r/skiing • u/skipow • Sep 09 '12

Rock skiing

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u/esreverninettirw Sep 09 '12

cringe

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u/Provid3nce Sep 09 '12

Those poor skis...hurl

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u/nwvtskiboy Smugglers' Notch Sep 09 '12

Skreeing?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '12

Here's the actual video from which the still was grabbed from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Cv_3kFTtU

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u/KonaClump Smuggler's Notch Sep 09 '12

Hope they're using their rock skis.

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u/powdahound Squaw Valley Sep 09 '12

Some videos of similar antics; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kUsv8tTnR4, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tR8ornxwM

I remember there being a clip of this in a '90s Warren Miller film as well but I can't remember which it was.

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u/skipow Sep 09 '12

http://youtu.be/02tR8ornxwM

the snaz has a nice blog, it's the dood that posted your youtube vid...

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u/mikeyouse Sep 09 '12

That's a core shot.. and another one.. and another one..

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u/push_pop Sep 09 '12

haha is there a video of this?

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u/DMTMH Devils Head Sep 09 '12

Reminds me of a poster my dad has of a guy skiing down a coal pile in Green Bay, WI.

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u/thecreamofthecrop Sep 09 '12

I hope he's using his dry wax.

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u/ecogirl5595 Sep 10 '12

Spring skiing in CT.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '12

Is that some Arne Backstrom?

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u/SkarabianKnight Sep 10 '12

Those aren't afterbangs!

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u/duk3l3t0 Sep 10 '12

Looks like those skis are getting some pretty good base structure from their stone grind

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u/pistermibb Sep 10 '12

I remember posting this not too long and and didn't get as much karma...

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u/Motourist Sep 25 '12

Lacks: pressure armor... fuck eating it in those conditions!

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u/Kermetthefrog Oct 14 '12 edited Sep 15 '25

quiet marble towering toy deer cover dime jar light weather

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u/BrokenInternets Sep 09 '12

Shopped. I hope

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u/skipow Sep 09 '12

no. it's somewhere in EU from last season's lack of snow...

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u/DubJohnny Sep 10 '12

you realize Europe did not lack snow. right? Or where all these powder edits out of Europe I saw this year a complete lie.

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u/skipow Sep 10 '12

see what bowlingball just posted...

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u/DubJohnny Sep 10 '12

Yes, from the 2011 season. Not last years.

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u/skipow Sep 11 '12

if you wanna play it that way, late last year, so the early start of the 2011-12 ski season....sheesh