STORIES FROM THE FRNT - THE UNSAID SHRED - FULL EDIT

Posted: 12.14.2017
Posted: 12.14.2017
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This is the culmination of a multi-day filming session on The Turnagain Pass with skiers Joshua Randich and Wiley Miller. For a week in early February, we bet against all odds to score south facing spines, an aspect most consider off limits come spring. Few crews have ventured to AK to see what the locals are all about until now, and with a bit of luck and determination, our crew bagged what are some of the longest, most exposed, yet easy to access lines one can find just a few steps off the road.

 

"There are two types of Alaska ski trips you read about in ski magazines. There is the heli trip, where skiers hunker in a fishing village or backcountry lodge for weeks on end, “drinking it blue” — waiting for weather windows in which they can safely fly to nearby summits and flash down formidable skiing lines in 15 seconds. And there is the hardcore backcountry camping trip, where adventurers rough it on a remote glacier, digging out tents when it snows and bagging peaks and checking off descents when it’s clear. Both sorts of outings, almost always, come to fruition in the springtime.

This is a different Alaska skiing story, one that takes place in the shadows cast by the North’s long nights, where locals drive old pick-ups to the trailhead, skin and climb for hours to ski film-worthy lines, and return in the dark, speaking hardly a word of what they just accomplished." - Derek Taylor, Freeskier Magazine

 

Featured Athletes // Josh Randich ; Wiley Miller ; Matt Sterbenz        Photography // Carson Meyer

 

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Yeah the locals dont talk about it for a reason and then you guys come along and sell it out. Didn’t think Josh would do that to the local area and people, disappointed

Joe

Nice skiing. Explorer is skied all the time. Not something people overlook.
Also… no green days in Feb last year. There was however a significant slide in the Seattle Creek area which is right across the street from the library.
http://www.cnfaic.org/misc_uploads/Seattle%20Creek%20Headwall%20-%20Near%20Miss%20.pdf

radskier
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