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Jun 07

BroBomb’s Guide to Wholesome Summer Activities, Part II

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Bike across the country: Hey, you’re in college, were too lazy to get an unpaid internship this summer, and you definitely don’t want to be slumming around your parents all summer, so what the fuck – just bike across the country. You’ll probably discover yourself, and will annoy far fewer people.

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Kayaking: If jumping cliffs are your thing, kayaking may be your activity. The only thing more thrilling than jumping off a huge cliff into a powder landing that may or may not have a bunch of rocks under it is jumping off a waterfall on a kayak and landing in a  nosedive into a pool below that may or may not have a bunch of rocks at unknown depths.

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Jun 04

BroBomb’s Guide To Wholesome Summer Activities, Part I

By Dunfee4 Comments

BroBomb’s guide to all the classic non-skiing (mostly) activities skiers can do during the summer to stay healthy, fit, and active. Actually, this guide is really just to motivate the ski community to stay busy enough not to be tempted to watch Fast & Furious 6, or any film with Paul Walker in it.

Continue Skiing: It really is amazing how long you can continue to keep skiing on this continent (if you live on the West Coast). Chances are your home resort still has some shitty piles of snow left over from the biggest park jumps, and dragging a giant plastic culvert up the mountain to it can lead to an afternoon’s worth of desperately good times. There’s always summer camps at Hood and Whistler, and the artificial glaciers at Boreal and Copper, or you could make like Brody Leven and hike 87 miles into the woods with all your ski gear strapped to your pack so you can hike up some sliver of shitty snow somewhere in a national park. You’d have to ask him why to do it, I’d probably just want to quit skiing afterwards. Although, to be fair, I have been known to nerd it up and hike a volcano in Oregon from time to time.

Hiking: There’s nothing we can say about a walk in the woods that Henry David Thoreau hasn’t already said, so we’ll just skip it. Plus it’s boring.

Write for BroBomb: Yes, we’re serious. Are you not stupid? Do you have a sense of humor, or can scope a good edit and write something pithy about it? Know what pithy means? Send us an e-mail at ryan@brobomb.com. We offer no compensation of any kind.

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May 30

Pontification Nation – Sign The Climate Declaration

By Dunfee6 Comments

Yo, you! Skier dude. Or the three girls who read this site. We’re gonna get on our soapbox for a little bit here. You know we love to hate climate change, and namely because it means warmer temps, which means less snow, which means less pow days, shorter seasons, and more expensive tickets to make up for all the future-technology snowmaking that will be needed to build parks like the one above at Brighton when it’s 50 degrees out in January. All of January. Given that we assume you are A) a skier B) enjoy skiing on snow, and C) hope to be a skier skiing on snow in the future, we really think it’d be a good idea to sign the Climate Declaration that just went public yesterday on behalf of BICEP (Businesses for Innovation in Climate and Energy Policy). Over 100 ski areas signed up, and chances are you may ski at one of them. What difference does some internet signature make? Well, very few in Congress think that people actually care about climate change, but like with any cause, the more people pissed off about and screaming louder, the more those guys will look over their desk and give a damn about it. So do your future ski self a favor and sign that badboy, and maybe let a few friends know. Or not. If there’s no snow, at least bland park jocks can’t keep ruining skiing!

May 03

The Orage Masters Clip Contest Broken Down

By Dunfee1 Comment

Now that the Orage Masters are over and done with, it’s time for the contest after the contest after the contest in which the Facebook votes actually count. It’s fairly simple, the clips that get the most likes on Orage’s Facebook page will walk away with $5,000 in cold, hard, American mothaflippin’ cash (imported from Canada). We could break down the edits and tell you who to vote for, but it’s probably better you know what your potential winners are likely to do with all that cash. Here’s what we surmise, based on the best economical analysis our college buddies at Bloomberg could come up with, each team would spend their winnings on:

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Apr 12

Overview: A Story From Space

By Dunfee2 Comments

Zai del mundo, nerds.

Apr 12

Cinco Preguntas Avec Max Hill

By DunfeeNo Comments

Good talk, good tricks.

Apr 10

#YOLO: The Real Orage Masters

By Dunfee17 Comments

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By now, the contest robots at Freeskier have beat us to the punch by about three and a half days, and made sure to take video of plenty of skiing. But everyone knows that the Orage Masters are barely about the skiing. That’s what the X Games is for. This contest/anti contest was all about drinking, drinking, drinking and trying our hardest to ensure no one got invited back to Sun Valley. The only time I really realized there was a contest was when I missed Ross Imburgia’s backflip off the moving jump (definitely the most impressive single feat) and when Hartman, Team BroBomb filmer Jeff “Cray” Smith and I stood on the deck of the jump, almost got hit by some skiers, and then watched LJ doing a triple backflip. That was kind of hard to avoid. At any rate, here’s how it all went down:

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Mar 22

A Day In The Traveling Circus Van

By Dunfee6 Comments

Well we spent close to 9 hours in the VanBearPig yesterday with Will Wesson, tracking the every movement of the Yoke Collection Rav-4. We visited post offices, weird Native American monuments, and watched Will eat uncomfortably room-temperature mashed potatoes. We discovered that Jeff Foxworthy is coming to the cultural hub of Wendover, Nevada soon, which is a small pile of casinos stuck in the middle of the desert next to the Bonneville Salt Flats. None of your requests for information or van activities were any good, but we still answered them anyway. Here they are, along with random photos.

Cole Drexler: Is Andy really transgender?

He might be a perv, but we don’t think he’s transgender.

Will: “[Laughing] I guess he’s the only one that can tell you for sure, but I don’t think he is.”

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Feb 27

Diary of A British Skier

By Dunfee1 Comment

by British dude Frazer Worboys with help from his British brother, Cameron Warboys

You may know us as fridge monkeys, often found mucking about on tiny features doing small spins in a glorified fridge. But there is more to know than just that about a British freeskier. Think of me as a worse version Christopher Columbus except I will be exploring the wonders of British skiing.

My first endeavor is to a slope of toothbrushes, this is also know as dendix. This slope of toothbrushes is often found on a tiny hill about a 100 meters long, and about as steep as wheelchair ramp. The amazing surface enables you to ski, I can do crappy 180s, do useless gaps, do a 2ft rail, jump over a box, and do a grab off a jump! But wait…  then I look up at the incredible, bleak, brown yellow slope of toothbrushes that I have just skied and realize how awful this is, and realise a five year old is probably finding this easier than me, but why should I care I’m ‘learning’ with my 180′s now turning into 200′s, but if you ask my friends, tell them I’m doing cork 720s because I’m a free skier so I have to brag because no one knows or cares what I am talking about.


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Feb 04

Ski School Confidential

By Dunfee2 Comments

From an anonymous reader:

There’s some things you should know about me… As most of us head drearily towards adulthood, up mountains all over the world you will find an elite band of Peter Pans staving off real life in pursuit of a few more sweet turns. Addicted to the nectar of slaying groomers, and angulating to the correct degree, pity these fellows who in reality lie trapped in a bizarre snow globe of sin and vice, trussed up in a nice red jacket and pushed out to face the baying mob. Here are their secrets:

1. Despite what I say, I am never ‘stoked’ nor do I ever wish to be.

2. You falling over is not my problem, it is the second hour of the lesson now, you should be better at following me where I want to ski.

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