Europe Freeride Mashup

I turned up in Europe just in time for the first major dump of the season, it was just enough to cover up the rocks and make good for sending some cliffs and stunts! Music - Simple Colours by Oam - https://soundcloud.com/oam-the-seagull/simple-colours_3 https://www.facebook.com/SamLeeFreerider/

Riding Revelstoke in Jan was awesome, it is for sure one of my favourite resorts in the world. It's a totally different style of riding to places like Verbier or the European alps (generally speaking) You spend most of your time searching for hidden features in the forests, skiing pillow lines and sending drops between trees. It is a heap of fun, and super cool to mix things up by returning there for the first time in about 5 years! Huge thanks to Valley Retreat for hooking me up with...

European Freeskiing Music- Ben Howard- Esmerelda (The Witching Hour Remix) Addict: 'to habituate or abandon oneself to something compulsively or obsessively' Winter is coming: 'Changing seasons between Autumn and Winter. The animals are uneasy with the seasons changing like the tide and are preparing to withdraw into there seclusive quarters' Ski: '1745-55; ...

This is my winning run from The North Face Frontier FWQ 4* freeride comp in New Zealand in August 2016. This year was the first time the comp has run as a four star rated event, so people were throwing down some pretty cool stuff! I actually changed my plan half way through the run as the cliff I was planning to hit scared the shit out of me as I got closer to it, so I went to plan B for the bottom section. It was a great day and I am stoked to see such a highly rated event run in NZ!...

Step 1) Show up at the resort at 9. Step 2) Score inbounds smoothness. Step 3) Repeat 2 until satisfied. - Andrew Whiteford

After returning from the attempted FWT event in Hakuba, Japan (which unfortunately didn't run due to weather and snow conditions) Yann Rausis and me headed back to Revelstoke to hit some pow, pillows and big drops with short trannys, before cruising over to Kicking Horse for FWT stop two (plus the restaged Hakuba event) We managed to time our arrival perfectly with the first big storm in a while, and had a hell of a time! All the GoPro shots are from my head. Yann is the guy in the blue...

http://lineskis.com/skis/influence-115 The 2012 Line Influence 115 skis put the fun back into big mountain skiing. Imagine all of the powerful, high-speed, hard-charging control and stability you'd expect from a big mtn ski, yet with a surprisingly quick and nimble feel that effortlessly floats in the pow. It's wide enough to be your favorite ski on the deepest days, yet still a one ski quiver for every other day of the year. It's time to escape the confines of status quo.

This is my 2015 New Zealand ski season edit, it contains straight skis, pow, drops, flips, snow blades, The NZ Open, monoski, dirt skiing, a pond skim and scroggin. I had a great season skiing in NZ this year. Without a doubt the best NZ season I can remember! I was ski instructing at Cardrona and in between teaching kids how to french fry I was able to make the most of my ride breaks to go and ski parts of the mountain that haven't been on in years! Have a look at my Facebook or Insta...