Ski Grub

Most of the ski expeditions around the world have concluded now, which is fitting, since that means we can fixate on one that may warrant consideration as the greatest achievement in skiing history.Swedish alpine savant Fredrik Ericsson and Chamonixbased climberjournalist Trey Cook are in the middle...

The International Freeskiing Film Festival has announced that it will be back for its fourth edition in Montreal this September 1620.The festival's 2010 Montreal program will feature the world premieres of nearly all of this year's ski movies at the picturesque Cinema Imperial in downtown Montreal....

Utahbased skier Jen Hudak won her first Winter X Superpipe gold medal this winter, breaking a threeyear streak of silver and bronze, and halting the dominant Sarah Burke's steady roll towards a fourpeat. She also won at Euro X, US National Championships, and the World Skiing Invitational. Now Hudak...

With the 2014 Winter Olympics likely on the horizon, halfpipe skiers worldwide feel like they're standing at the edge of something big. Designation as an Olympic event would vault the sport to an international competitive forum of a scope unprecedented in halfpipe skiing. Along with that, competitors...

[Ed. note: Don't miss the first, second and third installments of our Unskied Lines series.]Ski mountaineer Chris Davenport calls the south face of 20,320foot Denali, in Alaska, "the baddest unskied line in North America." He has his reasons. "One, it's North America's highest peak, two, it drops...

No cost, no crowds and no lifts make backcountry exploration in the White Mountains of New Hampshire both ridiculously fun and ridiculously tiring. What the Presidential Range lacks in elevation (compared to out west) it more than makes up for in bad weather, steeps and avalanche conditions. This past...

When Sammy Carlson landed a switch triple 1260 this Monday in Mt. Hood, Oregon, he vastly expanded the realm of what's possible on a pair of twin tip skis. In an interview with ESPN Freeskiing the day after the feat, Carlson could have been speaking for all his peers, saying, "I never thought I'd do...

Freeskiing's contest season has been extended. Kind of. In what could be a sign of things to come, Momentum Ski Camps held its inaugural Splashdown waterramp competition Tuesday at Whistler. Twotime Olympic moguls skier and Momentum founder John Smart conceived the contest, and halfpipe ace Mike...

The firstever Sammy Carlson Invitational will have to wait until next summer. Cloudy skies and poor visibility late last week forced the cancellation of Carlson's Mt. Hood big air contest, but that hasn't gotten anybody too down."I'm feeling really content right now," said an audibly blithe Sammy...

Ah, Virginia. "The Greatest Snow On Earth," as they say ... or is that Utah No matter especially when a major storm system is hammering the entire Eastern Seaboard. Meathead riders Shea Flynn, Will Wesson and Andy Parry arrived in Lynchburg just before Christmas after a 15hour drive through snow...

As a photographer who spends over ten months out of the year with the world's top freeskiers, I tend to accumulate a lot of images. It takes me week to catalogue everything once the dust er, snow finally settles. When I finally pick my head up, it's almost time for yet another ski season to start....

If you're Bobby Brown or Jen Hudak right now, you've got a sensational season behind you. Jen Hudak won her first Winter X Superpipe gold medal this winter, breaking a threeyear streak of silver and bronze, halting the dominant Sarah Burke's steady roll towards a fourpeat.Brown unveiled two neverbeforeseen...

As the saying goes, if you want bad weather, just schedule a contest. That saying held true today as low clouds and poor visibility on the Palmer Snowfield forced the postponement of the Sammy Carlson Invitational big air. The setback came as a particularly disappointing development after a perfectly...

Sammy Carlson tested out the finished jump yesterday for his upcoming big air event, the Sammy Carlson Invitational. Scheduled for tomorrow, the first major summer big air to take place in North America since the long defunct Whistler Open will feature a field of powerful pros including TJ Schiller,...

Greg Hill is a skier unto himself, and not just because he once climbed and skied 51,100 vertical feet in 24 hours, or because he will probably notch 270 days on snow this year, or because his short film "The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing" was a Banff finalist a few years back, or because he failed...

Did anything seem odd to you about last season If you followed the contests, you might have noticed the soveryconspicuous absence of one Tanner Hall. After nine straight years (20012009) without failing to medal at Winter X, and a Winter X Pipe threepeat (20062008) that began the winter immediately...

As you already know, ESPN.com is hosting exclusive Webisodes from Meathead Films all summer. The series is called "2 minute workouts," and they'll culminate in the release of "work it out" in October.You've seen Webisode I; In Webisode II, the crew heads to Jay Peak, Vermont to take advantage of...

Utahbased companies Surface Skis and Skullcandy Audio have announced a collaboration for the upcoming ski season. The partnership consists of three cobranded skis and poles with matching Skullcandy Icon 2 headphones for each ski graphic. An official launch party will be held in July at the Windell's...

The tenth installment of Ian Cosco's online series Chug Life dropped this morning on Newschoolers.com. What better time to talk about him, right Lots of skiers have real celebrities to whom they bear a striking resemblance. But Ian, well, Ian goes above and beyond: In the latest episode, Cosco...