWT) has announced that the fourth stop of the 2015 tour will take place in Haines, Alaska (USA). Since the FWT was founded in 2008, it has been the goal of the organizers to hold an event in one of the birthplaces of big mountain freeriding. The March 14, 2015 stage (nine-day weather window from March 14-22) is set to make that dream a reality and likely a highlight of the FWT season. Like all FWT events, the action in Haines, Alaska, will be broadcast online via livestream and Central Europeans can look forward to a convenient broadcast time due to the ten-hour time difference.

When the Whiteroom crew and Fabian Lentsch invite you to a cozy film evening, this invitation is accepted in Innsbruck, no matter how creative or inconvenient the date may seem.

From the makers of All. I. Can, comes this year's next great story of human exploration. It goes through the vastness of Alaska to Bolivia, British Columbia and the Himalayas.

This year, Teton Gravity Research presents "The Dream Factory", a film that shows the development of freeriding in Alaska from then until today. The film depicts the first beginnings of heliskiing in Alaska and the protagonists who have made this place what it is today: the dream of all freeriders. You can see big mountain skiing at its best in Alaska with small detours to Pemberton (BC) and Jackson Hole (WY) that are well worth seeing.

Alaska - just "ÄyKäy" to those in the know - is probably the dream destination of almost all freeriders. The Powdernoerds alias Dieter Grafl, Andy Razic & Christian Skala were there and review their trip.

"Flow State" is now the 63rd Warren Miller ski film and - it's hard to believe - actually something special and new once again. Even after so many Warren Miller ski films, the film team still doesn't seem to have run out of ideas in the snow. On the contrary. This year's Warren Miller "Flow State" ski film is once again causing euphoria among freeski and snowboard enthusiasts.

Cozy, cuddly warmth in a small package. Once you've experienced this feeling, you won't want to do without it again. The Sastrugi Down insulation jacket from Bergans is right at the top of this league.

After a few days of earn-your-turn from the motorhome on the various famous passes of Southwest Alaska, the first heli day of our Dreamline trip had given us a taste for more!

Steep flanks, narrow gullies, wide slopes, pow up to your chin: these are the dream lines that Andy Razic, Chris Skala and Didi Grafl are chasing in Alaska. The first part of their trip took them from Anchorage via Turnagain, Hatcher and Thompson Pass to Valdez and into the helicopter.

The tropics are known to be the regions of the world where you can lie on white sandy beaches all year round and retreat to the shade of palm trees when the heat is on its way. If you need more specific information for your GPS, you can find them between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Occasionally, however, it can get pretty uncomfortable in the tropics, depending on the area, a hurricane, typhoon or a simple tropical storm can ruin your beach vacation. If you don't care about that sort of thing and prefer a down-to-earth drizzle, you can go swimming in the Mediterranean with peace of mind.

The most north-western territory in Canada – subarctic climate, arctic tundra, boreal coniferous forests, huge glacier areas with the highest mountain in Canada. Hardly populated and also bears, wapitis, moose and caribou. These factors convinced us to take a two-week trip to the far north. In the following report, we try to describe how we fared in the wilderness and solitude.

Together with Mathias Roten, Ueli Kestenholz founded the project "Playgravity" and published the first part in 2007. After the death of his good friend and speedflying partner in 2008, Ueli asked himself how he should continue. He found a charismatic group in many of his friends from different areas of extreme sports, with whom the sequel, "playgravity 2 - the other side", was created.