It's spring now and you're probably missing powder. So are we. Here's a way to re-live the pow days from this past winter. Jackson Hole-based skier Tim Swartz, a Flylow and Fat-ypus Skis athlete, put out this edit of his season. Assuming you don't get dizzy from POV footage, it's well worth watching. It was originally posted over with our friends at EarlyUps.com.

Got 2 minutes and 7 seconds to kill? Friend of Flylow Lynsey Dyer recently put out this short clip, "Shit Skier Girls Say," as a follow up to the viral web video, "Shit Skiers Say."

Back in the day, Flylow started as a telemark clothing company and while we've expanded our horizons since then, our roots still lie in the old-school world of three-pin bindings. But of course, this being the age of social media, the word "Pin" now has a whole new meaning. If you haven't explored Pinterest yet (and hey, we don't blame you: It's hard to keep up), now might be the time, since Flylow recently signed up for an account. You can check out our Pinterest page here. And if you still want more of Flylow on social media, of course we have a Facebook page, a Twitter feed, and an Instagram account (@flylowgear). Happy socializing.

A crew of Flylow friends, athletes and founders recently went on a hut trip to Tahoe's Lost Trail Lodge, which is a four-mile backcountry skin from the town of Truckee, California. To call it a "hut trip" is probably a misnomer. The lodge sleeps 20 -- in beds, with sheet and blankets (no sleeping bags and Thermarests here) -- and comes with a professional-grade kitchen, several jacuzzi tubs, a piano and quiver of fiddles for impromptu backcountry jam sessions.

Just out the door from the lodge lies endless backcountry terrain that stretches from the backside of Sugar Bowl ski area to the Pacific Crest Trail and beyond. We spent two days there enjoying some mighty fine Sierra corn. Here are some pictures from the trip.

Yep, you heard right. At the recent Freeskiing World Tour finale at Kirkwood, California, you may have noticed a certain Jake Sakson throwing down one of the best lines of the day ... and on telemark gear. Jake is a longtime Flylow athlete and he's stood on top of many telemark freeskiing podiums before, but this was his first top three finish with the big boys of the alpine comps. Jake also won the coveted Backcountry.com Sickbird Award for the most impressive line of the day. Said Jake afterward, "It feels so good to represent freeheel style. It took me four years to make it past the first day in an alpine competition. It's pretty incredible to find myself on the podium!"

Other Flylow athletes did us proud at the comp too, including Silas Chickering-Ayers, who took fifth in the men's field, and Rebecca Selig, who Powder Magazine recently called a "dark horse."

Lucas is an up and coming pro skier residing in NYC, doing anything he can to ski powder...

It was raining as I stepped out of the car and into my first day ever skiing the East Coast. It was also my first competition of the season, and stop one of the Ski The East Freeride Tour at Magic Mountain. Not a good first impression. I walked up the stairs of the base lodge to register, and after taking a minute to silently judge the place, I half expected to find all of my competitors in 1980’s rear entry ski boots and rented helmets. I couldn’t have been more mistaken. It was if the whole place was under contract to wear Flylow Gear and Smith Helmets—like I was walking into the tram at Snowbird.

I got my bib on I went straight to the only open lift. I rode up slowly, coughing as the lift gears hit the rain droplets and sputtered jet-black motor oil all over my equipment. The competition run opened up. It was no wider than a catwalk and there was little snow; exposed patches of grass and rock acted as cliffs, and two small kickers sat right before the bottom face. My season had ended last year with a fall that was a result of letting my nerves get the best of me, so my first concern was to keep it clean. I didn’t have the energy to ski fast—I had bronchitis—so I thought I’d just be as fluid as possible. I had qualified fairly well on the Junior Freeskiing Tour-affiliated Canadian Open Freeskiing Championships the year before, and so my thought process was simple: take a mellow conservative line, stay on my feet, and win the competition easily. The fact that I was competing in a senior division in a much larger group bore no relevance to me—and boy, who knew how big some of these guys could tee off. Backflips and Lincoln-Loops were thrown off the bottom kickers, large airs gapping the catwalks that cut the run into sections were attempted, and overall, some serious skiing went down. My score placed me just into the upper half of the seventy some odd competitors. I was seriously humbled.

