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- The grass is greener, so they say.
Such notions instill within us a lust
for wandering, for exploration, for discovery.
We seek out new experiences,
exotic, mysterious.
We look for challenges in the unfamiliar and the unknown.
These visions of bigger and better
send us on journeys to far away realms.
We revel and finding ourselves,
when we are virtually lost.
But we would be remiss
to believe that this concept of escape
is based on the condition of one's physicality,
for distance traveled
does not necessarily mean greater reward,
for opportunity exists there, there, and there.
Pupils only need refocused, perspectives to shift.
What is common and familiar takes on new life.
The entire time everything we've needed is right there,
right in front of us.
All we have to do is recognize and embrace what is home.
And with that, we flourish.
- Oh yeah, big day.
Big day for benders.
- Can't wait to see what happens.
- Oh shit.
- The pressure's on.
- Oh my goodness, look at that.
- We're in our backyard.
- We always like the old stomping grounds.
- Oh my God, look at what we just witnessed.
- We are products of our environment,
but it is the special ones who truly become
a reflection of their surroundings,
so much so that an animate object and an inanimate object
function in absolute harmony with one another,
as if they were made for each other.
It is in this state of symbiosis
when the most remarkable things happen.
- Here goes.
- You know I dragged my knuckles on skis.
I'm a knuckle dragger.
- You neanderthal you.
- Beautiful.
- Yeah.
Kuch, that was perfect.
- That's a wrap on that one.
- A wrap on that one.
- Your turn, Cole.
- Sick.
Not surprised, nobody's surprised.
Land miss, land that.
Hit this, hit that, land that.
Stomp that.
You were coming in, just pinning.
Mock chicken, roughly.
It's on.
- Oh .
- Oh man.
- Oh my God.
- Wherever rich history exists,
so too does tradition.
we are not compelled to march
in the precise footsteps of our predecessors,
but the generational passage
of wisdom, drive, prowess, and pride,
often lead us there organically.
Embrace that process.
Revel in doing as those who came before you,
but give it your own unique stamp.
Then pass it on.
- Get the car Reggie, we're going to Sun Valley.
- The ski bum lineage runs deep in Sun Valley.
- His whole life has been dedicated
to the sport of skiing.
He would rather ski and do just about anything.
- My name is Wing Tai Barrymore.
I was born and raised in Sun Valley, Idaho.
My grandfather's Dick Barrymore, ski filmmaker.
- That guy did some stuff around this town
that made it what it is,
and created a whole new type of ski film.
- Classics.
- Two, three, he's going for four.
- My grandpa had his own unique style.
- This wild bunch from Idaho
brought 35 cases of their favorite beer.
- I grew up watching his films.
My mom Larson.
- Larson Peterson.
- Skied in his films, alongside his son, Blake Barrymore.
- Then there's the legendary Ted Shred.
- My dad, name's Blake,
but in my grandfather's movies,
he played the character of Ted Shred.
- Oh yeah, Blake and I grew up together.
Blake was crazy.
- He's still just as crazy and unpredictable
as he's ever been.
- Wing kind of has that too.
- Winger was two grades lower than me growing up,
and just the kid to watch out for.
- He's a great acrobat
and loves to try different tricks.
- Dick was in my opinion,
the greatest ski filmmaker of all time.
So to have his grandkid out here, just chucking his meat,
just making it happen is so cool.
- That was great looking from here.
- What's been your best day of the season?
- Skiing powder like a week ago.
- Where?
- Bald Mountain.
- this is Sun Valley, Idaho,
3,300 vertical feet of the most versatile ski slopes
in North America.
It is here that you can meet a new breed of skier.
They're not racers or free-stylers.
They are the new wave.
Skiers that have evolved from young people
seeking new ways to ski, without limitations.
- It's an early morning.
The mountains are covered with white magic.
Sun Valley, Idaho has a foot of new snow.
And if you've lived in the valley most of your life,
you'll be the first one on a mountain.
- Oh my God!
- There are some days of skiing that will be remembered forever.
This was one of those days.
There's only one thing better to powder skiers
than skiing light powder during a snow storm,
and that's skiing light powder under clear blue skies.
- Let's go get it.
- It's race day.
The race that sets itself apart from all the others.
It's faster, tougher,
and more dangerous than any other downhill in the world.
The wildest, zaniest skiers
to ever come out of Sun Valley, Idaho.
- We had fun.
You know, I just think it's perpetuated the stoke.
There was no stress and it was just a fun time,
and just that little ski culture
that I see continuing on with these guys,
but these guys are way more serious about it now.
- Pretty fortunate, been my goal for almost a decade now,
to be able to sled out the back door,
and hop on these bad boys,
and press this thing and boom we're in the zone.
- They come here looking
for the perfect conditions,
blue sky and wide open slopes.
