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Denmark | Active: 2016-present public record | Known for: DM Big Air bronze, Mammoth seasons, Natural Ice, Ferda, Danish crew skiing | Current: Danish freeski scene rider Ringkollen Fog And A Switch Cork 720 The Ringkollen jump sat under Norwegian spring weather, with fog moving around the landing and Danish riders waiting for speed. Andreas Secher came into the 2016 DM Big Air as a debutant, then put down a switch cork 720 and left with third place. That podium is the strongest official marker in Secher’s public ski record.... Read more on the Athlete page

Denmark | Active public record: 2011-2019 | Known for: Danish slopestyle, One&More, Ferda, Danish freeski film culture | Current: former FIS-listed skier and scene figure Vännäs Cold And A Rookie Fifth The park in Vännäs, northern Sweden, carried the dry bite of a Scandinavian training hill: rope-tow laps, hardpack takeoffs and young Danish riders trying to make limited home terrain translate into real slopestyle. Frederik Højgaard Larsen entered that world through ski school, not through a classic mountain-town pipeline. dk first framed him publicly in 2011 as a 17-year-old Danish freestyler studying at Vännäs gymnasium in northern Sweden.... Read more on the Athlete page

Denmark | Active: 2010s-present public record | Known for: Danish street skiing, DM Big Air title, double cork 1260, Natural Ice, Bungee Breakers | Current: Danish freeski scene rider Umeå Rails And The Danish Street Thread Umeå and Sundsvall gave Jakob Ahlers the kind of winter surface Denmark rarely guarantees: real snow against city rails, cold approaches, and enough urban texture for a full-length street project. In “Promised Land,” Ahlers appears inside the Bungee Breakers crew, far from a conventional resort contest lane. That is the clearest way to frame him.... Read more on the Athlete page

Copenhagen, Denmark | Active street skier, filmmaker, event organizer | Known for: Common Language, Tell Me I Belong, LINE x CopenHill, Natural Ice, Scandinavian Team Battle | Main lane: street skiing, dryslope culture, European film crews Stockholm Rails After Dark The Stockholm streets were cold, hard, and bright under city lamps, with handrails cutting through patches of winter snow like metal lines on a map. Jakob Ebskamp stood inside that setting for Tell Me I Belong, not only as a skier, but as the person shaping the film around five European friends. The project followed Christian Moser, Jonas Hofer, Christian Gander, Markus Boa, and Ebskamp through a street-skiing trip built on rails, crashes, jokes, injuries, and small windows of usable snow.... Read more on the Athlete page

Denmark | Active: 2010s-present public record | Known for: Danish freeski film, Ferda, Bungee Breakers cinematography, DM slopestyle roots | Current: filmmaker, cinematographer and ski-scene creative Boulder Snow And The Camera Pull Colorado arrived with heavy snow, university classes and park laps at Breckenridge and Keystone. Mikkel Hjort-Pedersen was there as a Danish freestyle skier on exchange in Boulder, but the larger direction was already clear: skiing mattered, and the camera was starting to matter just as much. That split defines his public ski profile.... Read more on the Athlete page

Denmark | Active: 2015-present public record | Known for: Danish freestyle ski scene, DM slopestyle and big air, film trips with Danish crews | Current: ski-video and scene-linked rider Avoriaz Sun And A Cork 900 Safety The Avoriaz park was bright in Easter sun when Denmark’s freestyle scene gathered in 2019. Rune Bach dropped into that French spring setup as part of a small Danish field where every landing mattered, the snow was softening, and the scoreboard still had room for a tall skier with style. Bach’s clearest competition marker comes from the 2019 Danish Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding Championships in Avoriaz.... Read more on the Athlete page

