You’ve Skied These Resorts... But NOT Like This

Sun Valley / Ketchum, Idaho, United States | Active: 2000s-present public record | Known for: Adventures in Transition, Days of My Youth, The Stomping Grounds, Sun Valley style, creative resort skiing | Current: Big Mountain Program Director at SVSEF and creative freeski figure Baldy When The Pitch Never Let Up Bald Mountain does not need a park lane to feel playful when Banks Gilberti is skiing it. The fall line rolls long, steep and fast above Ketchum, with enough sustained pitch to turn a normal resort lap into a full-speed sketchbook. Gilberti’s public identity belongs to that feeling: less podium accounting, more terrain imagination.... Read more on the Athlete page

Tahoe City, California, United States | Active: 2000s-present | Known for: Alaska big-mountain lines, Matchstick Productions films, The Fifty, human-powered ski mountaineering | Current: Salomon freeride athlete and The FIFTY+ creator The Crack In The Tordrillos The Alaska wall looked almost closed from above: two rock faces, a white slit, and no obvious place to slow down. ” The clip did not need narration. Wind, speed, rock, and the sound of skis on steep snow carried the whole scene.... Read more on the Athlete page

Lyon / La Clusaz, France | Active: 2000s-present public record | Known for: MSP film segments, freeride, freestyle, Good Morning rooftops, Dynastar pro-model development | Current: Creative freeride and film skier Avoriaz Rooftops After The Injury The roofs of Avoriaz were white, sharp-edged and high above the resort streets when Richard Permin clicked into his skis again. The project had already cost him both heels in January 2016, after a heavy landing on the same rooftop concept. Three years later, Good Morning turned that unfinished crash site into a full ski line: bedroom, balcony, wooden façades, backflips, rails, roof gaps and bread run, all inside a French resort village.... Read more on the Athlete page

Pocatello, Idaho, United States | Active: 2010s-present public record | Known for: Snowbird POV skiing, Days of My Youth, resort freeride, creative backcountry edits | Current: Rossignol Group free athlete listing Snowbird Hardpack At Full Volume The groomer at Snowbird sounded like glass when Sander Hadley cut across it, knees loose, speed rising, every side hit turning into a takeoff. His early POV clips worked because they did not need perfect powder. The surface could be firm, the resort could be tracked, and the line could still feel alive.... Read more on the Athlete page

S. extreme skiing history | Season: late November to early April depending on operations | Best for: advanced freeriders, steep-skiing crews, POV skiers, technical all-mountain riders and Colorado resort-discovery edits North Face And The Birthplace Of Inbounds Extreme Skiing Crested Butte Mountain Resort sits above Mt. Crested Butte in western Colorado, far enough from the I-70 corridor to keep its own sharper identity.... Read more on the Location page

5 meters of annual snow, North Bowl, The Last Spike, Rogers Pass touring, and deep film culture | Season: December to April | Best for: advanced freeriders, storm skiers, park-to-powder crews, and backcountry-minded riders with avalanche discipline Mount Mackenzie And The Vertical That Defines Revy Mount Mackenzie rises above the Columbia River valley with Revelstoke Mountain Resort dropping 1,713 meters from its high terrain to the village base. That continuous fall line is the number that built the modern Revy myth: the longest lift-served vertical descent in North America, backed by Selkirk storm cycles, old-growth trees, alpine bowls, and a town where winter still feels like the main language. 2-kilometer Last Spike as its longest run.... Read more on the Location page

Utah big mountain resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon | Known for: Aerial Tram access, Hidden Peak, 2500 acres, 500 plus inches of annual snowfall, Mineral Basin, Peruvian Gulch, Gad Valley, IFSA freeride events, and Alta Bird storm cycles | Season: winter into spring depending on snowpack | Best for: advanced freeriders, powder skiers, tram lap crews, and skiers who want serious in bounds terrain close to Salt Lake City Hidden Peak And The Tram Drop Into Little Cottonwood Hidden Peak reaches 11000 feet above Little Cottonwood Canyon, and Snowbird’s Aerial Tram turns that elevation into direct ski access. From the summit, the mountain drops into Peruvian Gulch, Gad Valley, and Mineral Basin with a stated 3000 vertical feet and 2500 acres of terrain. The numbers matter because Snowbird is not large in a vague way.... Read more on the Location page

American ski film production studio | Active since 1992 and built around Steve Winter and Murray Wais | Known for: Ski Movie, Yearbook, Push, Claim, Days of My Youth, The Stomping Grounds, The Land of Giants, Calm Beneath Castles and After the Snowfall | Focus: cinematic ski storytelling where big mountain lines, athlete personalities, annual film tours and polished action cinematography keep ski culture visible every fall. 1992 Crested Butte energy and the Matchstick film machine Matchstick Productions, often shortened to MSP, is one of the defining film studios in modern skiing. It is not a ski brand, apparel label or crew in the narrow sense.... Read more on the Sponsor page