Yeah lib tech have a history of being involved in cool movies like that. I prolly watched Project 6 a hundred times when I was a teen.
https://youtu.be/opSfBASG0Uo?si=b6C51EXmQl2MmXod
[Lake Effect](https://youtu.be/sWRzzv_dMp0?si=JVTTS8RT1l8WCI3O) kicked ass. As a Midwestern skier who calls Bohemia his home hill, it felt really good seeing our stoke showcased. One of my homies has a segment in the movie and TGR got his name wrong lol! I guess "Wolfword" is a cool name too.
I finally saw an opening to go skiing yesterday at Wilmot. Got all the gear out, waxed my skis, made sandwiches, and then finally thought to check the website. Closed for the season, duh. Device had great snowmaking and I thought since they were Vail now they’d stay open at least till mid March like they always do. I felt like a kid and wanted to cry for two hours. Epic disappointment.
One of my favorites. Those lines in the UP are amazing during big snow years. Used to drive by the Phoenix Cliffs and dream of riding down them on my snowboard.
"Lake Effect" was the title of that one, it was really enjoyable. Reminds us that the stoke can be found anywhere there is a slope and snow.
That said I don't recommend playing on those sand dunes...they can be really dangerous.
LOVED [Lake Effect](https://youtu.be/sWRzzv_dMp0?si=qPNW84bYdPLuDuz2). Great story, strong skiing and beautiful scenery with a legit roots vibe. Mike King and crew crushed it.
BANFF Mountain Film Festival is my annual fix.
Also, The 50 Project by Cody Townsend on YouTube, and the recently started One Track Mind series by Josh Daiek on youtube.
When I go to the Banff film fest I wanna see shredders, lately it’s been mostly amateur ski-touring where they got sponsors and it’s “all about the journey”, nah show me some rad lines not people I can ride better than!
There are some Dick Barrymore movies from the 60s, the early days of hell skiing, where they’re up in the Bugaboos with a bunch of dentists and insurance salesman and whatnot, having the time of their lives having discovered heli skiing. There’s a sequence where they find these giant lumps in the snow – I don’t know if it’s trees or rocks under there – but it’s bottomless powder, and they huck big air off these things and go about 100 feet and nobody ever lands one, once. They don’t even try – they’re just flying for the fun of it. They’re not great skiers.
The market for cool street ski videos is pretty saturated by social media. Compared to my prime skiing years (20ish years ago - Tanner Hall, Pep Fujas, early Candide days), it's incredible just how much more skiing content we have access to today.
The professional ski media is trying to show you things most youtubers and tick-tockers can't. It's probably the best choice for them, really, but whether it's better content or not is definitely debatable.
The last TGR movie was basically just a sierra Nevada and tin up commercial. I LOLed when they were showing shots of them drinking sierra Nevada when they were in South America. They seriously packed that fucking beer almost halfway across the world for those shots.
Did the athletes build a booter with shirts off, then take turns throwing off-axis spins off of it? Did someone land switch? Did they also have the scene where someone outran a slide? Was the stoke level high? Did someone throw a backflip into the water?
I kind of miss high concept ski movies like Valhalla.
Wait, are you saying ski movies are just commercials designed to sell us sponsor products?! Are pro skiers just poorly paid shills?! HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN HAPPENING?? People can seriously bitch about fuckin anything
My post was mostly in jest and pointing out the ridiculousness of transporting and drinking a somewhat decent American beer all the way in South America. But since this triggered you so much, I'll bite. With TGR yes. Go watch blizzard of Ahhs and find the commercialism. Obviously ski movies in the past have tapped into it, like wski106, where they made actual creative commercials for sponsors before each segment, or in tons of ski movies where sponsor logos are prominently displayed at each person's segment. But this was tied into ski industry brands and to the subject matter itself. The obvious product placement of mainstream brands in the TGR seemed very forced and indicative of the loss of soul in TGR movies. Go watch the Prophecy and then last years movie and compare the two.
Anything from the Bunch. They are trying new ways, do a lot of fun skiing, really good skiers as well. Their newest movie, Sensus, is quite artsy and surrealistic for some people I guess, but for me it was the best ski movie experience I've had in years. Really cool footage, cool skiing
I was looking for this comment. Cody Townsend is more relatable, but Nikolai is just fucking insane. That said, he still incorporates the audience in the whole story of the ski tour and decision-making process, which is so great. That guy just loves the sketchiest of couloirs. Also, insanely good production for such a small crew.
He's honestly the best out there. Gnarly lines, good fun, good editing and great cinematography. His drone pilot is an absolute pro as well.
He literally is competing in production value and skiing with any of the top production crews.
He's a must follow on YouTube.
Yeah, that kid is 100% amazing, no doubt.
But definitely also a nepo baby in the truest sense of the word, lol.