This is what every skier dreams about.
For these guys,
jumping into soft snow
is a safe way to have big fun.
- The man with the flying skis.
- It's the same as today.
You know, ski movies perpetuate the stoke.
That was perfect. Thank you, mom.
- You're welcome.
- All too often,
we find those things we covet to be so close,
yet so inaccessible.
Imagine if we could soar above with the birds,
surveying this magnificent kingdom
of untouchable land from the unfettered skies.
Now I ask you, why settle for imagination?
- I love the plane.
A 1953.
So that's the 180, so she's been around the block.
- It's probably the first plane I've ever seen
that actually has duct tape on it.
- I snapped this bungee the other day.
So that's some sketch.
You'll push, I'll get going.
And then you got to remember that things coming at ya.
- Bushy was flying to the zone north of here,
where he's landing on a lake,
and it's got these crazy spines
and pillows right up above it.
I gave him the jangle saying yo,
take me to your Shangri-La.
- Welcome to Dex Knows airlines.
We're in the seagull feather today.
We've got a 45 minute flight on our hands.
World famous skier here, Mark Abma.
We're gonna go out and see
if we can find some pillow spines.
You guys good?
- Very good, buddy.
- All right.
Let's check it out.
Oh, I'm stoked to be with you guys.
I still get so nervous.
I'm just taking people's lives into my hand, you know?
This line here that we cross it to this valley
is basically where we'll stop seeing anyone.
This is where we start getting a little bit out there.
It's like Jurassic Park coming in here.
- Yeah, it is.
- Skies down.
- Yeah, skies are down.
- I'm ready to rock, this looks glorious, dude.
- Yeah!
- This is a new fashion for me.
- Well listen, you've been doing it
for a couple of years though.
- I know but I'm just starting to get it.
We got her buddy.
Oh ho ho, oh yeah buddy!
Oh, they're looking nice.
Wow, that looks real good.
I'm lucky I hit all the good ones early.
- You ever get it to those longer pillows there?
- Oh yeah. - Oh nice.
- I've done some of the past rods
right down, see those goalies close to us?
- I hope Bushy keeps flying me around with him.
I hope if I just keep putting gas in it,
he'll keep bringing me along.
- Yeah, buddy.
Yeah.
Look at that spider.
When we were putting the polls in,
we got chased off by a mama grizzly.
- The wise do not settle for mere glimpses
of those places for which they yearn.
Rather, when they discover a world that provides,
they immerse themselves within.
It is there that they become
what their entire being desires to be.
- I'm originally from Pennsylvania,
but been here in Utah for like almost 15, 16 years.
Not quite as long as Colby here born,
pretty much born and raised?
- World champs, Grand Prix,
a World Cup victory.
- His progression over the years has just been incredible.
- All grown up.
We were watching videos of Tom
and the rest of the four by nine crew,
kind of innovating the style of skiing.
It's crazy how time works like that.
And then all of a sudden
you're with your idols, making videos.
- Getting toured around Snowbird, by Taylor Pratt,
kind of born and raised right in that resort.
He took us down some gnarly stuff.
- Your doorstep.
It doesn't have to be a fixed, tactile thing.
We have the capacity to flow with the winds,
shift with the seasons,
to make home wherever we wish it to be.
Our only limitation is the strength of our will,
and desire to plant ourselves in places new.
- That's some pretty cool shit in my backyard,
and my front yard, and my neighbor's yard.
Group dynamic.
Do I talk shit about everybody?
- Let's do the names now, what's your name?
- Lucas Wachs.
His nickname is Gnar.
- What are we doing, Gnar?
- Mind bar.
- A bar, we're .
- We're doing good.
- Huge F bomb.
- Samo is the-
- Yo, mic check.
- Michelle and I have formed quite the alliance.
- It really makes my steps not very long,
so I don't have to work as hard.
- It'll all work out just fine.
- Kristen is my team member number A, letter A.
- We're out here.
We're doing it.
We've been doing it.
It's working out, somewhat.
- I think we're working out the kinks.
It's hot.
- We're literally positioned
in the middle of the zone that we're skiing.
We aren't going home at night.
We aren't traveling anywhere.
We wake up in the morning.
We pick a direction and start walking.
- Heading back to camp,
when you can ski out your back door.
We come home at night.
- Woo, nice work.
How was it out there?
- And we can see what we just skied,
and see what we want to ski tomorrow.
We fall asleep and dream about it,
and then wake up the next morning.
How did we get so lucky?
- It's all good.
Call it a tip.
I lost focus for a split second and almost like,
I could have tumbled down the Brock ice funnel.
- We kind of found all types of snow yesterday.
- Other than epic pow.
- Tricky conditions.
- Definitely tricky.
- The hunt began.
We started looking for snow,
hiking high, looking low,
looking at mid elevations,
Hitting rocks.
