Drawing analogy between LA and Whistler. Yeah, I know they call it Squallywood.
S/O to The Cut boys and everyone that helped. S/O to TMC Freeriderz, Faction Skis, and Lange Boots.
Song: Frank Black- Los Angeles
Ski Footage filmed by: Peter Wojnar, Peter Wentz, Essex Prescott, Jeremy Accland, Conor Macdonald, Stirling Bell, Jesse Desjardins, Tom Hansen aka Nasty Genius.
Drone footage- Nick Schafer - www.freshfinishmedia.com , SlayerX Cali Droner, Jason Hebert
Each year, the World Ski and Snowboard Festival up in Whistler, British Columbia, is a proving ground for some of the most original ski filmmakers across the globe. For the "Intersection" film contest, the organizers of WSSF decide to make things a bit more interesting for entrants by strapping them with a unique set of criteria for submissions: All entrants into the Intersection contest have a week to put together a 5-7 minute video edit, filmed entirely within 100 kilometers of Whistler.
Last year, Leo Taillefer made himself pretty famous thanks to his Leo’s Line series of ridiculous ski antics all over the Alps. We haven’t seen much from the Frenchman this year, until this little guy popped up. Leo channels his inner James Bond, by attaching himself to a friend’s (Eliot Nochez) paraglider mid-line and getting creative. Oh yeah, and just like 007, the line ends with a 200-foot cliff. Looks pretty fun, if you ask me.
We just wrapped one hell of a season at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort here in TGR's backyard in Jackson, Wyoming. The 2017-2018 season started with a bang with multiple November powder days, and didn't really let up from there with countless deep days and wild events like the inaugural Kings and Queens of Corbet's making the season one to remember. In a wonderful coincidence, JHMR had a storybook ending–the resort was sitting at a notch over 490" of snow on the season before a closing day