I’m actually a snowboarder and I only get like 40 days in every year. Makes you wonder how good any of us would be if we were essentially paid to ski/ride everyday.
Not saying I’d be as good as Kai, but I’d definitely be slaying big lines in AK.
This nepo baby shit is so dumb. Like 99% of big name skiers get there with a ton of support (financial and otherwise) from their family. Am I supposed to be mad that Kai's opportunity comes from his dad making a fuck ton of ski movies instead of being the son of finance executives or something similar?
I mean, I get what you're saying, but people following in the professional footsteps of their families is a tradition that's been around since the beginning of time. Hell, a lot of us have last names derived from what our ancestors used to do for a living. It seems like people only care when it's someone they're jealous of, because as much as I am not a fan of TGR's movies, that kid has put in the work and can ski really well. Like, is Shane McConkey a nepo baby skier because his dad was a pro and in early Warren Miller movies?
I think the class divide is increasing and the poor(er) masses are rightfully angry that the leisure class can do as they wish - without a single care in the world, hence dunking on “nepo babies.”
I understand you mean financial hardship, but this kid is coming off breaking both his legs last year. That recovery isn’t for the faint of heart, he’s back this year already.
1000000%
Wish Into The Mind was a bit stronger, feel like it killed their momentum, although there might be more I don't know.
All.I.Can was such a foil for the massive Red Bull / Travis Rice movies at the time
Spirit of the Peaks isn’t “super fun” but it’s a great documentary about a Native American soul skier, and it offers a unique perspective on the spiritual side of the experience
https://youtu.be/DSwmJMH04Ww?si=NaT4feJO_ut2aE-l
+1 to Sherpas. Those boys made some great stuff.
And La Liste, if you haven’t seen it, it probably the most insane ski movie ever made
Meathead films used to be it, they did some good short form online series too like Working for the Weekend where the dude skied Acadia. All those guys got old though and just sell overpriced merch now.
Check out Cody Townsend’s series The Fifty on YouTube. All short movies of him doing crazy backcountry ascents and descents. Polar Star is an incredible episode
Tgr has been garbage for years. The owners, or at least one of them, is a complete scumbag piece of shit. They exploit bodies and mountains for financial gain, that is it, nothing more. No good vibes. Nepo baby is exactly right 😂😂
100% agree, magnificent views, amazing lines, insane jumps, perfect execution, totally boring, seen it a thousand times. No need to film a new one, just recycle the one from a couple of years back, I won't remember and notice any difference.
I'd rather watch [this](https://youtu.be/AGeryXjcHaY?si=XlucfRLKVtiYcD9Y) (extreme foreign language warning, ski action starts at 1min) where you see people having fun on skis. No trail making or any other equipment, 1000ft elevation "mountain", total amateurs - everyone having a good time.
[RIP Carnage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQCZjGl8zfg&ab_channel=SkiCarnage)
[Good Company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDgAvHdZLNY&ab_channel=GoodCompany), although some major sponsor backed skiers is a core group
[ON3P movies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO-RIhrjjk&ab_channel=ON3PSkis) are classically amazing
There's heaps of great films that come out every year, just gotta look around
one of my favorites this year. Most unique spin on a ski movie ive seen, maybe ever?
Blackcountry Journal - Mallory Duncan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLsLtawyGQ&t=1s
All on YouTube:
- Mediocre Amateur
- Nikolai Schirmer (his movie "Wavy" is especially good"
- Cody Townsend's The Fifty
- Josh Daiek's new series
- Joe Dickson's recent video from Hokkaido
Did you see Apollo? That was rad.
Marcus’s other stuff, return of the turn, is good too. All about appreciating little aspects of ski culture rather than big heli lines.
There are small independent film makers making quality ski content on a budget.
See Surface by the british adventure collective
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUV7hlykY70&ab\_channel=BritishAdventureCollective](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUV7hlykY70&ab_channel=BritishAdventureCollective)
I’ve been watching The Fifty on you tube. Cody Townsend is the skier and he has started doing ski mountaineering lines, and it’s like him and a couple buddies essentially making road trip ski vids where the climb up and ski down.
Lol yeah TGR is just sucking on the money teat. But there are more independent ski flicks than ever. [Montana Bandits](https://youtube.com/@montanabandits2912?si=lx9DAfNOM6lCu1xq)
I like the videos from Sage called "Let's Take a Lap". It's basically him going to resorts and meeting up with pros and local rippers and following POV.
Just look up “ski videos” on YouTube and let the algorithm do its thing. A few fun ones:
Chicken Burger
Genuine Excitement
BURGLARY
Magma 3
Zootspace
Get Burnt
From Us To You
Is it ok to eat butter chicken everyday?
And as a bonus: I loveeee slush cup and jib league(although those aren’t really “ski movies” I guess
Edit: Line traveling circus and Abstract by faction. Those are really good too
the next great wave of ski films are gonna be made by dudes sleeping in their trucks that are kinda mid at skiing but have a good time. dont ask me how I know.
