Alaska Delivered Insane Action I COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS YETI Alaska Haines Pro

Welcome to the Freeride World Tour by Peak Performance. We are way out in the wilderness. We are in the heart of the Tilt-Cut Mountains. These peaks absolutely enormous and shaping up to be a banger of a competition. The German rider going to be the first man out. He will have been studying Max Hitzig, nothing easy as he pops into this double made classic earlier and immediately onto his back and Hitzig well and truly into his run here. Lofting a backflip into the powder, but under rotating and Max Hitzig going down. That is uncharacteristic. And this is classic Alaskan riding as Ross getting himself moving, popping over. You can see how steep it is. A 360 and Ross lands perfectly. You can see the slough launching. He does another huge 360. Now standing on top, there's a bunch of texture in the snow underneath, but Ross handles it well. Now holding on, he's got to cross that slough. We did it indeed. All right. Score dropping in an 89 point run, which from the judges is a huge statement this early on. Marcus Gogan, 21 years old. He's already got a world title under his belt and he is underway now. He is going to enter at the same point. We saw Max Hitzig go. Marcus taking a different angle on it, taking it as a single and reconnecting perfectly. Keep himself in control, popping, going cork seven, coming around and now a little bit of over rotation, but he skis out of it. So Marcus really bringing the freestyle huge backflip there. Marcus Gogan showing that he is not messing around and a ton of speed with an enormous backflip. A little over rotation on that one. I mean, what what is even happening out here as Weitan Ho drops into this little channel? Weitan popping off the first one. Oh, and immediately going down from the drone angle there. I have no idea what happened as we see Edwards, Colorado's Joey Leonardo pushing out. Maybe he's going to go to the same section that's gobbled up already a few of our pros. Maybe he'll take a slightly slower approach. Landing on that pad. And finally, someone able to get it going. Joey launching off that, staying in the fall line. Now he is absolutely flying down this. Oh, no. Oh, damn it. Oh, Joey Leonardo getting violently tomahawk down the face. Hands are up, though. All right. Well, in the start gate is the man in the driver's seat on the Freeride World Tour in Ski-Man right now, Ben Richards. He's unstoppable. Let's see what he had to do. Wow. Oh, oh, no. Oh, what a recovery there from Ben Richards, taking a similar angle as Marcus Gogan and taking it as a single, lofting a big 360. Perfect. Oh, yeah. It's not over until it's over. He's serving us. He's got to control that speed as he crosses this left cone. Taking a ton of speed. The hand drag 360. Perfect again. So Ben Richards is clean top to bottom. So the eighty nine of Ross Tester, Ben Richards, eighty two, six, seven. And the next man in the gate is an exciting one to watch. Abel Moga. And it is so steep over here on the rider's left side. Abel with a huge 360, but just tipping forwards in the air and unable to hold on. Looks like a ski come off. So he's joining the no score game. Oh, gosh, that's a tough one. As Jack Colish gets set to push off, he always looks so solid. Turning this feature into a double with a 360 off the second stage, holding on, get up onto this spine. Every skier's dream to be moving down Alaskan spines, lobbing the get in the tail grab there. The next man here, Finn Powell. All right, well, here we go. Finn Powell going into this feature that has given some other riders trouble. And oh, no. Oh, no. Finn getting absolutely tossed. The second step of that double is so short. I think it's way shorter than the riders think it is. I think it's the deadly double up there. It's clearly different than what we've seen in 2016, in 2017. So Toby Rafford now kicking out of the start gate, getting ready for an Alaskan sensation. So steep up there. And Toby not holding back at all, going full speed as he has become known for popping into this air. 360 clearing the rocks, landing clean. He's got to get control now. Look at the speed of his feet. He went through there like a World Cup slalom skier and just navigated. He's got control again, Justine. That was incredible. Oh, my God. He's just not stopping at all. We saw Ross pick off a few features in that section, but lobbing off the spine wall with a 360. The Yeti Haynes Alaska Pro giving us fireworks. Well, the judges have spoken. It's going up, up, up, way up, 90.67. Nubs on top as Toby Rafford takes over the top spot. He gets hugs from the rest of the crew there. Back up to the top we go. Justine, we are not done here. Ski men, Hugo Troubat riding out of France. Hugo Troubat now on