Ben Ferguson, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott & Mikkel Bang In The Valdez Backcountry | PAVED Sessions

Blue! Nice! Wow. Looks good, eh? It looks really good. This is crazy, no wind, just bluebird. Like, when we've been here before, whenever it's sunny, there's kind of always something. You know, it's like, either wind or clouds coming in. Right now, it's just like, no wind, perfect conditions. Alright. Brock was going to do something, like, pretty big dog up here. Yeah, this all gains, Dan. So, like, I was looking kind of at, like, that spine and those rocks. It snowed so much, it's crazy, but you could ride that sea sun shadow down, and then get on that and bop and weave through there. Then I was thinking into there. That big boldness up there was, like, just all featured and looked cool, but... Yeah, your chinkies got in there. I think the sun, when the sun comes around a little more, it'll probably lighten up some ---- in there. So, come in there and then just get on this lower panty and do a big turn, and then that little air mid-slope is still there, Ben. Yeah. You see that one on this roll? Yeah. Maybe I know what you're talking about. So, there's kind of, like, this thing, and then there's... This stuff. Kind of this stuff. Yeah. Which is, like, this stuff is pretty big, like, kind of liney spine style, I guess. It looks way better when it's not light. For sure. Like, right now it looks, like, pretty whatever, but when it had light the other day, it was pretty ******* sick. Dude, there's some ---- right over into this, too. I was kind of thinking this morning was Barbie. It's all right in this, yeah? Are we near the Tusk? That's what I thought. Dude, some of those afternoon, like, Tusk ramps could, like, Valley of the Tusk ramps could be pretty nice, maybe for, like, after this ----. And, Dan, like, this ---- is just going to gain, like, and be just beauty in, like, an hour. I mean, I'm seeing a really straightforward one with, like, an air at the end, I guess. Brick drop. Woo. Oh, ----. All right. Dan dropping in 10. 3, 2, 1. Dropping. That was... That thing is going. That was a beauty. What's Ben going to ride now? Oh, it was the lamest air off the ******* thing. It just looked like such a nothing. What's Ben hitting? He's hitting the finger just rider's right of my line. OK. Oh. I think those rocks are pretty nice, eh? Dude, you uncovered, like, ******* so much rock. Rock, rock, rock, rock. Yeah. Yeah, how's your board looking? It ******* filled all the sled tracks and ----. Dude, I was riding this line and just, like, my peripheral, I could just see the ******* plume. Dude, yeah, your first couple turns, I could see the top of the ridge. And when, like, your second or third turn, it just, like, it released, like, a good, not like a pocket. Yeah. But it just, like, released slough. I was like, oh, that's going to be a lot of ******* slough. It was booming. Just out of my peripheral, but, like, all this was looking nice. So jump bill is out over there. Looking like some scuzz building, huh? That one looks like there's something to do. The one behind looks kind of interesting, too. Like, this one and this one look OK. Some mini golf? I know. There's, like, that one connecting part up high there off the tip to the right. But you'd, like, ride that and get, like, on a spine. And then you'd have to, like, work your way through. Those ******* seracs at the bottom are probably huge. Yeah, I'm a little worried about these clouds. If we were to try to shoot. Should we go rip over there and do a run? Yep. Let's go do a run right there next to those tracks. Yeah. Suss out the snow. And then if we like it, then we could ride that and maybe that. What time is it? How much time we got? All right, let's lap. Let's lap. What are we thinking, lapping down this way? Like, should we lap, call in the dudes, take a lap, they get dropped here-ish? No lap? Yeah, I'm down either way. There's some things in here. I think they're quick and it's pretty looking velvety. Yeah, that'd be sick. You could hit the side hit up top, too, into it. Maybe. It's not going to be blower, but it could be a hike. I also like this kind of like, there's like this spine thing up top kind of, and then it's like that wind lip. You could like kind of cross-court backside there into that wind lip and then kind of ride cross-court. And then this lower panel between the slough, it looked like you could like air off that down onto that face. Yeah, like just kind of hit it high and then like see that undulation on the left of it to like that roller. That should all look like it's like kind of connected and clean. This one seems like you could kind of, kind of a bit of a gap, but. Yeah, not bad, though. This one kind of. Just beyond this is the Valdez on the other side of this ridge. It goes down to the Valdez. Pretty much the airport's like right on the other side of this. Yeah. Rape's going to be like nice. You guys flew around all ******* morning, burned all of our hours, and then you picked the ******* closest place to the airport. Cool. Let's take a rip. Ripping it. I'm going to start scraping that upper part. Yeah. Dude, to me that looks like you start like three-quarters of the way up in a bootpack, maybe even halfway. Like if you take it left, it's pretty small, but you could take it right and it looked like a pretty nice like hip landing. But I was on the other side of the chopper. I default to brick when it comes to speed on jumps. He's known as one of the best jump speed guessers, said Red Gerard. I don't think it's like a huge jump, really. No, I bet it'll be really fun, though. Yeah. We don't need a huge jump all the time, you know. The Tasnina, Taslina, and the ******* Alcina. I didn't win the bottom, I went drinking sangria. Is that a shame? Ones and twos. Ones and twos first? Yeah. Ones and twos first, and then odd man out goes third. Last two. Go for one and two. Ah! Ro-sham. Rock, paper, scissors. But first ones and twos. Yeah. Okay. So, who goes first, though? The winner? The winner. Okay. The winner of it all. Yeah. Copy. So, one, two, three, shoot, or one, two, three? Let's do one, two, shoot. Okay. One, two, shoot. Race. Ha, ha, ha. Ro-sham-bo. Ah! It was Richard! Happy holidays! Like the far right is right stuff on this thing. Yeah. It looks like it's on bridges up there. And then you've just got to heelside traverse. And then, but that puts you on that nice angle. But it does look like there's some weird, runnily stuff. Yeah. That you would have to traverse to get to kind of that takeoff platform. Wonder how much bigger this is. Yeah. I don't know. I bet the snow's pretty. Chilly time? Either. If you want that one, I would either hit the one at the end or the one above it. