Best The Backdrop Journal Crew Podcasts (2024)

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FFS with Moonchild Skunkworx 1:01:49

7M ago1:01:49

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Episode #27 - Jure and Marcus created Moonchild Snowboards, to offer bespoke designed and beautifully crafted stock boards. But it hasn't stopped there! Jure now heads up Moonchild Skunkworx, with groundbreaking designs, based on everyday life items, such as a kitchen spatula and ice cream cone. Jure talks about starting a snowboard brand, includin…

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FFS with Trent Bush Part Two 45:31

8M ago45:31

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Episode #26 - Trent Bush was literally there at the beginning, riding boards straight out of the kryptonics factory. His business life is full on Fear(less), Failure and Success. He’s worked on and created some of the founding snowboard apparel brands; Wave Rave, Twist, Burton, Analog… to the present where he’s set up Artilect, out of Boulder, Colo…

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FFS with Trent Bush Part One 49:48

9M ago49:48

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Episode #25 - Trent Bush was literally there at the beginning, riding boards straight out of the kryptonics factory. His business life is full on Fear(less), Failure and Success. He’s worked on and created some of the founding snowboard apparel brands; Wave Rave, Twist, Burton, Analog… to the present where he’s set up Artilect, out of Boulder, Colo…

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FFS Podcast - In Swedish Lapland with Upguides & Stranda Snowboards 1:06:30

1+ y ago1:06:30

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Episode #24, the 2nd of our podcasts from Swedish Lapland, here Andy from the Backdrop crew talks with Upguides’ lead guide, Fred Buttard, and with Stranda Snowboards founder and shaper, Mats Drougge. The chat was recorded in the Kebnekaiser mountain station, in the far north, above the actic circle during the Stranda backcountry hut trip, in March…

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FFS Pod with Runar Hjorleifsson 1:12:22

2y ago1:12:22

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Episode 24 - Runar Hjorleifsson, is probably best known for his film Fjord Lines, made with Vioir Bjornsson. During the summer months Runar is a cod fisherman in the Arctic Ocean, but come winter he loves nothing better than to explore his local mountains of East Iceland, searching for new lines and first descents. We talk; life, asperations, fishi…

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FFS Pod with Ilia Berulava - founder of the Georgia Guide Office 1:13:32

2y ago1:13:32

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Episode 23 - Ilia Berulava is a man on a mission, not only has he set up the Georgia Guide Office from scratch, he was also instrumental in gaining IFMGA recognition for the mountain guide training in Georgia. We chat life, culture, the mountains of his homeland, and what’s on offer in this special part of the world. After training as a guide in Ch…

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FFS Pod from Swedish Lapland - with hut host Mats Nordgren 40:52

2y ago40:52

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Episode 22 - During a week Backdrop spent in the arctic region of Swedish Lapland, around Kebnekaiser, in March of 2022, we stayed in some remote huts belonging to the Swedish Tourist Association. Mats was the hut host at one of them - Tarfala - while we were there, making sure we were going to follow the rules, and crucially, how to operate the sa…

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FFS Podcast with The Lynx Freeride Crew 1:15:34

2+ y ago1:15:34

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Episode 21 - Grabbing a solid stick from the quiver, the Backdrop Crew spent a week in the cat with Lynx Freeride. Based in the Gjeravica mountains of Kosovo, an undiscovered freeride paradise, and a place of bears, wolves, lynx, music, guns, and most importantly powder. The Lynx Freeride lodge is far off-grid, and was far better than our expectati…

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FFS Pod with the Verbier Guide Office 43:08

2+ y ago43:08

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Episode 20 - Recorded in early January, on a Backdrop Crew visit to the Verbier valley to check out a couple mountain huts, we took the opportunity to interviewed Daniel Coquoz - Verbier’s Head Mountain Guide. The Verbier valley is renowned for its extreme terrain, especially as it hosts the Freeride World Tour final each season. This recognition h…

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FFS Pod with Xavier De Le Rue 1:01:14

2+ y ago1:01:14

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Episode 19 - Xavier De Le Rue three times Freeride World Tour winner; four times World Boardercross Champion; backcountry legend; Olympian; splitboard enthusiast… the list goes on. Yet when we chatted with Xavier De Le Rue, in his Verbier home, we found an honest and grounded individual who wears his heart on his sleeve: passionate about backcountr…

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FFS Pod with Mats Drougge of Stranda Snowboards 1:11:27