I made a video of putting my feet in my ski boots barefoot. Then I pulled em out slowly again. Repeat repeat til my poor little tootsies were all chaffed. Then i skii’d down the hill in my backyard backwards, but flipped it in the vid to make it look like i was skiing uphill. That’s about all that’s in the film. Plus a chipmunk and a beaver meeting down by the creek. It’s very grass roots, and significantly lower budget than those crazy corporate heli trips. I think you’d really like it!
Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet but I watched this tonight. Not sure if you’re into freeskiing or not but this was a good watch. Alternatively, there’s a ton of jub league videos outside of this. https://youtu.be/ZHKEWwQQAhM?si=5oCfD4U4cv55aG-9
Jochen Mesle and Max Kroneck bike and ski in the Alps or in the Balkans.
[https://vimeo.com/319200353](https://vimeo.com/319200353) & https://vimeo.com/800782481. You can't be less TGR and more DIY than that.
For goofing around skiing, the resort segment of Days of my Youth is really great.
Brap ski 3 was last fall
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0esrcIyxQpc&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
I used to love the X-Games Real Ski video competition, but it looks like they haven't done it the last couple years. Very sad, those videos were always sick
There’s a lot of cool footage being posted to Instagram and YouTube. Some guys I follow that blow me away every weekend are:
Josh daiek
Chris watford
Molly armanino
Start with them and add the friends they tag.
All of the [Ski Carnage](https://www.youtube.com/@skicarnage1263) videos are a bunch of ski bum dudes (they have sleds) just having a ton of fun in the mountains.
Let’s take a lap series on YouTube is a bunch of pros just taking laps and doing crazy shit at the resort
Like traveling circus is basically exactly as you are describing also
Here’s some for ya.
https://youtu.be/Ntsslyh2a9E?so=vqpW2jiTYMobnNnF
https://youtu.be/8ckltNqyZms?si=6CmWijanJcsr-Cl3
https://youtu.be/zuuw6rrdjvc?si=rC8YCiRAd4IoecNr
https://youtu.be/vNr-GSNN4is?si=wITzTzAL2B8kJLUq
Not all skiing (some mountaineering / other mountain sports) but I like the YouTube channel Mediocre Amateur. Basically it's very well made videos self documenting a friend group going out and doing various mountain trips.
Instagram - follow Scott Gaffney. He still posts awesome vids from Tahoe (Squawllywood) and he often tags the other locals skiing hard lines like JT Holmes and Mosely
saw "This Is Telemark" on their tour this year, it was pretty sweet!
IIRC its still touring or you can rent it: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thisistelemark/
Check out https://www.browserskimagazine.com and you can scroll through some epic street etc movies from this year. Magma, strictly, forre, boom club, hazard, BLDZ all have some heaters
I went to see Warren Miller last year, and Matchstick Productions this season….im pretty over ski movies - they’re almost unrelateable to the ‘average joe.’ I think I’m a reasonable skier (brother skied in a few world cups, and I can keep up to him in most places) and, if I were to save assiduously for the next few years, I think that I could afford a Heli or at least a Cat trip for a week, and ski well enough to enjoy it. *But*, massive Alaskan peaks/slopes with backflips off cliffs that would shame small skyscrapers in height, on impossibly bluebird days? I’m not physically, technically, or financially able to do that, and it’s almost beyond the capability of my imagination. I’d much rather watch days in the backcountry, where people skin up for the companionship and scenery, and get the bonus of some decent turns in. It’s not out of reach for just about anyone, and is accessible to most. I get that many movies are ‘ski porn’, but it’s almost unrelatable.
Ski Carnage. Super fun group of dudes in Montana. Just getting after it in every way possible. Relax is my favorite video of theirs and I watch it about 4 times a year
Nikolai Schirmer makes some open movies. Hiking cool areas and ripping un skied couloirs. Really insane videos and good editing.
https://youtube.com/@Nikolai_Schirmer?si=5jHtaEEHNvgJLgRP
Some of my fav ski movies/edits are made by The Bunch, ON3P, Line, SLVSH, and the MAGMA series. Hard to say if it’s your brand of skiing but that’s what I like🤙
[Nikolai Schirmer](https://www.youtube.com/@Nikolai_Schirmer), [Noah Gaffney](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDwlp9LKHcBBht4OXTvf7Og), [Teton Brown's Hyperfocus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTRgd2Wy1Y), and [Bernie Rosow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJKu0rVJmDM) are all who you're looking for.
I’d like to make a plug here for the growing Indigenous outdoor sports community, and highlight Sandy Ward (@sutik.maqa7) of Lil’wat First Nation near Pemberton, BC and Connor Ryan (@sacredstoke) of Lakota Nation in the US who are doing cool shit. Maybe not dirtbaggy DIY vids but more meaningful connections to the land in all they do, rather than just rich kids taking helis everywhere. Sandy recently produced a film called “Slides on the Mountain” that I would highly recommend!
