Reid Ferguson
Canada | Active: 2019-present public record | Known for: Filming, editing, park skiing, About NZ, ICEDOUTMONALISA, Bakerview | Current: Skier-filmer and creative freeski collaborator
New Zealand Slush Through Reid’s Lens
The New Zealand park snow looked soft enough to bend under every landing, with spring sun sitting low over the jumps and rails. Reid Ferguson’s strongest public identity lives in that kind of footage. He is not best understood through contest results alone. He is a Canadian skier-filmer whose archive follows friends, travel, hand-built sessions, camera movement and park style. In About NZ, he spent two weeks filming with Sam Kuch and Cole Richardson, turning a southern-hemisphere trip into a short edit built around slashes, tricks, tumbles and friendship rather than a formal competition storyline.
FIS Record Before The Camera Took Over
Ferguson does have an official competition footprint. His FIS profile lists him as Reid Ferguson of Canada, born in 2001, with FIS code 2537306 and a current status marked not active. The visible results are concentrated in 2019 and 2020, mostly around Nor-Am halfpipe and big air starts. He placed 10th in Nor-Am halfpipe at Copper Mountain in December 2019, 16th in halfpipe at Aspen / Buttermilk in February 2020, 26th in big air at the same Aspen stop, and 21st in halfpipe at Calgary later that month. Those results confirm a real freestyle background, but they do not define his later role.
OVERDUE And The Friend-Trip Format
Newschoolers gives the clearest public timeline for his own uploads. OVERDUE, published in November 2020, was described as a year spent travelling with best friends and doing what they loved most. That description is simple, but it explains the tone of Ferguson’s work. His videos are not built like sponsor commercials with one athlete pushed to the front. They feel closer to a travel notebook: friends, resorts, small discoveries, rough weather, park days and clips that keep the mood of a season intact. Ferguson’s role is partly skier, partly filmer, partly editor and partly the person who holds the group memory together.
What’s Goodie At Momentum
In September 2022, Ferguson released What’s Goodie?, filmed during a Momentum Ski Camps week with Cole Richardson, Ferdinand Dahl and Jake Carney. That credit gives the profile an important creative marker. Momentum has long been a summer progression zone where park skiers mix camp energy with serious trick work, and Ferguson’s video places him beside riders with stronger contest or cultural résumés. The value is not only who appears in the edit. It is the way Ferguson’s camera sits inside the session, close enough to show style, mistakes, landings and the casual rhythm that makes summer park skiing feel alive.
About NZ With Kuch And Richardson
FREESKIER’s coverage of About NZ framed Ferguson clearly as a filmer and editor, noting that he had already put out several strong short films. The article described the trip as two Canadian skiers and Ferguson spending two weeks in New Zealand, with Sam Kuch and Cole Richardson in front of the lens. That edit matters because it connects two different ski languages. Kuch brings freeride and backcountry style. Richardson brings park creativity and a film-first approach. Ferguson’s job was to make those approaches feel like one trip instead of two separate athlete reels.
ICEDOUTMONALISA And The Park Crew Map
ICEDOUTMONALISA, released in December 2024, is Ferguson’s strongest New Zealand crew-film marker. Newschoolers lists the project with Quinn Wolferman, Ferdinand Dahl, Cole Richardson, Joona Kangas, Kai Mahler and friends. Downdays described it as summer 2023 in New Zealand captured through Ferguson’s lens with a stacked crew of skiers. PowderGuide called it his “magnum opus” in a weekly video roundup. Those reactions place the film in the modern park-culture lane: stylish riders, soft landings, edits built for replay value, and a filmer whose taste matters as much as the roster.
Bakerview And The Mt. Baker Full-Circle Trip
Bakerview pushed Ferguson’s creative role into a larger current project. Teton Gravity Research described it as a film made by Cole Richardson and Reid Ferguson, growing from a ski-graphic promo into a full film about style, personality, community and process. The project returned Richardson to Mt. Baker, where one of his early film trips had shaped him years earlier. Ferguson’s role was not just pressing record. The interview explains that he and Richardson divided sections, edited deeply, then brought the film into one cohesive timeline. That makes Bakerview a useful marker for Ferguson as a co-author, not only a camera operator.
How To Read Ferguson’s Ski Role
The safest technical framing is not “elite contest skier” or “full-time pro athlete.” Ferguson’s public value is more specific. He has enough freestyle background to understand halfpipe, big air, park speed and skier body language from the inside. That matters when filming. A skier-filmer knows when a takeoff matters, when a landing should stay in frame, when the skier’s upper body gives away a mistake, and when a casual clip actually has the style to carry an edit. His archive points toward park skiing, summer laps, friend crews, travel edits, hand-built features and a strong sense for pacing.
The Current Frame Is Creative Infrastructure
Ferguson should be framed as a creative freeski figure rather than a results-driven athlete. The verified record is clear: a small FIS background, Newschoolers uploads, What’s Goodie? at Momentum, About NZ with Kuch and Richardson, ICEDOUTMONALISA in New Zealand, and Bakerview with Richardson at Mt. Baker. That is enough for a full creative-profile page, but not enough to invent sponsors, current team status or major competition claims. His importance sits in the infrastructure of modern ski media: the filmer-editor who helps style-focused riders turn loose sessions into films people actually remember.
