During the record setting 2012 season in AK, Juneau native Ryland Bell invites friends and fellow Patagonia ambassadors Forrest Shearer, Josh Dirksen and Alex Yoder on a trip to experience his local turf, and shred off the chart snow totals. Expecting to face the challenge of riding in the monster storms that had been pounding Juneau’s coast almost non-stop for the entire season, the crew gets lucky, landing a perfect weather window and getting their fill of a season’s worth of pitch perfect pow under bluebird skies. 
Filmed by Sweetgrass Productions with their upcoming 2013 feature film ‘Valhalla’.

YES. It’s a DCP slaying pow and lumps of Chilean ocean edit. Check out his solo trip to Chile where he rips chutes with Jeremy Jones and the locals and scores some solid waves too.

DCP heads to Chile with a couple GoPros, two snowboards, and a surfboard. He goes with the flow, meeting surf, skate and snowboard legends, surfing big waves and shredding epic chutes. “Thanks to The North Face for making the trip happen,” was what we heard from him – we’d say thanks too if they’d send us on such an epic adventure…

In the first episode of the Unplugged clips accompanying Jeremy Jones’ new project Further, he travels to Japan with Josh Dirksen and Forrest Shearer.

With the help of Japanese mountain guide “Yeti” Dave, the group explores the Japanese Alps on splitboards and scores deep powder turns. But the true adventure begins when a blizzard moves in and the crew must hunker down in a high alpine refuge… Luckily we can follow this from our cosy, comfy work chairs, beds or sofas, experiencing some second-hand near deaths…

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Taking his lifetime expedition to the next level, Jeremy Jones leads his crew of world class riders, cameramen and guides to the far corners of the earth in the second installment of the Deeper trilogy: Further.

Drawing upon a lifetime of experience Jones seeks out first descents and exotic experiences in an effort to evolve not only his snowboarding, but himself. The relationships forged from isolation and travel are almost as intriguing as the maniacal descents themselves. Join Jeremy and his crew in the Arctic Circle, Japan, the High Sierra and the remote Pickett Range among others as they push their minds and bodies Further.

Athletes: Jeremy Jones, Terje Haakonsen, Xavier De Le Rue, DCP, Nicolas Müller, Lucas Debari, Josh Dirksen, Forrest Shearer, Ryland Bell

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Dirksen rips one out. Photo: Abe Blair.

Josh Dirksen, Forrest Shearer and Ryland Bell Join Patagonia as Part of Patagonia’s Increased Commitment to Snow Sports

Patagonia Inc., the enviro-minded apparel company, is pleased to announce that Josh Dirksen, Ryland Bell and Forrest Shearer have joined the company as Snowboard Ambassadors. Each rider embodies the company’s core values, comes equipped with a life-long dedication to snowboarding and a desire to ride in the best outerwear possible. As a company, Patagonia has increased its focus in the snow sports category with a major update to its outerwear line in Fall 2011 and plans to continue the progression into future seasons. Dirksen, Shearer and Bell will collaborate closely with the company’s designers to provide first-hand input on every aspect of product performance and design.

“I’m pleased to welcome Ryland, Josh and Forrest to the Patagonia family,” says Josh Nielsen, Patagonia’s grassroots marketer and ambassador liaison, “This group of athletes represents a growing demographic of savvy backcountry riders who demand technical products suited specifically to their needs. We look forward to working closely and collaboratively with these guys as we continue to build the best product on the market while causing the least environmental harm.”

Ryland Bell. Photo: Abe Blair.

Dirksen, an icon in snowboarding for the past 15 years, says, “Now that I’m putting so much time into splitboarding to access my lines and riding more technical terrain, I need clothing that will work perfectly for all situations. I want to eliminate as many X-factors as possible when I’m out there and I know that with Patagonia gear, I don’t need to think twice.”

Patagonia’s environmental efforts and cause-the-least-amount-of-harm design ethics played a role in the snowboarders’ decision to join the company as Ambassadors. Says Forrest Shearer “I want to be involved with environmentally responsible companies because that’s what is important to me. Patagonia thinks about the products they make and tries to have the least amount of impact. The company has a killer history of taking remarkable steps not only in snowsports, but in all aspects of business.”

Forrest Shearer. Photo: Noah Howell

Bell, an Alaska native and Squaw Valley local says,” I’m excited to apply the heritage of Patagonia’s technology and design specifically to snowboarding. Having high-end, light, performance gear is the difference between struggling and being comfortable in the mountains. I’m really looking forward to taking snowboarding apparel to the next level.”

