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18-Year-Old Dies in Crash at Freeride World Qualifier Competiton in Argentina Yesterday

18-year-old Freeride World Qualifier competitor Elwyn Roy Freeman died after taking a bad fall at the La Hoya Freeride World Qualifier 2* event in Esquel, Argentina yesterday, September 24th, 2016. He fell during the competition at La Hoya ski resort and died yesterday afternoon in a hospital in Esquel due to the severe injuries suffered in her fall.  It’s being reported that Elwyn […]
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Remarkables, NZ Conditions Report & Photo Tour – Great Start to The North Face Frontier Freeride World Qualifier

Opening day of the North Face Frontier, at the Remarkables turned out to be a stunner of a day. With some weather concerns heading into Monday, the call to go was made early in the morning and it’s a good thing they went for it. The skies were clear and the snow was chalky for most of the day. The North Face Frontier is […]
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Current Freeride World Tour Champion Dies in Avalanche Today

The Swiss police are reporting today that Swiss snowboarder Estelle Balet, the current Freeride World Tour snowboard champion, has died in an avalanche. The 21-year-old Estelle was killed by an avalanche while filming on Le Portalet mountain near Orsieres in the Valais canton near the Swiss/Italian border this morning. Air Glaciers (an air ambulance) rescuers arrived on the scene just after 8am […]
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VIDEO: Winning Run from the Alaska Freeride World Tour Stop

21-year-old American George Rodney won the Alaska Freeride World Tour stop today in Haines, AK. He ski a great line, went big, and nearly took a nasty fall. He ends up on one leg after his first air and somehow pulls it back together just in time to send his next huge cliff and stomp it. George Rodney is a rookie on the tour. He won that last stop in Andorra as well as this one and is currently in first place on the tour going into the final event in Verbier Switzerland. He ski a great line, went big, and nearly took a nasty fall.  He ends up on one leg after his first air and somehow pulls it back together just in time to send his […]
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VIDEO: USA’s George Rodney WINS 3rd Freeride World Tour Stop

George Rodney form the USA just won the 3rd stop of the Freeride World Tour in Andorra. This win plus being 4th in the last stop (also in Andorra) puts him in 1st place overall on the tour right now. Nice work, George. Scary stuff, though. Like Sam Smoothy’s run last week, there were some critical no-fall zones… “After seeing Sam’s run last week I was inspired to go into some no-fall zones.” – George Rodney […]
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GoPro VIDEO of the “Best Run in Freeride World Tour History”

Sam Smoothy from New Zealand put it all on the line and won last week. He skied a line up top – in not-so-great snow – that was do or die. He then proceeded to continue charging down the venue. He even pulled off a funky flat landing big air at the bottom that bucked him onto one ski. He got his other ski back down after doing a bit of ballet and hardly bobbled. His run was the winning run of the day. If he would have fallen up top, he would have been in big trouble. [..]
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