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Cody Townsend's Fifty Project- A Larger Than Life Mission To Ski The Split Couloir
Behind the Scenes of a Successful, and Emotional Attempt in the Sierra Nevada Words by Cody Townsend / Photos by Ming Poon and Bjarne Salen Sure, there are fifty lines in The Fifty Project, but there are only a few that have stood out from the very beginning. Split Couloir on Split Mountain is one such line. It didn’t stand out because of its incredible aesthetics, its nearly 9000' vert of skiing from the iconic 14,000’ summit, or its location in my home Sierra Range.
2018 Editor’s Choice Men’s Ski Gear Guide
FOREWORD BY CODY TOWNSEND Winter is a nuisance. The shoveling. The slippery roads. The frigid bite of air that numbs your toes and stings your nostrils. It’s the season of inconvenience. Yet for a select few, that inconvenient notion is not their reality. For them, winter is the season they’ve been waiting for all year long. That snow that needs to be shoveled, well they know that that just means there is fresh powder in the mountains to be skied.
Do the deaths of Squaw Valley's skiers amount to a curse?
May 10, 2011 Cody Townsend The Departed Ones WIDTH="203" HEIGHT="114" BORDER="0" ALT=""> Photos of the Squaw locals who've passed away in the past three years. Gallery In sports and life, mythological curses are sometimes blamed for tragic chains of misfortune.
Salomon Freeski TV, season 6, episode 8
By Cody Townsend | Jan 15, 2013 XGames.com Salomon Freeski TV Salomon Freeski TV crew heads to Austria in the latest episode. Freeskiers and racers have had a history of not getting along. From infamous public feuds between Tanner Hall and Daron Rahlves, to the local "stick-chasers" bagging on the "swivel-hippers," the two factions of skiing haven't always seen each other goggle to goggle.
A letter to freeskier Sarah Burke on the one-year anniversary of her death
By Cody Townsend | Jan 19, 2013 XGames.com [Exactly one year ago, on Jan. 19, 2012, freeskiing pioneer and X Games champion Sarah Burke died, at the age of 29, from injuries suffered in a crash in the halfpipe. Her death affected the entire ski community and far beyond, but really, it was her life that left us with with the most profound memories.
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