Jim Rippey joins Erik Roner in giving his friend and mentor Shane McConkey’s snowmobile a fitting send off. The duo took Shane McConkey’s old Polaris off an 800ft cliff in Canada. (Don’t worry, they cleaned up afterwards.) Roner took to Reddit the same day the video came out to answer questions.

Backcountry.com Athlete KC Deane put out this POV of his 2013 season that takes him from Alaska to Japan, and on one memorable run, beneath an avalanche (it’s right at the beginning). All things considered, it looks like a pretty good year.

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Backcountry.com Athlete Erik Roner returns to Snowbird, where his professional career began in the latest Roner Vision episode. You’ll get some couch surfing tips, see a bit of the Backcountry.com warehouse, and join Little Oskar for his first ski BASE jump.

Renan Ozturk, Camp 4 Collective partner and Backcountry.com Athlete released his cinematographer reel for 2013. Spoiler alert: it’s awesome. Fans of certain ski movies will recognize some of the sequences they’ve seen before as his work.

Backcountry.com Athlete Cedar Wright pays his bills with a check from Blue Water ropes in this video where he heads out to climb his current hometown of Boulder on a winter day. For a minute there I thought I had a second tab open on my browser playing another video, but no, all that sound was coming from  this short film made by Cedar. As far as climbing films go it has it all: climbing, pug tossing, ropes, the list goes on.

Coming off a broken femur in Alaska at the end of last season, Backcountry.com Athlete Erik Roner offers a lesson on how to take down Squaw Valley. It’s a look back at some of the days of early base jumping with Saucer Boy, clearly one of Roner’s inspirations. Hot tubs, wind tunnels, and swimming Lake Tahoe. All that’s missing is the $7 ATM fee in the casinos.

Backcountry.com Athlete Renan Ozturk joined Xavier de Le Rue on Mission Antarctic, a North Face and Swatch- sponsored venture to the seventh continent. After braving the Drake Passage on their little sailboat out ofom Ushuia, skiing stuff this crazy probably seems easy. I’d like to know how they got the external shots of the boat in heavy seas, perhaps running aboard their dinghy. Anyway, the full-length video’s not out until Fall 2013. Looking forward to some more of these episodes.

Backcountry.com Athlete Cody Barnhill cut together some of his greatest hits from the 2012 season, mostly riding Alta, Snowbird and some spots in British Columbia. It’s shot in a sort of lo-fi style that will have you wondering when Instagram broke into the video market, and there’s some POV stuff that will set you free.

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Backcountry.com Athlete Erik Roner goes Mary Poppins in the latest Roner Vision when he takes a hot air balloon up high enough to try floating down on an umbrella. Ah, the life of a skier off-season, and Roner had plenty of time to come up with stuff like this since his off season lasted for 8 months after a broken femur ended last year prematurely. …if you want to get right to the jump, it begins at about 4:33.