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Black Diamond Presents: The Human Factor, a five-part multi-media story that investigates the decisions skiers make in avalanche terrain. The Human Factor started on November 11th, and has released a new chapter on every Tuesday for the last five weeks. This weeks segment, Chapter 5, is the last installment of the five-part multi-media story and was released on December 9th. ...

  We all have one of those guys in the family who is an absolute nut about skiing. He’s the guy who spends countless hours scraping and brushing his skis to get that perfect glossy bottom; and hours polishing his edges to get those perfect carving arches. So, for the family of that guy, I have put together a list...

Days Of My Youth Trailer: Have you seen Days Of My Youth? The movie that reminds you why you love to ski in the first place? If not, now is your chance to watch it. You have until Sunday, December 7th at 4:00pm Eastern Time to watch it FREE! You can watch it free at WWW.REDBULL.COM.

Rjukan—Teaser from Black Diamond Equipment on Vimeo. Black Diamond athletes head to Rjukan Norway to take advantage of the long Norwegian winter to ice climb the frozen waterfalls.

Black Diamond Presents: The Human Factor, a five-part multi-media story that investigates the decisions skiers make in avalanche terrain. Starting November 11th, every Tuesday for five weeks, a new chapter will be released. This week’s segment, Chapter 4, released on December 2nd, discusses how world-class ski photographer, Adam Clark, fell victim to the heuristic trap of familiarity, leading him and...

“I’ve always loved snow. As far back as I can remember its always been a passion, its always been something I’ve just been stoked on.” From October until June, Avalanche controller Kevin Fogolin travels between work sites in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada and protects workers and infrastructure from the threat of avalanches. In Season 8, Episode 5 of...

Sugar Mountain is a new wave ski adventure film by award winning director Richard James. The Sugar Mountain ski film follows eight friends on their skiing quests deep in the Alaska mountain ranges on their journey to find the mythical Sugar Mountain and documents their ski-ventures using drone technology to get a unique point of view. This film captures the...

Black Diamond Presents: The Human Factor, a five-part multi-media story that investigates the decisions skiers make in avalanche terrain. Starting November 11th, every Tuesday for five weeks, a new chapter will be released. This week’s segment, Chapter 3, released on November 25th, discusses how many experts fall victim to avalanches thinking the slopes are safe and the reasoning behind their...

Mountain Ops | Snowmakers from Squaw Valley | Alpine Meadows on Vimeo. It's that time of the year again. The temperatures have plummeted, storm are moving towards the Tahoe-Truckee Region, and Squaw has fired up their snowmaking machines and are preparing the mountain for opening day. This year Squaw Valley has released their first installment of their new video series...

Great Days 17: Wide-Eyed in the Alps from smith optics on Vimeo. Not quite sure what to expect from their first trip to the Alps at, Leo Ahrens and Zach Halverson, were greeted by the best of both worlds, alternating heavy snow dumps to blue bird days making for a series of great days. Through their days at the Alps...