Tønder, Denmark | Active: 2010s-present public record | Known for: Danish Big Air title, double cork 1260, BC Bois, Danish film projects | Current: Danish freeski scene rider Avoriaz And The Double That Changed The Podium The Avoriaz jump was soft under spring light when Simon Storgaard dropped for his second Big Air final run in 2019. He had already landed a cork 900. Then he pulled a double cork 1260 out of the final, landed clean, and turned the Danish men’s ski podium around.... Read more on the Athlete page

Denmark / Norway | Active Public Record: 2014-2021 | Known for: Danish slopestyle, World Cup starts, Sierra Nevada 2017, Ticking Bomb, Hafjell clips, Capeesh Supply | Current: former FIS athlete and ski-lifestyle brand figure Bokwang When Denmark Reached The Test Event The slopestyle course at Bokwang in South Korea carried Olympic weight before the Games ever arrived. Cold air, blue rails, a jump line built for 2018 pressure, and Thomas Trads standing in as athlete, traveler and one-man Danish operation. His run needed to connect rails, unnatural spins, switch takeoffs and doubles without the safety net of a large national freestyle machine.... Read more on the Athlete page

High-altitude French Alps resort in Haute-Savoie | Known for: 1800 meter pedestrian village, Portes du Soleil access, The Stash forest park, Arare Nami Park, Lil Stash and snowcross zones | Season: winter to late April depending on operations | Best for: freestyle progression, park laps, family resort flow and cross-border Portes du Soleil ski trips Avoriaz 1800 Above The Morzine Valley Avoriaz sits at 1,800 meters in Haute-Savoie, on a high balcony above Morzine and the Vallée des Ardoisières. The resort belongs to the Chablais massif and occupies one of the most strategic positions in the Portes du Soleil: high enough to hold snow better than the valley villages, central enough to connect toward Switzerland, Châtel, Morzine and the Lindarets sector in a few lift moves. The first thing that changes the ski experience is the village itself.... Read more on the Location page

Urban freeski city on the Gulf of Finland | Known for: Baltic winter streets, compact public transport, Talma and Serena park access, Finnish rail culture, Real Skifi influence and Forre era street clips | Season: December to March depending on snow cover | Best for: street crews, rail skiers, compact park training and creative filming missions Gulf Of Finland Concrete Under Winter Light Helsinki sits on the southern coast of Finland, on the Gulf of Finland, with the City of Helsinki reporting 684,018 residents at the end of 2024. That urban scale matters for street skiing. The city gives riders railings, stairs, schoolyards, plazas, underpasses, sports fields, stone edges, frozen paths and compact winter architecture without the long travel rhythm of a mountain trip.... Read more on the Location page

Swiss freestyle resort in Graubünden | Known for: five snowparks, P60, Snowpark NoName, a 220 meter superpipe, LAAX OPEN, Freestyle Academy, Crap Sogn Gion, and a park culture built around Flims Laax Falera | Season: winter into spring depending on snowpack | Best for: slopestyle riders, halfpipe skiers, rail crews, spring park sessions, and freestyle-focused trips in the Alps Crap Sogn Gion And The Freestyle Capital Of Graubünden Crap Sogn Gion sits above Laax Murschetg as the operating heart of the resort’s freestyle identity, with parks, pipes, cafés, lifts, and traffic patterns built around repeated laps. The wider LAAX ski area stretches from 1100 meters to 3018 meters on the Vorab Glacier, with 216 kilometers of slopes and 30 lift installations across Flims, Laax, and Falera. LAAX is not only a Swiss resort with a park.... Read more on the Location page

Small snow park and alpine venue in Ringerike Norway | Known for: two lifts, park focused terrain, 400 meter snowpark, Mainpark, Jib-line and night sessions near Oslo | Season: winter evenings and weekends depending on snow | Best for: rail progression, small jump training, local freestyle crews and compact park laps Ringkollen Parken Above Ringerike Ringkollen sits on Ringkollveien in Ringerike, Buskerud, just outside Hønefoss and about one hour from Oslo by car. The venue is small by any alpine-resort measure, but its freestyle identity is unusually clear. The official Ringkollen site describes it as one of Norway’s smallest facilities, with two lifts and slopes for different levels.... Read more on the Location page

