Sammy Carlson is a well-known beast. I mean this in the best way possible. Seemingly lacking the ability to feel fear, possessing a natural athletic ability on skis, and the drive to continuously try new things and push the sport of skiing are all components that make up this beast of a guy.

This summer Sammy will be sending it at the peak of Mt. Hood for his new video project, "On Top of the Hood." Powder Magazine sat down with him to get the details behind this unique idea.

By Will Eginton

Sammy Carlson is spending his summer at Mt. Hood, but you won't be seeing him spinning laps at Windells Summer Ski Camp. Instead, he will be above the Palmer Snowfield sessioning unique jump zones in undisclosed locations with a few close friends filming for his upcoming film, On Top of The Hood.

Powder.com: What's this film project all about?

Sammy Carlson: We are focusing on features all above the Palmer chairlift. We are hiking for everything and building all our own features. We are just trying to explore different parts of the mountain that we all haven't been to before. We have been finding a lot of new zones and locations, and we have a sick crew. It's really cool for me to grow up in Oregon and ski all my life on Mt. Hood and never really go out and explore it.

Who else is involved? We have three filmers: Brandon Kelly, Justin Weigand (from Nimbus) and Brian Dalrymple. Darcy Bacha is on board as our photographer, and Alex O'Brien has come out with us as well.

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