AK FInal Thoughts

Alaska is a mecca of big mountain riding, skiers and snowboarders, film crews, guides, ski bums, and wealthy clients migrate to Alaska looking for adventure. The combination of amazing terrain, and good snow make it a crown jewel, snow sticks to the steeps and forms into amazing creations, cornices, pillows, spines, bergshrunds, and flanks. The mountains are rivers, the snowpack sits on top of flowing glacier that can move up to 2 meters per day, things change rapidly in Alaska.

This draw toward adventure has changed the game in some places. Less about exploring, on a nice sunny day its like a ski area,  10 groups of clients, 5 film crews, hungry riders…. terrain gets eaten up, it becomes a race. Not a good combination for following safety protocols. Countless client runs, and film lines have been done over and over on runs like  Tomahawk, or, Super Bowl. The area is mapped out and the  new strategy is to be one step ahead of everyone else.

This year we decided to focus back on the adventure, and take a gamble exploring a completely new zone. Our search brought us to Petersburg, a small fishing village on a Island in South East Alaska. It is a big risk to leave behind the easy pickings of a well known established zone, chasing the hope that there is something more out there. The Crew at TGR worked extensively to arrange all the logistics that would be necessary to pull off a mission like this, riders, cinematographers, photographers, guides, and pilots, committed to the plan and saw it through with hardships, adventure, highlights, and powder.

Photo by Adam Clark

Ian McIntosh POW turn

Seth Morrison

Photo by Seth Morrison

Photo by Adam Clark