2+ y ago1:11:27

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Episode 18 - Mats Drougge, from Stranda snowboards, has a fascinating take on life and snowboard design. Riding sideways has always been part of Mats life, and after time in a punk band, a life of surf and snowboard travels, and an inspirational kick up the arse by his wife, he started his Stranda Snowboards journey. Inspired by 60’s longboard surf…

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FFS Pod with Christine Feleki 1:09:48

2+ y ago1:09:48

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Episode 16 - Christine Feleki is Canada’s first woman to be certified as an ACMG snowboard guide. Told she’d be better on skis, Christine simply knuckled down and proved that she could pass all the necessary assessments on her split. She started off working in various BC restaurants and cafes, to gain slope time, before beginning her 10 year journe…

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FFS Pod with Hampus Cederholm, CEO of Furberg Snowboards and Key Equipment 1:27:51

2+ y ago1:27:51

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Episode 15 - Hampus Cerderholm is always pushing boundaries, be it splitboard or hard-boot (or not so hard-boot) design. We catch up with Hampus, who springs from Southern Sweden, and now lives in California, via an education in Innsbruck. Hampus is the brainchild behind the design and development of the Furberg Snowboards Floorboard Technology, a …

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FFS Pod with Nicholas Wolken co-founder of Korua Shapes 1:04:20

2+ y ago1:04:20

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Episode - 14 Nicholas Wolken is a bit of a trend setter, a thoughtful snowboarder who doesn’t stand still, and doesn’t let the sport he loves stand still either. Finding himself somewhat disillusioned with snowboarding, and by what his personal perception of what a snowboarder should be, he moved the goal posts. Nicholas shares his time between wor…

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FFS Pod with Phantom Snow Industries 1:26:27

2+ y ago1:26:27

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Episode 13 - John Keffler has been splitboarding since day one. He’s not only the founder of Phantom Snow Industries, but also a co-founder of the Silverton Splitboard Festival. He started by offering wanna-be splitboarders a cutting service to turn their solid boards into splits, before then turning his NASA engineering knowledge into the developm…

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FFS Pod with Simon Perry, author of Tignes Hors Piste 1:06:14

3y ago1:06:14

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Episode 12 - Talking Tignes with Simon Perry, author of the complete off piste guide to the French resort of Tignes. Simon tells us how breaking a leg led to him writing a program to converted his GPS files. Years of keeping a digital record whilst exploring the valley, was almost instantaneously turned into a very useable guidebook. For those not …

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FFS Bear Chase Pod with Owen Day from Summit Ski Tours 1:15:54

3+ y ago1:15:54

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Episode 11 - The bear base camp reunion pod, see us start off talking Iceland and BC with heli guide Owen Day, founder of Summit Ski Tours, before we have a reunion with Romi Nella and Andy Beal, who were all chased uphill by a bear while touring from a base camp with Owen. Owen has worked as a guide with Arctic Heliskiing since its inspection and …

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FFS Pod with Stephan Harvey from White Risk 1:04:12

3+ y ago1:04:12

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Episode 10 - We have the absolute privilege of chatting with Stephan Harvey, the brain behind White Risk, the Swiss run avalanche knowledge hub. Stephan has been a mountain guide and researcher at the SLF (Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research) for over twenty years. Still as passionate about avalanche safety and science now as he was twe…

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FFS Pod with FATMAP founder Misha Gopaul 1:02:14

3+ y ago1:02:14

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Episode 9 - Our latest podcast sees us chat tech, European Space Agency funding and startup app development with FATMAP co-founder Misha Gopaul. Misha started off as a tech geek in London, before selling his business and moving back home to Switzerland to train as a mountain guide, eventually settling down in Chamonix and starting FATMAP, a 3D mapp…

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FFS with Pallas Snowboards 1:06:10

3+ y ago1:06:10

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Episode 8 - Pallas Snowboards is one of too few female only splitboarding brands, designing boards by women for women. We get the low-down from co-founder Steph Nitsch on why she felt there was such a need for a female specific brand, offering dialed in performance splits for women that ride hard in hairy terrain, and why the Pallas brand talks to …

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FFS Pod with Protect Our Winter UK 1:00:29

3+ y ago1:00:29

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Episode 7 – We catch up with Lauren MacCallum, from the UK branch of Protect Our Winter, to see what POW UK are doing to unite the outdoor industry and help halt climate change.With COP 26 (the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference)coming to Glasgow in November, POW UK are trying to shore up the Paris Accord and hold global politicians and …

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FFS Pod with the Bozeman Splitfest 1:02:49

