The Fifty
Cody Townsend’s “The Fifty” is a groundbreaking project in the world of skiing and mountaineering. It involves tackling the most challenging and iconic ski descents in North America’s 50 classic ski lines. Through daring ascents and thrilling descents, Townsend takes viewers on an awe-inspiring journey to conquer these formidable peaks. “The Fifty” is more than just an adventure series; it’s a testament to human determination, skill, and reverence for the mountains. Join Cody Townsend as he pushes the boundaries of skiing in this epic quest to conquer the Fifty.
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The FIFTY – 46/50 – Bloody Couloir – The End
Having skied this line over 20 years ago, the Bloody Couloir in the Eastern Sierra Mountains of California, is a full circle journey...
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The Polar Star – Ski Mountaineering in an Arctic Land of Giants
The most remote classic of The FIFTY, The Polar Star is an iconic ski line. Set on the Arctic island of Baffin, the Polar Star Coulo...
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The FIFTY – Comstock – Mountain Philosophies & Adventure Dreams
Round 2 on the wild, rugged and exposed Comstock Couloir in Glacier National Park, Canada. With 28 days to ski three lines, a tough...
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The FIFTY – 44/50 – Split – Tragedy and Triumph in Split Couloir
Mountains can have a certain energy to them and mountain called Split, located in the High Sierra Mountain Range in eastern Californ...
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The FIFTY – 2023 TEASER – Season 5 – New Lines, New Episodes, New Adventures…Coming Soon.
The fifth year of The FIFTY is back! The docu-series following Cody Townsend's journeys and adventures climbing and skiing "The Fift...
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The FIFTY – 43/50 – Skiing the Biggest Mountain in AB, in a total Whiteout
The Fifty - 43/50 - Mt. Columbia sits atop the hydrological apex of North America and is the highest mountain in Alberta, Canada.
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The FIFTY – 42/50 – Avalanches and Blue Ice on the Columbia Ice Cap
The Fifty - 42/50 - Hanging above the Athabasca Glacier lies a classic line that is equal parts aesthetic and intimidating.
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The FIFTY – 41/50 – “One of the Worst Places on the Planet”
The Fifty - 41/50 - Nestled at the base of the highest mountain entirely in BC, Canada-- Mt. Waddington-- lies a perfect couloir. A...
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The FIFTY – Bonus Ep – How to Plan a Ski Traverse
The Fifty - Bonus - Undertaking the Bugs to Rogers Traverse is a daunting challenge. Planning, mapping and strategizing before you e...
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The FIFTY – 39/50 – What the F#$* is an Uber Tour?
The Fifty - 39/50 - Sometimes the crux of a line is just figuring out what the line is. Such is the nature of "The Uber Tour", a lin...
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The FIFTY – 38/50 – A Return to the Steeps – The Sphinx, AK
The Fifty - 38/50 - In 2019, The FIFTY sent it up to Alaska to attempt the modern classic, The Sphinx. But the puckering steeps, cru...
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The FIFTY – 37/50 – The Family that Shreds Together…
The Fifty - 37/50 - Every line has a crux. The hardest part of the journey that puts up the biggest obstacle to a line's completion.
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The FIFTY – a Rarely Skied Giant of British Columbia
The Fifty- Comstock Couloir - Deep in the backcountry of the infamous Rogers Pass in British Columbia, Canada, lies a rarely skied b...
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Summit Fever – The FIFTY – Mt. St. Elias – Climbing & Skiing a Mythical Mountain
The Fifty - Mt Elias - A few lines that stand out as the ultimate test for skiers. Lines that have seen one, maybe two, ski descents...
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The FIFTY – 36/50 – Shredding The Patriarch with Hilaree Nelson & Jim Morrison
The Fifty - 36/50 - Deep in the Montana wilderness lies a legendary line, skied first by some legendary ski mountaineers. The line,...
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The FIFTY – 35/50 – Cody Learns How to Film
The Fifty - 35/50 - Heading out to Summit County, CO to ski the classic town backcountry lap, The Silver Couloir on Buffalo Mountain...
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The FIFTY – Line 34/50 – How to Ski Big Lines – Backcountry planning on Devil’s Bedstead, Idaho
The Fifty - 24/50 - So much of the process to climbing and skiing big mountain objectives is predicated on the research and planning...
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The FIFTY – Line 33/50 – Mt Whitney with Alex Honnold – Road Bikes, Climbing and Terrible Skiing
The Fifty - 33/50 - In the never ending quest to make The FIFTY more difficult, Cody Townsend is joined by legendary rock climber an...