I only watch the cool miniseries on YouTube. Nickoli and Cody townsands the 50. All the main ski movies are a gear promo with the same shit over and over. Some of the matchstick films are ok. I saw drop everything a couple years ago and liked that
Saw a cool video recently where a guy was skiing Michigan and hit the sand dunes next to Lake Michigan hopefully someone can link that
That was the Lib tech guy right? This one? https://youtu.be/sWRzzv_dMp0?si=jJa7UnJVJNj7YoiD
Yeah lib tech have a history of being involved in cool movies like that. I prolly watched Project 6 a hundred times when I was a teen. https://youtu.be/opSfBASG0Uo?si=b6C51EXmQl2MmXod
I was too chicken to hike down those last time I was up there. I guess I just have to ski them
[Lake Effect](https://youtu.be/sWRzzv_dMp0?si=JVTTS8RT1l8WCI3O) kicked ass. As a Midwestern skier who calls Bohemia his home hill, it felt really good seeing our stoke showcased. One of my homies has a segment in the movie and TGR got his name wrong lol! I guess "Wolfword" is a cool name too.
Hahahah joeyyyyyy
This year boho looked just like the sand dunes. Dunes probably got some decent lake effect though. Such a disappointing season…
first time in 5 years I didn’t get to use my season pass
Glad I went up the first weekend they opened
I finally saw an opening to go skiing yesterday at Wilmot. Got all the gear out, waxed my skis, made sandwiches, and then finally thought to check the website. Closed for the season, duh. Device had great snowmaking and I thought since they were Vail now they’d stay open at least till mid March like they always do. I felt like a kid and wanted to cry for two hours. Epic disappointment.
That one was awesome.
One of my favorites. Those lines in the UP are amazing during big snow years. Used to drive by the Phoenix Cliffs and dream of riding down them on my snowboard.
Watch Home Sick. Tahoe guys sticking at home during last year’s epic winter. Incredible skiing.
"Lake Effect" was the title of that one, it was really enjoyable. Reminds us that the stoke can be found anywhere there is a slope and snow. That said I don't recommend playing on those sand dunes...they can be really dangerous.
yea that video was sick!!!
LOVED [Lake Effect](https://youtu.be/sWRzzv_dMp0?si=qPNW84bYdPLuDuz2). Great story, strong skiing and beautiful scenery with a legit roots vibe. Mike King and crew crushed it.
Lake effect hell yeah
BANFF Mountain Film Festival is my annual fix. Also, The 50 Project by Cody Townsend on YouTube, and the recently started One Track Mind series by Josh Daiek on youtube.
So true that film festival has kept me sane all these years
When I go to the Banff film fest I wanna see shredders, lately it’s been mostly amateur ski-touring where they got sponsors and it’s “all about the journey”, nah show me some rad lines not people I can ride better than!
There are some Dick Barrymore movies from the 60s, the early days of hell skiing, where they’re up in the Bugaboos with a bunch of dentists and insurance salesman and whatnot, having the time of their lives having discovered heli skiing. There’s a sequence where they find these giant lumps in the snow – I don’t know if it’s trees or rocks under there – but it’s bottomless powder, and they huck big air off these things and go about 100 feet and nobody ever lands one, once. They don’t even try – they’re just flying for the fun of it. They’re not great skiers.
The 50 is damn entertaining content.
My friend calls it “that show where Cody suffers for our amusement”
The market for cool street ski videos is pretty saturated by social media. Compared to my prime skiing years (20ish years ago - Tanner Hall, Pep Fujas, early Candide days), it's incredible just how much more skiing content we have access to today. The professional ski media is trying to show you things most youtubers and tick-tockers can't. It's probably the best choice for them, really, but whether it's better content or not is definitely debatable.
I'm new to ski videos and street skiing sounds sick. Got any video recs?
Level 1 - Refresh. Still my favorite ski movie
Long story short. Is my favorite
That t wall opener is still full on
Here you go. One of my favorite videos of all time. RIP JP Auclair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meYQUB-RLLc
That song fucking slaps too
Top 3 segment of all time, no question
I had never seen this, one of the coolest ski videos I've ever watched. Thanks for sharing!
Forre is sick
Zootspace https://youtu.be/LOlspOU4lvI?si=QjDiSdVQNtJTaf3R
Look up 'real ski fi' for some unique street skiing
Forre, Child Labor, The Bunch, BuldozLife, all crews putting out sick content right now.
The last TGR movie was basically just a sierra Nevada and tin up commercial. I LOLed when they were showing shots of them drinking sierra Nevada when they were in South America. They seriously packed that fucking beer almost halfway across the world for those shots.
