With spines, pillows, and each form of powder you’ll be able to consider, Norwegian skilled freeskier Hedvig Wessel explores the Alaskan backcountry, and scores huge time.
With pictures of the helicopter drop off, wanting down the steep traces under, after which attacking them with the identical ferocity you see from her on the Freeride World Tour, Hedvig launched a banger with this footage.
Wessel has competed in each the Winter Olympics and the Freeride World Tour, whereas concurrently touring the world searching for the largest mountain terrain on the planet. It does not sound like a foul life.
Wessel’s background started in mogul snowboarding, giving her the abilities that accompany that extremely detail-oriented and technical model of snowboarding. Not solely can she rip down a mogul discipline, she is a two-time Olympian for this self-discipline.
The terrain proven in her video appears to be like sketchy, and Alaska actually sees its share of avalanches and slides for skiers tackling steeper terrain. In reality, in keeping with the Alaska Avalanche Data Middle, to date this season there have been 8 avalanche fatalities nationwide and a couple of of these (or 25%) occurred in Alaska.
Certainly one of these fatalities occurred from a heliskiing shopper on February 2nd, the place the skier’s sluff pushed him right into a rock band on the best way down.
The opposite occurred shortly after, on February thirteenth, within the backcountry, the place three skiers have been caught and carried by an avalanche. Two of the three folks concerned sustained accidents and the third didn’t survive. The avalanche was roughly 150 ft large and ran for 700 vertical ft.
All of that is to say professionals make it look straightforward, however behind them are skilled groups, seasoned guides, and naturally, technical abilities from a lifetime of snowboarding.
Go rating some turns like this wherever you’ll be able to, however know earlier than you go and keep on high of these snow forecasts and every day avalanche situation experiences.
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