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The FIFTY – Line 32/50 – Castle Peak, Idaho – Bad Beta & Backcountry Buddies
The Fifty - 32/50 - On the heels of a massive sufferfest in Montana, Cody Townsend and cinematographer Bjarne Salen, hurry down to I...
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The FIFTY – Line 31/50 – Mt. Stimson – Misery Loves Company
The Fifty - 31/50 - In the NW corner of Montana, a ten-thousand foot mountain rises out straight out of the thick forest. Mt. Stimso...
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The FIFTY – Bonus Ep. – the Ultimate Winter Van
The Fifty - the van - the van was designed to handle the harsh cold of winter, the remote trailheads of The FIFTY and the thousands...
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The FIFTY – Year 3 – Highlights and Project Update
The Fifty - Update - The Fifty returns for 2021. Despite the challenges of a low snow year, a record breaking avalanche year, the li...
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The FIFTY – Bonus Ep – Behind the Book + Project Update
The Fifty - Bonus - In a first ever interview with all the authors of the book, "Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America", Penn...
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The FIFTY – FULL MOVIE – Line 28-30/50 – “The Mountain Why” – w/ Cody Townsend & Michelle Parker
The Fifty - the Mountain Why - The goal was simple, ride bikes, loaded down with 100 pounds of climbing, skiing and camping equipmen...
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The FIFTY – Line 27/50 – Mt. Moran, WY – The Best Line Yet?!?!
The Fifty - 27/50 - At the northern tip of the Teton Mountains lies a ski line that in one continuous streak, stretches from lake to...
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The FIFTY – Line 26/50 – Marriage Test in the Mountains – The Sickle, Idaho
The Fifty - 26/60 - The classic line call "The Sickle" in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho is a ski line that at first sight, just be...
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The FIFTY – Line 25/50 – McGown Peak, Idaho – How to do “The FIFTY”.
The Fifty - 25/50 - Celebrating the halfway mark of the project (in number only), this special episode goes into showing how the res...
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The FIFTY – Bonus Episode – The Project and How to Help in the Time of a Pandemic
The Fifty - Bonus - The world has suddenly changed. For most of us, it has stopped completely. In the scheme of things, skiing is su...
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The FIFTY – Bonus Ep. – The FIFTY Rig – 2019 Ford Ranger Tour
The Fifty - The rig that gets Cody around North America is a 2019 Ford Ranger equipped out with a GFC Camper and a bevy of storage,...
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The FIFTY – Line 24/50 – Mt. Shuksan, WA – “Pucker Factor 100”.
The Fifty -24/50 - Standing watch above the Mt. Baker Ski Area in Washington state is Mt. Shuksan, a towering mountain that steals y...
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The FIFTY – Line 22 & 23/50 – Mt. Washington, NH – The Eastern King of Backcountry Skiing
The Fifty - 22 & 23/50 - On this week's episode, the crew jets off to the birthplace of backcountry skiing in the US, the motherland...
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The FIFTY – Line 21/50 – Mt. Timpanogos, Utah – An Avalanche Path and a Last Minute Decision.
The Fifty - 21/50 - The Cold Fusion line off of North Timpanogos, UT can be seen from the cities of Utah miles away and thousands of...
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The FIFTY – Line 20/50 – Mt. Shasta – Party Mountain
The Fifty - 20/50 -Mt. Shasta is a lot of things to a lot of people. For skiers, it's seven-thousand vertical feet of perfect corn s...
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The FIFTY – Mt. Rainier – from Giant Surf to Giant Mountains
The Fifty - Mt Rainier - Mt. Rainier as known as the North American training ground of mountaineering. Which is why professional big...
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The FIFTY – Line 19/50 – Mt. Baker – Crevasse Dodging and Storm Evading
The Fifty - 19/50 - Mt. Baker is the third highest mountain in Washington state. The Watson Traverse is a tribute to the history of...
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The FIFTY – Line 16/50 – Wilson Peak, CO – Skiing the Coors Light Mountain
The Fify - 16/50 - The most famous mountain in the world that nobody knows happens to be beyond just an icon on a beer can, it happe...
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The FIFTY – Line 15/50 – Mt. Tukuhnikivatz, Utah – DziÅ‚ Ashdlai – Native American Mountain Culture
The Fifty - 15/50 - Mountains are a skier's passion, but for many people in North America, they're far more than that. They're a sou...
