Midway through a dry season, with scraggly trees, icy slopes, and hardly any base, Mount Baker suddenly finds itself consumed by the chaos of the year’ biggest storm– unleashing several feet of snow every night for ten straight days. Plows work around the clock to keep order, but still the ditches fill with battered cars fallen victim to the heavy drifts. As the snow tirelessly buries the mountain, and the warmth and color of the sun become distant memories, the DPS crew reaches the top to find themselves cradled in a monochromatic powder paradise, everything washed away in a rapture of white.

The Shadow Campaign – Episode 1 – Sanctuary

In Sanctuary, the first episode in The Shadow Campaign short ski film series, Outdoor Research Ski Ambassador Zack Giffin and big-mountain skiers Piers Solomon, Olof Larsson and Santiago Guzman find themselves at Chile’s Valle Nevado ski area as a massive, three-week winter storm rolls through, dropping three feet of snow in the Andes Mountains. The high desert becomes an ethereal sanctuary, dissolving into the sky, and the skiers head out to take advantage of more than a meter of fresh-fallen snow.

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