Former French extreme skiing pioneer, Sylvain Saudan – also known as “the skier of the impossible” – trained for his extremely challenging and oft-unrepeated ski descents in the French Alps and in the Himalaya, by skiing down snow-free mountainsides. Aside from the training element of this kind of skiing, it seems clear that Saudan was …
Category: Skills
Mar 09
Holmenkollen Ski Jump
This is a bit of a diversion from our usual posts here at AdventureSkier, but it was too cool to pass up. We can thank the Norwegian Tourist Board for giving us all a take at the famous Holmenkollen Ski Jump, which is being rebuilt with plans to reopen this May 2010. From the VisitOslo.com …
Mar 03
Avalanches in the White Mountains
Nearly 60″ of fresh snow over the last week has once again transformed our northeastern mountains. With 8″ of wind-driven snow having fallen this past Sunday night on the higher summits of the White Mountains, slab avalanches will remain a considerable risk on many steeper slopes in the coming days. If you are heading to …
Dec 23
Big Wave Skiing is Born
Combining their passions for surfing and skiing, Mike Douglas and Cody Townshend are taking skiing to a whole new level. Using jet skis, they are towing into big Hawaiian surf with “surf skis” on their feet. Vermonter Jason Starr deserves a good bit of credit for this as well, as his Vermont-based Starr Surf Skis …
Oct 17
Junkboarding Gets Some Press
Here’s a great story about our friend Dave Bouchard and “junkboarding” – the act of skiing on skis cut from a junked buy roche diazepam online snowboard – that was recently published in Vermont’s Seven Days newspaper and was penned by Kirk Kardashian. LINK
