The second short film in Icelantic's Return To Nature series created by Aiden Ulrich and produced by Eric Sales takes us to Haines Alaska. Scotty VerMerris gives an inside look at his near fatal crash and the essence of this new piece from his experience filming "Spell of Alaska".
17" in 24 hours makes for a rad day of skiing at a rad resort.
If this doesn't get you hyped for winter then we don't know what will. Last season Icelantic athletes Hayden Price, Scotty VerMerris, Amy David, Julian Carr, and Aiden Ulrich took Alta and the surrounding Wasatch by storm during the deepest days of the year with filmer and editor Andrew Mildenberger. Here's a little window into the experience. Enjoy, the deep days are coming. #ReturnToNature
This past week Icelantic's Scotty VerMerris proudly received "the most prestigious award in skiing" at Powder Magazine's Powder Week, The Captain's Cup. This coveted award is given to the person at Powder Week that most embodies the spirit of Captain Powder, the love for skiing, and all the good times that come with it.
New year's 2017 brought lots of snow to the west. Thiss first storm of the year was described as an "overachiever". Here's Icelantic athlete and team manager Scotty VerMerris getting amongst it at Alta on the new Nomad 125
Several years back Icelantic developed a crush on Panda Poles when they were in their earliest stages of becoming a business. Years later a strong collab has taken place between our brands and this great video tells the story from Panda Pole founder Tanner Rosenthal's perspective of how this all came to be.
Much love to the whole Panda Tribe, we are stoked to be a part of it, thanks for this great edit! Tribe Up!
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.
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??
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.
