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- If we were tosummarize 2020 in a single shot,
it would probably be this.
How do we even begin a ski movie this year?
I mean, there is an elephant in the room,
and it's a big fat elephant.
The world went kind of crazy,
and our little bubble wasn't spared the madness.
So do we reflect on what we didn't get to do?
Nah, that doesn't do us any good, does it Karl?
Maybe a guy who has been sliding on snow
for more than 90 years
can help remind us what it's all about.
- Skiing just opened up
the beautiful winter fairy tale world.
You'll see the unbelievable beauty of winter
in the mountains and under trees, the little trees,
just like little people.
Just so beautiful.
And that is where you ski through.
You get speed, which is nice.
- Woo!
- You get zero Gs, which makes you feel really good.
And when you get to the bottom,
you have a smile on your face
because it just makes you feel good.
It's great. It's fabulous.
- So maybe that's how we get the ball rolling.
Out with the bad, in with the good.
After all we're skiers, patrons of positivity,
harbingers of happiness, finders of fun.
All right, a little much.
But we're lucky to be able to escape the madness.
Often in body, sometimes and mind and soul.
So let's put everything else in the rear view
for a little bit and go there
to that place we remember.
To where everything just feels right.
- First ram.
Holy huck.
Oh my God.
Yeah!
- You get that?
Did you get that?
- What!.
Oh my God!
Yeah!
Wow!
- So deep.
- Woo!
- Huck yeah, dude.
- Huck yeah!
- Yeah, I naturally think it's the greatest sport
in the world, you know.
- Wow! That one
- Yes, dude!
- Yep.
Sharing Klaus's same spirit,
but 74 years younger is our boy Lucas here.
Generally mild mannered,
but it's cold out and he's itching to light things up.
- I don't know if I drank too much coffee
or if my heart's just racing to go to the moon,
but this'll be fine.
Woo-hoo!
Yeah, buddy.
Wrecking ball.
Woo-hoo!
- Yes.
- Lucas' body awesomed it,
it's just a little fired up for him.
- Yes!
Oh!
Yes!
Yeah, Luc. Yes!
Oh my God!
- Yeah, brother.
- McKenna, give us your best sound effect
for a spine slash.
- My best sound effect for a spine slash.
I would still be going,
but I ran out of breath.
- That's a long slash.
- It's a long slash.
- It's a McConkey turn.
- A McConkey turn.
Wow.
- McKenna is a bonafide bad-ass.
She's...
You know what?
Let's let McKenna tell her story.
- The boat has been in my family since 1994.
And I took over the helm in 2017
after my father passed away.
With my siblings help,
we've been able to keep the operation going,
fishing for salmon in Southeast Alaska.
When I was young,
my dad used to tell us that
fishing would make you a better skier.
So I knew at a young age that I better get my ass to work
and put everything I have into it.
And from that, I'll get to go skiing.
In the summers,
I am hyper focused on fishing because I have to be.
But when you're working 20 hourdays, and you're exhausted,
you need to let your mind wander.
Luckily, I have a backdrop of big,
beautiful snow covered mountains
that I have been in and I have skied before.
So it's easy to daydream.
It's easy to let my mind leave the boat for a minute,
wander into the mountains
and bring up that feeling of standing on top
and dropping into big high speed,
beautifully soft spines.
I fish because I love to fish.
The two just happened to work together seamlessly.
The mountains that I ski are the mountains that I look at
from the water during the summer.
I can look down at the ocean. I can name the islands.
I can pick out places where I've set my net.
It's a really, really cool blending of my two lives.
In both skiing and fishing, you need to be able to suffer.
You need to enjoy being uncomfortable.
You find yourself in positions in the ocean
where you feel like you should not be there.
The ocean is in control and you are just riding it out.
Skiing is the same way.
Your skis can take you to a place in the mountains
where maybe you shouldn't be.
Hm.
And your skis can get you out of those situations.
It is fun.
Fishing will make you a better skier
and to keep your hands forward.
Like two very important life lessons.
- And McKenna floats off into the sunset.
Speaking of floating, few float quite like this guy.