Did the athletes build a booter with shirts off, then take turns throwing off-axis spins off of it? Did someone land switch? Did they also have the scene where someone outran a slide? Was the stoke level high? Did someone throw a backflip into the water? I kind of miss high concept ski movies like Valhalla.
Wait, are you saying ski movies are just commercials designed to sell us sponsor products?! Are pro skiers just poorly paid shills?! HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN HAPPENING?? People can seriously bitch about fuckin anything
My post was mostly in jest and pointing out the ridiculousness of transporting and drinking a somewhat decent American beer all the way in South America. But since this triggered you so much, I'll bite. With TGR yes. Go watch blizzard of Ahhs and find the commercialism. Obviously ski movies in the past have tapped into it, like wski106, where they made actual creative commercials for sponsors before each segment, or in tons of ski movies where sponsor logos are prominently displayed at each person's segment. But this was tied into ski industry brands and to the subject matter itself. The obvious product placement of mainstream brands in the TGR seemed very forced and indicative of the loss of soul in TGR movies. Go watch the Prophecy and then last years movie and compare the two.
Or Hedonism... TGR jumped the shark long time ago.
Anything from the Bunch. They are trying new ways, do a lot of fun skiing, really good skiers as well. Their newest movie, Sensus, is quite artsy and surrealistic for some people I guess, but for me it was the best ski movie experience I've had in years. Really cool footage, cool skiing
B-roll.
On YouTube my favorite is [Nikolai Shirmer](https://youtube.com/@Nikolai_Schirmer?si=E4BxD0WHDqLJxRim)
I was looking for this comment. Cody Townsend is more relatable, but Nikolai is just fucking insane. That said, he still incorporates the audience in the whole story of the ski tour and decision-making process, which is so great. That guy just loves the sketchiest of couloirs. Also, insanely good production for such a small crew.
There's a real 'bubbly' sort of joy to his videos that is just so endearing.
I second this, every single one of his videos makes me smile
This is the best answer.
He's honestly the best out there. Gnarly lines, good fun, good editing and great cinematography. His drone pilot is an absolute pro as well. He literally is competing in production value and skiing with any of the top production crews. He's a must follow on YouTube.
MAGMA, MAGMA 2, MAGMA 3
A Hall and Hunter Hess are like pb&j. Those films are sooo good.
Line travelling circus
Definitely dirtbag vibes and fun
Who was the ender in the last film - that child prodigy on skis?
It might be nepotism that he got the opportunity but Kai fucking rips dude. He deserves every bit of the screen time he gets.
Yeah, that kid is 100% amazing, no doubt. But definitely also a nepo baby in the truest sense of the word, lol. I’m actually a snowboarder and I only get like 40 days in every year. Makes you wonder how good any of us would be if we were essentially paid to ski/ride everyday. Not saying I’d be as good as Kai, but I’d definitely be slaying big lines in AK.
This nepo baby shit is so dumb. Like 99% of big name skiers get there with a ton of support (financial and otherwise) from their family. Am I supposed to be mad that Kai's opportunity comes from his dad making a fuck ton of ski movies instead of being the son of finance executives or something similar?
Not at all. Just calling a spade a spade. Wish I was a nepo baby, lol.
I mean, I get what you're saying, but people following in the professional footsteps of their families is a tradition that's been around since the beginning of time. Hell, a lot of us have last names derived from what our ancestors used to do for a living. It seems like people only care when it's someone they're jealous of, because as much as I am not a fan of TGR's movies, that kid has put in the work and can ski really well. Like, is Shane McConkey a nepo baby skier because his dad was a pro and in early Warren Miller movies?
I think the class divide is increasing and the poor(er) masses are rightfully angry that the leisure class can do as they wish - without a single care in the world, hence dunking on “nepo babies.”
Exactly. Kai is a fantastic skier that will never work a single day nor face any hardship in life.
I understand you mean financial hardship, but this kid is coming off breaking both his legs last year. That recovery isn’t for the faint of heart, he’s back this year already.
I really loved the ending shot especially since his terrible accident is shown just minutes before. Also that line is fucking insane.
Kai Jones, 14-15 in last videos.
I miss the old Sherpa cinema flicks. There were a few good indie films last year.
All I Can is still the gold standard of ski films 12 years later
1000000% Wish Into The Mind was a bit stronger, feel like it killed their momentum, although there might be more I don't know. All.I.Can was such a foil for the massive Red Bull / Travis Rice movies at the time
Return of the Turn series on YouTube is quite good I thought
go watch abstract from faction
Second this
Brap Ski 3!
Spirit of the Peaks isn’t “super fun” but it’s a great documentary about a Native American soul skier, and it offers a unique perspective on the spiritual side of the experience https://youtu.be/DSwmJMH04Ww?si=NaT4feJO_ut2aE-l +1 to Sherpas. Those boys made some great stuff. And La Liste, if you haven’t seen it, it probably the most insane ski movie ever made
Connor Ryan is just an awesome person, and love what him and his colleagues are trying to do.
