Holidays are on, but the STOKE never ceases! 🤘
While most are chilling by the fire, the psychos are still sending.
So grab an eggnog, hide from the relatives, and mainline the STOKE!
Meanwhile, your StokedAF fam is back in the northern Wasatch, scoping routes while praying for SNOW! ❄️
🎥 GoPro’s top 5 videos of 2025
📍 Earth
GoPro dropped its 5 most-watched clips of the year — and they bring a wide range of chaos!
#1 vid of 2025?… A scooter, a bull elephant, and a runferyerlife!
Strap in!
▶️ Watch the chaos
🏂🏿 + 🪂 Sick of lifts? Grab a wing!
📍 Chamonix, France
This film follows a French snowboarder as he moves between competitions and raw backcountry missions — navigating fear, obsession, family and purpose.
▶️ Watch here
🛶 Packrafting beneath the Grand Canyon
📍 Grand Canyon, Arizona
Must-see to believe.
A packrafting mission that drops into the limestone underworld of the Grand Canyon. Equal parts exploration, fear management, and pure awe.
See it! 📸 The Redwall-Muav Aquifer & Hidden Caves of the Grand Canyon
Read it! 📖 “Traversing into an enormous limestone enclosure at the head of a perched valley, we locate an inconspicuous natural opening that leads underground. One by one, we leave our familiar surroundings behind and enter a hidden and puzzling realm that exists in total darkness.”
Don’t forget to dab the pro photographer: stephen eginoire
🧗 HARD trad climbing in the Alps
📍 Val Bavona, Switzerland
Laura Pineau releases raw footage of her attempt on Butterfly Circus (5.13d / 8b+).
A masterclass in patience, pain tolerance, and precision.
▶️ Watch the send
🚲 + 🎿 Pedal for your turns
📍 Iceland
Wanna bikepack 1,700 kilometers with skis on back, battle arctic blizzards, and drop couloirs straight to the sea?
This nutcase did!
Check out this expedition that redefines “type two fun.”
🎥 Damn Big Dams
📍 Concrete, Somewhere
Kriss Kyle charges the face of a massive dam, threading razor-thin lines and launching massive airs with nothing but concrete and sky below.
Technical riding with the stakes turned way up.
⚡ Bonus News
Quick hits worth your attention!
🎿 Aspen drops a 2-minute heater: The new promo rips.
▶️ Watch
📚 Christmas Break— Mountain Film Festival
Get comfy with popcorn and hot chocolate. Here’s a mountain film festival options for the whole family!
⛰️ 6000m Ski Descents in Bolivia
5 skiers climb and send massive Andean peaks in a raw, high-altitude expedition.
▶️ Watch (34 mins)
🏔️ Go East, boys! — Riding Georgia
A journey through the Caucus mountains with local guide Tornike Matsaberidze — part snowboard film, part cultural portrait.
▶️ Watch (19 mins)
🧗♂️ Shralpinism in Chamonix
Because improbable lines never get old.
▶️ Watch (35 mins)
🌍 Suffering the FOMO? — You could be here!!
🧗 Climbing: Saudi Arabia
📍 Saudi Arabia
Recently opened to tourism, the land of Saud offers hundreds of routes, zero crowds, and desert wall multipitch for days.
Sandstone and granite. You up for the challenge?
🏄♂️ Surfing: Taghazout, Morocco
📍 Atlantic Coast, Morocco
Warm water, consistent winter swell, and right-hand points lighting up daily. December doesn’t get much better.
💥 Stay Stoked. Stay Wild. See you on the next line.
❤️🔥 Your StokedAF fam 🤘
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PS. Banger of the week: a Bad Religion Xmas!