Area 52. Hot Possie. Tight pants. Handplants.
Like clockwork, Candide Thovex, the French Michael Jordan, has changed ski sponsors. While Candide has remained on Quiksilver for as long as he’s been skiing, the rate at which he changed ski sponsors has continued with such regularity it’s a small industry joke. First Dynastar, then Salomon, then Rossignol, then Coreupt, and now Faction Skis. Candide has done his part to keep the sponsors within the Euro zone, but has changed sponsors as often as Winona Ryder shoplifts, usually leaving the former in his wake with unsold Candide pro models. What do you think?
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This video, “Cold Faces” from North Cascade Productions is an appropriate venue to launch the latest BroBomb poll. Answer true to yourself so we can sell the data to Newt 2012.
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Skiing so rad and French it will melt your face… into a baguette.
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Dunfee covers proper avalanche beacon training techniques, how to display your backcountry knowledge, and reviews two key pieces of Backcountry Access gear. Whether or not BroBomb has enough credibility to venture outside of tight pants mini-park opinionating is up for debate.
Backcountry Access
Given BroBomb’s collective ignorance of all things backcountry (with the exception of one developing scholar), we’re pretty sure it’s illegal for us to recommend anything that has anything to do with wilderness survival. But not having a clue doesn’t mean you can’t have an opinion; here are our thoughts on two key Backcountry Access products you’ll want to look into this winter.
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Words by Garrett Russell
Words are fun. You put them together and they make sentences. If you put a lot words together they will either make a run-on sentence or possibly yet, a paragraph. They can even change your life if worded properly.
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This kind of skiing can really happen… if you are disciplined enough. Courtesy of Jeffrey Kohnstamm
Well, it appears to be over. The extended snowless purgatory that has plagued much of the West Coast this ski season seems to be dying a sputtering, moist death with the jet stream pushing a slew of storms south towards California, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. But as a superstitious bunch, we can certainly imagine this all turning to rain if we do something as stupid as wax our powder skis or show up for first chair. We must maintain our collective discipline and ensure these storms do indeed deliver by engaging in the following ironic and delusory activities:
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It is with great and unsarcastic sadness that we are reporting about the death of legendary women’s freeskier, Sarah Burke. While we love to hate on pipe jocks, Sarah has had an unrelenting hold on the Gold medal at almost every superpipe contest she entered, and we have absolute respect for her for that and for her outspoken efforts to better the inclusion of and participation in women’s freeskiing. As my coach at SMS (now Momentum) camp on the Whistler glacier back in 2001, Sarah was the first pro skier girl in a long line of pro skier girls that I had a huge crush on, and taught me how to ski switch onto rails.
Sarah succumbed to injuries sustained while skiing halfpipe at Park City, in which she ruptured her vertebral artery, causing a severe intracranial hemorrhage and putting Sarah into cardiac arrest. For a more complete report, read this post on Powdermag.com. Our deepest condolences go out to husband Rory Bushfield, the Burke family, and Sarah herself. May she rest in peace and may all of us try and be just a little bit safer this winter.
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Part II of the interview with the TrashParty’s Magnus Støre, Chris Helberg and Henrik Nordviste. Enjoy. For Part I, click here.
Are people in general cool with you jibbing shit outside of the guy who said he’d “fuck your neck?”
We get everything from love to hate, appreciation to death threats. Quotes from randoms at street sessions: “OMG you guys are so cool can I suck your dizznicks?” “Do you know Tom Wallisch?” “Can you backflip?” “Are you guys in Field Productions?” “You suck, go home” “Chrischna? Chriiiischna? CHRISHNA!!!… ??”
Where are most of the street spots we see in the videos?
Mostly in the streets. Around corners and beyond the 5th dimension. We usually just walk around with our gear until we find something to hit.
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Powder. The elusive. It exists. THIS season. In the three minutes and nineteen seconds of this video from Line am Dylan Siggers, there are exactly zero shots without a faceshot and an enormous pow cloud billowing around the skier. They say these kind of days are almost upon us in our barren freshwater haven here in Lake Tahoe. Please God or Tim Tebow or Tom Brady, let it be so…
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