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The 5 Wildest POV Ski Videos from GoPro's 'Line of the Winter' Competition

Originally posted on Powder | By Ian Greenwood | Last updated Jul 28, 2025 2:45 PM ET

What happens when you put cash on the line and ask skiers to submit their best POV footage?

This was the basis for GoPro's yearly “Line of the Winter” competition, which has a simple premise. You put your GoPro on. You go and ski something crazy. Then, you send the footage to GoPro’s judges. They awarded monthly and overall winners based on athletic performance, video-capture quality, and overall WOW factor.

Each winning line the judges selected is movie-part-worthy. These are five of our favorites, pulled from GoPro’s recently released recap video. Each video is embedded to start at the respective clip. Watch the full edit for 30 minutes of POV skiing glory.

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1. Craig Murray

Every bit of Craig Murray’s “Line of the Winter” submission sings—it’s fast-paced, consequential, and peppered with numerous perfectly-timed powder slashes. But one moment makes this the standout line, in our opinion (the judges agree—Murray was awarded the overall men’s title).

Early in Murray’s run, he races up the side of a hip-like snow feature before launching into the air and floating over a rocky outcropping. On its own, the jump would be gnarly, but Murray takes it up a notch, adding style points with a lofty 360.

2. Astrid Cheylus

Last winter, the Freeride World Tour went to Val Thorens, France. There, Astrid Cheylus put down a powerful run that paired technical skiing with a well-executed backflip. At the bottom of the venue, the FWT judges handed Cheylus the day’s highest score: 93.67. The GoPro judges saw the vision, too, deeming Cheylus’ line the best of February 2025.

3. Marcus Goguen

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that many of the “Line of the Winter” winners emerged from the FWT. During any given season, the competition pits the world’s best freeride skiers against one another. At the 2025 stop in Kicking Horse, British Columbia, Marcus Goguen entered the big mountain arena and skied a run that none of us will be forgetting any time soon. How about that 720?

4. Lovisa Rosengren

During the dog days of summer, sometimes all you want to do is pretend you’re skiing deep snow. Lovisa Rosengren’s line provides ample fodder for such escapism. The snow is fast, light, and smooth. If you squint a little bit, you might feel like you’re skiing alongside Rosengren.

5. Karl Fostvedt

Pillow fields are the ultimate leg-strength stress test. Yes, technique matters, but at the end of the day, power is what will get a skier to the bottom in one piece. With his “Line of the Winter” submission, Karl Fostvedt made a case for the importance of pre-season training. Either he spent all of August doing his squats, or Fostvedt was born with the steeliest legs on Earth. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

This article first appeared on Powder and was syndicated with permission.

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