Sure Sam Kuch might appear human in regular life.
But on skis, Sam levitates.
And he just has some kind of crazy symbiotic connection
with a snow covered mountain.
Put the two together,
you have magic.
- All right. Who do we have here?
- I'm good to go.
You've got this, Parker. Woo!
- Oh, I thought those looked like Parker legs.
This should be a fun ride.
Let me guess.
Smooth and flowy with a little sicker factor.
Yup. Here comes the sitter factor.
Oh yeah. Landing was money.
- Right before the crazy setting,
we found ourselves drawn to this fairy tale of a place
that time forgot.
- I don't know. It's at the end of the road.
Some friend of mine just said,
"Oh, there's this ski resort up Island.
You've got to check out."
- I found this place in the early '80s.
- Nobody comes to Mount Cain
because it is so hard to get here.
- Nobody doesn't apply to these three old wise men
who are still in search of the meaning of life.
- They've wanted to come to this place for so many years,
you know what I'm saying.
- We're on an Island in the Pacific Ocean.
- That's Todd.
Todd's awesome. One of Kane's characters, for sure.
- Not many people get to ski on islands
in the Pacific Ocean.
They're all loggers. They really just love skiing.
That's how this place came to be.
They pushed the logging road up so high and made a place.
- It feels like probably a 30 year time wharf
when you come up here.
You step out of your vehicle,
and all of a sudden you are part of this community.
- Our crusty crew of Abma, Hjorleifson, Rubens
fit right in at Kane.
- We've got some really old equipment
that should be on life support long time ago.
They managed to keep it going.
- That's funny.
I thought Neil was talking about these guys.
- Oh, okay.
- We've got some really old equipment
that should be on life support long time ago.
They managed to keep it going.
- It's minus three now.
It's deep in there, it's supposed to be good tonight.
It's going to keep going down.
- Why you guys seem to snow .
- Man, that stuff is the real deal.
- Woo-hoo!
- That was some killer Kane power.
But now watch how cool these guys
are skiing right up to the camp.
Dude, check this out.
We live here.
- Bro.
- Wow.
This place is banana.
- Actually that wasn't fair
to make fun of those guys because living right there
in the parking lot was sick.
Almost as cool as the ghetto.
- This is the ghetto.
This is a place of harmony and love.
- Todd, tell us about passion, man.
- Basic passion is we all just love to ski.
- The boys were wetting along just fine
with the locals.
At least until one of them
joke got a little loose one night.
- What happened, Neil?
- Hoji gets over ,
just piles these boxes on it.
And then the wind cooks up
and it turns this whole ghetto into this huge fire tornado.
And I swear to God, like,
Hoji's face looked like this guy here.
He had this wild-eyed crazy look.
He was surprised.
Then he goes .
- You guys nailed it.
- Timing is everything up here.
Often it'll be blown in a hurricane up here.
It makes it a pretty tough place to be sometimes.
- You can have the best day of your life
or you can have a hurricane of pissing rain,
but most of the time it's good.
If you just stick it over and spend the time here,
it's going to reward you in ways that can outstand you.
It's like so deeply.
- That's what we were after.
That's what we're all after that.
Some want more Cal bell.
We want more.
In Kane.
At least with our timing, was a real good place to get it.
Nice work, buddy.
- Starting .
- Yup. It was ice.
That was insane.
- .
- Your legs are that much longer than mine?
Nice, buddy.
- Yeah, boys.
- Yeah, buddy.
- Yeah, brother.
- Yeah, dude.
- Oh yeah.
- Yes!
That was so cool.
my style on that one.
It felt really smooth.
- Skiing and hiking with your friends and peers,
that's the stuff you do.
The future of Mountain Cane in my eyes
is I'm going to stay as good as I can try
and live forever and just keep skiing.
- Right on Todd.
Right hocking on.
Yo Bobby, who's that?
- Crazy Karl right there.
- Stop right there.
Bobby just mentioned crazy Karl Fostvedt.
You know things are about to get a little naughty.
- Teeing up the wedge.
- Oh, imagine that. Karl's building something
that'll send him.