Climbing rocks.
- Dude, look I'm rock climbing, bro.
- Pretty much just full exploratory missions
around our camp for two, three days to even find.
- That's some real deal ice,
- You know, the closest thing to good snow,
but things trended upward.
And we started to chip away.
- Yeah, Lucas.
- Come down this thing that we dubbed the ice tongue.
- Down a straight block of ice.
- Down a block of ice.
- We're gonna literally ski down a block of ice.
- I'll try and grab you guys for a drink later.
Part of it fell off the other day, you can see that.
I think it's still good.
- Glad you ride down here, dude.
I was so puckered.
- I was shaking up there.
My hand was like.
- Our most reliable constant is change,
but change here, does not necessarily beget change there.
We can adapt while holding tight
to those things that make us who we are.
Those things we depend on.
- This backyard as a kid was absolutely incredible.
I feel incredibly privileged to have gotten to grow up
here in this beautiful, beautiful place.
It holds a lot of my favorite memories,
and a lot of my favorite lines.
and a lot of my favorite moments of progression as a skier,
even though the resorts name is changing,
the people are the same.
The train's the same.
The stoke is alive and well,
and the vibe of this valley will forever be the same.
- MVP absolutely goes to this man behind me, Jay.
Jay Rawe.
Yeah, that guy.
MVP for sure.
In terms of a show,
Jay Rawe put on an absolute performance this year.
- In 2014, I had a base jumping accident,
was trying to stand on my buddy's shoulders
and things went bad.
- Oh my God.
- I ended up landing in his canopy that collapsed parachute.
And my canopy opened it and kind of tangled in his,
and we spiraled and hit the ground.
We both ended up breaking our backs.
Started off in a wheelchair,
basically had to relearn how to walk.
My feet don't really want to do this anymore,
so for sports it meant that snowboarding
was no longer in the picture.
I found sit skiing.
So it was one of those things, I was like,
this could be really fun, it's definitely scary.
But it got me off the couch at my mom's house,
in a really not great mental state
about where my life was going
to on my own out here in California,
skiing as much as possible,
doing things that I never thought I would do.
Gotta get it, man, thanks.
I just ripped the shit out of that line.
Hey Seth.
I could ski standing up,
but I would have to use an arm brace
that goes down to a ski on the bottom.
It's a type of skiing called four-tracking.
I just wouldn't be able to go fast.
I wouldn't be able to do any jumps.
For me, you know, the lifestyle that I had,
the type of person that I am.
It's not really my style.
Parker factor on that one's big, dude.
- That was awesome.
- I hope you guys enjoyed watching,
because I sure enjoy doing that.
Cheers.
- Unfamiliar territory is only unfamiliar
to those unfamiliar with it,
which is to say, when we go somewhere,
we arrive at the doorstep of another.
We've entered their world, let their wisdom shine.
- [It's a bit of a haul to get here.
Not gonna lie, my back's feeling it
from 15 hours of sitting like this.
- So yesterday we just rolled up north
to a place called Shames Mountain.
Got one chairlift, one T-bar.
I think they've had a nearly
record-breaking start to the year,
so we're super hyped to be here.
- I've never been here before,
but I'm really excited to check it out.
- We're gonna meet up with Adrien, the head ski patrol here.
And he's going to give us a little tour around.
- As of this year,
I'm the caretaker and the ski patrol director
here at Shames.
So that means I live up here and I keep an eye on things.
I plow the snow in the mornings,
and my patrol director job
goes into a lot of extensive details.
And what was that with the hydraulics?
Jack of all trades a little bit, you know,
master of none.
These poles are scavenged from three different poles,
that have broken,
just put them together, and never quite ideal,
but always with a little more character.
- I just found out the guy's 21, which is amazing.
He's just a young dude.
that's got a lot of talents and work ethic.
And then on his skis, I can't keep up with him.
- I guess repping ski patrol .
- Goodness gracious.
He's kind of a crazy bastard, isn't he?
- He put up the sign.
- Did you put up that sign Adrien?
No fast skiing?
You're violating that.
- I can't believe you're pro,
Adrien's so much better than you.
- The back country, the train is unrivaled.
There's so much to explore.
- He's told us about lines that he walked to for two days.
- He's got a good heart, a good brain,
good head on his shoulders.
And he's a shredder.
- I'm not here to make money.
I'm here to,
to live in this wonderful part of the country,
and be part of this community
and try to improve our ski hill and make it as safe
and as good as we can.
- For you this feels like home?
- Oh definitely, yeah.
- Thanks so much.
You've been an amazing host.
Great guy, showing us the ropes around here.
- Hopefully, yeah.
You know, it's hard to translate
what this place is all about in three days.
- Yeah, you can't.
- There's so much depth.
It's not me here like running the whole show, you know?
There's a huge team.
