Video and Photo Feature
This Is The Motherload Episode 3
Watching the first two episodes of the four-part Arc’teryx web series, This is the Motherload, it’s clear how adept pro skiers Tessa Treadway and Izzy Lynch are at motherhood. In episode three the pair, along with filmmaker Zoya Lynch, turn...
Culture
Smells Like Ski Spirit
This article first appeared in The Ski Journal Issue 15.4 High on the steeps above us, a skier catches an edge in the summer slush. He rag-dolls before belly sliding a good hundred feet, losing skis, poles and goggles along...
Video|Video and Photo Feature
This is the Motherload Episode 2
Motherhood may be the main theme of This is the Motherload, the four-part Arc’teryx web series following the lives of pro skiers Izzy Lynch and Tessa Treadway. But behind the scenes, sisterhood runs deep. For filmmaker Zoya Lynch, documenting her...
Gallerie
A Larger Purpose
This article first appeared in The Ski Journal Issue 15.3 CROUCHED on a ridge in Austria’s Zillertal Alps, photographer Jana Rogers observed the fading light in the snowcapped peaks The clouds had shifted allowing the sun to illuminate the rocky...
Video|Video and Photo Feature
This is the Motherload Episode 1
All the gear, snacks and diapers needed to give young kids a full day on the slopes weigh a ton, but the often-overlooked emotional load is even higher. That’s a different weight entirely, and a journey explored by pro skiers...
Yodel
Faith in the Highest
This article first appeared in The Ski Journal Issue 15.1 ABOUT THE SAME TIME that I saw my first cross atop the mountain, I experienced my first loss from an avalanche. It was before I was really a skier; I...
Profile
Jérémie Heitz
This article first appeared in The Ski Journal Issue 15.1 Standing atop the perfect pyramid of Ober Gabelhorn, 13,330 feet above sea level, Jérémie Heitz musters a shallow breath. The face looks steep—fall-off-the-Earth steep. A 55-five-degree pitch careening toward the...
Event
The Jordan Year | Seshup 2022
MOUNT BAKER’S SEASON SEND-OFF JUMP SESSION… Left: Community build session pre-liftoff. Right: Local ripper Liam Dean laying out a classic backy. The Mount Baker Seshup was brought to life by a few friends in 1999 as a jump session to...
Interview
Chris Benchetler's Brave New World
The last year and a half has been one wild ride for skiing’s Chris Benchetler. A staple of the iconic Nimbus crew and an endless source of creativity in the mountains, Benchetler and his wife, pro snowboarder Kimmy Fasani, welcomed...
Travel
Weirdly Awesome at Island Lake Lodge
There's a mythical claim that the Inuits have over 100 words for snow, but for the folks up at Island Lake Lodge near Fernie, BC, that number is closer to five. Of that number—and you can ask for yourself—approximately four...
Gallerie
Truly Exotic
This article first appeared in The Ski Journal Issue 15.2 The commercial airliner touches down on a runway in Nairobi, Kenya and taxis to a stop. Greg Von Doersten emerges from the plane, camera in hand, and rushes around to...
