Spending 3 days camping in the mountains is a daunting concept. The thought of cold nights and early mornings, hiding from the grim darkness in your -20°C sleeping bag lingers in every mountaineer’s consciousness.
We began the trip by ascending … Read More
Photo – Cam McDermid
Charlie Lyons and crew recently ventured into the Albert Burn Saddle area of the East Matukituki River for a 3-day ski-touring mission to ski lines off Dragonfly Peak under the watchful eye of Mt Aspiring. Tenting … Read More
Photos by Mark Bridgewater, Riley Bathurst, Cam McDermid & Tori Beattie.
The Universe has a funny way of making us mere mortals look like a bunch of fools. Finding the perfect moment to enact Murphy’s anarchic view of … Read More
Charlie Lyons recently flew into Albert Burn Saddle in the upper reaches of the East Matukituki River along with Fraser McDougall, Cam McDermid, snowboarder Stef Zeestraten and photographer Mark Clinton in search for some longer days ski touring. Here is … Read More
Rumors started early this year – “have you heard- it’s an El Nino”, “Going to be biggest winter in years”, “Finally one for the record books”.
The Canterbury plains from Mt Hutt
And … Read More
After 10 days of waiting and on the 4th attempt the Freeride World Tour pulled off their first ever comp in Alaska this morning.
The Kiwi boys were on fire with Sam Smoothy taking 4th place and Charlie Lyons taking … Read More
The Alta Chutes at The Remarkables Ski Area provided a picture perfect venue for today’s finals of The North Face® Freeski Open of New Zealand Big Mountain.
With an international line up including Freeride World Tour podium winners, Olympians and … Read More
The Alta Chutes at The Remarkables Ski Area provided a picture perfect venue for today’s finals of The North Face® Freeski Open of New Zealand Big Mountain.
With an international line up including Freeride World Tour podium winners, Olympians and … Read More
With Canterbury still a bit short on snow the All Us In Winterland boys headed South to Treble Cone to have a shred on opening day….Check out their fun little edit of the day!!
https://vimeo.com/99903435
There is nothing quite like the first day of a season. The rush in the morning trying to find a matching pair of ski socks, the inevitable fuzziness from toasting the start … Read More
It has been a tumultuous year for the Freeride World Tour, organisers have been knocked back at every event, having to use back up venues and … Read More