A little ski-doo tour of the ever so lovely British Columbia coastal range. L-R Wiley Miller, Parker White, Chris Logan, Kyle Decker. (Freedle Coty photo)

Ohh yeah, and it’s been some good skiing too.

Recently, I developed a few rolls of film from a Kodak disposable “funsaver” camera. What is this you ask? Well it’s a type of point and shoot camera that people (ie your parents) used as a fun and easy way to capture and share moments prior to Instagram. Now, call me a hipster, but I like to take snapshots with these because you never know what you’re gonna get when the 4×6 prints come back from the picture store a month later. Also, I don’t have an iPhone. Here are a few random #nofilter lo-def images from the beginning of the winter 2011/12.

Similar to winters previous, I kicked off the shooting season with Will Wesson (as is tradition). Our quest for snowy urbanous regions brought us on a last-minute road trip with Erik Seo to Flagstaff, Arizona. Driving through the warm, colored desert country of Southwest Utah and Arizona was quite a new experience for us- until, low and behold, snow began to appear.

En-route was Lake Powell and the famous Glen Canyon Dam / Bridge combo.

A shot or two was acquired in the streets of Flagstaff and we scurried home as Christmas was beckoning. Will hovered above some roadside baby themed Navajo street art for a quick photo-op.

Denver, Colorado was also one of the few recipients for December snowfall. You may recognize this alley from Parker White’s fuzzy dreamscape intro in After Dark.

Will Wesson once again, this time above a 10 kinker in the Denver ‘burbs.

The holy grail on Level 1′s Mile High “hit list” for many a year has been this arch. Tim McChesney and Mike Hornbeck were fortunate enough to session it on a beautiful day in the park.

New to the crew Tim “Cheddar” McChesney and a rail to banked transition a la the LA River.

You can take a guy out of Michigan, but you can’t take the Michigan out of a guy. MI’s finest export Mike Hornbeck.

This doesn’t technically count as “this season” but whatever. Wiley Miller lets Taj drive to Montana for a couple of premieres.

Parker White spine stall in the Billings, MT skate park. Would ya just look at it!?

Photos & words by Freedle Coty

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Stoked to be back in our favorite spot in Switzerland with Parker White, Chris Logan, Wiley Miller, and photog Tim Lloyd. Fresh snow, blue sky, and FRIGID temps mean blower pow! Game on!

Two feet of snow in less then 48 hours and Denver is poised to be going off over the next few days… Parker White nabbed a banger or two on this thing before packing up and heading off to Europe. What is it? Well, it’s big, and pretty scary. And it was stomped. We’ll leave it at that! Will Wesson and Mike Horbeck just got to town to pick up where Parker left off, and McChesney will be showing up tomorrow to join the party. More soon…

Big night at the Powder Awards for the Level 1 crew!!! Tom Wallisch takin’ home the #1 spot in the Reader’s Poll, Parker White walking away with Breckthrough Performer, and JF Houle winning the hard-earned Best Jib! Yeah boys!!!! So stoked for you all!

Stolen straight from Wiley’s blog at YLEski.com- check it out for all the latest and greatest updates from Wiley as he spends the next 5 months traveling the world loggin’ shots for his next Level 1 seg!

With snow lingering (sic) in the lower fourty-8, we packed up our trucks and headed north. Myself, P white, and Freedle Coty hop skipped over the border to meet up with Josh Bibby and Bryn Hughes. With fresh party grease still on our shoes from the year ending activities, and after some questioning we were let into the land of the great white north, Canada, and more specifically the Kootenay range of the interior BC.

The Dock, just down the street from our shack…

This line is called “the spine of god” proudly proclaimed by our guide as one of the more premier lines in the area. Here Freedle captures the action as P white takes “her” for a ride.

It happens our good friends from Oakley were in town. Dan Treadway, Greg Strokes, and Blake Jorgenson, join us for some apre…

This zone was insanely good to us… (ed note- yes, we were here last year, but can you really have too much of a good thing!??)

enough said… shopping in Nelson w/ Parker.

We have now arrived in Revelstoke and plan on getting after some more goods here in BC… winter carries on in Canada and I don’t plan on leaving any time soon. Anyone know how to get a Canadian citizenship?

Check back- more updates coming soon!

Parker White, Wiley Miller, and Josh Bibby met up with Dan Treadway in the BC backcountry, taking a break from sending pillow lines to hang by this campfire and dry off for a few minutes. Not a bad spot, eh?

An auspicious start to our month-long mission to BC- Parker White and Wiley Miller arrive in Nelson welcomed by skies opening up and dropping plenty of the white stuff. Conditions are sketch right now to say the least, with a few avvy fatalities in the past week along. Everyone be safe out there!

The first (and currently the only) team member representing Tomahawk International, Parker White! We put together this edit of Parker to fill the splash page over at the Tomahawk Website while the put the finishing touches on it. Enjoy!

Parker White Tomahawk Edit from Level 1 on Vimeo.

Happy Holidays from Level 1! The much-talked-about intro to After Dark and the first minute of Parker White’s jaw-dropping opening segment is now up for your viewing pleasure!

After Dark is now available WORLDWIDE on iTunes in HD, SD, and now VOD- along with over 30 minutes of additional bonus features, and in DVD and BluRay right here through the Level 1 site!

After Dark picked up the award for “Best Editing” at IF3 (International Freeskiing Film Festival), along with nominations for “Best Film,” “Best Jib Flick,” “Best Visual FX,” “Best Teaser,” “Rookie of the Year,” and “Best Female Performance,” and was just named as an official selected of the X-Dance action sports film festival.

About the film:
The earth turns and the sun disappears over the horizon. Flip the switch, and the lights go out. Slumber begins and the mind awakens, taking us to places we’ve never been and witnessing things not yet seen or imagined.

From the enchanted powder forests of Japan, the historic streets of Moscow, to the unthawed mountains of Western America, and everywhere in between – Level 1 invites you into our spectrum of reality to see a succession of images, visions, sounds, and sensations quite unlike those of the conscious world.

Experience it for yourself – our dream, our vision of skiing.

After Dark.

Featuring:
Parker White, Ahmet Dadali, Tom Wallisch, JF Houle, Adam Delorme, Wiley Miller, Tanner Rainville, Alex Bellemare, Mike Hornbeck, Will Wesson, Chris Logan, Niklas Eriksson, Duncan Adams, Josh Bibby, Liam Downey, Logan Imlach and Friends

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Sun Valley, ID
Monashee Powder, BC
Telluride Helitrax, CO
Breckenridge, CO
Alpine Meadows, CA
Mammoth Mountain, CA
Valhalla Powdercats, BC
Moscow, Russia
Black Diamond Lodge, Japan
Great Canadian Heliski
Michigan
Colorado
Montana
New York
Twin Cities, MN
Quebec
Edmonton, AB
Outer Space
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Shandyland
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