Dear FIAT, we never knew you sponsored skiers. But we’re thrilled at the news. Given your reputation for greasy, unreliable, subpar vehicles, we would like to introduce Hot Possie. They are a perfect fit. The following is their season edit. It too is rather greasy, unreliable, and perhaps a bit subpar.
It appears Nike’s grasp and nominally corrupting influence (as goes the common rant) knows no limits these days. Not only has action sports’ most feared marketing team dropped enough cash, or cartons of cigarettes, on Pat Bridges’ desk to convince him to ignore conflicts of interest and act in the most recent Nike ad promoting Danny Kass’ move to join both the boot and outerwear teams of Nike Snowboarding, but they also convinced him TO SKI. While we love a confident joke pretty much all the time, we’re pretty sure the snowboard community must be up in arms at this outrage and insult to all the time they spent pretending to rebel from their parents, stickering weed leaf die-cuts to their snowboards, and hating on skiing. On the other side of the coin, could this, along with the HappyPro crew, girl skiers dating snowboarders, and splitboards, signal the end of cross-stance animosity? Could Bridges’ hockey stop on the Hood glacier (possibly done by a double) be the straw that broke the camels back??? We’re thinking no, but we invite you to weigh in on whichever part of this paragraph made sense to you. Continue reading this entry »
Everyone’s favorite invalid Ryan Dunfee apparently scored himself some screen time in the classic straight-to-video movie “Cougar Hunting” during his stint as an Aspen ski bum. Since Jon will probably be upset I posted this, I’m offering a FREE YOBEAT BEANIE to the first person to spot and identify the time which Dunfee flashes across your screen in this amazing trailer! Make sure to use your real email so I can contact you when you win. Continue reading this entry »
All photos Max Santeusanio
Premiere season is upon us. Dimly lit theaters, pros signing autographs, kids so excited to do anything related to skiing they’ll hump a trachcan for a sticker, and the crisp taste of fall in the air. Having just stamped my passport leaving Argentina, I figured I’d keep the cultural train chugging north and hold a straight face long enough to be let into the Mexico of France: Quebec. After crossing into a land of looneys, tooneys, and relatively terrible exchange rates, I made my way, non-skiing girlfriend in tow, to the International Freeski Film Festival (IF3) in Montreal. Continue reading this entry »
Like any good romance, there’s flattery, manipulation, and threats. Video after the jump. Enjoy.
Because I’m the closest thing your website has to a girlfriend, reading it every day and only cheating on it occasionally, perhaps you should feature this edit of what Midwest implants can do with a simple camera angle. Oh, and the deepest snow Tahoe has ever seen. Continue reading this entry »
This is why kids in rich countries invented action sports. When your parents are too poor to helicopter around you and drive you to the curb of every place you ever go, you go out and do dumb-free shit. So once deprived of that, we rich folk invented ways to do dumb-expensive shit.
As you might expect, it always takes a couple weeks for our traffic to boost back up after the summer doldrums. I’m an impatient sort, and I hear SEO (search engine optimization) is the name of the traffic game. But when your M.O. is writing about how cool Garrett Russell’s noseblock is, you don’t exactly light the search engines on fire. So here’s to packing all of the year’s popular topics into one post so we can go back to jerking it to the new tight pants and shoestring belts.
Those who call themselves the Hot Possie took a trip to Whistler this summer. When you are hip OG’s like them you don’t just take road trips, you name them silly names like “Dragonfest.” This is the video from last year, and there will be a new one this year. Here (scroll down for story) is a peek into this year’s trip, and it almost makes sense.
Dragonfest ’94, the second annual installment of Hot Possie’s Pacific Northwest summer shred tour, is fully underway. This year is the same course as last year: Mt. Hood to Whistler, with Seattle as the central base. So far we’ve been bagging shots thanks to much better weather than last year and constantly expanding park offerings. Looking at how much raw footy we have now (and the fact that we still have to survive Canada Day in Whistler), the edit will hit you just when you’re starting to think about skiing again. I hate August. For the time being, here are some things we’ve learned along the way:
• Difference Between Coaches and Counselors: One rainy day at Windell’s forced coaches Jeff Kiesel, Collin Collins and Ty Barnes to supervise 50+ campers on a field trip. The camp sent them to a shopping mall for a movie, but guess what happens when you put that many teenagers in a mall? The highlight was when one camper got thrown out for panhandling and looking like a hobo in front of a jewelry store wearing… any guesses? Tall tee. Continue reading this entry »
