Any OG ski relatives?

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christianwearsch

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Just went skiing for the first time with my 73 year old uncle. On the drive up I learned that he lived the ski bum life for many years. Helped install a lift at Purgatory in the 60’s, taught avy mitigation and chairlift evacuations, has skied every resort in CO, still calls 360’s “twisters” etc etc. And he still rips!! Anyone else got any ski legends in their family? Made me hype to know I wasn’t the first one who caught the bug.
 
my father used to run the most popular resort in the area in the 90's. he got to know a whole lot of interesting people, and made a great name for himself in the norwegian skiing community, even without being much of a skier. he had to sell in 98 because of an investor fucked him over and put him in a big debt. the resort have fallen into ruins the past 10 or so years due to poor managing.

my uncle used to rip pretty hard. both on normal skis and telemark skis. i still see it in him when we ski, but he's gotta take it easy after he had a big injury, and several surgeries. he knows a lot of cool local legends in Norway.
 
Here is a photo of my girlfriends dad with Jim McConkey. They were good buddies and skied every year. He still uses some mittens Jim gave him with his name on it. A fucken LEGEND

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Not me but one of my buddies is cousins with Tim Durtschi and he goes salmon fishing on a seiner every summer with the rest of his Durtschi cousin gang (all of whom rip as well). His parents met on the ski team at the U too but he hardly ever skis pisses me off.
 
My mom is the cover girl for the Big White brochure from the 80's. Pretty dope. She only did one season put west before moving back to Ontario and became an accountant.
 
i wonder what is the history of 360s. i don't imagine them being done often before the 90s but it's so sick to me to think of kids doing them back in the 60s.
 
my great grandpa helped found alta and made the first road up to alta. we still got a family cabin out their and he skied into his 80's
 
My brother worked with the first guy to ever attempted a quad front flip in the early 70s. That’s kinda dope. Other than that, my dad started skiing in the 90s, but is nothin special. Always good skiing though.
 
14521910:SmokedGouda said:
My brother worked with the first guy to ever attempted a quad front flip in the early 70s. That’s kinda dope. Other than that, my dad started skiing in the 90s, but is nothin special. Always good skiing though.
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Quad fronty in the 70’s?? That had to be on an aerial style jump right?
 
14521919:christianwearsch said:
Quad fronty in the 70’s?? That had to be on an aerial style jump right?
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Nah. Was literally on a backcountry booter, but was shaped quite like an aerial jump. Most resorts wouldnt allow inverted aerials at the time. Guess it was the late 70s but still.


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14521934:SmokedGouda said:
Nah. Was literally on a backcountry booter, but was shaped quite like an aerial jump. Most resorts wouldnt allow inverted aerials at the time. Guess it was the late 70s but still.


**This post was edited on Mar 21st 2023 at 12:59:29pm
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This was more fun to watch then half the big air tricks I see. So sick!!
 
One of my friends’ dads in high school was a member of the National Brotherhood of Skiers from their first summit in 1973 up through today.
 
14521675:SteezyYeeter said:
i wonder what is the history of 360s. i don't imagine them being done often before the 90s but it's so sick to me to think of kids doing them back in the 60s.
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Dudes that could do a helicopter (360 name back then) got allllllll the pussy at the wet t shirt contests.
 
14522037:soup said:
Dudes that could do a helicopter (360 name back then) got allllllll the pussy at the wet t shirt contests.
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yeah i started calling them helis recently cos "360" is a bad name and makes me soft
 
randomly found this thread and felt like bumping. My uncle was sponsored by Solomon in the 80's and early 90's and was a backcountry skier. He was in like 3 warren millers and was homies with Glenn Plake and a bunch of other pro's from that era. He also held the world record for highest vert cliff huck at like 115 ft in 89, and unfortunately died in the backcountry after attempting to get his record back by going for a 160 ft vert drop.
 
14586016:Dr_Richard_Hertz said:
randomly found this thread and felt like bumping. My uncle was sponsored by Solomon in the 80's and early 90's and was a backcountry skier. He was in like 3 warren millers and was homies with Glenn Plake and a bunch of other pro's from that era. He also held the world record for highest vert cliff huck at like 115 ft in 89, and unfortunately died in the backcountry after attempting to get his record back by going for a 160 ft vert drop.
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that's a sick way to go. rip unc.
 
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