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Freeride World Tour Golden B.C. Kicking Horse 

This past week, Golden B.C. hosted the final qualifying run for the Freeride World Tour. If you?re not familiar with the event, it?s a freestyle ski and snowboard competition where each rider makes their way down a mountain face ? the catch here is that they have to do it with a certain style and flare that?s not limited to booking it downhill, dodging in out and out of trees, or doing flips off a narrow ridge. Oh, and if they wipe out or at any point lose their skis or board, then the run does not count. Each run is scored by a panel of judges that base their score on five different categories: line choice, control, fluidity, tricks, and technique.
Via Freeride World Tour

Alpina has been one of the main sponsors for the Freeride World Tour since 2018, and thanks to them, we were able to get boots on the ground to catch the insaneness of the event in person. Our vantage point was located on a ridge directly across from the mountain face. From there, we witnessed several jaw dropping runs in...