Japan Report: Pillows + Pillows January in Japan this year was special. We got snow, we got sun, we got pillows. The most interesting features here are spines that have pillows. We’ve coined them pillowspines. Every sunny day initiates a search for more pillowspines. Every snowy day is a search for pillows in the trees. Powder is the norm, pillows are the highlights. February has begun with rain, cold temps, and brutally hard snow for […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | February 5, 2014 1 Comment
้ ๅผตใฃใฆ – Photographic Reflections of Japanese Spine-Pillows ้ ๅผตใฃใฆ = Ganbatte = “Do Your Best” Spines and pillows: two of the more desired features in skiing. They come together in one of the most profound and sought after zones. The terrifyingly joyful minutes between top and bottom provide years of living, learning, and experience. At the bottom, you’re too breathless to shout, too exhausted to feel elated, too surprised you’re alive to be excited. Religious, out of body, life changing, orgasmic. Love outweighs fear. We find ourselves sprinting up the skintrack to ski these prolific lines. […] Featured Article Zach Paley | January 27, 2014 2 Comments
The Gift of Sun in Japan in January: Photos & Video In Japan, in January, it’s supposed to snow and snow a lot. They usually get about 300 inches in January. Not this year. This year, we’ve been in a cycle of snow then sun then snow then sun in place of the usual snow everyday. This year’s cycle has been great for getting up high and skiing some of the more exciting lines in the area. The X-factor has been the avy conditions. We’ve backed off of […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 22, 2014 0 Comments
Japan Today = Skiing Downtown, Backflips, Pillows, & Powder Hakuba, Japan gave us cloudy skies, fog, light snow, wind, pillows, and great skiing today. Up high the visibility was low with a thick fog that wouldn’t budge. Just below the fog, the visibility wasn’t too terrible and the snow was superb. Happo-One ski resort currently has a 230cm base and we got about 10 centimeters of new snow during the day. It was just enough snow to cover our tracks from […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 4, 2014 0 Comments
Salmon Freeski TV: โGhost Town” Salomon really put some energy into this one. Fake newspapers, recreated scenes from a busted British Columbia boom town, a scratchy voiced narrator… The Salomon Freeski team got Josh Daiek, Mike Henitiuk & Kieran Nikula up to an old ghost town in B.C. to rip powdery pillows and create a fun/different video. Both were easily achieved. In the mid 1800’s, BC’s mountain towns boomed as prospectors flocked north during the great gold rush. Josh Daiek, […] SnowBrains | November 26, 2013 0 Comments
20-Seconds of Big Boy Pillows with Eric Pollard This video gives us a good glimpse of what itโs like to ski big boy pillows. Eric Pollard drops in and, as always, makes it look easy. Eric broke his leg last year in Russia on his 4th day of the season. Despite that, he got a pretty fun edit out of those 4 days. Eric Pollard is an American snow freeskier and film editor from Welches, Oregon and currently resides in the Hood River […] SnowBrains | October 21, 2013 2 Comments
โWreckallections” | Your Pillow Skiing Fix for the Day This is your ski porn fix for the day. From 2:20 to 3:05 in this video, thereโs nothing but stellar deep pillow skiing. The rest of the movie is mostly urban and jibby and good. But itโs those 45 seconds of pillows that really got us going. We want pillows – now. Mike Hornbeck spent his entire 2012/13 season filming his own short movie with the intent to release online for free by seasonโs […] SnowBrains | September 10, 2013 2 Comments
Solid Ski Stoke from Montana & Beyond: โOpen Road” This webisode video is solid. ย A fun little story about these boy in the beginning, then a hearty sampling of them charging full bore in the Northern wild lands. These Montana boys know what we wanna see: ย Cliffs, deep pow, big air, tricks, big lines, pillows, and more pillows. ย What does skiing, meeting new people and being out on […] SnowBrains | August 21, 2013 1 Comment
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