- Oh, buddy.
- Like so.
Sick.
You can also bet he's going to slash and huck and fly
because Karl's skiing is stupidly kinetic.
You watch him and part of you wants to say go easy, buddy.
But the other part of you sure as hell
isn't going to look away
because Karl always cranks it to 11.
Honestly, this guy might just be
the most entertaining skier on the planet.
- Woo!
Huck yeah!
Woo!
- Yeah.
Worth it.
Yes.
- Holy shit!
- Oh yeah!
- Yeah, dude.
Huck yeah.
Yeah.
- Yep, dude's not normal.
- Yeah.
- There it is.
- What a day man.
- That was fun.
- Ouch.
That wasn't fun.
- Oh my God, damn.
We're gonna have a good crash segment.
- You can just do a little better to better.
- Do better?
That's it. That's it.
- Nope. Always value words of wisdom
from a guy nicknamed Crazy.
- You've got this, buddy.
- Do a little better.
Better.
- Just do better.
- You got better.
- Yeah boy.
- Yeah buddy.
- Land we didn't know existed.
Yeah baby, you got this
- Just do a little better.
Woo!
- Yeah, dude.
- I was so nervous.
Oh man.
- Holy shit bro.
You're an animal.
- That was fun, dude.
Outstanding.
- That's how you back up a tour with,
with runs like that deal. That was absolutely-
- Hey dominator,
could you tell us your name and country?
- What language?
My name is Ariana Tricomi, and I'm from Italy.
- Ariana Tricomi, current leader.
She's won two in a row
and she wants to throw it down right now.
Ariana Tricomi on tour.
Ariana Tricomi into the air.
Again, she is lighting it up.
She is on fire right now.She's getting right up into it.
Ariana Tricomi hits her signature move.
- 360 looks really goes so far.
Double defending world champion,
adding that style and fleet.
- That was a smoking run
by defending world tour a champion.
- Ariana Tricomi.
Ariana Tricomi!
- I was going into the back with the golden beep,
but it was still like super open.
I was so excited, and it looks so good.
- With the tour of lead,
Ari just need just needed to nail her run in the finals
on the Granddaddy venue of the
to become the first year ever
to pull off a world tour three-peat.
- Everything was normal. And like two days later.
- Along came our buddy, Covid.
Ari was stuck in Verbier.
Honestly the Swiss Alps aren't that bad of a place
to quarantine with her friends.
But with no comp on the back to ,
she was just handed her third free ride world tour title.
Like eating cold fondue, you still get the taste,
but come on.
- Definitely a weird way to win this year.
Sad to not finish on the back.
But to be honest,
it's even worse to just not be shredding
with whom my home is right now.
- Pretty exciting?
- Maybe.
- Now she has been living with me
for maybe two or three weeks.
Oh yeah.
Crashing on my floor.
You ready to hit it?
- It's not like a solid plan,
but the only sure thing is that
we're going to go ski the bag.
- You could say already Ari and Karl
had some unfinished business.
- And lockdown definitely made me realize
how much skiing is important for me in my life.
And in general,
how much the mountains mean to me.
Everything becomes just relative again.
You really enjoy every single turn.
- Oh!
- The fact that I could get out
and just be and just breathe
and just look around was one of the best things
in the past months for sure.
- Hopefully we find a bit of a window with sunshine
and good snow tomorrow.
- The narliness in the background,
that's the .
- It's not that I need to ski it in a crazy way,
I would like to just stand at the top
more for some kind of like personal,
okay, I can be here,
and kind of feel like I finished my comp season.
It was pretty intense 'cause there was no book back.
It was pretty deep, kind of wiped out, got pretty foggy.
And we ended up staying on the ridge for a long time.
You can see the sun.
Ah, where you going?
Big part of skiing is also this.
Just spending good time with good friends.
Sometimes being wiped out for hours,
and it's still one of the best days.
Hey guys, going down the .
You don't have to ,
like going big, jumping cleaves, doing tricks.
It was just like pure enjoyment, pure skiing.
And every turn was worth it.
- It's in a wacky year,
this Italian shredder ended things her way.
