A 30 year old Dan Loutrel runs Birdos, a small company in Andermatt producing skis of unmatched quality and appeal. Along with respected names such as Shane McConkey (RIP), Pete Turner and Stephan Drake is among the chosen few that are suspected to have started the reverse sidecut/reverse camber powder ski revolution a …
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A 30 year old Dan Loutrel runs Birdos, a small company in Andermatt producing skis of unmatched quality and appeal. Along with respected names such as Shane McConkey (RIP), Pete Turner and Stephan Drake is among the chosen few that are suspected to have started the reverse sidecut/reverse camber powder ski revolution a …
Today’s article is a guest post from Markku Rimpiläinen, who is a skier with a serious writing problem. By profession he is journalist, who has written two books about the history of finnish alpine skiing. You can find him in the finnish ski resort Tahko, where he still occasionally works as a ski …
Dude… The first time I heard about “saunagondola ski lift” I thought it must be a joke, but like so many times before I was wrong. The Saunagondola turned out to be a damn cool innovation and a real ski tourist magnet. I wanted to know more about this weird innovation, so I performed …
Not sure about you, but I find Scarpar Off-Road Powerboard as the coolest innovation this year. I really hope Scarpar Off-Road Powerboard goes commercial soon, because I would like to purchase one. The good thing is that Scarpar just moved from concept to engineering, which means chances to go commercial are good.
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Thanks to our buddies at vapaalasku.com (a great Finnish freeride site). Arttu Muukkonen did a great interview of Shane McConkey a while ago and now let us to translate his article for our site - as a tribute to the great skier and innovator of the whole sport of freeskiing. Thanks to Arttu …
News of Shane McConkey’s death really shocked us this morning. The legendary freeskier, base jumper and innovator Shane McConkey was killed yesterday in a base jumping accident in the Italian Dolomites. According to several news feeds, Shane McConkey experienced problems in the air after launching off a cliff with the expectation of deploying his parachute …
Is the Twin Parabolic Ski really the future of skiing? I came across with this interesting concept design in Yanko Design blog, and thought this might be interesting for you guys out there. So, what the heck is the Twin Parabolic Ski? According to the designer Charlie Pyott, the Twin Parabolic Ski is …
Zermatt, located in southern Switzerland in the canton of Valais, is considered by many to be one of the top ski resorts in the world. While the name Zermatt might not ring a bell in everyone’s head, the sight of its most famous landmark definitely will. With its 4478 metres high summit, lying …
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