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"Salomon makes me feel inspired. Salomon is always pushing the boundaries, coming up with new and exciting ideas on how to take skiing to the next level." "I’m excited to make my first turns. To step into the familiar and confidence building “ca-chink” of a boot binding interface and push off to feel the skis glide on the snow, and the edges engage into the first turn of the season.
"Salomon has supported my skiing since the age of thirteen, and has allowed me to prosper and be the best I can be. I am truly grateful for all years I have been working with Salomon and am looking forward to future years to come, because of the respect they hold for their athletes, customers, and their company. I couldn’t have imagined the possibilities that Salomon has allowed me to do in these last five years."
The FIFTY is simple, it’s a goal I set out for myself, to try to climb and ski all fifty of the lines and mountains chronicled in the book, “The Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America”.
The book is a visual tribute to the continent’s finest ski backcountry ski lines. Penned by Chris Davenport and Penn Newhard and designed by Art Burrows, it encompasses the lines and mountains a collection of the most prominent climbers and skiers around North America deem the most ‘classic’.
Now nearly ten years old, the book still ranks as an alluring catalog of adventure that can be found atop the coffee tables of diehard skiers throughout Canada and the United States. Without dispute, it is the iconic reference to classic North American ski mountaineering objectives.
From Alaska to Colorado, California to Baffin Island, these lines are among the most difficult in the world and all of them have at least one historical descent. But no one has skied them all. Over the course of the next three years, I will change that.
Drawn in simply by the allure of “I want to ski that,” I plan to devote the next few years of my life to skiing every line documented in that book. And for one final twist, I plan on doing it the hard way, by climbing every line that I ski.
—Cody Townsend, November 2018