The next two competitions brought much of the same—low snow conditions that were plaguing the entire country, East and West, and a Mad River Glen freeride team that introduced some East Coast shredders with serious game. I knew that at Sugarbush and Jay I would have to go big or go home. The icy, fast, narrow, and seemingly endless run at The Castlerock Extreme competition ended up in a yard sale over a bump, and a flat landing at Jay took my feet out from under me and pushed me six spots from qualifying for the finals. Who knew that Magic would be my last competition run that I finished without falling. From there, the tour was history. Keeping up in the conditions was tough, especially with kids who had skied those mountains their whole lives and flew through ice just as easily as they did through powder. I was used to the big cliff-long run out format of the west venues, so the five-foot air to five feet of ice to turn through setup was tough. Every cloud has a silver lining though, and the disappointment that came with my competition season was coupled with some good media exposure and an exciting schedule still to come. Video of the tour and updates coming from Squaw Valley and Argentina soon…

Two years after his older brother Lars won the Subaru Freeskiing World Tour stop at Snowbird, Utah, Silas Chickering-Ayers took the top spot in the men's finals at last weekend's big-mountain competition. Although Silas has been a top contender on the Tour since he bumped up from the junior league to the adult division last year, with a few podium finishes, this is his first win.

Silas and Lars, both Flylow-sponsored athletes, grew up skiing at Mad River Glen, Vermont. In his final run at Snowbird, he threw a big left-side 360 through the Fields of Glory. Lars was unable to compete due to injury.

"Despite the hard conditions I knew everyone would be skiing hard and that I had to send it and stay on my feet," said Silas Chickering-Ayers. "It couldn't have gone better."

Check out the full coverage of the event at Powder Magazine's website.

On Sunday, Feb. 19, the ski community lost three good men: Chris Rudolph, the marketing director at Stevens Pass, Washington, Jim Jack, the head judge on the Freeskiing World Tour, and passionate skier and contractor Johnny Brenan. The three died in a tragic avalanche in the backcountry near Stevens Pass ski area. All of us at Flylow have have been sending our thoughts and support to the friends and families of the men who passed away. These men leave behind a huge void in the ski industry and the local community in which they lived, Leavenworth, Washington.

All three of these men were supporters and friends of Flylow and their legacy will live on within all of us.

Jim Jack and his trailer

Chris Rudolph

Johnny Brenan and Jim Jack

Winter has finally arrived on the East Coast. On the heels of a half-foot of new snow on a week ago today, a large snow storm approached interior New England last Friday. The storm actually broke into two and resulted in a more powerful portion of the storm creeping over northern New York, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire overnight Friday and all day Saturday and into Saturday night.

As the storm exited the region, strong northwest winds resulted in significant additional accumulations which nearly doubled the National Weather Service’s forecasted snowfall amounts. As of Friday at 4 pm, NWS’s forecast for 1,000 ft. in the vicinity of northern Vermont's Jay Peak was as follows: 2-4 inches Friday afternoon; 10-14 inches Friday night; 3-6 inches Saturday.

Between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning, the storm deposited 40 inches at Jay. Another 5 inches fell yesterday, and the northeast is expecting another 10-15 inches tommorow. Buckle up.

-Tim Fater

We have all been amazed by Drew Petersen's skiing and professionalism for a young freerider. He was recent awarded #12 amongst the top 20 skiers under 18 by Powder Magazine.

According to Drew:
"It is a great honor that Powder picked me for the article. There are hundreds of kids like me coming up that absolutely shred. I would like to thank Powder Magazine, Jason Anthony for his quote about me, and Tony Harrington for the two great pictures that he took of me."

To read more about this check out Drew's Blog here.