Check in with Icelantic athlete Julian Carr as he shows and tells about his epic spring adventures in the Northwest. 

I couldn't handle any more pictures of friends skiing in Japan flooding my Instagram feed. I made a promise to myself last year that I would finally make it there this season and as these images of deep powder and epic tree skiing took over my thoughts I decided it was time to pull the trigger and experience it for myself.

Impulsively I called up Ben to see if he wanted to join me for a boys weekend in Japan to chase powder, sushi, and adventure. He couldn't say no and a week later we found ourselves on the other side of the world with our skis in hand.

We reached out to Japanese Icelantic athletes Shogo Kawano and Yuhei Yamada to see if they could join us short notice and they said yes. This was perfect, Ben and I both have been wanting to visit Japan to ski with these guys so it was game on!

We caught a direct flight from Denver to Tokyo where we met Yuhei and hopped directly into a car and drove straight up to Hakuba. The drive from Tokyo was intense and exciting as we raced through the urban metropolis all lit up at night and into the mountains where we were elated to find deep snow. 

Yuhei and Shogo took us to a resort called Cortina and we lapped the sidecountry there for a day and a half skiing pow in the trees, it was hard to quit. One of my favorite aspects of this trip was the universal language of skiing shared between all of us. The language barrier was a fun challenge since Ben and I knew no Japanese and when it came to skiing and shooting photos there was a mutual understanding of what was going on and what we were doing that goes beyond words. Navigating in the sidecountry and lining up shots was easy for us without commonly shared words, just a rich passion for skiing with the same snow monkey instincts.

Check out this vid to follow us on our 48 hour adventure skiing and adventuring on the Main Island of Japan.

Icelantic athlete Owen Leeper brings us another rad edit featuring footage of him skiing some classic lines at Jackson hole in bounds and sidecountry on his Nomads with a drone, drone footage by Tim Swartz. Follow Owen on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/o_leeps/ or http://www.owenleeper.com Opening line on Triple Cliffs on Cody Peak, Couloir shot in Zero G and final shot on Powder 8 face at Jackson. Additional filming by Meredith Edwards.

Icelantic athlete Owen Leeper checks in with us about how good skiing has been over the holiday in Jackson with pictures to prove it.

Christmas week in Jackson Hole - 48" of snow since monday, Jackson Hole skiing was the best of the year this last week.

A huge storm struck the west this week. Mountains and cities from the Northwest down through the central Rockies are getting pummeled with snow. So what did we do in this situation?.. We made an early morning departure from Evergreen, CO to chase down the white stuff in none other than Steamboat. We found even more snow and less tracks than expected and are still thawing the ice from around our shit eating smiles. 

Check out the photos from the past few days! We've been here for 3 days and it has snowed a foot every day on top of two feet that fell previously. Is this El Nino??

Icelantic athlete Max Meissner AKA "Lord Of SnowFront" out of Germany brings us another insanely rad and entertaining web series called "Adventure Seeker". This 5 part series documents Max's season long visit to the US to ski as much of Western North America as possible traveling by van and capturing and creating this project all by himself with some help along the way. Do yourself a favor and sit back and enjoy these webisodes and let us know what you think. Here is episode #3.

Owen Leeper is not insane, he's calculated and he's one of the strongest skiers you'll ever see. Check out his season edit skiing on Icelantic Skis. We are proud to have Owen be part of the team. Check out this jaw dropping edit that just dropped!

Joe Turner and Scotty VerMerris head down to Chile to get a head start on the season and find themselves snowed in in Portillo. Check out the video and photos from the trip.

Will Wissman Photography / StellarMedia recently dropped this chilling and inspiring trailer as a continuation of the Migrations series documenting skier's global pursuits for mountains, snow and cultural exploration. Icelantic athlete Julian Carr is featured here exploring the mountains of Chile. Definitely...