By Megan Michelson — Wearing a goofy grin and an electric-blue shirt printed with rollerblades and palm trees, Cody Townsend skis off the top of California’s 14,162-foot Mount Shasta. He’s laughing now—on a clear, windless day in early June, surrounded by friends—but this line, a 7,300-foot slog up the volcano’s Avalanche Gulch route has been the easiest, least technical peak he’s skied all season.
Click through for Cody’s full route detail on bivy.
Cody Townsend’s ambitious project, The Fifty, is a deep journey into the skier’s soul
By Donny O'Neil—”I pick up Cody Townsend from the Hestra USA headquarters in Arvada, Colorado, on a warm October day. He’s in town for the premiere of Peak Obsession, a short film showcasing his climb and ski of the mighty Meteorite Peak in Alaska with legendary snowboarder Jeremy Jones.
The movie is a spin-off of The Fifty, Townsend’s video series documenting his ambitious venture to climb and ski all of the inclusions in the 2010 book, Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America—a coffee table fixture for many backcountry skiers—in three years. Today, I’m joining him on a training hike as part of his preparation for a second winter of ticking off lines.” READ >
Showing at Tahoe Art Haus on Nov. 16th
Link for tickets: Tahoe Art Haus and Cinema
Click the link to buy tickets: https://tahoearthauscinema.com/shows/a-night-with-cody-townsend/
"When you think of Cody Townsend, you think TGR and Matchsticks star, Freeride World Tour podiumer and the dude who went straight down “The Crack” and into an otherworldly viral reality that landed him on broadcast morning shows.
But then he read a book: 50 Classic Ski Descents of North America. Now he’s dumped the heli and bought some skins (OK, he got them for free) and has skied 20 lines of what promises to be a gooey, YouTubey feast."