It's a co-op, you know?
- Yeah.
We were wondering what you got planned
for the next couple of days,
'cause we want to bring you along heli skiing
to Northern Escape, if you want to join.
You probably should.
Talk to your manager.
They've given you time off to come hang with us.
- No way.
- See you in the heli.
- See you tomorrow.
- ready to drop, whenever the cameras are ready.
- Damn, that was a line.
- nasty.
Nonchalant about it.
- Are we having fun yet?
- No. Yes.
Living the dream.
- That was .
too much to handle.
You want to go dig the land.
- Ken hit the wall.
That was fricking sick.
- Tell us why you have to go back.
- Well actually I have a job to do.
You know, tomorrow no one's there to fill in.
Pipes are frozen in the lodge.
- You are the most responsible 21-year-old I have ever met.
- So many things common to us
that are seemingly dormant are not necessarily static.
Familiar places can have different faces.
Shades, moves, relish new opportunities.
Immerse yourself within.
- We've been getting,
let's say 30 to 50 centimeters every day
for the last few days.
So we're getting barreled right now, man.
- Here we are in Whistler.
French town Whistler with all the bikes.
- We can get some hallways.
- I love hallways.
- Here's some submarining.
- Wow!
- Oh, this is a fancy one.
Honestly, some ingenuity though.
It's amazing.
This is operation Hotel Blanch.
- We've been kicked out of every single hotel
we've ever been to.
So we're making our own hotel.
- Pretty much all the beers that I brought up here exploded.
We don't learn.
We just live and we live.
We live.
- We live and then we live harder.
- I'd like to say
we're officially open for business.
- Yeah, it's open.
- We're ready.
I said we're open.
- I had to have knee surgery five weeks ago.
Now, hopefully, I'm back.
- Oh my God!
Get the Red Bull in there, Emily.
That's the shot.
- Paparazzi.
No.
- Got it.
- You crushed it.
- It's gonna be sick.
- Yeah, buddy.
- Perspective is a funny thing.
What may be terrifying for some is comfortable for another.
What may be considered distant or exotic,
is familiar or even home for someone else.
What is your fantasy?
Might just be someone else's reality.
- It's happening.
- Let's go, we have like four hours ago.
So let's start.
- So this is, northern land.
And this is the northern part of Norway, in the Arctic.
The North Pole is kind of the next stop.
If you haven't met Hedvig,
she's Olympic mogul skier
turned world tour extraordinaire.
I think she came in second this year.
We're pretty excited to see what she has up her sleeve,
like the wild mountains.
- I'm super happy to be here.
And the views are just getting better and better.
- I did some of like my first touring ever here
when I was 13.
And yeah, I've just been coming back every winter.
I live like two hours away,
but it's still like endless.
I've never skied the run we're going up through today.
I've just looked at them and been like, oh, I want to do that so bad.
That's where I live.
But behind there,
like 2000 K's from where Hedvig lives.
- New adventures, new lines, look at this terrain.
Oh my God.
- And here's Hedvig,
ready for the day.
Hedvig is the professional, she has a real warm up routine.
Getting ready to send.
You're looking good, Hedvig.
- Thank you.
- Can I join you?
- Yeah.
- warm up.
I feel good.
I'm ready to go.
- Hedvig's first ever spine line.
Yeah, Hedvig!
- That was so fun.
I've need skied a spine before.
- Hedvig!
You're killing it.
- Thank you.
- You're the new spine master.
The left turn off the air, right there.
- It is so cool.
- 13 and a half hours, round trip.
Feeling good.
I want to hold your hand out here.
It's desolate, not a lot of people, it feels more wild.
It feels like you're skiing in the wild.
And I like that.
- running up today.
Crazy.
- It figures.
Now we're scoring.
I feel like the past 10 years, I've kind of been exploring,
searching out, like going away from home,
like all over the world basically, to find skiing.
This is actually the first winter in 10 years
that I've spent just here in Norway and it's super cool.
Like I found all these places that I've never skied before.
So it's like, cool.
Like I've discovered, but you know,
my backyard in a new way, then kind of rediscovering home.
How sick is this?
Wow wow wow.
This would be so fun.
- Nice.
- Yeah, Hedvig.
Sick, Hedvig.
- Thank you.
- Oh yeah, come here.
Good morning out here, huh?
- So now we go home to the ocean.
I'm getting tired.
- Our purpose here
is not to abandon seeking more,
going further looking for new possibilities.
By all means, keep doing those things,
but don't forget to look for the possibility
in that which we see every day,
whether they be the small details that often go unnoticed,
or grander things we may appreciate with a new eye.
So too should you embrace what is right before you.
Go, explore the cracks and crevices of what you call home.
There is treasure there, go find it.
- That was insane.
- Look at him go.
- Oh my God, those guys shred.