Profpimpcain
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http://homeboyski.com/2010/08/04/real-skiing-in-afghanistan/
Looks like there is some legit backcountry in Afghanistan.
Looks like there is some legit backcountry in Afghanistan.
Afghan Backcountry?
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Profpimpcain
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My friend just moved to kabul a couple months ago, She was telling me that people are pretty stoked because some ex-warlord is trying to build a swiss type ski area.
DrZoidberg
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Good way to bring the country together? Get the youth interested in snow sports then get them to ride together. That might get rid of their dislikes of each other cause they just wanna ski?
Clearly it's not that simple, but it's a start.
Clearly it's not that simple, but it's a start.
BlackcountryBill
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Surely it's pretty much all backcountry, what %of Afganistan is lift serverd? 
Brenone
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hahahaha
The guy that owns the coffee cart that I go to every morning is from Afganistan. He's actually funny as fuck, but anyway he goes home once a year. He would always see me carrying a ski magazine and ask to check it out or when he would say how was your weekend i would always be like "good, went skiing." So after he gets back from his last trip he is bursting with excitement to tell me he went skiing in Afganistan. He said its a bunch of younger guys that will drive you up the mountain in an old beat up jeep and guide you down. He was pretty stoked. IDK I thought that was pretty cool.
The guy that owns the coffee cart that I go to every morning is from Afganistan. He's actually funny as fuck, but anyway he goes home once a year. He would always see me carrying a ski magazine and ask to check it out or when he would say how was your weekend i would always be like "good, went skiing." So after he gets back from his last trip he is bursting with excitement to tell me he went skiing in Afganistan. He said its a bunch of younger guys that will drive you up the mountain in an old beat up jeep and guide you down. He was pretty stoked. IDK I thought that was pretty cool.
Profpimpcain
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It might get ugly with the whole "OMG SKIING IS BECOMING AERIALS" thing. Snaking someone may get you shot, and the urban would be absolutely sick.
JahJahBinks
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I laughed at the title "REAL skiing in Afghanistan. I bet Tanner skis there.
SteezySmiley
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Yeah get out your Tall-ts
Bullet proof vests
and Ak47s and your ready to slay the hill
Bullet proof vests
and Ak47s and your ready to slay the hill
dangerdad
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Yes and no.
Creating programs like this do a number of things that simple aid programs will forever fail to do. They create immense publicity, the humanize Afghanis, they create jobs and opportunities, and finally they begin to create a basic connection between the two regions of the world....our only hope at ever having any sense of a proactive relationship with them.
Creating programs like this do a number of things that simple aid programs will forever fail to do. They create immense publicity, the humanize Afghanis, they create jobs and opportunities, and finally they begin to create a basic connection between the two regions of the world....our only hope at ever having any sense of a proactive relationship with them.
*geezer*
Member
bump. for an interesting concept.
All the threads I found on Afghanistan were about war. Although the Taliban are in Afghanistan, so is the Afghan Ski Challenge. Hopefully in the future there will be a little more extreme skiing, and a little less extremism. Jokes aside, this is pretty cool.
http://youtu.be/SJqRJg8LbPI
Hopefully it continues to get off the ground. Women are also getting involved ( inner feminist smiles).
pretty steezy if you ask me.
A snippet from an article;
"The following day, seven Afghan women competed in a separate challenge, the first public event of its kind. Contestants included two pairs of sisters, two others from Bamyan, and Haidary, 23, born in Ghazni province south of Kabul. Haidary came specifically for the event, and drove seventeen hours by car from her parents’ home in Herat. Her husband Ali competed in Friday’s race. Both were their event’s sole snowboarders.
“Girls are not for kitchen. Girls are not for doing just homework,” said Haidary, who worries that her 13 year-old sister is already rushing to become a housewife. “They can do what they want.”
She recalled a checkpoint on the way to Bamyan where truculent men in lungee questioned her about the snowboard in the trunk.
“What is this?” they asked.
“I don’t know,” she said. “I’m just bringing it for a friend.”
The burqa is all but gone from the streets of Bamiyan, the cultural capital of the Hazara ethnic minority that suffered exceptionally under the Taliban regime, but the event still bucks the mold in the conservative central Asian nation. According to a Newsweek study in 2011 that statistically analyzed human rights data, Afghanistan ranked as the second worst country in the world for women.
A “women’s ski race” is a shocking concept even in white-collar circles in the capital. I told a friend in Kabul about the event.
“Were they half naked?” he asked."
http://youtu.be/WJamnFDUlZE
http://youtu.be/4oNOqO2hhYk
All the threads I found on Afghanistan were about war. Although the Taliban are in Afghanistan, so is the Afghan Ski Challenge. Hopefully in the future there will be a little more extreme skiing, and a little less extremism. Jokes aside, this is pretty cool.
http://youtu.be/SJqRJg8LbPI
Hopefully it continues to get off the ground. Women are also getting involved ( inner feminist smiles).
pretty steezy if you ask me.
A snippet from an article;
"The following day, seven Afghan women competed in a separate challenge, the first public event of its kind. Contestants included two pairs of sisters, two others from Bamyan, and Haidary, 23, born in Ghazni province south of Kabul. Haidary came specifically for the event, and drove seventeen hours by car from her parents’ home in Herat. Her husband Ali competed in Friday’s race. Both were their event’s sole snowboarders.
“Girls are not for kitchen. Girls are not for doing just homework,” said Haidary, who worries that her 13 year-old sister is already rushing to become a housewife. “They can do what they want.”
She recalled a checkpoint on the way to Bamyan where truculent men in lungee questioned her about the snowboard in the trunk.
“What is this?” they asked.
“I don’t know,” she said. “I’m just bringing it for a friend.”
The burqa is all but gone from the streets of Bamiyan, the cultural capital of the Hazara ethnic minority that suffered exceptionally under the Taliban regime, but the event still bucks the mold in the conservative central Asian nation. According to a Newsweek study in 2011 that statistically analyzed human rights data, Afghanistan ranked as the second worst country in the world for women.
A “women’s ski race” is a shocking concept even in white-collar circles in the capital. I told a friend in Kabul about the event.
“Were they half naked?” he asked."
http://youtu.be/WJamnFDUlZE
http://youtu.be/4oNOqO2hhYk
GayWolf420
Active member
Girl on the right has mad steeze.
