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Back to the roots. Welcome to the FWT Nostalgia series! In this series, we will take you on a journey through the archive highlights of past Freeride World Tour (FWT) competitions. Get ready to relive the excitement, adrenaline, and jaw-dropping moments that made these competitions legendary.

In the second episode of FWT Nostalgia, we will dive into the Revelstoke 2013 competition. Join us as we revisit the epic runs, fearless athletes, and unforgettable memories from this groundbreaking event.

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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,
01:15 and then you go through the next set of clouds.
01:17 But it's unreal.
01:19 What you can get to off just two simple chairlifts
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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