Untouched 2022 | The Australian Freeride Story
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- In 2019 there were over 70 freeride world qualifying events across the globe. None of which were held in Australia. Why is this? We spoke with Australia's best professional skiers & snowboarders to find out about how hosting an event on home turf could change the future of the sport for the best.
Join us for a cinematic journey of some of Australia's best back country terrain and the talent that comes along with it.
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A really great film getting the message across!
Good job by everyone involved.
Would really love seeing an even at Feathertop, such a beautiful place!
Love the concept! Fingers crossed for a ripper 2023 season...!
6:56 Amen! There is so much more that the Australian Alps have to offer, including large areas with snow cover, larger than Switzerland.
Did a season at hotham in 2000 and was super keen to take the splitty and check out feathertop. 1 or 2 people were kinda keen but never happened. Have heaps of good riders there and alot doing 5 plus seasons there but just not really interested. Its not exactly the kooteneys but half the fun the adventure. Good to see some locals getting at it
Great film! Pretty rare to get blower stable conditions for any southern hemi FWQ anyway, might as well give it a crack in Aus. BullerX was a good step in the right direction, would be good to get something similar going again
Couldn't agree more mate! After speaking to many athletes who compete across the globe we found that most events have less than ideal conditions anyways. Thats just the nature of the sport. The wheels are in motion and its all coming together! Watch this space.
Thanks for putting this video together team. Australian family living in Utah since 2021, not here for snow but do love a ski: 17 yr teen competed in freeride 4 regional and 1 junior National qualifier this yr. Was a surprise. First season competing & quite the ride! Big learning curve, lots of nerves. By comp 5 teen was like, ok got how works, ready for next season. Takeaway. Need comp time. Would be great to see junior comp series in Australia 12+ for experience. Venues yes need challenging terrain and diverse features. Found USA venues terrain and snow varied a lot! Steepness, technicality, length, features ; agree with video it does not have to be perfect snow and look like European alps to be a venue. Its what you can do on the day. Australian has the terrain if we have the imagination. Airs is only a part of the story which why video so great, showed the control and flow. Well done!
Im the parent, not the teen! So my opinion only
Looks epic buddy well done 🔥🙌👌
i feel so!!!!
Such high quality production and really interesting topic. Please make more stuff about the snow scene in Aus. Thredbo’s probably never going to put Val D’isere out of business but it’ll always be ours and always emotive and special. Liked and subbed.
Thanks for the kind words! We plan on making many more aussie snow videos in the future
Well done Lachy 🔥🔥🔥
So great film. Stunning views, amazing snow!
I would love to free riding this winter. Does anyone know who can organise a tour/camp in Australia?
Bro this is so freaking good gosh dayum 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 how long was this in production for?
Thanks harry! Far too long honestly, started it in 2019! Super glad to have it out there now
I'm sure Chileans and Argentines, and probably New Zealanders also feel Australians pain.
Totally agree however, there are freeride events in all of those countries that you listed except Australia. This is the issue we are trying to solve
@@FirstFallFilms had no idea, how strange that the Aussies are left out, and those others are not. Aussies definitely have home grown some high lever ski and snowboarding talent over the years.
Loved the film,, but not too inspired by the terrain. It seems like the only kind of FWT caliber face would be Mt Feathertop, which has a 350-400m vertical drop until you get to the forest. It's also in the backcountry, half a day's walk away from Hotham. It looks like you dont get much snow, and that it's often quite wet (with wet slides on the face in the images). Maybe the lack of terrain is a bigger hindrance to the rise of freeriding than the lack of competitions, honestly
Probably the fact that there is no helis or skidoos allowed would be more of a factor.
On a powder day, people trek out early and drop in out of bounds in many great spots. A lot of great boarders have come from Hotham. Best natural half pipes in the world in the gullies. 👍🏻
I thought the same. Stunning film and all that. Cute effort by the lot but a bit of a micky mouse riding
Western faces like Watsons crag would be the best option. More accessible would be blue lake and club lake which has some great terrain. But it's a decent hike out
More snow falls in australia than the swiss alps.. there is plenty of varied terrain 🤷♂️
It's quite common to get boilerplate ice in the backcountry in Australia too. While I absolutely love skiing there we have lots of great terrain hidden away but along with accessibility, the average snow conditions would surely make it extra difficult to organise a successful freeride event far in advance.
Where it was filmed? Can you do free ride tours over there?
Mostly filmed in Mount Hotham but some in Perisher/Thredbo as well. I think there are some tour company’s around but unsure of names sorry
Remember a guy from oz in Japan making fun of me because i said aust had very steep slopes in the b.c.
Guess he never knew about little austria or watsons craggs 😂😂😂 he even said something like " what would you know groomer boy " then proceeded to tell everyone i did not know shit and oz is flat as a pancake . Oh well his loss i guess 😂😂😂
4:58 aha