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Wisconsin ski area in the St. Croix River Valley | Known for: 30 runs, 280 foot vertical, three terrain parks, full night skiing, Late Night Fridays to 3 AM, and Twin Cities park culture | Season: winter operations with full snowmaking | Best for: Midwest park laps, night sessions, rope tow repetition, NASTAR racing, and local progression Dresser Laps On The Minnesota Wisconsin Border Trollhaugen sits at 2232 100th Avenue in Dresser, Wisconsin, close enough to the Twin Cities that it functions like a Minnesota metro hill even though it is across the state line. The official trail map lists 30 runs, 80 skiable acres, 280 feet of vertical, and a 2500 foot longest run.... Read more on the Location page

American ski media label and YouTube studio | Known for: Midwest park edits, Trollhaugen sessions, rail jams, night laps, road-trip clips, close follow-cams and rider-first crew videos | Focus: documenting grassroots freeski progression in rope-tow parks, public rail gardens, spring sessions and everyday resort features. Midwest park culture through a rider-first lens ATCH CORP is not a ski manufacturer, outerwear brand, binding company or legacy film studio. It is a ski media label and YouTube channel built around the kind of freeskiing that happens most often away from polished movie tours: park laps, rail gardens, rope-tow nights, small-hill sessions, local crews and road-trip edits.... Read more on the Sponsor page

American street and park freeski brand | Founded in the mid-2010s by Emmett Davis, Kale Cimperman and Dylan Manley | Known for: Wet, Key, Wide, Plus, Tank, soft-flex jib skis, symmetrical twins, street skiing edits, Tears of Joy, Pallet and rider-run media culture | Focus: skis built for rails, presses, butters, rope-tow laps, urban features, technical park skiing and crews who treat filming as part of the product. A street skiing brand before street skiing was treated seriously Vishnu ski, officially Vishnu Freeski, is one of the most distinctive independent ski brands in modern park and street skiing. It is not a race company, a freeride legacy manufacturer or a full mountain equipment brand.... Read more on the Sponsor page