course and looking to put himself into this podium conversation. Hugo, I'm really excited to see him ski. He's been super good this year, honestly. Taking a full speed approach, lobbing a 360 way down the face and coming out of it clean, getting high, high up onto the spine wall, immediately into another 360. Get into this wind lip now, launching off it and up onto the spine for the last part. And here we go. A 360. Easy breezy. He's cut a little slab out there. Oh, it's going to run down. He's going to need to stay on the skiers right side, a huge air there for Hugo and managing the bottom part as well as he roasts into the flats here on the Jarvis Glacier. So much speed. He had to keep his ski straight down. So here we go. Let's see. It's going way up. Eighty nine, six, seven. He jumps into second. Just a fraction over the score of Ross Tester. Back to the top we go. Timo Rolshoven as Timo Rolshoven flying into the start of this run, that cross section out on the riders left with a huge 360 there, Timo Rolshoven flying off with another 360 using those spine walls beautifully. He's enjoying himself, clearly spinning the other way. There's a stack there below him, popping double off the bottom and landing clean. The last man standing. Victor Hale Woods. Let's see what Victor have in his back pocket. What you don't see below the screen is how much exposure is lurking below the riders and really just showing skills beyond that rookie status. Here we go. Big cliff there. Yeah, getting really creative with this venue, just adding feature after feature and a big 360 floating it, landing clean. So here we see Toby Rafford taking the win. And Ross Tester rounding out the podium. Well, Winter McBride riding out of Ogden, Utah, making snow base in her home. She got a chance to go home for a minute as we kick ski women off. And she's got this big feature that we saw come into play with the snowboarders launching perfectly off that. And now getting caught up in the slough as we are back and ready to go with ski women, Agostina Vietti, as she starts her campaign. And she has a hefty piece of terrain below her going double. Oh, but landing sideways there. And Agostina is going to need to self-arrest because this is incredibly steep. And this woman is about to put herself to the test. Sybille Blanchon. And we saw her bring that in Val Thorens to the podium as Sybille going right off the nose of that air. Can't tell when she's on her skis. That must be in her head. Look at her flashing through this, managing so well, holding through that tougher snow. There is the consistency changes and lining up for another boost off that bottom air. So 75.67 for Sybille. She goes into first place. Justine Dufour-Lepointe has not won, but the Yeti Haynes Alaska Pro is one of them, and she would love to add that to the case as she pushes out of the start gate, dropping in on this massive, massive ridge. Oh, no. And Justine getting caught up in the rocks on that takeoff. Zoe Del Zappo riding out of La Clusaz. You can see the spine feature and launching right off it immediately. This one. Oh, this is a big one. Zoe Del Zappo stomping that. Like you said, Katie, it pitches over and it gets so steep so quickly. Another big air holding the fall line. Zoe now coming out. And she goes sailing off the edge of that cliff. Zoe Del Zappo going down, but she's got both her skis on. So there's going to be a score. But this woman is going to have her say, Lou Beren using that powder to slow herself down. So a really good top section and a huge air from Lou Beren. She landed right in someone else's bomb hole. Lou Beren making short work. No, she goes down as well. Getting gobbled up by that slough. But she's still got both her skis on, still launching off that air. What a bumping Bronco ride for Lou Beren. A recovery. They are throwing down out there. Seventy two, six, seven. So just behind Sibyl Blanjon, the Swiss rider from Verbier taking the win in Alaska. Lou Beren and Zoe Del Zappo completing the the French two, three. Here we go. The Yeti Haynes Alaska Pro kicking off with snowboard man, French rider Cesar Beren. Cesar moving down over what we saw in earlier iterations of this event become a classic double getting a little bit rumbled there on the land, but comes out riding. And you can see the slough is absolutely ripping, tumbling over. The snow is deep up there. Oh, here he goes, lining up a nice one. Oh, look at that light right now. This guy is having the run of his life. Absolutely glorious condition here in Haynes. Lofting a big back three there. So Sasha Baliko, 28 years old. He's sitting in fourth, another part of this powerhouse. Yeah, for sure. Oh, look at that. Yes, that was sick. And it gets so steep, even though it's down near the bottom. Clicking. Perfect connection. He's going to