Show and Tell for People Who Fly Down the Mountain
The Spring Gruv is a pretty cool event. For 16 days, my hometown of Park City hosts a huge festival, complete with free concerts, the Pond Skimming Contest, and parties abound. It started a few days ago, but it lasts well into April. Honestly, this is my favorite event of the ski season here in Park City, and if you […]
Adrenaline seekers; it’s time to wax up your skis, take a deep breath and head off into the abyss as we countdown our top 10 extreme ski runs (complete with video footage). #10 Delerium Dive – Banff, Canada Any run that requires pre-requisites such as a shovel and transceiver is strictly reserved for the hard-core. This particular challenge takes you […]
Have you ever watched one of those jaw-dropping films of a ballsy freeride skier floating down a powder covered precipice and wondered just how the camera can even keep up? Let alone produce such amazing imagery. We spoke to John Layden, the founder of Drone Alps (dronealps.com), to find out just how aerial filming using drones has opened up a […]
I’ve been skiing long enough to become privy to an ongoing feud between winter sports. Skiers and snowboarders have been cohabitating resorts for decades, but there is always an unspoken tension (okay, sometimes it’s spoken) between the groups. When I’m out on the slope, all I really care about is speed–I don’t pay attention to the differences between ski and board culture, […]
Speed skiing is not a popular sport. To be honest, I’m not surprised. According to the Financial Times, the sport has not been featured in the Olympic Games since 1992. Here’s why: It’s really damn dangerous. Speed skiing is literally the fastest a person can go without motor assistance. Think about it—Usain Bolt ran 100 meters in 9.58 seconds. Ivan Origone, the […]
When I started this site, I mentioned that I grew up speed skiing. I eventually realized that my speeds actually weren’t all that impressive, and that there were peers and athletes who were way, way faster than I was. What I didn’t realize, however, is that speed skiing is actually its own sport. I knew that speed skiers existed and […]
A friend asked me this over the weekend, without evening knowing I had this site. We were just talking skiing. While I usually post videos that I find enthralling, I thought I might write a little about where are the fastest lines I’ve taken as an adult (meaning: no longer in the ski program). This is over 17 years of […]
Dubbed the most dangerous downhill race in the world, The Streif is a course in Austria and this video will speak for itself. I’m not sure if you could build a more dangerous or challenging course on a computer program than this. I *think* that’s Bodie narrating, but I’m about 70% on that claim.
Not talking about how you can ski down onto main street at Park City. This is JP Auclair and he just destroys this town. I’m actually not sure how he did it, as the color temperature looks all the same so it doesn’t seem like there were too many takes at this. But that is a ton of set ups […]
This is still so much fun. It was the piece that started it all and good on Candide for coming out with something so strong. Definitely more of a freestyle artist than a speed skier, he is so comfortable on skis I am incredibly covetous of this. There are two more now, which I have also listed below. They are […]
I was searching Youtube tonight looking for some new speed videos and I found this. It’s pretty adorable and the kind of attitude that I still feel I have even as I continue to slow down. I know that feeling. I’m not very certain that this is a black diamond, but she was a kid and had her illusions as […]
Called the most insane ski line of the year. I’m not sure what tops this. Curious how fast he got up to. You can see when he’s in the chute that he just does not have a lot of room to work which forces him to either go as fast as humanly possible or hit the wall. This is just […]
This I think was the first intro I had to speedriding. And to be clear, this isn’t for me. I wish I could, but I am too old and even young didn’t have the acrobatics or heights stomach for this. If you pardon their French, this is a pretty pure look at how everything got started. Because it is so […]
Speed Merchants taking a cut at the 2002 Olympics Downhill in Snowbasin Utah. I have been following these guys for a while now. The dude is a bit overdone with his Speed Merchant calls, but I enjoy what they get into. They make a lot of fun of him in the comments for constantly shrieking or doing some kind of […]
Sweet looking ski film that THANK GOD isn’t a Warren Miller. Love their game, but I need something different. This is backed by Redbull Media, which I don’t really have an opinion about. The trailer is pretty sleepy and the narrator—if he’s narrates the film—doesn’t have a lot of pop. This looks to be the basis of speedriding, but I […]
It was just a day tailormade to make something like this happen, obviously with both men’s and women’s records falling. At an incredible almost 255 kph or 158mph, Ivan Origone became the fastest human on skis and won himself a mancrush from yours truly. And I guess I’d crush all over Valentina Greggio as well, even though she was a […]
I’m Ron. I grew up speed skiing. Or at least I thought I did. I was in West Virginia, and I was pretty good. For being 9-10 years old. In West Virginia. As I grew up and got farther and farther away from home, to Vermont, and New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and California, I kept finding that I wasn’t that […]
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