Freeride

The Alp-Con Cinema Tour is back on the road in Austria and Germany, bringing spectacular films with it. In three different film blocks - BIKE, MOUNTAIN and SNOW - the tour shows a variety of stories from different sports.

The small, North American equipment manufacturer CAST has brought its system to serial maturity. PG skiers Tobi and Sebastian have been using the previous Cast - S&I system for some time and favour its attributes over conventional touring bindings. Having had the new CAST system on their equipment bucket list for a while, they have now been able to test it extensively.

In the last ContestHappening for this season, we take a brief look at the last major 4* FWQ event in the Alps, which unfortunately had to be canceled after three starters. With the FWQ season coming to an end, almost all participants for next season's FWT have already been confirmed.

PowderGuide reinvents itself once again and keeps its finger on the pulse. Text and its linearity are passé. Moving images are the future. But PowderGuide is not just making a vlog, we are becoming the largest extreme sports video portal in Europe.

Sometimes you find your destiny in a roundabout way. Or at least to your fortune. These detours sometimes take such absurd turns, such unpredictable coincidences, that you almost believe in something like fate. I mean, is there really such a thing as a common thread?

This year's winter left a lot to be desired at the beginning, but shortly afterwards Ullr took pity on us and gifted us with snowfall beyond good and evil from the end of December. The perfect time to test a big mountain freeride ski that is even suitable for ski touring in larger amounts of fresh snow. The Boundary Pro 107 by Black Diamond is said to be perfect for precisely this type of use.

Level 2 with and from risk'n'fun focuses on the baseline topics "perceive - judge - decide", group-dynamic soft skills, avalanche and accident management as well as cartography and tour planning.

To say it straight away: In my eyes, Before Blank is the best ski movie of the 18/19 season. It's been said. If you like, you can stop reading now and watch it on YouTube right now. If you want to know why I think that, you can follow my further comments.

Avalanches are a guarantee for attention on the skiing Internet. Hardly anything gets as many likes and views as a spectacular helmet camera video of a descent where everything goes just right. If such videos are posted with honest reflections on the question "what went wrong?", they are often very instructive and valuable. However, if the line between self-reflection and self-promotion becomes blurred, you can be a little irritated. A commentary by Sven Rauber.

PG user Birgit won this year's participation in the three-stage freeride training with risk'n'fun and reports on the Level 1 camp on the Hochkönig:

The Back on Track Feel Freeride Contest is entering the next round and registration will open on Monday, February 11 at 8 pm. For all those who want to take part, it's time to be quick!

Just like last year, the ski brands represented at the trade fair are becoming fewer and fewer. After the absence of the major Amer Sports brands Atomic and Salomon (and therefore also Armada) since last year, Black Crows, for example, is now also missing.