Red Bull Linecatcher was held this year in Vars, France. The event brings backcountry freestyle skiing to the next level, finding the best rider at playing with the landscape and natural features. Of the 16 riders in this year’s event, Candide Thovex (FRA) impressed the most and took home first place while Sean Pettit (CAN) finished second.http://www.redbullskiing.com/
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“3000 years of skiing in China”
Austin Ross : “On February 5 I set out on my journey to Northwest China to shoot for Warren Miller Entertainment. When I arrived in Beijing, eleven hours had passed since IÃd left Vancouver and by the time I met up with the rest of the group I was ready for some sleep. After a more than memorable stay at BeijingÃs Crowne Plaza hotel we continued two domestic flights, Beijing to Urumqi and then Urumqi to Aletai.
The next morning we hopped on a bus and drove a few hours to a village called Chunkor where we transferred our gear to six chaunaÃs (horse drawn sleighs). It was then that we started on our unsuspecting journey to Kanas Village…”
Facing threatening warm-weather days before Christmas Eve, QParks Parkdesigner Rudi Wyhlidal and his team had serious doubts if their exhausting efforts were worth it, as they ran in danger of loosing everything again. They really put their sweat and soul for putting up one of the best freestyle snowparks in Europe. Now, the result is a real ‘snow-wonderland’ that without a doubt proves that they have made everything rightly and the Swatch Snowpark Sölden stands as one of the first parks in Austria in awesome shape!
Despite the extremely warm and wet weather conditions, the opening of the Swatch Snowpark Sölden was a huge success and the park really goes off like a rocket … Details