get out of the slough and back into the powder. So we roll on with the snowboard man, Shane Blue Sandblom. So Shane over on the more rider's right part, staying up high on this spine, lining something up right off the nose there. Yeah, you can see there where he landed. Not as deep as where we saw Sasha landing on the other side of this face. Didn't luck out on that that choice there. Oh, nice. Oh, yeah. Beautiful, beautiful. So we've got the score there. Forty six, six, seven for Shane Sandblom. He goes into third place so far. So here's a man who's going to be chasing a pocketful of those points. Liam Rivera, Liam coming down. He's got a nice spine feature there. Lofting into the core, getting on that heel side, controlling his speed right away. That was perfect, perfect edge control for Liam. We're going to see some more features here for sure. Yeah, Liam off the nose of that one, using the tail of his board to compress into the land and getting that speed under control. And another 360 going frontside this time. So spinning both ways there for Liam Rivera. The score going way up. Eighty nine point run for Liam Rivera. That was huge. Enzo Nilo, another rider out of Val Thorens. He's been a winner on the Freeride World Tour. Yeah, Enzo bringing a bit more intensity than we've seen. Just with pure speed, going back three there, landing just past Liam's bomb hole, catching, getting back in control. Getting some speed going. Enzo is going with an aggressive approach here, keeping it, fall line pinned off that double. As Enzo now coming into the lower rollover section, a really nice air there, getting on his heel side edge to control speed before this final dong or front three. And beautiful landing. Unreal. Yeah, he sure is. As he comes in and goes five off the cornice, landing perfect, perfect. Absolute execution for Victor De La Rue, one of the strongest riders just physically and the mental game that Victor has. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my God. So far, for sure, the most fluid and attacking style in this section. There's this little section where a little heel side slide is necessary to get onto this launch pad, clean off and Victor De La Rue. He may find another feature below. Now he's just going to rally the powder. Oh, nice butter to end it. Oh, and it comes in at a ninety one six seven. Yes, the last man on the mountain. And he takes over the hot seat. Well, this is how it shook out Victor De La Rue with the win. Liam Rivera in second and Sasha Belico in his rookie season, taking third and landing on the podium here at the Yeti Alaska Hanes Pro. Mia Jones, 20 years old, wearing the golden bib. Oh, yeah, Mia. So a little slab release there out to her left, but she is playing it smart by just staying up on the wall and letting that get clear. You can see it's just thundering down and Mia just stand up nice and high. This is so smart. Look at that snow. It's so deep. Here we go, Mia. Nice work. So another freight train plowing down off to her left, but she stays well clear of it and executes that section like a veteran opening up snowboard women with a bang. Big smile on her face so that score coming in and it goes. Oh, oh, oh. Ninety one point for Mia Jones. But our next rider will be dropping out of start number two. it looks like Mikayla Davis-Meehan, so Mikayla lining up these features, popping right off with a 360, holding on, she gets kind of pushed into the half of the slough, but does stay upright. Holds it together, that is looking good, that was a beautiful 360, that was cool. And bringing fireworks here, as she crosses over that old slide, gets up onto that pillow, look at the slough, absolutely ripping, she is a fly on the wall here. We're back to the top, Snowboard Women, the action rages on, as Anna Martinez, riding out of Chamonix, France, she's sitting in second overall, just behind Mia Jones, so Anna Martinez is going to need to do some very clever navigation, oh she just puts the board straight into the fall line, and absolutely flying down there, brake check, that was a great run, and popping over this little double out, oh and just losing it at the bottom, I'm not sure where that sits in that judging line, waiting for this score, as it climbs up and goes to 58.33, Noemi Aki, she had a huge season last year. It's been great watching her on tour, she really understands the mountain well, and it shows, she brings a lot of fluidity and power. And Noemi is ripping right now, getting her board bounced out from under her a little bit, but at absolute full pace for Noemi Aki, so 53.33 there for Noemi Aki, dropping her into third, so here we see how it shook out, Mia Jones with a 91 point run, this is just utter and total domination of the field, Anna Martinez 58.33 in second, Noemi Aki just behind with the 53.33.