The first months of the season have already delivered more snow to the club fields than they received the whole of last winter. Its wall to wall and set up for an epic August and into spring. For those that are not familiar with the Canterbury club fields, these areas use efficient rope tows […]

    The New Zealand Junior Freeride Tour (NZJFT) is the brainchild of Head Judge of NZ Freeskiing Dion Newport. Dion is North Island boy who grew up in Napier. Winter weekends involved packing into the car in the early hours for the chance to skid around his home mountain Whakapapa on a snowboard. After […]

 Words and Photos by Tim Binks.   It was a long night, deep in the backcountry, wondering if we were going to need a helicopter to extract my touring partner and fellow Kiwi, Ruari Macfarlane. The last thing I was expecting from him the very next day was an epic stale fish grab high up […]

  We brought you the amazing still shots from Approach & Attack in our 2014 issue…if you haven’t seen the vid yet here’s the NZ section filmed just out of Wanaka with Will.J and Antti, so sick!              

  We have been in this situation before.. Wicked early snow, the season looks like its going to be killer…then it fizzles, leaving us with either no base and the odd top up of pow on top of exposed rocks..or plenty of base ( ice! ) but no fresh .That’s pretty much how the last […]