In Summit Valley, Colorado, Kayla Morgan begins training to win the “Fire and Ice” snowboarding competition alongside her boyfriend Nick Swift, the son of team coach Sebastian Swift. The previous year, a video went viral of famous snowboarder Will Cloud failing to perform a move he created called “Cloud 9.” Will subsequently ended his snowboarding career and began working at his family’s dog kennel. Nick and his friends steal Will’s sled and convince Kayla to ride it with Nick. When the sled loses control, Nick abruptly jumps off, causing Kayla to crash into a mountain lodge sign, demolishing it and the sled.

Kayla is expelled from the team and forced to work at Will’s family’s kennel until she can afford to replace the sled. Will and Kayla get into an argument about her snowboarding abilities. Kayla claims she is one of the best on the team, but Will says she’s the opposite and the only reason she’s on the Swift team is because her father owns the resort where Sebastian is employed. Kayla is in disbelief, and when Kayla confronts Nick about it, he confirms it. She also asks Nick about his unwillingness to take responsibility for the accident, and he eventually admits that she isn’t good enough to win Fire and Ice. He later breaks up with Kayla, believing she is distracting him from the competition.

Kayla asks Will to train her for Fire and Ice, offering to remodel the kennel in exchange, but Will refuses. Kayla decides to form a team with Will’s old teammates, calling them the Hot Doggers after the Cloud family’s kennel. She then learns that the Swifts have replaced her with famous snowboarder Skye Sailor. Will eventually agrees to train Kayla. Under Will’s guidance, her performance greatly improves, though Nick grows jealous at the budding friendship between the two.

Impressed by the remodeled kennel and grateful to Kayla for restoring Will’s passion for snowboarding, Will’s mother agrees to give the two a day off. While out with Will, Kayla asks him to join the Hot Doggers. The next morning, Kayla overhears her father, Richard, worrying that she will lose to the Swifts, which strengthens her resolve.

Later, Kayla asks Will to teach her the Cloud 9, but Will insists she is not ready. Determined, Kayla takes a helicopter to the top of the notoriously tall Tyson’s Peak and bravely snowboards down the mountain, unaware that she is being broadcast on TV from the helicopter. On the way down, she causes an avalanche that buries her under the snow. When Will rescues her, Kayla admits that she boarded down the peak to impress Will so he would finally agree to teach her the Cloud 9.

After being ridiculed by Nick for taking a fall while boarding, Will finally agrees to teach Kayla the Cloud 9. After a few failed attempts, Nick warns Will that he would be at fault if Kayla were to injure herself. Will accuses Kayla of being obsessed with winning Nick back, and the ensuing argument culminates in a kiss. Later, Sebastian, having heard about Kayla’s progress, invites her to rejoin the Swifts, which she accepts.

Right before the competition, Kayla ends up rejoining the Hot Doggers. Nick wins the men’s title at Fire and Ice, and Skye also delivers an impressive performance, ensuring Kayla can only beat her with a near-perfect score. Right before her round in Run 2, Richard apologizes to Kayla for not believing in her. Nick, tired of the constant pressure from his father, reveals that he was forced by Sebastian to comply her removal from the team. Kayla, now more determined than ever to beat the Swifts, successfully lands the Cloud 9, earning a perfect score from all the judges and making the Hot Doggers overall winners of Fire and Ice. Kayla and her friends celebrate her victory, and even Sebastian applauds her, now regretting his decision to remove her from the team.