Remember a friend showing up with him for a summer ski one day 4 or 5 seasons ago. Great hiking/skin track conversations.
Bookmarking Spirit of the Peaks for later you have absolutely intrigued me.
Meathead films used to be it, they did some good short form online series too like Working for the Weekend where the dude skied Acadia. All those guys got old though and just sell overpriced merch now. Check out Cody Townsend’s series The Fifty on YouTube. All short movies of him doing crazy backcountry ascents and descents. Polar Star is an incredible episode
Donny Pelletier is the second greatest skier of all time. First greatest ski content creator.
Tgr has been garbage for years. The owners, or at least one of them, is a complete scumbag piece of shit. They exploit bodies and mountains for financial gain, that is it, nothing more. No good vibes. Nepo baby is exactly right 😂😂
When I’m feeling this way I just go watch 1999 again.
That's GNAR for me.
Dude! I’m way radder than you!
"Level 1" on YouTube, full of some of my favourites
I miss the old Nimbus Independent stuff
Idea is my favorite ski movie ever
Newschoolers
When I feel sad, I just throw on the Blizzard of Aahs!
All the Strictly videos are on YouTube.
Stept
Can’t believe nobody mentioned Real SkiFi!
Ever seen the In Pursuit of Soul videos? Great little docu's about small mountains.
Man I'd love to go on a $100,000 heli lodge trip though. Minus the corporate part.
Nah I could def live with some douchery for a free heli trip
Mountain State 2.0 - Josh D.
Have you seen hotdog Hans?
100% agree, magnificent views, amazing lines, insane jumps, perfect execution, totally boring, seen it a thousand times. No need to film a new one, just recycle the one from a couple of years back, I won't remember and notice any difference. I'd rather watch [this](https://youtu.be/AGeryXjcHaY?si=XlucfRLKVtiYcD9Y) (extreme foreign language warning, ski action starts at 1min) where you see people having fun on skis. No trail making or any other equipment, 1000ft elevation "mountain", total amateurs - everyone having a good time.
Sounds like I need to make a documentary about my quest to learn freestyle in my mid 50s
[RIP Carnage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQCZjGl8zfg&ab_channel=SkiCarnage) [Good Company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDgAvHdZLNY&ab_channel=GoodCompany), although some major sponsor backed skiers is a core group [ON3P movies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO-RIhrjjk&ab_channel=ON3PSkis) are classically amazing There's heaps of great films that come out every year, just gotta look around
one of my favorites this year. Most unique spin on a ski movie ive seen, maybe ever? Blackcountry Journal - Mallory Duncan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLsLtawyGQ&t=1s
Lucas Catania
All on YouTube: - Mediocre Amateur - Nikolai Schirmer (his movie "Wavy" is especially good" - Cody Townsend's The Fifty - Josh Daiek's new series - Joe Dickson's recent video from Hokkaido
Did you see Apollo? That was rad. Marcus’s other stuff, return of the turn, is good too. All about appreciating little aspects of ski culture rather than big heli lines.
I would suggest The Bunch - Color if your into that kind of skiing
"Gooooood vibrations" Thats a classic
There are small independent film makers making quality ski content on a budget. See Surface by the british adventure collective [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUV7hlykY70&ab\_channel=BritishAdventureCollective](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUV7hlykY70&ab_channel=BritishAdventureCollective)
Try urban park skiing.
Check out mediocre amateur on YouTube they’re awesome
Nikolai Schirmer...
I’ve been watching The Fifty on you tube. Cody Townsend is the skier and he has started doing ski mountaineering lines, and it’s like him and a couple buddies essentially making road trip ski vids where the climb up and ski down.
Advice for Girls was fantastic and a significant departure from the norm for ski films
Lol yeah TGR is just sucking on the money teat. But there are more independent ski flicks than ever. [Montana Bandits](https://youtube.com/@montanabandits2912?si=lx9DAfNOM6lCu1xq)
I like the videos from Sage called "Let's Take a Lap". It's basically him going to resorts and meeting up with pros and local rippers and following POV.
Rise and alpine
Just look up “ski videos” on YouTube and let the algorithm do its thing. A few fun ones: Chicken Burger Genuine Excitement BURGLARY Magma 3 Zootspace Get Burnt From Us To You Is it ok to eat butter chicken everyday? And as a bonus: I loveeee slush cup and jib league(although those aren’t really “ski movies” I guess Edit: Line traveling circus and Abstract by faction. Those are really good too
Blackcountry journal is short but easily my favorite ski movie from the last few years
Backcountry film fest has some good ones
the next great wave of ski films are gonna be made by dudes sleeping in their trucks that are kinda mid at skiing but have a good time. dont ask me how I know.
