Back to Roldal in 2012! Relive the highlights of this epic Norwegian competition.
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03:09 It was a huge journey getting here to Roaldal, starting in Seattle, Washington in the States,
03:15 a flight to Amsterdam, a flight to Bergen, hung out in the rain waiting for that ferry,
03:20 ferry up the fjord.
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03:25 It's just like a place you can't believe people have made this lifestyle for themselves.
03:30 It's amazing, like we're so far away from the rest of the world and Roaldal is a small ski resort
03:36 and the village is supposed to be the town, but it's just as small as any village I've seen anywhere.
03:41 Roaldal as a destination is, it's basically a camping village with 500 people living here.
03:51 It's a small town, small village.
03:53 It's a tiny resort.
03:55 We have six lifts.
03:57 The thing making Roaldal interesting is that you have the lifts going up a bowl
04:01 and from the lifts you can ski straight or you can just ski flat straight out to nice lines
04:08 dropping 300, 400 altitude meters down to the ski resort again and then you can just go back up.
04:14 Roaldal is one of the resorts in Norway pushing for free riding, pushing for the powder,
04:22 trying to give the people the most amount of good tracking, easy accessible.
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05:26 Following that small black avalanche as we say, the guides reassessed the situation.
05:39 They dug some snow pits and there they are ready to go for the event with the same start,
05:47 with the same finish but with a skier's right boundary which is basically limiting the finish
05:56 to that looker's right to central couloir.
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13:05 - Well, Oakley and I, he's in second, I'm in third.
13:07 We're both wild cards, and we're right at the top.
13:10 The guys who were leading the tour last year,
13:14 who have crashed this year, are going to probably post some good results.
13:18 I mean, we have three stops left.
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13:36 Typically, if we see a really in crash,
13:39 it's because he was going to ski the winning line.
13:41 So these guys like that, they're either first or last.
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14:48 - Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of talk about the top five
14:50 being sort of new kids on the block.
14:52 I think it's really good for the sport.
14:54 And I think it's going to be a really exciting tour this year.
14:57 I think it's a long way to go, and there's a lot of people
14:59 that can win it.
15:00 And this is what it's all about, right?
15:01 The golden bib.
15:02 But I mean, it's good to have it now.
15:04 It's a good position.
15:05 But to me, what matters is to have that golden bib
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15:09 So I'm here with that in mind.
15:11 And yeah, I'm going to keep doing what's going well for me,
15:14 just ski fast, strong, and aggressive.
15:17 Yeah.
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16:19 Whoa.
16:21 I had two messy landings.
16:23 I had to-- I took off on a blind air.
16:26 I had to move my legs out of the way of landing on a rock.
16:29 And it just-- just spat me a little.
16:33 But yeah, I was disappointed.
16:36 But you know, I skied hard and aggressive,
16:39 and that's what I want to do.
16:40 So that's the game.
16:42 I'm not sure if I did enough to keep the golden bib today.
16:46 I packed and went pretty big off my bottom air.
16:50 Just the same recipe as Shamaney,
16:51 trying to outjump everybody.
16:52 But this time, I wasn't as clean,
16:54 so that's going to be points off.
16:56 So I've seen some pretty good runs.
16:58 So we'll have to wait and see.
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17:48 Nice run.
18:03 We found the powder.
18:05 Thanks to the guides and the organization
18:07 for sticking with it.
18:08 My run was going perfect.
18:10 I had, like, a small error.
18:11 And then I had a really nice 360.
18:14 And it's just a matter of waiting and seeing
18:17 how much the judges penalize me for the error
18:19 and award the trick.
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18:25 Nice run.
18:26 Come on, Opie.
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20:57 Yeah!
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21:39 We've gotten to do the Free Ride World Tour in Roald Dahl.
21:47 We've been wanting to do this for 12 years.
21:49 Finally, we got to show everybody what we're all about.
21:52 And it feels like everybody's happy, so I'm stoked.
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22:35 OK, number one, his name is Denny!
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22:56 It was close!
23:00 Only 0.2.
23:02 OK.
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23:06 This doesn't matter for me if I'm skiing with great skiers,
23:09 because in Norway, you have great skiers.
23:12 And I'm pretty stoked by just being in the World Tour
23:15 and have--
23:16 yeah, ski a good run.
23:17 But I was a little bit angry, because I
23:19 was going to double flip the last one.
23:22 But the light was bad, so I just didn't go that way.
23:27 But I'm standing here now, so I'm pretty stoked.
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