So obviously Haines is THE place for big mountain riding, right? I mean this is where the most amazing footage has been coming from for many years now. Six of us from PW productions were lucky enough to make the journey this spring and get a small taste of what’s out there. Bad weather and all, this short trip left us all wide eyed to the endless untracked mountain possibilities that surround this quiet Southeast Alaskan town.

The ferry ride from Juneau is a nice way to get introduced to all the surrounding mountains.

Noah Howell

Captain Andy Jacobsen of the high seas.

First mate William Cardamone.

Nick Devore

Andy Rosenberg somehow managed to avoid the cheesy head shots.

We arrived to poor weather and plenty of time to check out the beautiful little town.

In fact, we spent the first 5 days waiting for blue skies and calm winds so we could fly out to the glacier.

Getting the low down from local guide. Thanks Dave!

I’ve never encountered such hospitality given from everyone we met. Our friends at Alaska Mountain Guides completely hooked us up with transport and lodging! Many thanks to Sean, Jason, Jenn, Sammy, Dave, Kevin and really the entire town. 

We did travel further inland to Canada several evenings to stretch our legs and watch the sunset.

Will in standard smooth form.

We took Utah out to get her dog on. She loved it!

Nicky D laying down the turn.

The Pass is a fun place to tour, the access is right off the road.

Andy Rosenberg getting in on the one turn action.

And skinning up for more.

This trip was a filming assignment for me, but I managed to ski a little and smear one for the lens.

I know what you’re thinking. Ok, enough silly little close-ups let’s get to the big stuff. That is exactly what we were thinking while sitting around for 5 days as our budget and window of opportunity dwindle away! 

After being on call (literally with cell and satellite phones), we finally had a window to fly out. We packed up quick and shot down to the hanger.

Packed and waiting at Drake's hanger. He was flying Jeremy Jones in to a remote location. We were next!

What will our small team of elite skiers find once they finally get to the mountains? Can a small plan carry such enormous amounts of gear? Will Rosenberg survive defying the very laws of gravity? All these questions and more will be answered shortly in part 2.

All photo’s courtesy of the hardest working man in backcountry telemark ski photography, Jay Beyer.

We just received a few photo’s from friends abroad that found PW flicks in foreign locations. Video action sports has been distributing on a larger and more international scale for us this year. It’s fun to see our works popping up around the globe. 

Our good friends Ed and Amy found 2 old relics (PW07 and the Linken binding) on display while window shopping in Chamonix last month.

Looks like we are big in Japan. At least in more demand than Car Danchi 3 (the first two were awesome, but they lost focus on #3).

That's a steal!! Thanks for the pics Ty.

If any of you find a copy in an exotic location near you feel free to send in a pic. We’ll put it on the blog and send you a shiny new sticker.

Jonah here checking in from the Valdez library. I have now been in AK since Saturday Apr. 4th. I am here with Jason West, Chris Erickson, and Jake Saxon. Our objective is to get helicopter one drops and then tour in the Chugach.

We were lucky enough to just tour from the road on Sunday and Monday since the clouds were in and out and we didn’t want to pay to fly unless the skies were blue. The guys skied some sweet lines but we were jonesing to get dropped on top of some bigger stuff. Tuesday we heard it was going code blue so we opened up the wallets and got an unguided one drop from the heli. The light was beautful and all three guys killed their lines. We booted up what we’d skied and were ready for more when the clouds came in and we lost light for the rest of the day. We ended up wondering around the mountains skiing monster chutes and trying not to fall in crevasses or get too lost. Then came Wednesday, It was truly bluebird and we had our gamefaces on. We got another heli one drop unguided up in some burly terrain. All three guys skied some massive lines and you couldn’t ask for better light. We continued to boot up chutes and faces and ski the shit out of the drainage we were in. It was one of the best days of filming I can remember.  We owe our friend Dylan Freed a ton of thanks for helping us get to that zone. Today it is snowing so we are taking a well needed day off from the mountains. This is my first time to AK, and so far it has lived up to all the hype.

We got a phone call from our good friend Dede O’mara the other day, she was stranded at the airport since flights to Anchorage were cancelled due to the ash from Mt. Redoubt. So instead of getting to go to AK she was stuck skiing wicked deep pow with us.

Dede flying through Wasatch pow instead of to Anchorage.

Dede in the shadows

Luckily she brought big enough skis to ski the deepness

Getting her huck on.

Dede couldn’t catch a flight the next day either so we went out with her and Megan, who also was waiting to fly to Anchorage. It was another great day. 

Dede heading up

Dede coming down

Megan powing it up.

Megan airing it out

It was pretty deep.

Megan and Dede flew out last night. The snow continues to fall.