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yep. But I would be hyped to fly around it again and see. And then decide. But, yeah, definitely fly around it. This crust is not super hard. Is that like partial suck-off? Huh? It's not like a super firm crust. No. If it gets cold tonight, I think it would start to heal. And then there's like cliff, cliff. Yeah. Those are probably ******* pretty big. I know. I was thinking about that too. I was like, how small do you think we'd be up there? We'd probably be tiny. Yeah. You look at this and you're like, oh, yeah, that cliff looks sick. And you look at it and you're like, holy ----. It's probably pretty big. It's pretty big. But this one. This one looks pretty sick. But it's got a steep landing. Yeah, it looks like. Yeah, this one has a steep landing as well. They both do. You can ******* whammy and then ding, ding. I really like the look of coming over here and then down into this one and jumping off there into the landing. Yeah, that would be ******* dope too, I think. Bird's eye view just never does it justice. I mean, if we wanted to tiptoe a little bit, you could just ride that. What do you mean? The far looker's right. That doesn't look that far though. No. It just looked fatter than anything I saw all day, really. Yeah. Ish. Yeah. You know? I'm going to get some water. Damn. Me. Yeah. That was ******* sick. Yeah, he's dropping now. Bird. Yeah. Are you ******* kidding me? Damn, homie. That looked ******* sick, dude. Yeah, doggy. There's two cliffs. You could hit the one that's just right below where you would land or you could traverse under all this ---- and hit that other one. Oh yeah, that's true. Which could be kind of sick. You want to ride anything else? I don't think so. I don't really like that. I mean, I could come up and look, but I don't really like how it goes into the funnel. You know? Funnel? No, like by the cliffs. Oh, it funnels right there? Yeah. That funnel's probably pretty deep. Because it's kind of like limited. You could ride to the point on the triangle and then you could just toes down that thing and come like rider's ride to left on it. Would actually be pretty ******* sick, too. Dude, I would do that one if you want to do the whole thing. And it's probably a pretty sick shot. The light's really nice. Yeah, that's actually a really good call. Cameras are at 100. Yeah, did I like tap the pillow? Yeah. Yeah, you like rode it and then hit it again and then jumped. That ---- just jumps, huh? Yeah, it was cool. You tapped then grabbed. It was actually kind of sick. I thought the slough was going to go way faster on that one. Yeah, because that's how the photo's set up. On this one? The one you just rode? Yeah. So that's actually kind of a good sign. Yeah. No, that was sick. No, that was cool, dude. It just went faster. It should have gone off the nose of that ******* thing. Yeah. That was perfect. Yeah. ****, that was fun, though. Yeah. So fun and so nice. It's not like I'm so nervous at the top again and then it's just like, then it's really fun. Well, the ---- we just rode didn't slough at all. No, this honestly kind of reminds me of the tour drillers. First year? First year, yeah. What are you guys thinking, the same thing? I was thinking high, look is right, where you can't see. And then coming into this bottom bit and trying to jump off hip style, backside hip style into that landing. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You want to make it far enough so you don't hit those rocks. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh! And then get onto the sun there and then wiggle down to that little bump. This one. Yeah! Oh! Heads up! Okay, dropping in five. Oh my God! That was kind of nuts. Mikko, you should start moving on yours now so we can expedite. Okay, dropping in five. All right, let's break her down. Is there anything else you want to do in there? Dude, this stuff is also looking kind of sexy right now. Just like turn. Oh, you're sweet. Maybe like that. And that's that thing right there you can see, huh? You can see it. Just at the edge? Yeah. Oh, it's that bump right there. Yeah. And that's just right there. Yeah, that's right there, huh? And that looks like it goes pretty chill. It definitely would be a really sick line. Should we go look at it then? Yeah, let's do it. Oh! Woo! There isn't anything like too high consequence here. Nah. I feel like. It's a nice first of the day size run. All the landings look decent too, like if you're jumping off of the stuff. You can maybe even like start up here, you know, and just do like a little traverse into it. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Because it looks like it drops quite a bit. It would be pretty easy to. Get into it? Yeah. There's a super mall like down here. Just pop into that. Sick. Oh, yeah. You definitely don't want to like stay close to any rocks. Like I feel like when I jumped off the cliff and I felt the rock like kind of. Underneath? Touch my board a little bit, you know? Yeah. Oh, man. Did it happen? Well, he landed on the rock. See that rock at the very bottom? Oh, snap. It's definitely not as fat as we were hoping. No, it shrunk. For sure. I mean like. The snow. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I think the way this road was kind of nice. Huh? That was a nice size. Shit. That's so loud. That was some Bachelor ----. That was some real dog Oregon ---- right there, homie. We got to get out of here soon, right? Yeah. We got to go. Okay. Thank God. Why? You want to get done? Oh, my leg is done, but if we got to. If you need me to do. Game ball for Ben today, guys. Game ball, Ben. The one where Ben just went out? That was a good call for Ben. Yeah. That was a good call, too. Yeah. I thought it was kind of cool. Yeah. But it was sick. You guys want to head down?