TCR | August 14, 2026 — Film Season Teasers Drop Tomorrow, Mammoth Gets Hit with OSHA Fines, and Seth Moniz Finally Gets His Win

Published August 14, 2026

August 14, 2026

The Forecast

The Forecast

Film season drops tomorrow

Tomorrow. The first teaser trailers of the 2026 film season start dropping tomorrow — TGR is 37 days from premiere and counting down loud, and if last year's cycle is any indication, your feed is about to become a highlight reel of spines, sluff, and slow-motion face shots for the next three months. Meanwhile, Seth Moniz just won his first Championship Tour event at Teahupo'o after eight seasons of grinding, the Andes are still holding numbers that look like typos — Valle Nevado at 414cm, Portillo at 282cm, La Parva at 241cm — and Jonny Moseley just got tapped to run California's X Games team, which feels cosmically correct. The southern winter is deep. The northern anticipation is deeper. We're in the corridor between hemispheres where everything is about to get very loud.

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Fresh Tracks

◆ Surfer Magazine

Seth Moniz Finally Breaks Through at Teahupo'o

Eight years on the Championship Tour without a win, and Moniz chose Teahupo'o — the heaviest wave on the calendar — to make it happen. Kelly Slater called it "special" from the booth, which, coming from the guy who combo'd Medina at the same break three days ago, carries weight.

◆ Powder Magazine

Jonny Moseley Will Run California's X Games Team, Because of Course He Will

The '98 Olympic moguls gold medalist and Squaw Valley icon has been named GM of XC Golden State, one of the X Games League's four inaugural teams. If you're going to build a California ski franchise, you start with the guy who invented the Dinner Roll.

John Collinson Charging Lines That Test Everything

★ TGR

John Collinson Charging Lines That Test Everything

TGR dug into the vault for this one — Collinson on the kind of steep, consequential terrain where there's no room for hesitation. With 37 days to the 2026 premiere, this is the appetizer before the main course starts dropping.

The Snow League Drops Its Cardrona Roster

◆ The Snow League

The Snow League Drops Its Cardrona Roster

The Snow League's World Challenge event is heading to Cardrona September 18-19, and the roster just went live — New Zealand's top halfpipe riders alongside an international field. Southern Hemisphere competitive snowboarding with real stakes.

The Edit

Marianne Hogan went back to Western States for a third time knowing she needed to be better than she'd ever been — and she podiumed at the fastest edition in the race's history. Salomon TV's film follows Hogan and her crew through 100 miles of California's Sierra Nevada, capturing the unglamorous machinery of ultrarunning: the pacing, the suffering, the quiet negotiations with your own body at mile 80. It's a proper portrait of what it takes to compete at the sharp end of the sport's most iconic event.

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Off-Piste

⚠️ Cal/OSHA has hit Mammoth Mountain with $126,000 in fines following the December 2025 avalanche that killed ski patroller Cole Murphy. One of the three violations was classified as "willful." A devastating finding for a mountain that's supposed to be the standard-bearer for California skiing. SnowBrains

🚁 32 mountaineers on Mont Blanc got billed for their own helicopter evacuation after ignoring a closure and climbing anyway. The mayor of Saint-Gervais is not playing around — he made them pay for private heli extraction from Goûter Refuge. Actions, meet consequences. SnowBrains

🌀 Hurricane Lala is bearing down on Hawaii's Big Island with a "danger to life" warning. Tropical storm watches extend to Maui County. If you've got travel plans in the islands, keep your eyes on this one. Surfer

🇹🇷 Turkey might be the new Japan? Fall Line's Jonny Richards makes the case — over a metre of snow in 24 hours, cheap flights, and empty slopes. File this one away for when you're sick of fighting for refills in Hakuba. Fall Line Skiing

Conditions Check

Chile firing

Valle Nevado still holding at a staggering 414cm base, Portillo at 282cm, La Parva at 241cm — generational depth across the central Andes and everything is wide open. →

Argentina mixed

Las Leñas is running a healthy 226cm base, but Chapelco is scraping by on just 15cm — pick your spots on this side of the border. →

New Zealand thin

Treble Cone is open but barely — 3cm base is survival-mode skiing and the mountain needs a serious storm cycle to get going. →

Australia mixed

Falls Creek is the lone bright spot at 58cm and open; Perisher and Thredbo are both sitting at 0cm — an Australian season that hasn't shown up yet. →

Oregon / Summer thin

Timberline shows 0cm on paper but the Palmer Snowfield may still be running limited summer operations — worth checking before writing it off entirely. →

Alps — Summer thin

Zermatt is open with an 8cm base on the glacier, Hintertux is technically spinning lifts on 0cm — high-altitude summer turns only, keep expectations in check. →

Tomorrow the teasers start. Set your notifications. Clear your afternoon. Winter is coming back in 16:9.

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