VORTEX - Full Ski Film

Profile and significance Anton Holter is an American freeski slopestyle and big air specialist emerging from the powerful development pipeline of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. Born in 2005, he belongs to the new generation of park and pipe athletes who treat national championships, Nor-Am Cups and Australian–New Zealand Cups as normal stops on the calendar. S.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Ben Moxham is an American freeski original who threaded his way from early-2010s slopestyle contests into a long-running career in film segments and deep-snow freeskiing. Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, he started skiing at age two and grew up lapping the parks and powder stashes of Bogus Basin and Tamarack Resort. As he improved, he gravitated toward bigger parks and bigger ranges, eventually basing himself in Breckenridge, Colorado and chasing contests, park shoots and road trips across North America.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Carson Sharp is a Canadian freeski filmer and rider whose career sits right at the intersection of park, street and modern backcountry. Growing up in Ontario, he spent his early seasons skiing and filming on city rails before moving west and becoming a Vancouver local, trading Eastern handrails for the deep snow and big terrain of British Columbia. Those twin influences—DIY street culture and high-mountain powder—run through everything he does, from small crew edits to full-length features and international film tours.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Chris Bechtold is an American freeski rider whose name carries weight in the modern park-and-street scene, especially anywhere the lifts say Sugarbush or the season says spring at Mt. Hood. He first broke wider through Level 1’s SuperUnknown XVIII (2021) as a semifinalist, then kept his momentum with heavy appearances in Ski The East’s “Lappin’” episodes from Sugarbush.... Read more on the Athlete page

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Profile and significance Danner Brummer is a Midwestern-born skier who has quietly stitched together a life that touches nearly every corner of resort skiing: high school alpine racing, professional instruction, snowmaking and snowcat operations, and now crew-based freeski films. Raised in southeastern Minnesota around Lewiston and Rollingstone, he started skiing young and pursued racing hard enough to lobby his school board so he could join the Rochester high school team as a lone representative from his own district. Years later his Instagram bio reads “Lewiston, MN ➡ Cascade, ID,” a neat summary of a move from small hills and icy courses to the deeper snow and bigger terrain surrounding Cascade and nearby Tamarack Resort.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Graham Gray is a California-born freeski all-rounder whose name shows up wherever Surface Skis, Joystick poles and OS Crew films intersect. Born in 1996 and raised in Shaver Lake, he grew up skiing California’s Sierra resorts before gravitating toward park laps at Palisades Tahoe and night sessions at Boreal. As his skiing matured he built a reputation as a rider who could show up on a West Coast street trip, a Mount Hood park session or a backcountry crew mission and contribute serious clips in each terrain.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Ian Russell is a street and park-focused freeski athlete who has become one of the newer faces of the OS Crew, the long-running North American urban film collective. Known to many by his handle “skian,” he blends technical rail skiing with a film-maker’s eye for interesting architecture, turning handrails, banks and ledges across the United States and Canada into full-feature playgrounds. Rather than chasing World Cup slopestyle circuits, Russell’s path runs through DIY movie projects, summer camp sessions and raw-cut edits that show every slam and every small adjustment that goes into a heavy clip.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Jack Feick is a multi-talented freeski athlete, filmer and coach who connects the dots between big-mountain freeride, street skiing and independent film. Raised around Lake Tahoe in California, he spent his early years competing and later coaching on the Squaw Big Mountain Team at what is now known as Palisades Tahoe, before moving to Bozeman, Montana to study film at Montana State University and ski-instruct at the private Yellowstone Club. That mix of high-level freeride coaching, academic film training and access to some of the most playful terrain in the Rockies has given him a rare, 360-degree view of what skiing can be.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Josh Karcher is a Boise-bred street and park skier whose style has been quietly influencing freeski culture for more than a decade. Coming up on the night laps and local contests of Bogus Basin, he turned the hills above Boise and the city’s stair sets into his first laboratory, long before his name started appearing in major edits and films. Early recognition from Windells coaches at Mount Hood and features on core websites singled him out as one of the campers to watch, a rider with smooth rail control and distinctive body language rather than just big numbers on a trick list.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Justin “Juice” Kennedy is a Boise, Idaho–raised freeski original whose life revolves around slopestyle, big air and above all, urban street skiing. Growing up hot-lapping the terrain parks at Bogus Basin after school, he developed a high-energy yet surprisingly smooth style that eventually earned him an invite to the Level 1 SuperUnknown event, the global talent showcase that has launched many of freeskiing’s most creative riders. From those night laps he built what became the OS (OnSlaught) Crew, a tight-knit collective that has spent more than a decade traveling in a van, filming rail missions, backcountry booters and storm days, and turning that footage into a yearly ski movie tour.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Keegan O’Brien is a North American freeski filmer, editor and street skier whose fingerprints are all over the modern OS Crew era. Often credited simply as “Keegs” or “keegs_ob,” he works both in front of and behind the camera, threading together urban shots, backcountry clips and spring park sessions into some of the most talked-about independent ski films of the last few seasons. His name appears in the rider lists and credits for OS Crew’s ninth and tenth annual movies, “absORB” and “VORTEX,” as well as in standalone projects like “Dirtbag” and multiple “Beavus @ Hood” edits, making him one of the key creative engines in that ecosystem.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Kyle Johnston is an American freeski athlete and coach whose name keeps popping up wherever street skiing and community-focused park programs intersect. Raised in Gloversville, New York, he started skiing at age two and spent a decade cutting his teeth in USASA and Revolution Tour contests before shifting his focus toward filming and coaching. Today he is best known as a key member of the Boise-based OS Crew and as the Freeski Futures head coach with the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation in Idaho.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Lucas “Sizzla” is part of a new wave of North American freeskiers whose names first show up in crew edits and rail jams before they ever appear on a results sheet. Riding under the handle @_yungsizzla_, he has built a presence through park laps, homie projects and independent films rather than formal competition circuits. ski and in the cast list for “VORTEX,” the tenth annual street, pow and park film from the Boise-based OS Crew.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Mason Kennedy is a street and park-focused freeski athlete and filmmaker from Idaho, best known as a driving force behind the urban film collective OnSlaught, also known as OS Crew. Alongside his brother Justin “Juice” Kennedy, he has spent more than a decade turning a small DIY project into a recognized name in the international freeski film scene. Growing up lapping the lifts at Bogus Basin above Boise before expanding his range across North America, he built his reputation on hand-built rail spots, long stair sets and creative features in places most skiers would only ever walk past.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Nathan Goddard, better known online as “Noddard” or “Coach Noddard,” is a freeski coach, filmer and park skier whose career ties together several influential corners of modern ski culture. For more than a decade he has been releasing edits on community hubs like Newschoolers, starting with early-2010s park films from Timberline on Mt. Hood, Boreal and Summit County, and evolving into more recent projects that spotlight the freeski scenes of Bend, Oregon and the American West.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Nikolay Dobrianov is an emerging park and street skier whose name has begun to surface in the independent film world through his work with OS Crew and his laps through the Belmont terrain park at Palisades Tahoe. Under the handle “corkswap” on social media, he has built a small but growing following around short edits that focus on clean, stylish riding rather than big-production gloss. A recent profile video titled “Palisades with Nikolay” from DeathwishDaily follows him through a full park lap in Tahoe, highlighting how comfortable he looks treating a public terrain park like a personal playground.... Read more on the Athlete page

