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.

After 14 straight days of sun and high pressure a storm just rolled in to Portes du Soleil bringing some much needed pow- not a ton, but enough for now. More details coming soon.

Wiley Miller checks in from Champéry, Switzerland! Life carries on over here… One day we build the next we hit. It’s been a jump building marathon over here. With the blue skies, and cold temps the snow has remained light and fluffy in spots, even with the lack of fresh, it hasn’t snowed here in over 10 days…

Check the rest of the update over at YLEski.com

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!

Wiley Miller gives us a look down the “barrel of the gun” on a STEEP and deep pillow line. Would you be thinking twice before dropping in on this one?!

Nothin’ like a snow cave to keep ya warm and dry while you’re waiting to line up your next shot… or something like that.

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!

Wiley Miller covering the behind-the-scenes angle while Freedle Coty gets the shot of Josh Bibby sending it into a sea of marshmallows.

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?