Pretty cool video using a ’tilt shift’ lens on a video camera.

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Here’s a high end teaser worthy of headphones and the full screen button. Follow Me is mountain biking at its best.

Xavier De Le Rue may as well be a fictional character, and could in fact be a member of the X-Men. But in reality he’s a legendary snowboarder who recently represented France at the olympic level in boardercross. He arrived in Vancouver as a favorite but was unluckily knocked out early in the quarter final round. Xavier is an amazing all round rider and may be most famous in snowboarding for being alive after an avalanche, documented in Standard Films 2008 release Aesthetica, washed him 3 km down an entire mountain face in the french alps. Last week he competed in a big mountain comp in Squaw Valley and won. Here’s his winning run on youtube

Pemberton BC local deer hunter Chris Turpin has been exploring and evolving the sport of skiing for over a hundred years. For the past decade, Turpin has skied backwards as much as forwards including the first and only entire ’switch’ halfpipe run to go down in a major ski competition. Lately this two plank mastermind has been ’switch’ skiing big backcountry lines, here’s the POV evidence from DOA