Alpine Rhapsody

An homage to Disney's "Sorcerer's Apprentice", this segment tells the fantastic tale of a young skier who discovers a suit that contains the power to transform his skiing—a discovery that the suit's inventor is not pleased about at all. Alpine Rhapsody is set to an original score, developed in collaboration with the skiers and filmmakers, and recorded on the soundstage at Abbey Road Studios.

• Skiers: Mark Abma and Noah Maisonet

• Location: Mica Heli, interior BC

• Producer: Sherpas Cinema

 

One Up

When Shaun White, JJ Thomas, and Toby Miller gather at the top of the hill for their last run of the day, they all agree to keep it “mellow.” Except, between the living legend (Shaun), his coach (JJ), and the young comer (Toby), no one’s letting the other claim best trick, most stylish moment, or funniest burn on the way to the bar. What follows is a showcase of camaraderie on steeps, parks, and pipes … just elevated by some of snowboarding’s standard bearers. 

• Snowboarders: Shaun White, JJ Thomas, Toby Miller

• Location: Park City 

• Producer: Outside Studios

• Partner: High West

 

The LJ Henriquez Story

A snowboarder with an origin story straight out of an 80s action sports movie, Henriquez is a 15-year-old phenom from Brooklyn, NY who learned to snowboard on the indoor slopes of New Jersey's Big Snow facility, and has risen all the way to the Burton team with a bag of tricks riders twice his age needed the world's best parks to learn. In this segment, we're taking Henriquez on a bucket list dream trip for any skier or snowboarder: a Japanese powder fest. Surprise guests? Indeed ...

• Snowboarders: LJ Henriquez, Zeb Powell, Selema Masekela

• Locations: Japan, New York City, Big Snow

• Producer: Selema Masekela

 

 

The Transition

The path from competition success to backcountry freeriding is well ridden in skiing and snowboarding, but just because it's straightforward doesn't mean it's easy. This segment explores how three elite competitors— X Games gold medalists Aaron Blunck and Danny Davis, and two-time Queen of Corbets Caite Zeliff—have navigated the physical and emotional challenge of this transition, culminating in an epic heli trip where all three riders collaborate and influence each other.

• Skiers: Aaron Blunck, Caite Zeliff

• Snowboarder: Danny Davis

• Locations: Revelstoke, BC; Chugach Mountains, Alaska

• Producer: Framework

 

The Blank Slate

We’re sending Lexi duPont to the biggest blank slate imaginable: Skeena, a winter camping and cat skiing operation in far north BC. Her muses? Two of the best big mountain skiers on the planet. 

• Skiers: Parkin Costain, Lexi Dupont

• Snowboarder: Toby Miller

• Location: Skeena, BC

• Producer: Outside Studios

• Partner: Backcountry.com

 

Coming Down the Pipe

The future of halfpipe skiing can be forecasted in the tricks, but that only gets you a glimpse of the next winter or two. The real future of the sport is still learning how to pump a transition and which lodge has the best hot chocolate on the mountain. Follow Olympic and X Games halfpipe champions Cassie Sharpe and Alex Ferreira as they surprise the youth programs at their local hills to ski with the could be national teams of the 2034 Games.

• Skiers: Alex Ferreira, Cassie Sharpe

• Location: Aspen 

• Producer: Outside Studios

• Partner: Columbia

 

Perspective

The Finnish ski crew Real SkiFi are established as one of the most creative groups of skiers on earth. With the cities of Scandinavia as their stomping grounds, they've envisioned—and executed—segments in places people have never considered walking, let alone skiing. In Perspectives, they'll pair this creativity with novel post production techniques to create a series of ski stunts that warp reality and confound the audience.

• Skiers: Juho Kilkki and the rest of the crew

• Locations: Finland

• Producer: Real SkiFi

 

Going Massif

Ask anyone who follows the Freeride World Tour for the skier who best represents the future of the sport, and they’ll point you to Max Hitzig. Just a few years in, Hitzig has already garnered a reputation for seeing things in the terrain that his competitors don’t and doing things on that terrain that his competitors won’t. But behind this relatively unknown skier is a classic Austrian mountain boy who’s excited to show us his backyard: The Arlberg Massif. 

• Skier: Max Hitzig

• Location: Arlberg Region, Austria

• Producer: Outside Studios

• Partner: adidas TERREX

 

Generation Next

Warren Miller isn’t the only legendary snowsports brand celebrating a 75th birthday this year — the mountain where he shot his first film is, too. So it makes sense that we’ll once again crawl across the storied big mountain proving ground of Palisades Tahoe, but this time with a twist: For every famous pitch—from the cliffs of the fingers to the chutes of the Palisades to the bumps of Red Dog—we’ll ride with two generations of rippers and see it through both old and young eyes. 

• Skiers: Connery Lundin, Daron Rahlves, Zach and Gael Williams, Ryan Ladd 

• Snowboarders: Jeremy, Cass and Mia Jones 

• Producer: Outside Studios

• Partner: Palisades Tahoe/Alterra

 

Technically Doing It

We take it to the park with Luis Medearis AKA “Cuban Lu” and the Technically Doing It crew in Winter Park, Colorado for a spring shred session. The California-born former college basketball shooting guard learned to snowboard and started filming in 2020 fueled by the pandemic. Today, his crew is made up of the majority of the Black professional snowboarders in the world.

• Snowboarders: Luis Medearis and the TDI crew

• Producers: Luis Medearis (Cuban Lu) and Outside Studios