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The FIFTY – Line 13 & 14/50 – North Maroon & Holy Cross Couloir, Colorado – Double the Suffer
The Fifty - 13 & 14/50 - With an impeding storm on the horizon, the push to ski two classic lines in Colorado in back-to-back days p...
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The FIFTY – Line 12/50 – Middle Teton, Wyoming – The Other FIFTY project
The Fifty - 12/50 - The FIFTY has always been about learning, so who better to learn from than the couple, Mark & Janelle Smiley, wh...
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The FIFTY – Bonus Episode – Episode Break, AMA and One Important Question
The Fifty - Break - The FIFTY has reached an important point, the end of the 2019 winter / spring ski season! It's been challenging,...
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The FIFTY – Line 11/50 – Pyramid Peak, Colorado – the Scariest line in Colorado
The Landry Line off Pyramid Peak near Aspen, Colorado is considered a test piece of ski mountaineering in the Rockies. First skied b...
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The FIFTY – Bonus Episode – Gear Talk Ep. 1
The Fifty - gear talk - In this first Gear Talk episode, we go through the main quiver of skis and bindings used so far through this...
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The FIFTY – Line 10/50 – the Grand Teton with Jimmy Chin
The Fifty - 10/50 - Often called a test piece of ski mountaineering, the Grand Teton is an icon in skiing and climbing. From an abu...
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The FIFTY – Line 9/50 – Giant Steps Couloir – a California Monster Line
The Fifty - 9/50 - The Eastern Sierra of California is a mythical mountain range of massive mountains that rise straight out of the...
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The FIFTY – Line 8/50 – Spearhead Traverse – the Fastest Men on Skis
The Fifty - 8/50 - In British Columbia, Canada, there lies a classic line that links Whistler and Blackcomb mountains via a 20+ mile...
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The FIFTY – Line */50 – Pontoon Peak – Ice and Powder on an Alaskan Giant
The Fifty - Pontoon Peak - The weather window for the strike mission to Alaska continues to hold. Yet the real question is will one...
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The FIFTY – Line */50 – the Sphinx – Fear in Alaska
The Fifty - the Sphinx - An out-of-the-blue call leads Cody and Bjarne on a last second adventure to the mecca of steep and deep, Al...
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The FIFTY – Bonus Episode – Joffre Accident and Rescue
At the end of a fateful day, Cody Townsend and Bjarne Salen, witnessed a fall down the 60+ degree couloir called Central on Joffre P...
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The FIFTY – Line 7/50 – Joffre Peak – Near Death on a Daunting Peak
The Fifty - 7/50 - North of Pemberton, BC lies a big, daunting and dangerous peak called Joffre. In a project filled with many intim...
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The FIFTY – Line 6/50. – Aemmer Couloir – Skiing the Frozen Canadian Rockies
The Fifty - 6/60 - A last minute decision to go to a place not known for mid-winter steep skiing descents takes the crew to the Rock...
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The FIFTY – Line 5/50 – Mt. Currie, BC – a Sufferfest up a Canadian Giant
The Fifty - 5/50 - In the small town of Pemberton, British Columbia, the hulking north face of Mt. Currie dominates the skyline.
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The FIFTY – Line 4/50 – Hypodermic Needle, Utah – A Utah Dream Line
The Fifty - 4/50 - After a quick jaunt to the deserts of Nevada, the crew returns to Utah for a long walk and narrow ski. The goal,...
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The FIFTY – Line 3/50 – Terminal Cancer, Nevada – a “First” Descent in the High Desert
The Fifty - 3/50 - Out in the rugged dusty wild of Nevada, lies an infamously aesthetic couloir named Terminal Cancer.
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The FIFTY – Line 2/50 – Mt. Superior, Utah – Deep Pow and Avalanches on a Utah Classic
The Fifty - 2/50 - With weather, avalanche danger and crowds, the first line of the year is met with difficult decision making, trep...
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The FIFTY – 1/50 – Skiing the Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America
The Fifty - 1/50 - Introducing The Fifty - a project to climb and ski all 50 lines chronicled in the book, "The Fifty Classic Descen...
Cody Townsend’s “The Fifty” project is the epitome of extreme skiing. His unwavering determination and awe-inspiring descents redefine what’s possible in the world of freeriding. Each video is a breathtaking adventure that leaves me on the edge of my seat, craving more! 🔥🎿 #TheFifty #SkiingAdventures