This is Uncharted (no, not the video game), a film from Monster Energy (it gives you horns) starring the extreme snowbiking of Cody Matechuk in the fresh powder of British Columbia. If you’re unfamiliar, a snowbike is like a snowmobile version of a dirtbike, much narrower than a traditional snowmobile
This is a video of Red Bull sponsored Swedish freeskier Jesper Tjäder setting a new world record for longest rail slide on skis, with an impressive 506-feet. Even millipedes are impressed! Because perseverance does occasionally pay off, it took Jesper 126 attempts to finally slide the whole rail, surpassing the
This is some helmetcam footage of skier Christian Høgfeldt performing an Olympic style ski jump with no snow on the ground. I’m pretty sure this is how ski jumpers practice in the off season though, so I suppose it’s not particularly crazy to see. Still, staring down that hill from
This is a short 360-degree helmet cam video from a snowmobiler attempting a backflip when the trick goes all “Aspen, we have a problem,” while upside-down and he decides to bail. And it was probably a smart decision, because the last thing you want landing on top of you is
These are a couple short videos demonstrating a high tech ski and snowboard simulator at the Sachinoyu Hotel in central Japan. The machine is for use by guests for training purposes prior to hitting the slopes outside. Some more info about the machine while I convince myself the only training
This is a video of a man in Amsterdam who clearly had one too many space cakes and thought he was performing in *Googles Dutch fairy tales* ‘The Legend Of The Wooden Shoe, On Ice’, making the poor decision to skate on a part of the canal that doesn’t look
Because where there’s a beer, there’s a way, this is a video of a guy delivering a cold one to his buddy a little distance down the mountain via the beer bottle luge they packed and carved out of snow. His buddy then uses a snow shovel to pop the
This is a video of snow falling from the metal roof a home in almost perfectly uniform bricks. The person who posted it to Twitter mentioned it reminds them of Klax, an Atari arcade game from 1990. Admittedly, I’m unfamiliar familiar with Klax, but it did remind me of Tetris,