Filmmaker Bjarne Salen, producer of the acclaimed 2015 film Eclipse, has recently announced that he will be producing a ski documentary to be released fall 2017 called Finding the Line in which he will follow two sisters and ski athletes Nat and Anna Segal in their search to understand fear. The Segal sisters will use snowy mountains and big lines as backdrops to explore the subject of fear and how it affects them in their pursuit of professional skiing.
Fear Management: How to Prep Your Mental State for Your Next Backcountry Objective
Fear is part of the human condition, especially if you like to adventure. Whether you are ascending an exposed ridgeline or standing at the top of big, hairy line, the jitters can hit you and you work through it—or you don’t and turn around.
2016 Beer Guide: Editors’ Choice
Over the next few weeks, we will present our beer standouts by region, but first, we will start with three outlier beers that should be on the bucket list of any libation aficionado.
Mission Memorial Day: Taking remembrance to the mountains
In early March, Associate Editor Lucy Higgins spent four days touring and skiing in the Beartooth Mountains with the Sierra Club’s Military Outdoors program for an upcoming story. Also on the trip was Josh Jesperson, a splitboarder and Navy SEAL and, now, one of the founders of Mission Memorial Day (MMD).
A multi-user backcountry discussion: Winter Wildlands Alliance Ambassador Forum 2016
AMGA Guide Donny Roth, an ambassador for Winter Wildlands, recently went to the first Winter Wildlands Alliance Forum held in Tahoe City, Calif. There, Roth and fellow ambassadors and mountain adventurers discussed common goals for conserving wild, winter recreational spaces and the shifting perspective in how to do so.
Boardroom: From Mall Shop Manager to Snowboard Brand Owner, Mason Davey Follows His Own Path
I first met Mason Davey, the co-owner of Weston Snowboards, on a boot pack out to the Jackson Hole backcountry. I happened to be on one of his Backwoods snowboards that I was testing as a part of the Jackson Hole PowWow, a powderboard test where board shapers get together and compare notes on unique shapes.
Backstory: They Can’t All Be Gems
“I left my wallet in Elko,” Dan’s text message read. “I’m going to listen to the gods on this one and head home.” When Josh and I received the text in early morning, we hadn’t heard from the gods yet, so pushing on from Tahoe for a two-night, first-time exploratory mission to ski chutes in Bishop, Cali. felt right.
Shifting Ice and Changing Tides: A Ski and Sail Saga
In March of 2014, an all-female crew, including Martha and Pip Hunt, McKenna Peterson, Nat Segal, Meghan Kelly and photographer Kt Miller set out to sea. Their goal: to sail from Ísafjörður, Iceland to Nuuk, Greenland (located on the west coast), all while skiing first descents throughout Greenland. And the mission, which was entirely wind- and human-powered, aimed […]
Leading the Charge: In the AMGA, where are all the women?
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction work holds the lowest percentage of female representation among surveyed occupations, comprising roughly nine percent. The second lowest? Ski guiding.
Speak Japanese and Shit: a language and cultural guidebook for skiers and riders
In many ways, snow acts as a universal language spoken by skiers and snowboarders the world over. Out of the backcountry and off the slopes, however, communication can get a bit more difficult when cultural barriers exist. For this reason, author and Japanophile Erinna McCarthy decided to write a guidebook, Speak Japanese and Shit, aimed to help ski and snowboard visitors to the Land of the Rising Sun navigate the sometimes confusing, sometimes outlandish ways of Japanese culture.