Norway ski resort in Innlandet near the Swedish border | Known for: four linked ski areas, 41 lifts, 71 slopes, 685 meters of vertical drop, SkiStar Snow Park and family friendly mountain logistics | Season: November to April | Best for: park progression, groomer mileage, Nordic resort travel and mixed ability ski trips Trysilfjellet And The Biggest Alpine Map In Norway Trysil sits around Trysilfjellet in Innlandet, eastern Norway, close to the Swedish border and about two and a half hours from Oslo by road. Its modern identity is built on scale inside a Nordic context: SkiStar lists 41 lifts, 71 slopes, more than 100 kilometers of cross-country trails and 685 meters of vertical drop. For Norway, that makes Trysil the reference large-resort experience rather than a niche local hill.... Read more on the Location page

Chile Andes resort above Santiago | Known for: high altitude open bowls, Snowpark Valle Nevado, Andes Cup freestyle events, heli skiing, south facing snow, and Tres Valles access | Season: Southern Hemisphere winter from June to September depending on snow | Best for: park riders, summer training trips, open terrain skiing, heli skiing, and first South America ski travel Three Thousand Meters Above Santiago Valle Nevado sits high in the central Andes above Santiago, with the resort history page placing its original development at 9,924 feet above sea level in a south-facing valley. That elevation is the first reason the resort matters. A skier can leave Chile’s capital basin and climb into a treeless, open, high-mountain snow world where the horizon feels wider than most European or North American resort bowls.... Read more on the Location page

Danish freeski and snowboard crew | Founded in 2021 by riders and creatives who wanted to make something of their own | Known for: urban edits, handycam fisheye filming, BB Goggles, BB Shades, limited apparel and the Bungee Breakers Open in Trysil | Focus: DIY street riding, community events, raw Scandinavian snow culture and rider funded film projects 2021 in Denmark and the bungee powered street idea Bungee Breakers is not a ski manufacturer, boot company or traditional production studio. It is a Danish freeski and snowboard crew that grew from a simple idea: make something of their own with riders, cameras, street spots and the kind of DIY energy that usually appears before the industry notices. The official story places the start in 2021, when the crew broke onto the scene with urban riding, old handycam footage and fisheye visuals that felt closer to skate videos than polished resort marketing.... Read more on the Sponsor page

Danish ski and watersports retailer | Founded under the Nautic name in 1982 | Known for: Copenhagen and Herning stores, ski gear, snowboard equipment, bootfitting, ski service and Scandinavian Team Battle support | Focus: connecting Danish riders with equipment, advice and year-round snow culture. From Nautic roots to One Open Sky One Open Sky is not a ski manufacturer, crew or film studio. It is a Danish retailer with a strong winter-sports and watersports identity, best understood as a shop and service platform for skiers, snowboarders, surfers and outdoor users.... Read more on the Sponsor page

dk articles, Riders Magazine, Freeride DM coverage, Danish film culture and Scandinavian freeski reporting | Focus: keeping Denmark connected to snow, surf, travel and rider-led community stories. dk is best treated as a Danish action-sports media platform and community, not as a ski brand, crew or film studio. Its own media kit presents Riders as Denmark’s largest community for ski, surf and freestyle culture, founded by active riders in 1999.... Read more on the Sponsor page

Danish action sports retailer | Active since 1996 and based near Aarhus | Known for: skates, scooters, boards, BMX, surf, winter sports gear, team riders and event support | Focus: supplying and supporting action sports communities from beginners to pros across Europe and beyond. 1996 Danish roots and a shop built around action sports SkatePro is best understood as a large action sports retailer rather than a ski manufacturer, freeski crew or film studio. The company presents itself as active since 1996, with service from its base near Aarhus, Denmark.... Read more on the Sponsor page