Switzerland in spring is hard to beat.
Insane terrain, slushy snow, and warm weather down in the valleys.
For the crew sustainability was at the forefront of planning.
I’m very used to doing everything by train but the other boys werent.
We had a lot of bags, a lot of skis, a lot of camera gear.
Always jumping on and off trains.
We did like one or two days per resort, so we were always moving, running for trains.
Wed take the train, ski for one or two days, then take the train again that night.
It was pretty hectic, but mad fun.
I always liked Anttus parts in Keesh, Remco tells me.
But it was sick, we clicked really well.
We enjoyed our time together and have a pretty similar skiing style.
We like the freestyle aspect but we like just skiing as well.
I think we’re going to do some more together in the future.
Its sick to have guys like Remco and Mae join the program.
I was always getting offers but the money never came with them.
If you’re my age and want to keep skiing, you kind of need that.
Black Crows took us in and it really is a family, theres a lot of respect.
Me and Anttu are different skiers from most of the team but we feel at home and feel respected.
And we get to be part of sick projects like this one.
We were in the super classy train carriage, Remco explains.
Maybe the most ridiculous moment, though, was in Leysin.
We both bootpacked up a pretty long slope.
For sure it was 500m or something.
There was this sick wind lip and fresh snow, just the right amount for the Captis.
So we walked up, it took half an hour or something.
We said hi too and didnt think much of it.
But as we were gearing up, the cat just started breaking up the wind lip.
They had to flush the snow because of the avalanche risk, so we totally got it.
It was just a ridiculous situation, we walked for nothing.
I personally love edits like this one and always have.
And theyre becoming more common.
Remco sees it as part of a movement, he calls it post-park skiing.
I feel like this is where the sport is actually going outside of the competition scene, he explains.
Doing tricks but all over the resort.
More directional skiing but with a freestyle background.
The new Captis is kind of aimed for that kind of skiing actually.
Its more poppy and playful than the old one but still a kinda directional ski.
They both have strong feelings about mounting them too.
Okay so fuck true center, Anttu says with unusual fervor.
Remco, is a little further forward around -2.5 or so he says, but agrees about center mounting.
I never mount skis exactly in the middle because you don’t need that.
It’s some kind of myth.
It was around we were young and we really wanted to be freestyle so wed center mount everything.
For them, skis like the Captis are the future.
All-mountain freestyle tools, even in the narrower widths.
It comes back to this post-park era.
We see more and more directional skis with freestyle attitude.
And its important because more people are going to use these kind of skis.
Probably just a few hundred.
But these versatile skis, yeah anyone can use them and theyre so much fun.
It was fun to the end of the trip, Remco tells me.
He came by to say hi a couple of times and then we caught up after I was done.
The Saturday we both went hard though.
Nick Meilleur deserves a lot of credit for that.
His work behind the lens and in the editing booth is a huge part of what makes this special.
They feed off each other and clearly have complementary styles of skiing.
I certainly hope so, because that would mean we get more edits like this one.
