Dillon Flinders
Utah, USA | Active public record: 2017-present | Known for: Freeride World Tour 2024, RIFF, Transmission, Lemonade, Snowbird and Alaska freeride | Current: Dynastar, LOOK Bindings, Lange, Snowbird project support
Alaska Spines When The Season Finally Turned
The Alaska face rose in white ribs, each spine catching wind above a landing no park crew could repair. Dillon Flinders dropped into the line with soft snow moving beside his skis, the camera tracking from above, and a strange winter suddenly giving him the shot that RIFF had been waiting for.
That 2025 film became the clearest public statement of his current skiing. RIFF followed Flinders and Alex Lundstrom through their first year producing their own movie, after a late start, a difficult snow season and enough uncertainty to make the Alaska window feel like luck instead of planning. The result placed Flinders in the terrain where his skiing reads best: Utah storm cycles, natural takeoffs, spine walls, speed, improvisation and backcountry judgment.
Snowbird Before The Tour Bib
Freeride World Tour describes Flinders as a Utah freerider and mountain biker chasing downhill sensations across both sports. Newschoolers later called Snowbird his home mountain in the RIFF context, which gives the profile its strongest geographic base.
Snowbird matters because it does not train a skier gently. The mountain gives steep traverses, cliffs, wind-buffed faces, storm snow, rocky entrances, tight runouts and enough side-hit terrain to blur the line between freeride and jibbing. Flinders’ skiing comes from that environment: fast enough for big terrain, playful enough to find transitions, and loose enough to make a natural line feel less scripted.
Sundance Race Team On The Alpine Sheet
Before the freeride films, the official FIS record shows a different early lane. FIS lists Dillon Flinders as an American alpine skier with Sundance Race Team, FIS code 6532685, born in 2000, and currently not active. His visible alpine results include 2017 and 2018 starts in downhill, super-G, giant slalom and slalom.
That racing background should not be overplayed, but it helps explain parts of his freeride style. Alpine racing builds edge pressure, speed comfort, line discipline and the ability to stay composed when terrain pulls hard underfoot. In Flinders’ later footage, those tools appear in a different setting: not gates, but open faces, tree exits, cliffs, wind lips and powder landings.
Lemonade With The Dynastar North America Crew
Lemonade, released in 2023 by the Dynastar North America crew with Level 1 Productions, gave Flinders one of his first strong team-film markers. Downdays lists the project with Sander Hadley, Alex Lundstrom, Dillon Flinders, Megan Dingman and Anthony Carmola.
The project matters because it placed him inside a freeride brand environment rather than a local Snowbird clip. The skiing around Lemonade leaned into backcountry energy, resort knowledge and a rowdy North American crew dynamic. Flinders was not presented as a single lead character, but the film helped move his name into the same orbit as Hadley, Lundstrom and Dingman.
Transmission In Chamonix With Mégane Betend
Transmission widened the stage in 2024. MK Sport described the film as a Dynastar story of freeride transmission, with Mégane Betend guiding Flinders through the Mont-Blanc massif around Chamonix. The same coverage explained the contrast clearly: Flinders came from Snowbird’s deep-snow freeride world, while Betend brought Chamonix steep-skiing culture, granite faces and high-mountain exposure.
That pairing gave his archive a useful test. Utah backcountry confidence does not automatically translate to Chamonix. The Alps ask for different habits: steeper entries, route-finding, glacier awareness, firmer snow, narrower exits and respect for terrain where local knowledge can matter as much as raw ability. Transmission showed Flinders stepping into that conversation rather than staying only in the Wasatch.
Verbier, Kicking Horse And Georgia In One FWT Season
Flinders entered the 2024 Freeride World Tour through the wildcard route. The FWT profile lists him 18th overall in Ski Men for the 2024 season, with 7,900 points. His results were 12th at Verbier Pro, 11th at Kicking Horse Golden BC Pro and 16th at Georgia Pro.
Those results did not put him into the title fight, but they matter because they show the level he reached. Verbier, Kicking Horse and Georgia are not soft freeride venues. Each asks for a different form of risk: European technical lines, British Columbia exposure and Caucasus terrain with unfamiliar snow and judging pressure. For a first FWT season, the record shows entry into the elite field without turning the page into a podium narrative.
How Flinders Turns Freeride Into Motion
Flinders’ skiing should be watched through movement across terrain. His best clips are not only cliff drops or powder slashes. They are the way he connects a turn into a takeoff, lands with direction, absorbs snow texture, then keeps the line flowing into the next feature.
The technical details are sluff awareness, speed management, landing choice, fall-line commitment, spine control, air placement and recovery after impact. The mountain-bike background also fits here. A downhill rider learns to see terrain as linked shapes: compression, release, corner, gap, exit. Flinders often skis with that same logic, treating a face as one continuous problem rather than a set of isolated airs.
RIFF With Alex Lundstrom And Brian Boyd
RIFF is the most complete film reference in Flinders’ archive. iF3 lists Dillon Flinders and Alex Lundstrom as directors, with AnD Motion as production. FREESKIER notes that the film was shot across Utah and Alaska, supported by Dynastar, LOOK Bindings, Lange and Snowbird, and edited by Brian Boyd.
The film’s strength comes from its instability. It was not a perfect plan executed on schedule. A weird snow season and late start forced the pair to adapt, then Alaska gave the project its defining terrain. That fits Flinders well. His skiing is most convincing when the line feels discovered under pressure: a storm day at Snowbird, a spine in Alaska, a jump where the takeoff exists because the mountain allowed it for one short window.
Dynastar, LOOK, Lange And Snowbird Support
Flinders’ clearest equipment and project support comes through Dynastar, LOOK Bindings, Lange and Snowbird, all listed around RIFF. Rossignol Group also lists Dillon Flinders among its freeride athletes, which matches the Dynastar/Lange connection.
The functional gear context is clear without inventing a full setup sheet. His skiing needs freeride skis that can plane in deep snow, hold through chop, stay composed after cliffs and still allow playful movement. Boots and bindings need to manage hard landings, high-speed turns and repeated backcountry days. Exact models should only be added when a direct brand source confirms them.
Where The Flinders Archive Belongs
The strongest skipowd.tv tags for Dillon Flinders are Utah, Snowbird, Freeride World Tour, Verbier Pro, Kicking Horse, Georgia Pro, Lemonade, Transmission, RIFF, Dynastar, LOOK, Lange, Alex Lundstrom, Mégane Betend, Chamonix, Alaska, freeride and backcountry skiing.
The current endpoint is precise: a 2024 Freeride World Tour season, a Chamonix segment in Transmission, and RIFF in 2025 as a self-directed Flinders-Lundstrom project from Utah to Alaska. Future updates should track new Dynastar films, Snowbird clips, FWT or qualifier results, mountain-bike crossover projects and any next film where Flinders keeps turning storm cycles into fluid freeride lines.