3+ y ago1:02:49

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Episode 6 - Often overlooked, Montana has a wide and wild expanse of splitboarding areas to hit. We get the lowdown on Montana’s splitboarding scene from Zach Bailey, Co-Founder of the Bozeman Splitfest. We learn how a backcountry weekend rolls Montana style, get a heads up on the best spots to hit, including Yellow Stone National Park and a new yu…

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FFS with Tammy Esten Founder of Mint Snowboarding 48:36

3+ y ago48:36

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Episode 5 - Trailblazer Tammy is the only female snowboard school director in Europe, she was the first female snowboard instructor to get her Carte Professional, and she now runs multiple female board camps. Tammy moved to Morzine, France, in 2006 and founded MINT Snowboarding, one of the first specialist snowboard schools in France. She’s been sp…

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FFS with Bluebird Backcountry 37:06

3+ y ago37:06

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Episode 4 - The Backdrop Journal Crew get the lowdown from Erik Lambert, co-founder of Bluebird Backcountry, an inbounds backcountry ski area designed for learning and adventure in Kremmling, Colorado. The third of our Colorado trilogy, including Silverton and Weston Snowboards, sees Erik explain the oxymoron concept that is Bluebird Backcountry, a…

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FFS with Weston Snowboards 1:10:39

3+ y ago1:10:39

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Episode 3 -The Backdrop Journal Crew talk turkey with Leo Tsuo, owner of Weston Snowboards, based out of Minturn, Colorado. The second of our Colorado trilogy, including Silverton and Bluebird Backcountry, sees Leo mull over the impact of covid to the backcountry, splitboard design, mentorship, backcountry introduction and cultural inclusion.…

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FFS with Jen Brill of Silverton Mountain 32:51

3+ y ago32:51

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Episode 2 - The Backdrop Journal Crew catch up with Jen Brill, co-owner and co-creator, of the super cool Silverton Mountain Resort, Colorado. Silverton Mountain has only one - two person - chairlift, no permanent buildings and absolutely no pistes. Under 100 people a day get to ride the lift in small groups, each group has a guide and is arranged …

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FFS Meet the Backdrop Journal Crew 56:50

3+ y ago56:50

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Episode 1 - Guest presenter, Ben Atherton, chats with the Backdrop Journal Crew, discussing the concept behind the FFS pods, the history of the crew, building a likeminded community and the reasons behind starting the Backdrop Journal site.

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Backdrop Journal's FFS Backcountry Podcast (Trailer) 0:59

3+ y ago0:59

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Backdrop Journal's FFS Backcountry Podcast

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FFS with Moonchild Skunkworx 1:01:49

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FFS with Trent Bush Part Two 45:31

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FFS with Trent Bush Part One 49:48

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FFS Podcast - In Swedish Lapland with Upguides & Stranda Snowboards 1:06:30

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FFS Pod with Runar Hjorleifsson 1:12:22

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FFS Pod with Ilia Berulava - founder of the Georgia Guide Office 1:13:32

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FFS Pod from Swedish Lapland - with hut host Mats Nordgren 40:52

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FFS Podcast with The Lynx Freeride Crew 1:15:34

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FFS Pod with the Verbier Guide Office 43:08

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FFS Pod with Xavier De Le Rue 1:01:14

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FFS Pod with Mats Drougge of Stranda Snowboards 1:11:27

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FFS Pod with Christine Feleki 1:09:48

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FFS Pod with Hampus Cederholm, CEO of Furberg Snowboards and Key Equipment 1:27:51

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FFS Pod with Nicholas Wolken co-founder of Korua Shapes 1:04:20

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FFS Pod with Phantom Snow Industries 1:26:27

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FFS Pod with Simon Perry, author of Tignes Hors Piste 1:06:14

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FFS Bear Chase Pod with Owen Day from Summit Ski Tours 1:15:54

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FFS Pod with Stephan Harvey from White Risk 1:04:12

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FFS Pod with FATMAP founder Misha Gopaul 1:02:14

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FFS with Pallas Snowboards 1:06:10

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FFS Pod with Protect Our Winter UK 1:00:29

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FFS Pod with the Bozeman Splitfest 1:02:49

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FFS with Tammy Esten Founder of Mint Snowboarding 48:36

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FFS with Bluebird Backcountry 37:06

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FFS with Weston Snowboards 1:10:39

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FFS with Jen Brill of Silverton Mountain 32:51

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FFS Meet the Backdrop Journal Crew 56:50

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Backdrop Journal's FFS Backcountry Podcast (Trailer) 0:59

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