All Pictures: Sophie Danison | Skier: Hadley Hammer
Hadley Hammer has been an expert skier for 13 years. She’s been a mainstay in movies from Teton Gravity Analysis, proudly carried the torch for LINE Skis, The North Face and Smith Optics, competed on the Freeride World Tour and set an instance for skiers all over the place for what it means to trip with your individual compass. Her path has taken her from her dwelling in Jackson, Wyoming to the summits of Europe, to the pow fields of Japan and much past.
All through her profession she’s endured triumphs and tribulations, even shedding her companion, David Lama, to an avalanche in 2019. However via all of it, Hammer has continued to outline huge mountain snowboarding for a era of passionate riders, every searching for to emulate her untouchable fashion.
To maneuver via the mountains with fashion means many issues to completely different folks. There are those that outline fashion by the equipment you’re carrying or maybe by a clear flip or a cork seven. And whereas none of these are objectively unsuitable, the essence of favor goes far past these trivial particulars. Fashion, as demonstrated by Hammer all through her profession, is rarely about what you might be doing, it’s about the way in which through which you do it. Fashion is making the not possible look impossibly straightforward, and doing so with a peaceful confidence that cares just for the motion and never for the result.
Hammer lately introduced that she can be stepping away from her profession in efficiency snowboarding, now utilizing her trusted planks, “to change into instruments for storytelling as a substitute of efficiency.” We get one last style of Hammer’s iconic perfectionism in her newest movie, a collaboration with Sophie Danison fittingly titled, “Fortune.” The venture is a quick ode to snowboarding, and to the fortune introduced by the mountains. With an unbelievable mix of surrealism, poetry and gorgeous digital camera work, the duo have created a high tier piece of cinema that speaks volumes with out saying an excessive amount of.
Whereas Hammer’s path is altering course, her new fortune stays to be seen. However regardless of the place she lands, we’re positive it is going to be finished with the identical indelible fashion, and we are able to’t wait to observe all of it unfold.
Catch Hadley Hammer as a commentator this yr on the Freeride World Tour
From YouTube:
To be able to see your fortune, typically you simply must look nearer.
A mirrored image of 13 years {of professional} snowboarding, as I now look to my skis to change into instruments for storytelling as a substitute of efficiency.
Filmed and Edited by Sophie Danison.
Written and skied by Hadley Hammer.
