BY ALEX PASHLEY
Austin Smith, Nik Baden, and Mateo Massitti took a team trip to Alaska in March, with photographer and friend Alex Pashley, who captured the stills and the forever memories.
Alex Pashley, Jeff Keenan, and Jason Remple were caught in an avalanche on Monday, March 24, 2025, north of Kaslo, in British Columbia.
This photogallery, put together with the help of friends and fellow photographers Ben Gavelda and Aaron Blatt, and captioned by the riders themselves, is a small tribute to Alex.

“You guys, it’s not usually this good, you don’t know how good we are getting it” over and over again. What a trip!
– AUSTIN

– MATEO
I watch the weather in Alaska all winter long trying to predict and time the illusive perfect AK conditions. However, more often than not, we go there and get skunked. This was our first run and I knew we had found it, the rare AK perfection.
– AUSTIN

– NIK

a bergschrund and some fluffy sluff cruising down behind me.
– AUSTIN

– NIK

friends makes it all so much sweeter. Thankful for this crew.
– MATEO
Nik and Mateo built this jump while I built a different one.
We never hit the other one but they let me hit this one with them, what kind souls.
– AUSTIN

It was one of the better wake up calls I’ve got to experience myself.
– MATEO

open powder fields with the most unreal scenery. I love the blue square runs.
– AUSTIN

– MATEO

Blessings. I was so happy at the bottom of every run.
– NIK

The answer is in the background, Alaska. I’m a bit of an introvert, maybe that’s
why I love Alaska so much.
– AUSTIN

it for granted and prioritize it above all.
– AUSTIN