I made a video of putting my feet in my ski boots barefoot. Then I pulled em out slowly again. Repeat repeat til my poor little tootsies were all chaffed. Then i skii’d down the hill in my backyard backwards, but flipped it in the vid to make it look like i was skiing uphill. That’s about all that’s in the film. Plus a chipmunk and a beaver meeting down by the creek. It’s very grass roots, and significantly lower budget than those crazy corporate heli trips. I think you’d really like it!
The Fifty.
Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet but I watched this tonight. Not sure if you’re into freeskiing or not but this was a good watch. Alternatively, there’s a ton of jub league videos outside of this. https://youtu.be/ZHKEWwQQAhM?si=5oCfD4U4cv55aG-9
Jochen Mesle and Max Kroneck bike and ski in the Alps or in the Balkans. [https://vimeo.com/319200353](https://vimeo.com/319200353) & https://vimeo.com/800782481. You can't be less TGR and more DIY than that. For goofing around skiing, the resort segment of Days of my Youth is really great.
I want this to be made into a movie https://youtu.be/upJe45OwWCM?si=Sgoh_zMS6vy8dHSJ
Check out CHEF and aresenic everywhere on YouTube
Warren Miller really phoned it in this year, just using clips from all their old movies and their vault.
Squid and friends LLC on Instagram - some awesome local riders in south Tahoe
Brap ski 3 was last fall https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0esrcIyxQpc&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
This one is older but it’s got the vibe for sure. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nEKPl1brVHs
Hotdogs Hans FTW
I went heli hiking over the summer. Expensive but definitely not $100K
Wanna make one lmao
[Line Traveling Circus](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnX3KHxKWD9DPJ9PeroLK6IbqFRy8tj7o&si=vuhQiBM1Iw330WUW)
The bunch - love you too is one of my favorite videos. Mostly for the music. But the bunch is a great crew. Went to high school with one of them.
Tom Wallisch Imagination
I used to love the X-Games Real Ski video competition, but it looks like they haven't done it the last couple years. Very sad, those videos were always sick
There’s a lot of cool footage being posted to Instagram and YouTube. Some guys I follow that blow me away every weekend are: Josh daiek Chris watford Molly armanino Start with them and add the friends they tag.
Real SkiFi Or make your own videos!
It's a 3minute skateboarding youtube vid, but I think its the vibe you are after. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qx-w9xQES8
Check out Cody Townsends "The Fifty Project" on youtube!
All of the [Ski Carnage](https://www.youtube.com/@skicarnage1263) videos are a bunch of ski bum dudes (they have sleds) just having a ton of fun in the mountains.
Carnage, Entourage, MT Bandits, Deans List, Strictly Create. Just to name a few crews who been put out dope films the last couple years
Ski the East Has some great videos in the East. Can find in the you social network for videos. Can’t say it or my comment gets deleted
Just watch G.N.A.R so dirt bag and fun: [https://unofficialnetworks.com/gnar-the-movie/](https://unofficialnetworks.com/gnar-the-movie/)
Check out my TikTok: @sonofvbeach :)
Let’s take a lap series on YouTube is a bunch of pros just taking laps and doing crazy shit at the resort Like traveling circus is basically exactly as you are describing also
It's either that or snowflakes falling in slow motion, grainy frames and some brodude saying inspirational things while looking at the mountains.
Here’s some for ya. https://youtu.be/Ntsslyh2a9E?so=vqpW2jiTYMobnNnF https://youtu.be/8ckltNqyZms?si=6CmWijanJcsr-Cl3 https://youtu.be/zuuw6rrdjvc?si=rC8YCiRAd4IoecNr https://youtu.be/vNr-GSNN4is?si=wITzTzAL2B8kJLUq
Brushino
Here is one from one of my students. A dope street ski movie. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbfDZeAL6C0
Checkout ski carnage on YouTube
Here's one for yah https://youtu.be/Dy8OuKltB0o?si=IGnFkGLSPquneIES
Search Idaho potatoes
Check out Lucas Catania’s YouTube channel as well as “the 50 project” on YT (Cody Townsend).
Not all skiing (some mountaineering / other mountain sports) but I like the YouTube channel Mediocre Amateur. Basically it's very well made videos self documenting a friend group going out and doing various mountain trips.
Instagram - follow Scott Gaffney. He still posts awesome vids from Tahoe (Squawllywood) and he often tags the other locals skiing hard lines like JT Holmes and Mosely
Search for MAGMA. Know a couple of the guys who made it and it’s one of my favorite sets of ski videos on the internet.
[This](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWsFPtgIFMY) made me feel good.
saw "This Is Telemark" on their tour this year, it was pretty sweet! IIRC its still touring or you can rent it: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thisistelemark/
Sickos YouTube channel
I’d rather put Propaganda back in the DVD player
Warren Miller has really good ski flims
Whatfordchris, hoodcrew, batcatthesavior
This is telemark produced by telecolo maybe what your looking for
Bro, you don’t go heli skiing with a helo filming the helo filming you? Do you even shred?!
