Eero doing his Scarf-Face impersonation.

SATURDAY

Our mate Angry Snowboarder kicks the new year off with a classic shred flick: Reflections. Yobeat keeps rejecting edits. Sandbox shows you how to make good use of two helis. The Bald E-Gal cup went down.

SUNDAY

Outlaw Outruns is a good Euro jib flick. The Runs episodes have a good flow.

MONDAY

Eiki Helgason’s part from The Storming drops, his brother signs for Hoppipolla Headwear, and both lived through some memorable moments in 2010. Role Model’s I’m with Stupid is pretty, pretty good. This Crewzin‘ episode is really insightful. We post a happy new year edit from Process Films, and the AK log from the Pirates, and the TTR‘s Best of Kevin Pearce. Deeluxe releases a promo vid. The Dope movie is dope – and so is the World Rookie Tour TV Show. Frontline‘s pre-December edit is quite good, too. The Ästhetiker release a powder-filled webisode called ‘Chaos.’ Xavier De Le Rue goes Greenland. Olav Stubberud goes filming. And the Angry Snowboarder predicts the future.

LSD: Fostering madness since 1938.

TUESDAY

The Quebec edit from The Storming is banger, and the Moose with Hat full movie is, too. Lisa Filzmoser talks about contests. Two Sides of Life is yet another ok Euro flick. Пудра is – you guessed right – a Russian shred flick. The Westbound Boarder reminds us of 10 useful safety rules. This Alley Cats edit looks fun. Givin go Minnesota. The Nike 6.0 Stairset thing stops in Les Arcs. Smith Optics still brings us cool episodes from Idaho.

WEDNESDAY

Isenseven drop their second ever movie, Tripoli. Halldor gets all seriousin this cool edit. Rip Curl drops the Switzerland chapter of the Welcome Home II video. Mitch Tölderer explains how to choose a big mountain line. Whitelines post their favourite snoboard videos of 2010. The Menthol Monday edit looks fun (and features the Michilots). Jones and Bleiler call to action on climate change. The …is fun movie is fairly good… fun. The DC park in Kitzbühel looks sick. This look behind the scenes of the Nike 6.0 Stairset thingy in Castleford is worth your attention. And Elias Elhardt & friends have a fun day in Mayrhofen.

Endor revisited.

THURSDAY

Our ‘Access All Areas‘ series takes off as we follow Markus Keller around Laax, and post a mind-boggling clip of Jamie Nicholls and Seb Toots sending it in Davos. Snowboarding apparently shakes hands with the devil (aka the Olympics). ESPN reviews a year in snowboarding and calls Eric Messier, Europe is a country, Zac Hale is sick, we post a great black-and-white desktop wallaper, The Angry S. unearths the classic Elekrep movie, the German 21Fellhorn clip is wicked, the Pirates Art Show looks like a cool thing.

FRIDAY

Chas Guldemond wins the Relentless Big Air in Stuttgart. We post another Seb Toots edit from the O’Neill Evolution. Mike Ranquet is featured in the latest Powder and Rails episode.The Mammoth South Park looks stunning. Hands down, Jamie Anderson has the sickest style ever. Eero Ettala tears his ACL. Again. The Ästhetiker post their first clip on the World Rookie Fest in Chile. And of course everyone post tons on things on the O’Neill Evolution in Davos…

What else is left to say? Doesn’t really matter, as long as you deliver it in a golden voice…

Have a good weekend and we’ll hopefully be back next Friday!

Austrian freerider Mitch Toelderer and a crew of like-minded riders who aren’t shy of snowboarding’s more mountaineering-orientated side recently undertook one hell of a mission in Ecuador to raise money for the summits4kids project. The mission? To climb the 5897m volcano, Cotopaxi. It’s one hell of a daunting-looking hunk of earth that spikes skywards from the plains, and they had to negotiate high altitudes, yawning crevasses, unstable snow and a bunch of other hazards as they strove to accomplish their mission. Check it out…

Mitch Tölderer in Chamonix last year - photo: T.Repo/Freeride World Tour

Once again the best freeriders to date will come together and compete against each other in the third round of the Freeride World Tour. The fight over $250,000 USD prize purse will be battle out on locations such as the Mont Blanc, St. Moritz, Kirkwood, Sochi, Fieberbrunn and last but not least the famous finals in Verbier.

3times Freeride World Tour Champion Xavier de Le Rue from France will not only have to try to defend his title against a strong field of competitors including Mitch Tölderer (AUT), Matt Annetts (USA) or Douds Charlet (FRA), but also against wild card holders Flo Örley (AUT), Martin Cernik (CZE), James Stentiford (UK) and Andy Finch (USA). But loving new challenges Xavier just says bring it on: “Every year since the beginning I’ve been impressed by the way the tour has continually improved year after year. Where will it go this year? Can’t wait to find out!”

In women’s snowboard, the new schedule including six main events will now open the race for the final overall title to a wider group of riders. Women’s Snowboarding Freeride World Tour 2010 Champion Aline Bock from Germany states, “I’ve competed in the last two seasons in the Freeride World Tour and I am more than happy to have finished the 2010 season as Freeride World Champion. Of course, I will try to defend the title in 2011 again. The level of women’s freeriding has risen over the past few seasons and I would really like to push it as far as it goes in the FWT 2011 competitions.” But also Susan Mol (USA), Nathalie Zenklusen (SUI) and Vivian Aasen (NOR), who qualified from the FWQ Ranking 2010, will try their best to put the Freeride crown on their own heads come March 2011.

Schedule:

1. Nissan Freeride de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc 2011 by Swatch (FRA)
22 January 2011

2. Nissan Freeride Engadin St. Moritz 2011 by Swatch (SUI)
29 January 2011 – Men only

3. North Face Masters Kirkwood 2011 by Swatch (USA)
5 March 2011

4. Nissan Russian Adventure Sochi 2011 (RUS)
5 March 2011 – Men only

5. Big Mountain Fieberbrunn 2011 by Nissan (AUT)
12 March 2011 – Men only

6. Nissan Xtreme Verbier 2011 by Swatch (SUI)
Date: 19 March 2011 (Finals)