- Yeah, bro.
Really nice.
I would say it was definitely my redemption run.
- Closure.
Get it? She closed the door.
- I'm happy now. I'm ready to go home.
- Congratulations Ari.
From one competitive machine to another,
you all know this guy.
One of the most awarded freestylers ever.
- Oh my God. That was insane.
Oh God. So, so.
- He's watching the X Games from his couch.
- Damn. That was insane.
I had a good 12 years in the contest scene
and it just feels really, really good
to kind of put that chapter behind me
and shift focus and put all my energy
into something totally different.
- Different from Denver freeways
and immaculate manicure terrain parks.
- All right. Let's get it.
Power day, baby.
Whew!
Over the last couple of seasons
where you got inspired by the terrain,
we just wanted to make more of a commitment
and put a lot more time out here.
So pack it up and kind of move.
Felt like the right thing to do.
- The legendarygunslinger in a legendary land,
Bobby Brown off the Collaroy.
- It's been pretty epic so far.
It's definitely been a challenge.
And the transition has been, you know,
not exactly easy coming from the slopes of Bruck.
But I love it out here.
And this terrain is exactly the type of skiing
I want to get into and excel in.
So just got to put in time.
- It was sick.
I definitely slowed you down.
- That was sick.
- You like that?
- I love it.
- Yeah bro.
Did you get that ?
- Yeah. Huck yeah, I did.
- Bobby Brown plus Jackson Hole plus powder,
my math can be suspect,
but I'd say that equation adds up to a resounding win.
Hey ladies,
could you turn around and look at the mountains
over this way.
- Well, look at that.
- Oh, oh, oh.
- My name is Emily Childs, one third of the blondes.
- I'm Janelle Yip.
- Like no .
- What you looking at out there?
- Oh you know, just some obstacles.
- We've got a broken ski.
Good morning!
- If we put our skis out there, it's be a miracle.
- All right, it can take them a bit,
but the blondes finally have their act together.
Three of the funest people you ever did meet
are about to show you the magic that happens
when they actually get around to sliding on snow.
- We can do like a .
Woo!
- Woo!
- Yeah go Yip!
- Woo!
- That was awesome.
- That was so insane.
- Woo!
- That was awesome.
- My mind is blown.
- Thanks.
- Yeah!
Huck yeah!
Come here you crazy .
- You were crushing, Janell. What happened?
- I tried to switch one.
But got a bit too big.
And kneed my face.
I ended it with a bang.
- Ended it with a bang.
Ended it with a bang.
- Need to be more patient next time.
Great coach Sam.
- That's right.
Already covered all the basics, so it was perfect.
Just more add more patience.
- Yeah, we got a nurse on scene.
- Nurse on scene.
- Lucy you get throw that whole right now!
- I don't know about this.
It's like a wall.
- Yeah!
- You might say Lucy Sackbauer
fits in just fine with theblondes, after all she's blonde.
She's also the biggest hero in the slip.
No, not because of that feat of courage,
but because in late March,
nurse Lucy was vital on the front lines.
Just days prior,
skier Lucy was out charging.
- That was fun.
- I mean, you have to want the exercise.
- Look at that, thebackground. I know Sam sees it.
- Check, check.
- After Sam slate this glorious beast,
Emily one of the blondes wants to do a proud.
So she told Tanya to go hit it.
- Tonya go jump off that.
- Okay.
- Oh my God!
- Oh my God.
- Don't be a little bitch, I get your ass up ,
you know what I'm saying.
- Yeah.
- Sam, my man.
Can you describe the blondes in seven words?
- I think the blondes are fricking awesome.
- One, two, three, four, wow.
Man is on it.
The blondes had fully entertained and wild Sam Kuch
and he's a nice guy,
so you know he'll return the favor.
- Okay, Sam.
- Hell yeah.
- How does he look so good when he skis?
Damn, Sam. That was so sick.
- If you thought we were done with Sam Kuch,
well you're happily mistaken. Take us home buddy.
Damn Sam. See 2020 wasn't all bad.
Can I get a huck yeah!