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...
Words by Julian Carr Got my first, 1st descent of my life. At the newest tenure heli operation in British Columbia, Kingfisher Heliskiing, on a heli-assit touring assignment with Backcountry Magazine, we stayed in a cabin in the backwoods you had to snowmobile to, we hopped in the heli each morning at a little farm off the dirt road middle of nowhere Canada, near Cherryville, BC, next thing you know our guide is pointing out a row of these chutes that had never been skied...
After some serious time at Silverton Mountain with the Bent Gate Crew we headed over to Telluride to see some friends and ride the coat tails of our athletes Julian Carr and Whit Boucher as they were on their way to ski with Telluride Helitrax for an article in The Ski Journal.
We arrived to more spring conditions and learned that we had an opportunity the to get a heli drop first thing in the morning to the top of the iconic Lightning Bolt Couloir which sits across the valley from Telluride Resort...
If I were a Gypsy Ski I would treat every day of winter season like Christmas morning. Being able to play and bounce in the fresh powder under the feet of my rider would give me thrills of charging bigger...
I arrived to South America looking at one of the lowest snow depths in the Andes in a decade. And to start the trip off, the helicopter aspect was lined up 2nd day in the country. My summer legs had...
