SKIING/SNOWBOARDING

Discipline  Slalom and Giant Slalom Hometown Prior Lake, Minnesota Age 27 Career Highlight First American woman to win slalom gold at the Junior World Championship  Making the U.S. Ski Team is never easy, but some athletes have an easier time than others. Mikaela Shiffrin? She’s had a pretty smooth ride as the national team’s star

The first day of competition at Jackson Hole goes down January 25th at 9:30am MST. The contest window for the Yeti Natural Selection at Jackson Hole opens tomorrow, January 25th and day 1 (men’s qualifiers and women’s quarterfinals) is confirmed to run! 9:30am MST, day 1 of Natural Selection begins. Watch the live broadcast on

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Covid be damned, the 2022 Freeride World Tour is officially underway with a successful first competition in the books. Spain’s Baqueira Beret, a brand new venue for the FWT, played host to the first comp on Saturday, Jan. 22, and despite the unfamiliar

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Not for nothing is the legendary Hahnenkamm race referred to as the Superbowl of World Cup racing among American fans. The storied event, held annually in Kitzbühel, Austria as a stop on the men’s World Cup Tour, always delivers one of the best

A Conversation with Travis Rice, Liam Griffin, and Circe Wallace. THIS IS THE PLACE THAT I THINK SNOWBOARDING’S ALWAYS BEEN GOING AND IT HADN’T BEEN DONE YET BECAUSE IT’S REALLY FUCKING HARD, IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY, AND YOU NEED CERTAIN TECHNOLOGY TO PULL IT OFF. SO, IT’S TAKEN THE TIME IT HAS. OF

To say that Marie-France Roy is an impactful individuals is an understatement. From her early days riding in contests and shutting down spots in the streets to her current position leading the way in the backcountry, Marie has been setting the standard for years, and doing it with incredible style and grace. Of course, while

Every winter, devoted skiers closely watch the weather, get up early, and wait in long lines before lifts open just to ski powder. For many skiers, a great powder day can be one of the defining days of the ski season, or even the highlight of the year. Some skiers, on the other hand, find

It was a snowy day in Aspen for women’s slopestyle finals at X Games, but that didn’t slow the crew down as Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, Jamie Anderson, and Laurie Blouin took the podium. Zoi landed one of the most technical runs, ever in a women’s slopestyle contest. Going into her second run in first place after

I went to Newfoundland for a semester in college. It was sort of a spur-of-the-moment decision. A semester abroad in the furthest-place-from-home closest to home—because Newfoundland has its own time zone that’s a half hour off from EST, and more than that, it’s just it’s very own place. There’s snowboarding there, but not on the

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Exactly two weeks out from the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, U.S. Ski and Snowboard today announced its nominations for the U.S. Olympic Alpine and Freestyle Teams. Seventeen athletes will represent Team USA across the six Olympic alpine skiing disciplines, including

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Locking into a nasty arc is one of the greatest joys life has to offer. The feeling is somewhere between flying a fighter jet and peeling the plastic off of your new phone. Luckily, current ski technology has made carving turns more obtainable than ever

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. “Sugar Mountain” is a new wave ski adventure film by award-winning director Richard James in association with Helly Hansen chronicling the story of eight friends and the quest to find the mythical Sugar Mountain in the wilds of Alaska. By replacing helicopters with

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. If you decided not to venture out to the slopes during what’s typically one of the busiest ski weekends of the year, Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, we don’t blame you. We all saw the headlines and the social media posts over the

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. On Saturday, Jan. 22, professional big mountain skier Lexi duPont will stand in the start gate for the first time since 2012, when the Freeride World Tour kicks off at Baqueira Beret, a brand new stop for the Tour in the Spanish Pyrenees.

North Lake Tahoe is home to the greatest concentration of skiing in North America, so it is no surprise that most visitors spend their days carving corduroy on world-class slopes such as Northstar California, Palisades Tahoe, and Diamond Peak Ski Resort. For fans of skinny skis, resorts such as Royal Gorge have miles upon miles of

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Most outdoor enthusiasts have heard of Leave No Trace, the ubiquitous guidelines for minimizing environmental impact on the trail. Now, a group of adventure activists is seeking to achieve that same level of awareness about justice and inclusion by training a new generation