CoverPhoto: Grant Gunderson
Skier: Stan Rey, Barclay Desjardins, Anna Segal
Location: Banff, AL, CAN
CONTENTS
"RIDER'S—Message to the Future Vol.2"
Text by Takuro Hayashi, Yoshiro Higai, Chikara Terakura Photographs by Yoshiro Higai, Ayako Futaki, Tomokazu Kuwano, Hiroshi Suganuma, Miho Furuse, Hiroya Nakata
Daisuke
SasakiHayato Maruyama,
Kenji
HarunaKono Kazuya
FuruseMasao YamakiHiroshi
Tsukahara
No matter what happens, we chose to continue skating, and built our lives around skating. So, ahead of the long-awaited season, what kind of season will the front-line riders and guides have? We spoke to six groups of skaters who have dedicated their lives to skating, but who love their families and keep their feet on the ground.
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“KAERAZU 2020——The Unexplored Mountains”
Written by Yuta Shimomura Photo by Tomoki Fuse
The Fukei-no-dake, which rises above the Ushiro-Tateyama mountain range, is a symbol of the Hakuba backcountry consisting of three peaks, and is an icon of big mountain riding in Japan. Beginning with Tomohiro Shakawa's first downhill in 1996, many core skaters from Japan and abroad have taken on challenges. This is the story of Hakuba local Yuta Shimomura and Tomoki Fuse, who skied down three peaks in one season, from peak I to peak III in the 2020 season, which had record low snowfall.
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"White Powder Canada Part 2 ── Touring Local Areas"
Text by Hitoshi Ishibashi Photo by Tenpei Takeuchi
Fall Line's classic series "Around the Locals". Continuing from the previous issue, I traveled to the outback of BC, Canada. This time, based in Nelson, Kootenay Range Heli & Hike and Whitewater Ski Area. This is the first time in 10 years to revisit Whitewater, where once there were only two lifts, but by combining three modes of transportation, hiking up and hitchhiking, you can own the powder heaven, including the backcountry.
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“ROOM SNOWBOARD MAGAZINE for 6 Years”
Text and photos by Sho Nakata
There is a free snowboarding magazine from Hokkaido that has released a total of 60,000 copies in 12 volumes. Sho Nakata, the creator, is a photographer who specializes in snowboarding. What was the driving force that kept editing alone even during the season? This year, we will look back on the six years of magazine production that unfortunately announced the suspension of publication.
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"Slide straight and honestly"
Text by Takashi Endo Photo by Kei Sato
Japan's ace, who participated in three consecutive Olympics as a moguls representative of Japan and stood on the podium multiple times at the World Cup, retired from the athletes at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, and was in charge of coaching the juniors as the coach of the All Japan team. We are moving the main axis of our activities to the free ski scene. This is the story of the two days that Takashi Endo struggled in the powder area of Asahikawa.
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"PHOTO GALLERY"
We will deliver carefully selected gems of works that have arrived at Fall Line from photographers around the world.
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“Taro Tamai: A worldview created by sliding hands is necessary in the coming era.”
Text and photo: Taro Tamai
It is the values of the GENTEMSTICK founder who is sending out to the world from Niseko and the proposal for the present age.
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“Michelle Parker INTERVIEW”
Text by Terakura Chikara Photo by Nakanishi Takahiro
An interview with a female skier who came to Japan in February. We spoke with her cute yet rugged strong skier in Hokkaido in February. What are the values that run at the top and the secret to continuing to skate like a woman?
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"Manufacturing by Slippers for Slippers: The development process of Teton Bros., which adheres to the hands
-on approach." Text by Tsutomu Terakura Photo by Takanori Ota
In the past few years, I have been sending you irregularly the "manufacturing by sliding hands" series. This time I tried to focus on the field test. In what kind of environment, how do you test, and how do you reflect it in the product? We visited the test site of Teton Broth, a brand that continues to develop in a laboratory with a small number of people, and heard about it.
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“A complete reading of GORE-TEX for a bit of a maniac – an in-depth interview with the person in charge of Gore Japan”
Text by Tsutomu Terakura Photo by Daigo Onozuka
How well do we understand this advanced material? In fact, it may be full of things you don't know. That's why I visited Goa Japan Headquarters and asked the person in charge an honest question. Reveals the gore-tex truth that is not listed in any catalog or website.
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“The current location of Hakuba SDGs, which has begun to make a big move—Hakuba
Valley’s ski resort that began synchronizing with POW JAPAN’s activities. Text
Hakuba is now taking major action against climate change ahead of other ski areas in Japan. Several ski resorts are already switching their electricity usage, and next season, a considerable number of lifts, lighting, and snow machines will start operating with naturally-derived renewable energy. We will report on the efforts of HAKUBAVALLEY, hoping that it will eventually spread to ski areas nationwide.
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"Slider's Sliding Equipment, Its Choice and Reason"
Impression = Ryuta Asahi, Takafumi Konishi, Yuu Takeo, Shin Miyajima, Michio Takimoto, Ken Hirose, Kenichi Minegishi
An impression of the gear used by seven skiers, skiers, snowboarders, and photographers. Continuing from the previous issue, we narrowed it down to skis, boards, boots, bindings, and climbing gear.
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“LAST SHOT”
photo and text = Hiroyuki Yamada
in the media
Hiroyuki Yamada, a photographer who has been visiting Alaska for over 20 years and is currently working on a photography project "waterproof" that captures the expression and beauty of the glaciers that are disappearing during the harsh winter.
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Columns
Akira Mori “What will happen to the snow this winter?”
Daisuke Mizorogi “How will we spend this unprecedented season?
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