Images: Matt Roebke | Featured Picture Skier: Dane Kirk
Each summer time, Timberline, Mt. Hood is engulfed by a number of the most devoted skiers on the planet. Because the summer time slips away, these skiers, deeply embedded within the material of freeski tradition, proceed so as to add to the zeitgeist. Maybe there is no such thing as a higher group to represent this passionate pact of year-round skiers than the Salomon Départ group. After we heard that members of this thrilling mission had descended into Oregon this summer time, we may hardly comprise our pleasure.
Salomon Départ represents the model’s long-awaited re-emergence into the world of freeskiing. Their new ski, the Départ 1.0, was designed and constructed by an unbelievable group fabricated from up filmers, skiers and creatives. Three members of the Départ group, Dane Kirk, Sämi Ortlieb and Gavin Rudy, made it to Mt. Hood this summer time.
Kirk is a wild Kiwi with a background that ranges from slopestyle competitions to Degree 1 SuperUnknown. Rudy is a wildly proficient and inventive filmmaker who’s the brains behind most of the unbelievable motion pictures from Strictly. He can even maintain his personal with the most effective of them within the park. Ortlieb is the mastermind behind the Départ mission who wants no introduction. For over a decade, he has been probably the most artistic and revered freeskiers round.
These three all method snowboarding in numerous methods; each of their careers and technical kinds on the hill. Nonetheless, that is what makes the Départ group so enjoyable. All of them convey a blended bag of skills however a shared imaginative and prescient to make snowboarding extra artistic and inclusive. Fortunately for us, Matt Roebke was positioned behind the lens whereas the Départ group spent every week at Timberline. With among the finest eyes in snowsports, Roebke captured Kirk, Ortlieb and Rudy of their component. Whereas Timberline has since ended summer time operations, enable this gallery to tie you over till we’re all spinning scorching laps in just a few brief months.
For a deeper take a look at the Solomon Départ group, the mission’s creation, launch and extra, take a look at the FREESKIER interview with Sämi Ortlieb by clicking right here.
