Tetongravity.com’s 10 Most Popular Videos of 2014

#10: The North Face's Mica To Greenland Trailer - 39,313 pageviews

The  trailer for The North Face's Mica To Greenland film teased out, with beautiful filming, the storyline of an impending short film in which Lucas Debari and Almost Ablaze star Johnny Collinson would go to a wicked, remote peak in the Greenland nether regions, assisted by yipping sled dogs and their own determination. First, though, the pair would have to surmount a "training" assault on Mica, British Columbia's epic pillow lines. See the full film here.

#9: Sweetgrass's Lightsuit Night Skiing Segment - 56,568 pageviews

Sweetgrass' ground-breaking  night skiing segment, in which Pep Fujas, Chris Benchetler, Daron Rahlves, and Eric Hjorliefson donned custom-made suits wrapped in colored LED lights in order to ski and spin their way down pillows and spines in British Columbia and Alaska bathed in trippy spectrum lighting, blew minds and pushed the enveloped of the visual magic skiers could produce. The project's sponsors, Phillips TV, are bound to be pretty damn happy with their action sports investment.

#8: Miss Wyoming, Amy David, Skis - 56,856 pageviews

The season edit of former Miss Wyoming, Amy David, blew up in the TGR Stash earlier this fall. Amy–a super-talented athlete who can ski pow, stomp backflips, and crush Mike Tyson in the jump rope realm–decided to enter a junior beauty pageant on a whim, and taught herself to strut on the catwalk through Youtube videos and practiced walking in heels on the dirt road behind her family's Pinedale, Wyoming home. Read Leslie Hittmeier's full interview with Amy for our Women In The Mountains column here.

#7: Cody Townsend's Internet-Winning Line Of The Year - 58,291 pageviews 

Cody's line down the absurd "Crack" in the Alaska backcountry won him Line of the Year at this December's Powder Video Awards, and the  Youtube video that followed reached as far as The Today Show–pretty much as much general public street cred as you could hope for in our obscure corner of the sports world. It also generated a heated (for dumb Internet commenters) debate over who rode the line first, as Travis Rice had apparently ridden the line only days before while a storm erased his tracks in time for Cody to show up with his Matchstick crew, who thought they had first dibs. If you're interested, there's a great back-and-forth between the super athletes on T-Rice's blog here.

#6: TJ Lanning's Insane Birds of Prey Crash - 60,920 pageviews

American downhill racer TJ Lanning recounts his  horrifying 2006 crash during the Birds of Prey downhill race at Beaver Creek, when an attempt to make up speed through a tough section of the course sent him hurtling through the air and straight at the thick trees lining the edge of the course.

#5: Snowmobiler Breaks Off Cornice, Nearly Falls Off Cliff Face - 87,613 pageviews

During our first Safety Week earlier this month, we covered all kinds of backcountry safety issues, from what our own Greg Epstein learned from being caught in an avalanche to the ALPTRUTH system to decide whether or not a given line is safe to ride. This ignorant (and extremely lucky) snowmobiler helped us demonstrate the danger of cornices–the false bridges of snow that build up on the leeward side of ridgelines that appear to offer safe grounds for travel but are often supporting your weight with nothing but open air underneath. This guy managed to break one off and start an avalanche that nearly took his sled and himself with him, and reminds us all to stay way, way farther back from the edge of a cornice than we think we should.

#4: Travis Rice Spoofs Cody Townsend's Epic Line - 94,785 pageviews

Naturally, someone had to take advantage of the firey debate going down on internet messageboards about whether Travis Rice or Cody Townsend rode The Crack first, and  super-imposed a shoddy cut-out version of Travis over Cody's body as he ripped down the line. It's a hilarious watch.

#3: Robbie Maddison Goes 374 Feet Out, 185 Feet Down on Olympic Ski Jump - 145,264 pageviews

Pro moto rider Robbie Maddison  shreds up the Olympic bobsled track in Park City, Utah like it's some of kind of fun game, then takes a little detour and hammers it off of the Olympic nordic ski jump into the ether, going 374 out and 185 feet down and braaaaping into internet infamy.

#2: Red Bull's New Speedflying Documentary Will Scare You Straight - 258, 294 pageviews

The Unrideables: Alaska Range is Red Bull's upcoming documentary about the new genre of feverish airborne risk-taking known as speed riding–a combination of kiting and skiing that gets part of its thrill on the ground and the other half in the air. As the trailer shows us, Jon DeVore and company will be surely blowing minds when the full film drops next month.

#1: RZR Car Goes "Mountain Biking" - 1,626,255 pageviews

It's the video we never saw coming–Tetongravity.com's biggest of the year, with a whopping 1.6 million pageviews. While we largely focus on human-powered adventure, this gas-powered one caught our eye for the pure absurdity of trying to build a replica mountain bike course for an actual car, and the skill with which driver RJ Anderson shreds this course (put together on private property that was about to be logged) with pinpoint, fearless accuracy.

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