Profile and significance Trevor Hattabaugh is an American freeski athlete who quietly blended high-level halfpipe results with a later pivot toward film projects and all-mountain freeskiing. Raised in Boise, Idaho, he first learned to ski at Bogus Basin, where a strong local freestyle program helped him into moguls, aerials and slopestyle before long. When that program shut down he shifted to the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, spending his high school years skipping Friday classes to ride the lifts at Sun Valley Resort and refine his park and pipe skills.... Read more on the Athlete page

Overview and significance Tamarack Ski Resort, usually referred to as Tamarack Resort, is a four-season destination in west-central Idaho, about a 90-mile drive north of Boise on the west shore of Lake Cascade. Purpose-built in the early 2000s on the flanks of West Mountain, it was the first new destination ski resort to open in North America in more than two decades and has since evolved into what the resort calls America’s only combined ski, golf, and lake resort. For skiers and snowboarders, that translates into a compact but powerful mountain with serious vertical, reliable snowfall, and an unusually scenic setting looking out over the lake and Long Valley.... Read more on the Location page

Brand overview and significance Dakine is a heritage accessories and outerwear brand founded in 1979 on the North Shore of Maui, Hawaii and later rooted in the Pacific Northwest at the base of Mt. Hood. From the original windsurf straps to the Heli series packs and today’s freeride-focused gloves, packs, and travel gear, the company built its reputation by solving real problems for riders.... Read more on the Sponsor page

Brand overview and significance Daymaker Touring is a backcountry hardware brand dedicated to one idea: turn the skis and bindings you already own into a legitimate touring setup. Founded in 2016 in a Salt Lake City garage by pro skier and mechanical engineer Giray Dadali and industrial designer Chris Trunek, Daymaker Touring grew out of years of frustration with frame bindings and entry-level adapters that felt heavy, awkward, or fragile on real tours. The result is a family of alpine touring adapters that clip into your regular alpine bindings and let you walk uphill efficiently, then step out and ski down on the same trusted downhill bindings.... Read more on the Sponsor page

Brand overview and significance J Skis is a rider-led independent ski brand created in 2013 by Jason Levinthal, the pioneer who launched Line Skis and helped bring the first modern twin-tip to the mainstream. Operating out of Burlington, Vermont, and producing in North America, J Skis was built explicitly to challenge traditional ski-industry habits: small-batch skis, limited-edition graphics, direct online sales, and an unusually direct relationship between the founder and the skiers who ride his products. Where most big brands push large, multi-year product cycles, J Skis leans into quick iteration and tight feedback loops.... Read more on the Sponsor page

Brand overview and significance OS Crew is a Boise, Idaho–based freeski collective best known for its annual street and backcountry films that blend technical skiing, strong storytelling and a tight crew identity. Originally started in 2007 by brothers Mason and Justin “Juice” Kennedy under the name OnSlaught Crew, the project grew from local edits into a long-running film series that now screens at festivals, ski towns and independent venues across North America. Over the years the crew has evolved into a small but influential brand with its own tours, events and OS-branded gear, while keeping the same DIY, rider-driven mentality that defined its earliest videos.... Read more on the Sponsor page

Brand overview and significance Rewinch is a specialist hardware brand focused on one thing: making electric winching truly portable for action sports. Designed and built as a compact electric winch that fits in a backpack, Rewinch is aimed at riders who want reliable tow-ins without gas engines, heavy frames or complicated setups. With a core product weighing around 15 kg, capable of towing at speeds up to roughly 80 km/h over 200 to 800 meters of rope, it gives skiers, snowboarders and other riders a way to turn almost any environment into a tow-in spot.... Read more on the Sponsor page

Brand overview and significance Roxa is a family-owned Italian ski boot specialist based in Asolo, in the Montebelluna bootmaking district at the foot of the Dolomites. The company emphasizes Made-in-Italy manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and material science to deliver light, precise boots with a strong focus on fit. Originating as an OEM manufacturer for larger names in the region, Roxa has evolved into an internationally distributed brand known for modern cabrio (three-piece) designs and refined two-piece overlap shells.... Read more on the Sponsor page