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00:49 Revelstoke is one of the coolest places I've ever been.
00:52 The skiing is great, and nowhere else
00:54 can you see so many pickup trucks with a sled
00:57 deck with two sleds on it.
00:58 It's a good vibe, and a lot of happy people
01:00 is just enjoying snow.
01:01 So this is pretty much where I want to be.
01:07 Revelstoke is like Mountain Baker
01:09 stacked on top of Jackson Hole.
01:11 The amount of vertical here is unbelievable.
01:13 By the time you get most of the way up, you're in the clouds,
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01:17 But it's unreal.
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01:21 and a gondola here is unlike anything in the world.
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01:27 So the Mac Daddy Face is outside of our area boundary,
01:36 so it only gets controlled for this venue.
01:39 And the reason there's no trees up there
01:41 is because it's a frequent avalanche slope.
01:45 For the athletes, a big part of it's
01:48 going to be their slough management.
01:49 It's such a steep face, and with all this new snow,
01:52 they can be dealing with size two avalanche slough, which
01:57 can definitely take them out over the cliffs.
02:00 It's steep enough that if they lose a ski or fall,
02:04 they're coming out 2,000 feet below.
02:07 Yeah, it's a big, burly venue.
02:10 Mac Daddy is a big face, so you can get lost.
02:13 Definitely believe the Mac Daddy Face
02:15 stands up to all the faces on the world tour.
02:17 I'd actually call it one of the better ones.
02:19 It's steep, it's long, it's challenging,
02:21 it has an amazing variety of terrain,
02:24 which we need because we have a lot of riders this year.
02:26 So I think this face is very, very good for a world tour.
02:29 It's a perfect textbook example of what a comp venue should be.
02:36 Mac Daddy definitely is looking at today,
02:37 you get the, woo, it's big mountain ski.
02:40 Being here and having the opportunity to do it is huge.
02:43 It's just no matter which single line I have to pick,
02:45 all untied, right?
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05:21 So coming into this comp, in our last season,
05:29 came pretty close to getting the title,
05:32 and I just, you know, butt checker too, shy of the title.
05:36 So coming up here, really, really wanted to get a good result,
05:43 and I'm pretty pleased with how that came out.
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07:49 I feel fantastic. It was a big, beautiful face,
07:53 steep and challenging.
07:55 I found my line and I executed my run as clean as I could,
08:00 so I'm pretty excited about the whole day.
08:03 And it's gorgeous up here. It couldn't be better.
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08:09 I think competition is healthy in a way, you know.
08:17 It's a good reminder of where you stand, really,
08:20 because it's pretty easy to be in your own bubble
08:24 and having people telling you how great you are.
08:26 I think it's good to go up on the face and have people from all over the world,
08:31 and you all have the same chances.
08:33 It's brought me a lot.
08:34 I think it's made me a way better snowboarder
08:36 than I could have been without it, that's for sure.
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08:58 No, no, no!
09:00 Not like that! Rubbish!
09:03 When I started snowboarding, I tried...
09:08 At the time, we did everything.
09:10 We did the park, we did alpine riding,
09:13 we did... Well, then later, when border cross came, we did that.
09:16 I was working hard in school, and snowboarding was just a side thing,
09:19 and I never thought that I could ever be a pro.
09:22 But then, yeah, when I was 17 or 18, I followed my instincts, I guess,
09:26 but, yeah, it's been the best decision I've ever made.
09:30 I think it took me quite a while to realize what kind of snowboarding was my snowboarding.
09:35 I remember my first year on the Freeride World Tour, seeing all these skiers coming
09:40 and sending these lines in those places where I didn't even think there could be a line.
09:46 I rode fast the first year, and everyone was telling me,
09:49 "Oh, you're crazy, you cannot ride like this in the big mountains, this is dangerous."
09:53 And it took me a while to spend a lot of time in the mountains to realize,
09:57 "No, I ride fast, that's the way I feel comfortable."
10:02 And I think that's when I started winning.
10:05 The key in big mountain riding is to know what you can do and know what you can't.
10:09 I've always had that vision of a good snowboarder could be able to ride anything.
10:19 And I think that someone that would have had the same past and kind of training that I've had
10:24 would feel the same.
10:25 To me, border cross is the perfect school for that.
10:28 It makes you tough in the head and it makes you tough and solid on your board.
10:32 And I think those skills really helped me to push it and to feel really at ease in the mountains.
10:38 Hi, my name is Samuel Antamatten.
10:57 I'm a professional freerider and mountain guide.
11:00 And today we're going to talk about the safety in the backcountry.
11:04 The most important tool if you go on the backcountry is the transceiver.
11:09 A transceiver sends out a signal to another transceiver
11:14 and it helps to find a buried person in an avalanche.
11:18 So the next really important tool is our probe.
11:22 We're going to use our probe to locate the person underneath the snow as quick as possible
11:27 so we can get the victim out without shoveling too much.
11:30 You can feel the difference from the ground to a body or a backpack.
11:38 So the last important thing that we need to have is the shovel
11:44 to get the buried victim out of the snow.
11:49 All of these things are tools that we need to rescue someone
11:53 but of course the best thing is to avoid an avalanche.
11:57 If we study the snowpack we can understand the different layers
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12:04 If we feel now with our finger, there we got some new fresh snow,
12:10 some rain, you can see that here.
12:13 And then it's quite compact all the way down.
12:18 I just isolated a column of snow.
12:21 So the pushing on the shovel is going to represent the weight of a skier on the slopes.
12:29 Then we go out from the elbow.
12:35 No moving there.
12:44 Overall our compression test was pretty good.
12:49 We could see that the first layers are a little bit weak
12:53 but that's normal if you have fresh snow.
12:57 Lower down the snowpack is well bonded together
13:02 and I think today is going to be a good day to go skiing.
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15:45 It feels really good to finish this contest because it was really hard conditions.
15:57 Very steep contest venue and a lot of good skiers.
16:03 I was very nervous because everyone believed in you
16:06 and you really need to show what you can do.
16:10 I'm really relaxed about this is over. It's nice.
16:13 Winning the first contest means a lot.
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22:14 I felt like I had a winning line and I knew if I did it right it would turn out well and I landed it.
22:24 My plan this year is to be a little more aggressive actually.
22:27 You know I had a lot of like fifth place finishes last year and that doesn't pay as much and it doesn't win a world title.
22:35 You have to be in the top three more often so more aggressive maybe takes more risks but looks like it paid off right away.
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24:56 My name is Cyril Nery, I'm a three-time winner of the Verbier Extreme and now I'm taking care of the juniors event and of the qualifier week in Verbier.
25:09 Regarding this week in Verbier we've been more than lucky with the weather, with the snow, with all the people coming to help and work
25:18 and mainly with the riders because we discovered a few new talents which was the first goal of this event.
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