Whitedot Skis

To celebrate the recent massive snowfalls, and to mark the run-up to the Chamonix stage of the Freeride World Tour: Whitedot are offering their rockered-powder ski, the Redeemer at a discounted rate to ensure that all who want to get out there and enjoy the fresh, deep powder are able to and have the correct equipment for the job!

“Resorts have now made a full recovery after heavy snowfall and high winds had a dramatic impact on resort access roads and lift operations last weekend. The snowstorms left the pistes in excel- lent conditions where skiers have made the most of fresh powdery conditions. What’s more, tem- peratures are largely below freezing which should keep the mountains in excellent shape”
- BBC Weather

Whitedot pro-skier Matt Gerdes took a day out with Roch Malnuit this week to have a hike up the Dent du Géant, after a good ascent they skied down the south face into Italy. Matt sent some pictures through …

Thanks to Roch Malnuit for the images
www.rochmalnuit.com

I decided to kick off the 2011/12 season with a quick trip back to the Northwest US, to visit one of my favourite ski areas in the US, Steven’s Pass.

I hooked up with Vasili Arvanitidis, who is now the WD Rep for the Western USA. Vasili is pushing the WD line and doing multiple demos per week at ski areas all over the Western USA, from Tahoe to Montana and everything in between. He has a massive demo fleet and hundreds of people have been able to try the WD range this season alone. Although we weren’t lucky with the snow (temps at 2000m were almost 10 C), people were coming back with big smiles on their faces and the Preacher proved to be especially popular.

I stayed on the Redeemers, as usual, and got to ski a few runs with WD USA Team Rider, Nash Grimm. Nash is young, just 16 years old, but he is a very talented and committed skier. He was skiing very well in difficult conditions and maintaining fluidity in bad snow, which is in my opinion the mark of a true big mountain
skier. I look forward to skiing more with Nash in the future and hope he can make it to the Alps to see what big mountains really are. The Cascades are beautiful, but feel very short if you’re coming from Chamonix.

The forecast is looking good here in the NW USA, finally, and there is also some snow coming to the Alps later in the week as well so, life is good!

www.stevenspass.com
www.facebook.com/vasili013
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Whitedot Pro-skier, Steve Walton, is based in Chamonix for the bulk of this season, after this weeks dumping of snow he decided to hit up La Tour with his skins and see where he could get too. Here’s his 4 minute short…

Winter Days – Day One from Steve Walton on Vimeo.

Steve:
We got dumped on for 3 Days straight, about a metre fell at 1500m, so went up first thing yesterday morning to check it out. It was awesome snow depth but the stability was shocking so we back-tracked and went over to another aspect (not as fun) and got a few turns on the way down.

Grands montets opens tomorrow though takes more than a metre of fresh to cover up those rocks! Apart from that, bring on the next dump now theres a base!

This week you can win the Alpine ski Ragnarok from Whitedot!
Log on to your profile on Friflyt.no, answer correctly the questions below and send your answers with internal float-mail (Personal Message, PM) of the user network competition that have made this case. Write your answers in the subject line and contact information (including e-mail address and telephone number) in the mail.

www.friflyt.no/Ski/

Ragnarok’s Fred Syversen’s pro-model and is known to be an uncompromised and solid skier. If your answer is right on all questions below, you can be the lucky owner of a pair of brand new blue whitedot-skis with Look p18 binding.

1. What is Ragnarok?

2. What Whitedot-ski was on the cover of the Free Flow’s February issue this year?

3. Whitedot have a female skier who was runner up FWT Chamonix, who?

4. Who won the RFC in 2011 and what is he known for?

Good luck!

Today is the opening night of the Kendal Mountain Festival, get yourselves along to checkout all that is being offered; lectures from the experts and professionals, movie premiere’s, activities and new equipment expose’s.

We’re sponsoring the Snowsports Night on Saturday (19th November) at 7pm, here’s a little teaser …

Snowsport Night Moto – Whitedot – Repeatable from Fridge Productions on Vimeo.

See you there

I saw Jamie for the first time in Engelberg CH, then I didn’t know him, just knew that he had the highest cliffjump in the world. After I did my jump, we’ve got in contact and instantly felt that we had a connection that nobody else had. We only got to emailing each other about our common experiences, and that we wanted to ski together in the US or in europe when the chance came up. Joking about that we should keep our skis on the ground, and not go crazy on cliff jumping. We never got that far, now I have to wait.

A tragic loss for family, friends and freeskiing. One of the gutsiest men around is now gone, we will miss him!

“Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go”
-T.S. Elliot

Photograph: www.hollywoodreporter.com

This year we are proud to announce that we will be sponsoring the Snowsports Night at the World’s biggest mountain film festival, the Kendal Mountain Festival, on Saturday 19th November 2011 (19:00 – 22:00).

Kendal is a small town in the UK with a big heart. Each year it welcomes thousands of outdoors enthusiasts from around the world to celebrate mountain culture in film, lectures, art and literature.
Their mission is to inspire audiences with stories, films and presentations from the outdoor environment encompassing the spirit of exploration and adventure.

This year KMF are honoured that ace filmmaker Nick Waggoner from Sweetgrass Productions (Signatures, Hand Cut) is coming across from the USA to present his new film Solitaire along with an insight that makes him the award winning snowsports filmmaker of the moment.

As Nick says “ It’s the people that make filmmaking interesting, and our work is about spending a long time in one place. It’s more than just backcountry skiing, it’s about the mountains, and the people who love them, about the light, the shadows, and the emotion that changes with their balance. A cloudy icy slope and a sunny powder line produce two different moods, two different riders, and two different filmmakers. Our films are based in this knowledge that there is more to a mountain than fresh snow and a big line; there are stories to be told. Whether in the living room of a 92 year-old miner or playing toys with an athletes 3 year-old son, it’s about connecting with people who may not share your language or culture”.

Along with Solitaire there will be the best selection of wintersports action and adventure films from around the world.

Whitedot will be there with treats and of course our full quiver of skis for you to fondle so head across and say hello as we’d love to see you!