Pictures: Matt Roebke | Featured Picture Skier: Dane Kirk
Each summer season, Timberline, Mt. Hood is engulfed by a few of the most devoted skiers on the earth. Because the summer season slips away, these skiers, deeply embedded within the material of freeski tradition, proceed so as to add to the zeitgeist. Maybe there isn’t a higher group to represent this passionate pact of year-round skiers than the Salomon Départ workforce. Once we heard that members of this thrilling challenge had descended into Oregon this summer season, we may hardly comprise our pleasure.
Salomon Départ represents the model’s long-awaited re-emergence into the world of freeskiing. Their new ski, the Départ 1.0, was designed and constructed by an unbelievable workforce made from up filmers, skiers and creatives. Three members of the Départ workforce, Dane Kirk, Sämi Ortlieb and Gavin Rudy, made it to Mt. Hood this summer season.
Kirk is a wild Kiwi with a background that ranges from slopestyle competitions to Stage 1 SuperUnknown. Rudy is a wildly gifted and artistic filmmaker who’s the brains behind lots of the unbelievable motion pictures from Strictly. He may also maintain his personal with the most effective of them within the park. Ortlieb is the mastermind behind the Départ challenge who wants no introduction. For over a decade, he has been one of the vital inventive and revered freeskiers round.
These three all method snowboarding in several methods; each of their careers and technical kinds on the hill. Nevertheless, that is what makes the Départ workforce so enjoyable. All of them carry a blended bag of abilities however a shared imaginative and prescient to make snowboarding extra inventive and inclusive. Fortunately for us, Matt Roebke was positioned behind the lens whereas the Départ workforce spent every week at Timberline. With the most effective eyes in snowsports, Roebke captured Kirk, Ortlieb and Rudy of their factor. Whereas Timberline has since ended summer season operations, enable this gallery to tie you over till we’re all spinning scorching laps in just a few brief months.
For a deeper have a look at the Solomon Départ workforce, the challenge’s creation, launch and extra, try the FREESKIER interview with Sämi Ortlieb by clicking right here.