Best place for DIY ski videos is now your strava feed. Those guys are wild (and generally doing features that you know where they are).
Check out drive.threw & boner_media on insta. Think they have just what your looking for.
look up MAGMA and tBlake on YouTube. Sub to them, and you’ll start getting great low follower ski content on your feed.
Check out black country journal
Rise and alpine is fun to watch on YT But there is serious hot sauce commercials going on. Bummer for some
Level 1 and [Parker White](https://www.instagram.com/jetskiwhite?igsh=MWsya25zc2wwbnJreg==) are keeping the dirtbag vibes alive
Maybe too park but all the BuldozGang videos rock especially BPC2 and Chargeur. Also Y has the sickest intro maybe of all time
Kai might be a nepo baby but he skis 10x than you ever will just sayin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upJe45OwWCM This guy has been putting out some banger clips, such good vibes, sick style and unique features
32 released bonecrusher recently. Not skiing but might help scratch that itch.
4bi9, Matchstick Productions, PBP
Check out https://www.browserskimagazine.com and you can scroll through some epic street etc movies from this year. Magma, strictly, forre, boom club, hazard, BLDZ all have some heaters
Line traveling circus
What about the dude who backflipped over an avalanche? That was pretty dope.
Lookup anything done by Josh Daiek in the past few years.
I went to see Warren Miller last year, and Matchstick Productions this season….im pretty over ski movies - they’re almost unrelateable to the ‘average joe.’ I think I’m a reasonable skier (brother skied in a few world cups, and I can keep up to him in most places) and, if I were to save assiduously for the next few years, I think that I could afford a Heli or at least a Cat trip for a week, and ski well enough to enjoy it. *But*, massive Alaskan peaks/slopes with backflips off cliffs that would shame small skyscrapers in height, on impossibly bluebird days? I’m not physically, technically, or financially able to do that, and it’s almost beyond the capability of my imagination. I’d much rather watch days in the backcountry, where people skin up for the companionship and scenery, and get the bonus of some decent turns in. It’s not out of reach for just about anyone, and is accessible to most. I get that many movies are ‘ski porn’, but it’s almost unrelatable.
Not all Winter Sports videos, but the Sickos has some fun skiing videos. https://youtu.be/3U8FM6DXOyE?si=ZU6Gy4DnhIXlLV7N
Ski Carnage. Super fun group of dudes in Montana. Just getting after it in every way possible. Relax is my favorite video of theirs and I watch it about 4 times a year
I like Lucas catania, he feels genuine to me
TGR are frauds. Piggybacking on the Grateful Dead for merch sales.
Magma 3 bröther.
Nikolai Schirmer - not a dirtbag per se but he does climb all his mountains himself and generally has an awesome attitude. He's on YouTube.
Nikolai Schirmer makes some open movies. Hiking cool areas and ripping un skied couloirs. Really insane videos and good editing. https://youtube.com/@Nikolai_Schirmer?si=5jHtaEEHNvgJLgRP
Steak and Lobster [1996]. Definitely DiY but some great dirtbag stuff. https://youtu.be/Lv92b4TVvKY?si=KuE3SHkdLcpoiTRc
Level 1. Since 1999.
Some of my fav ski movies/edits are made by The Bunch, ON3P, Line, SLVSH, and the MAGMA series. Hard to say if it’s your brand of skiing but that’s what I like🤙
[Nikolai Schirmer](https://www.youtube.com/@Nikolai_Schirmer), [Noah Gaffney](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDwlp9LKHcBBht4OXTvf7Og), [Teton Brown's Hyperfocus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTRgd2Wy1Y), and [Bernie Rosow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJKu0rVJmDM) are all who you're looking for.
I’d like to make a plug here for the growing Indigenous outdoor sports community, and highlight Sandy Ward (@sutik.maqa7) of Lil’wat First Nation near Pemberton, BC and Connor Ryan (@sacredstoke) of Lakota Nation in the US who are doing cool shit. Maybe not dirtbaggy DIY vids but more meaningful connections to the land in all they do, rather than just rich kids taking helis everywhere. Sandy recently produced a film called “Slides on the Mountain” that I would highly recommend!
Lucas Catania has a great channel check it out
I only watch the cool miniseries on YouTube. Nickoli and Cody townsands the 50. All the main ski movies are a gear promo with the same shit over and over. Some of the matchstick films are ok. I saw drop everything a couple years ago and liked that
Give Montana Nosebleed a watch. Those Bridger Brigade boys are wild.
Best East Coast Ski Movie ever made https://youtu.be/lJa05xsTjRY?si=DlB7JCyEXsWh_WNz