When Armada decided to reemphasize its focus on freeride skiing, it wanted a young flagship athlete to help lead the ...

My strongest assets are my speed and aggression, no hesitation. Just ski top to bottom, fast, without stopping on top of the ...

The 2026 FIS Freeride World Tour (FWT) roster and calendar was released last month. Nineteen men and 11 women made the ...

Jake Stern is a digital editor at Outside, reporting on the latest adventure and culture news. He lives, climbs, bikes, and skis in the Eastern Sierra. You may have seen headlines about crazy winter ...

SUMMIT COUNTY ” Team Summit added two new members to the freeride coaching staff this month ” skiers Banks Gilberti and Stephen Smith. Gilberti and Smith began working with the Team Summit freeride ...

The Freeride World Tour takes competitive skiing and snowboarding off-piste and into the extreme. Perilous exposure replaces traditional gates, as elite participants place their creative signature on ...

For two decades, Brian Buerger has been helping kids get super powers. But those powers don’t come from some special formula or a radioactive bug bite – they come from skiing. Freeride skiing, to be ...

Despite warmer-than-average European winter conditions throughout December and early January, the Freeride World Tour is planning to move ahead with the first stop of its competition series in ...

A gale is blowing, snow slamming horizontally against the windows as skiers mill around clutching steaming coffee, waiting for a weather window. But these aren’t just any skiers, they’re the best in ...

When the northern mountains lock up under snow and the daylight disappears before you finish work, winter riding becomes less ...