Bell, Dirksen and Shearer join a team of Ambassadors that includes surfing’s Malloy Brothers, Gerry Lopez and climbing’s Tommy Caldwell, Sonny Trotter and other notable athletes at the height of their sports.

If every link was a boring person this is what TWIS would look like.

SATURDAY

Our English part of the crew shunned riding on Saturday to blog live about the Air&Style Beijing. The One Life Wednesday montage is weird and girlish. Mikey Rencz‘ Cheers part gets remixed, and Mikkel Bang’s In Color part, too. Jeremy Jones talks about Deeper on Fox Business and Burritos and Snow posts his all-time favourite movie parts.

SUNDAY

Johnny Lazz & Co. kick off a new season of Sunday in the Park. Funbelievable is good, but does not quite live up to its name. Our Cup of Tea is a full movie from Sweden. The Bone Zone in Utah gets ripped, and Salvi Peluso isn’t well known but posts his edit nonetheless.

How long can you keep a handful of ants in your mouth?

MONDAY

Halldor Helgason signs for Nike 6.0. Here are the top three tricks from the Air&Style Beijing. We have the full movie Get in the Van 2. The Angry Snowboarder has the full movie Erosion. Yobeat has all Todcast – the Movie episodes. Spatziba drops the second part of Talking Headz with Gigi. Speaking of Gigi, here’s the entire Alaska part from 9191. Want to see some blood? Check TW Snow! Want to see some Premature Jibulation? Then check here. Brandon Cocard is the subject of the latest Airblaster Family Portrait. The Forum Youngbloods shred Mammoth. The “Weekly Quickly” is also worth checking out. A crew of French riders (Bourbousson, Lamazouere, Crepel) enjoys some pow-pow, Greg Sudac’s video part is fairly good, and – unbelievably – these girls are kind of cool.

TUESDAY

Here are the Air&Style Beijing highlights from the finals. TW Snow has Torstein Horgmo’s full run from The Storming (without the video game SFX). Bryan Fox and Scotty Wittlake are making a movie. Oh, and Scotty created a bit of an internet sensation here. Simon Chamberlain gets A Day in the Life. Any Ideas? is yet another interesting teaser. The Nitro rookies are at work here. The Smith Optics team movie teaser is at work here. Park City is looking good in this clip. The Ride Shakedown comes to Germany. The K2 x Beta Unit collabo is somehow pretty cool, and: snow cones for everyone!

WEDNESDAY

Our Artec design comp is going through the roof, Smith Optics release their ‘Prospecting Idaho’ episode 4. Kazuhiro Kokubo‘s part gets remix here, and Simon Chamberlain‘s here, Enzo Nilo rides well in this short clip, the Freestyle Academy in Laax steps things up, the Rip Curl riders rip through Sweden, who was asking if Mike Basich was till riding? Check his Day in the Life! Kevin Pearce talks on Fox News,  Gretchen Bleiler resigns from halfpipe riding, and Andreas Wiig now appears on Rockstar (and vice versa).

If you're a blind cowboy, you don't really care what your horse looks like.

THURSDAY

Absinthe’s Flipside episode 6 is sick, Dan Brisse rides through his Poachers X part (and gets a cover in Japan), Scott Stevens’ Volcom edit is wicked, Kjersti Buaas & Jamie Anderson rip up Tahoe, Forrest Shearer talks about Hydrodynamica while Forest Bailey rides in Colorado, and South of the North gets excited about The Stash in Jackson Hole.

FRIDAY

Apparently a Grand Prix went down in Copper, The Illicit Snowboarder gives us the lowdown on space boardin‘,there’s a thing called the Snowboard Jedi Program, more riding from Park City here, the Cheers crew goes backcountry, here’s Brighton at night, there are the Gremlinz, the From Now On teaser isn’t too bad, and we would love to continue but have to leave for our annual Xmas party!

Enjoy the snow, do whatever you do on a weekend and check back next week for another instalment of TWIS!

Deeper Unplugged Episode 12 has a deleted scene from the full movie where Jones is shown around some heavy Utah lines by locals Forrest Shearer and Neil Provo.

If you’re working on a two-year project, sadly heaps of great riding hits the edit room floor as you try to prevent the movie being super long. The Deeper guys had a crew all year in Canada, spent three weeks in the Tetons, and made countless trips to the High Sierra. All of these trips were special but for one reason or another did not make the final cut. One of the last segments to get the axe was Utah. As such, here’s Utah locals Forrest and Neil trading lines in their backyard.